Orlando Bloom
Orlando Bloom
Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloomis a British actor. After having his breakthrough as Legolas in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, he rose to fame by further appearing in epic fantasy, historical epic, and fantasy adventure films. His other roles include Legolas in The Hobbit trilogy, Will Turner in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Paris in Troy, and Balian de Ibelin in Kingdom of Heaven...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth13 January 1977
CityCanterbury, England
Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?
There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco, ... A fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Think about finding out when you're 13 that your dad is not your dad. It's like, okay, take it on the chin and keep going. No choice, really.
The world throws you out of your body, especially the cyberworld.
Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.
Now my favourite pastime is to take a bath with my son.
Drama class was one of the only areas at school I responded to.
I've lived a very nomadic life, which I enjoy.
You see movie stars advertising all sorts of things today for whatever reason. And it may be that it affords them the luxury to do smaller movies or to go and do a play. Because, otherwise, you have to keep doing movies where you get paid millions and millions of dollars to maintain a certain lifestyle.
I wish I could just be in the movies and still enjoy everything else like a normal person.
I have good spacial awareness, and I'm pretty comfortable with a sword.
Men treat men differently than they would a woman.
I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
Sofia Coppola is wonderful, and I'd love to work with her.