• Name: Orlando Bloom
  
• Height: 5' 11"
  
• Sex: M
  
• Nationality: British
  
• Birth Date: January 13, 1977
  
• Birth Place: Canterbury, Kent, England, UK
  
• Profession: actor
  
• Education: St. Edmund's School in Canterbury, England
  
•   : British American Drama Academy in London, England
  
•   : Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, England
  
• Relationship: Kate Bosworth (actress; born on January 2, 1983)
  
• Father: Colin Stone (British teacher, biological father), Harry Bloom (he was lead to believe that he's his real dad - a famous South African lawyer, writer & activist)
  
• Mother: Sonia Bloom
  
• Sister: Samantha Bloom (2 years older)
  
• Claim to fame: The role of Legolas Greenleaf in the The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
  

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• On Salary: "I don't care much about the money at all. Frankly, if I get the chance to kiss someone in a movie, they wouldn't need to pay me at all."
• On romance: "Out of the blue, I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her to visit. I guess that's quite romantic."
• On elves and green: "The elves prefer to wear a mixture of greens and browns, as a disquise, to keep themselves camouflaged against the trees. I tend not to wear jerkins and tight pants, and gauntlets myself, but since THE LORD OF THE RINGS, I've really gotten into the color green."
• On becoming an actor: "Once I realized superman was an actor, I said, that's for me mate."
• On acting and women: "Basically, I can say I'm acting because of the women."
• On being part of THE LORD OF THE RINGS: "I feel privileged, and I feel blessed to be a part of this project. I loved the movie. I've seen it a couple of times now, and I just feel so proud of it. I feel like if I do nothing else, at least I've done LORD OF THE RINGS."
• "Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected. They're a handful."
• "People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you."
• "As soon as I got to New Zealand, I went bungee jumping. I was standing on the platform for one hour contemplating whether to jump or not".
• "I'm probably a good boyfriend, but I'm pretty intense. When you're with me it's exciting, fun and very intense. At the same time I'm easy going. But all that depends on what girl I'm with."
• "I can be a little bit outrageous. I can be a lot of things. I'm a bit of an adrenaline junkie, so I love to go out there and do kind of crazy stuff which is slightly outrageous, like bungee jumping, skydiving, surfing and that sort of stuff. But I also like to just chill with my friends and go and see movies and do normal things."
• "When my father (Harry) died, Colin Stone was made my guardian. He was always a close family friend but I always thought Harry was my biological father. I found out that Colin was my father – not Harry,but Colin."
• "It's an unusual story, but then you show me a family and I'll show you an unusual story."
• "When you start to live your dream, it's not quite what you thought it was because there is a lot of overwhelming stuff that comes on top of it and you have to figure it all out. I wish I could just be in the movies and still enjoy everything else like a normal person."

• Empire Film Awards: best debut performance, LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RINGS (2004)
• Screen Actors Guild Awards: Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (2004)
• Empire Film Awards: best debut performance, LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RINGS (2004)
• Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards: Best Acting Ensemble, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (2004)
• National Board of Review: Best Ensemble Performance, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (2003)
• Hollywood Film Festival: breakthrough acting award (2003)
• MTV Movie Awards: Best Breakthrough Performance, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RINGS (2002)

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