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
My mother's husband died when I was 4, and I thought he was my dad until I was 15 and found out that my legal guardian was my real dad. He kind of acted like my dad, anyway. But he wasn't with my mother living at home with us. It's an unusual kind of story, but it was cool because I had two dads for a while, and it was useful in creating the character in the movie.
If you think of the ice caps as the fridge of our planet, if your fridge at home died, the food you eat would go rotten, and you'd starve.
You can drive an SUV, but there's a balance. If you do that, maybe use energy-efficient light bulbs at home or just be conscious of switching off lights. If you can afford to drive an SUV, maybe you can afford to make a donation to a wind farm or plant some trees. It's all about balance.
He went home to Kentucky to deal with the loss of his father and the funeral arrangements and so on,
I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.
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.
There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco, ... A fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?
I've lived a very nomadic life, which I enjoy.
We'd worked together on a Gap commercial, so I guess he'd always seen me as a contemporary young guy, ... I was definitely on his mind.
Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.
My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist.
We're all in Cameron Crowe's new film, 'Elizabethtown,'