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Facts
- His birth date is January 13, 1977, making him 28 years old.
- His full name is Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom.
- His nicknames are Orli and OB.
- He has brown hair and brown eyes.
- He's around 5'11" (180 cm)
- He's not married.
- He used to smoke, but quit in 2002, which caused him to start biting his
nails instead.
- While filming Lord of the Rings in New Zealand, he got into sky diving,
bungee jumping, paragliding, surfing and snowboarding. Now he enjoys "just taking time to walk whether it be on location somewhere
or on a beach." "most of the time I just chill with my friends and have a mellow time" He also enjoys photography, shopping
and buying old antiques, and he "can't stand computers".
- He says he's accident prone, and has the injury list to prove it. He's broken
his back, his ribs, his nose, both his legs, his arm, his wrist, a finger and a toe, and cracked his skull three times!
- A year before doing the Lord of the Rings, he fell 3 stories off a friend's
porch while trying to open a jammed door and broke his back. He was almost confined to a wheelchair, but luckily the doctors
were able to patch him up. Read more about his fall here.
- His sister Samantha is 2 years older than him.
- He has a dog named Sidi.
- His father, Harry Bloom, died when Orlando was 4 and was a legendary figure
in antiapartheid circles in South Africa. Harry also wrote a famous tome called Episode In The Transvaal, was jailed for his
beliefs, and worked alongside Nelson Mandela. Orlando and his sister were raised by their mother, Sonia, and a guardian, Colin
Stone. When Orlando was 13, his mother told him that Harry was not his biological father, that Colin was.
- Has a tattoo of 'nine' in Elvish on his right forearm, and a sun on his torso that he got when he was 15.
- He can speak French.
- He has 3 A levels, two at grade A (one was art and sculpture - he is particularly
good at sculpture and pottery and art), one at A level for Photography, and one at Grade C which was Religious Studies. He
also has 8 'O' levels and has a BA (Hons) Drama degree from Guildhall School of Music and Drama - so he is Orlando Bloom BA
(Hons).
- As a kid, he was dyslexic, and now he says he is "mildly dyslexic".
- He says he's currently into "all sorts of music, mostly the Ben Harper,
the David Gray, and the Bob Dylan type of folk music."
- For LOTR, he had to learn archery, how to ride a horse bareback (while shooting
an arrow), and how to fight and wield two swords. "I started off with archery, I rode about 20 different horses, I had physical
training in the gym, and I had to learn the Elvish ways of speaking and fighting. Their fighting is based on ancient European
and Asian martial arts, so I had a trainer who taught me how to use the blades. I also did a lot of movement training, because
movement is my way into the character." - SFX Magazine
- He originally auditioned for Lord of the Rings in the part of Faramir, Boromir's
brother, who wouldn't be introduced until The Two Towers. But Peter thought he would be perfect for Legolas instead. Orlando
learned that he got the part the day before he graduated from Guildhall.
- He wears a replica of the One ring that says "To wherever it may lead."
It was given to him by one of the make-up artists on LOTR.
Favorites and Firsts
Favorite Color: Yellow.
Favorite Foods: Pasta, pizza, oatmeal, rice and
vegetables and baked potatoes.
Favorite Vegetable: Spinach.
Favorite Football Team: Manchester United. He also likes
Real Madrid because David Beckham now plays for them.
Favorite Sports: Snowboarding and Surfing.
Favorite Actors: Johnny
Depp, Edward Norton, Paul Newman, and Daniel Day-Lewis.
Favorite Movie: Stand By Me. He also likes The Hustler and Amelie.
Favorite
Type of Girls: "Nice, sweet girls."
First Job: A clay trapper at a pigeon shooting range when he was 13.
First Movie
Role: Rentboy in Wilde.
First CD: Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians. Michael Jackson's Thriller was his first 45.
First
Car: A dark green VW Golf that cost 160 Pounds ($230).
First Hollywood Crush: Linda Evans on Dynasty.
First Concert:
Jamiroquai in Canterbury.
| Orlando Bloom Web- Quotes |
"For a young actor like me to have the opportunity to work with the genre of actors and directors on 'Lord
Of The Rings' is unbelievable. There was no, should I should I not. It was like, where do I sign up! It was just bonkers.
It was like here, have a life."
"I don't want to be Mr Clean all my life. I don't want to be the 'handsome lad' on
the posters." NW Editor responds to this: Orlando Bloom doesn't want everyone to know about his filthy mind.
"The
more you struggle in life, the more you grow."
"When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about
when you're going to see them again, I love that," "Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected." And,
he adds with a laugh, "They're a handful."
"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."
"The girls have got a bit excited. I spoke to my agent and she says she's wading through the
fan mail. We've got bags of it."
"I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow
for 18 months, how bad could that be?"
"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."
"I mean, I have a great job. I get to dress up and become somebody else, especially when it's someone like
Legolas, who's this super-cool kind of otherworldly elf. It's like, I'm lucky, man, so why would I not appreciate that?"
On
his character Will Turner (Pirates of the Caribbean):
"Will is very eager and dependable. He's a blacksmith by trade
and a master swordsman. He's a man of honor, in a time when, really, there is no honor -- the polar opposite of Jack Sparrow.
Will would throw his cape over a puddle for a woman. The character has a great arc; as he develops you see that he learns
the way of the pirate."
"People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a
road mapped out for you."
On working on his physique in The Calcium Kid:
"I wanted to get super fit so I
did a lot of preparation. I really enjoyed it. I started training in LA, then went to Australia to film Ned Kelly and kept
it up. I was trying to put on weight and develop shape because I'm a bit skinny. I was training here in London, three weeks
prior to filming and that's when I made some headway. I was eating food in order to put on the right sort of weight and was
skipping, jogging, shadow boxing and sparring. Looking back on the roles I've played: an archer, a soldier, an outlaw and
now a boxer, this is the one time - for the weigh-in scene - I thought, "I've got to give it a go. I've got to get the boxing
thing going and get the physique right."
Looking at the pirates poster of himself that is behind his head: "I can't
believe that poster; it's incredible what they can do with Photoshop! It doesn't even look like me, so that's a relief! I
am just sort of trying to figure all of that out right now. It's a bit intimidating to be honest. That's the hardest thing
because you start to live the dream a bit and it's hard to enjoy it because it is all quite overwhelming. So I guess it will
get easier and I guess I'll just take some time to figure it all out."
On Johnny Depp:
"He puts himself
out there, he's been a gambler. Any actor of my generation will say the same thing."
"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." |
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