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Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom (born on January 13, 1977 in Canterbury, England) is an English actor.

Bloom became famous playing Legolas in The Lord of the Rings
movie trilogy. He has also had major roles in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
, Troy
, Elizabethtown
and his first lead role in Kingdom of Heaven
. Bloom has just finished filming the sequels Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest
, and Pirates of the Caribbean 3
.

Early life

Bloom was born in Canterbury, Kent to Sonia J. Copeland (who was born in India to an English physician father, doctor Francis Copeland). Although he had originally thought that his father was South African Jewish lawyer Harry Bloom (who died in 1981), his mother revealed to Orlando in his teenage years that his biological father was not Bloom, but a family friend, Colin Stone.

Bloom attended St Edmund's School in Canterbury, but struggled due to his dyslexia. In 1993, he moved to London and joined the National Youth Theatre, spending two seasons there and earning a scholarship to train at the British American Drama Academy. He had a television role in an episode of Midsomer Murders and made his film debut in Wilde
(1997), opposite Stephen Fry, before entering the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where he studied - apart from acting - sculpture and photography. In 1998, he broke his back in a three storey fall, and it was briefly feared that he would never walk again. However, he made a complete recovery and walked out of the hospital twelve days later. He had steel plates inserted into his backbone to support it, which have since been removed, except for a single screw. He regularly performs yoga and Pilates to strengthen his back.

Career

Shortly after graduation in 1999, he landed his first major role as Legolas in The Lord of the Rings
trilogy (2001–2003). Whilst shooting a scene, he broke a couple of ribs. He fully recovered and continued shooting. This transformed Bloom from an unknown actor into one of world's hottest celebrities. IMDBPro's StarMeter reported that Bloom was the most searched-for actor in January 2002, one month after The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
was released. In the same year he was also chosen as one of the Teen People "25 Hottest Stars Under 25." He was named People's hottest Hollywood bachelor in the magazine's 2004 list.

The cast of the Rings movies was nominated for Best Ensemble Acting at the Screen Actors Guild Awards for three years in a row. They finally won in 2003, for the third film The Return of the King
. Bloom has also won other various Empire and Teen Choice Awards, and has been nominated for many others.

Because the two movies in which Orlando had starring roles in 2005, Kingdom of Heaven
and Elizabethtown
, were box office and critical flops in the U.S., much talk circulated around Bloom as an example of the failure of recent Hollywood stars to bring in the money in the box office.

Private life

Bloom has said that he uses the philosophies of Nichiren Buddhism in 2004, a religion that he has long associated himself with and is a full member of SGI-UK http://www.sgi-uk.org

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