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Welcome to the Official Orlando Bloom Fan Club! This is NOT ORLANDO . This is his official fan based myspace page. Orlando does NOT have a myspace, so do not be fooled by all the posers out there! My name is Jessica Connors and I run this site for Orlando. Orlando personally sponsers this page, so all his fans have a place to come to get official information about what he is currently up to. I pass all fan mail on to Orlando every few months. So please feel free to address your emails to Orlando.
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The Fan Team cannot guarantee to get any letters or gifts directly to Orlando. Fans who receive answers must please promise not to write again, otherwise other fans will be prevented from receiving replies.Orlando attends Gala Honoring Tom Cruise (March 23, 2007)
Vman Magazine Interview (March 23, 2007)
POTC3 Trailer! (March 13, 2007)
Pirates Trailer Hits TV March 19! (March 10, 2007)
POTC3 Trailer will be released in March! (March 2, 2007)
VIEW ALL ENTRIESPirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) .... Will Turner
Love and Other Disasters (2006) .... Hollywood Paolo
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) .... Will Turner
Elizabethtown (2005) .... Drew Baylor
Kingdom of Heaven (2005) .... Balian of Ibelin
Haven (2004) .... Shy (also co-producer)
Troy (2004) .... Paris
LOTR: The Return of the King (2003) .... Legolas Greenleaf
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) .... Will Turner
The Calcium Kid (2003) .... Jimmy Connelly
Ned Kelly (2003) .... Joe Byrne
LOTR: The Two Towers (2002) .... Legolas Greenleaf
Black Hawk Down (2002) .... Private 1st Class Todd Blackburn
LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) .... Legolas Greenleaf
Wilde (1997) .... Rentboy
BIRTH DATE: January 13, 1977, making him 30 years old.
FULL NAME: Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom. His nicknames are Orli and OB.
HAIR & EYES: Brown
HEIGHT: He's around 5'11" (180 cm)
MARITAL STATUS: Single
He's allergic to peanut butter. 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.
His sister Samantha is 2 years older than him. He has a dog named Sidi. His adoptive 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 Ben Harper, David Gray, and 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.
FAVORITE COLOR: Yellow
FAVORITE FOODS: Pasta, pizza, oatmeal, rice and vegetables and baked potatoes
FAVORITE VEGETABLE: Spinach
FAVORITE TEAM: Manchester United, Real Madrid–Beckham now plays for them.
FAVORITE SPORTS: Snowboarding and Surfing
FAVORITE ACTORS: Johnny Depp, Edward Norton, Paul Newman, & Daniel Day-Lewis
FAVORITE MUSICIAN: Jeff Buckley. (Orlando's iTunes Celebrity Playlist)
FAVORITE MOVIES: 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 & the New Bohemians. Michael Jackson's Thriller was his first 45.
FIRST CAR: A darkgreen VW Golf that cost 160 Pounds ($230)
FIRST HOLLYWOOD CRUSH: Linda Evans on Dynasty
FIRST CONCERT: Jamiroquai in Canterbury
QUOTES:
"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."
"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."
"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?"
"Viggo will go on about Elves and how they're always doing their nails and brushing their long, blonde hair, and being all prissy. And i just say: Well, at least I'm going to live forever! Got that? LIVE FOREVER!"
"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."
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Share some of the amazing fan art you have made of Orlando, it can be anything from a drawing, painting, a slideshow, a story you have written about him or anything you have made!Orlando Bloom was born in Canterbury, Kent, England on January 13, 1977, and his unusual name was reportedly inspired by the 17th century composer Orlando Gibbons.
Orlando was raised in Canterbury by his mother along with his sister Samantha, who is two years older. Growing up, Orlando believed that his father was anti-apartheid activist and novelist Harry Bloom, who died when Orlando was only four. When he was a teenager, his mother revealed to him that his biological father was, in fact, a family friend and his guardian, Colin Stone.
While growing up in Canterbury, Orlando's mother taught him and his sister to enjoy the arts and encouraged them to participate in the local Kent Festival, where he began by reciting poetry and prose, which Orlando recalls led to a deeper interest in acting: "It gave me a sensitivity to language in terms of vocalising it. I always used to get involved with the school plays. My teacher at school, who would take drama, would always give me interesting roles as a kid. My mum would take us to the theatre, and watching these larger-than-life characters I decided I want to become an actor."
Orlando attended St Edmunds School in Canterbury, and went on to study photography, sculpture and theatre at A-level. At the age of 16, he left Canterbury to move to London to act with the National Youth Theatre, where he spent two years before being awarded a scholarship to train with the British American Drama Academy. After leaving the Academy, his appearance in a stage production of "A Walk in the Vienna Woods" landed him an agent, and at the age of 20, he was cast in his first film role, a bit part in the critically acclaimed Wilde (1997), about playwright Oscar Wilde.
His appearance in Wilde earned him various film offers, but Orlando turned those offers down in favor of attending the prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama (other famous alumni include Ewan McGregor, Joseph Fiennes, and Ben Chaplin). Orlando appeared in several plays at Guildhall, including The Seagull, Twelfth Night, Trojan Women, Chekhov's Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya, and Sophocles' Antigone. He also had small guest roles in British TV shows, such as "Casualty," "The Ben Elton Show," and later "Midsomer Murders."
In 1998, while still a student at Guildhall, Orlando was trying to climb onto a friend's rooftop terrace when he fell three stories and broke his back. Doctors told him he would probably never walk again, but after surgery he was able to walk out of the hospital on crutches less than two weeks later. He later recalled, "It was amazing that I didn't die. I was young and dumb. Amazingly, I walked out on crutches in 12 days." He has also been quoted as saying, "My back is a constant reminder of how lucky I am." Describing himself as "accident prone," Orlando has also broken a rib, his nose, both legs, an arm, a wrist, a finger, a toe, and has cracked his skull three times.
As a young teenager, Orlando tried reading J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but he abandoned the books in favor of more exciting pursuits like sports and girls. He did not complete the three volumes until his early twenties, when he was given a good reason to pick up the books again. In 1999, at the age of 22, when he was just three days shy of graduation from Guildhall, Orlando was chosen among thousands of hopefuls around the world when he was cast as the Elf Warrior "Legolas" in Peter Jackson's 270-million-dollar, highly anticipated film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
He originally auditioned for the role of the human Faramir, a character introduced in the second film, The Two Towers, but he lost out on that role to Australian actor David Wenham. His disappointment at learning that he was not chosen to play Faramir quickly disappeared upon learning that he was instead chosen to play Legolas, the Elf Prince of Mirkwood, expert archer, and one of the key members of the Fellowship who is prominently featured in all three films.
In interviews and magazines, fans discovered that off-screen, Orlando was quite different than his movie counterpart. With brown eyes, dark hair, olive skin, and a keen yet quirky fashion sense, he looked right at home on the cover of GQ. Unlike the quiet Legolas, Orlando was full of energy and infectious enthusiasm, charming everyone he worked with, along with the fans. In interviews, he described himself as an adrenaline junky; skydiving, bungee jumping, surfing and snowboarding in his spare time.
After graduating from Guildhall, Orlando left London in the fall of 1999 to spend the next fifteen months on location in New Zealand filming all three Lord of the Rings films. Before filming even began, Orlando spent two months training in archery, sword play, and horseback riding in order to learn the skills he would need to play Legolas. In addition to being an expert archer, Tolkien's warrior elf is an immortal 2,931 years old, with super-human strength, swift reflexes, and heightened sensory awareness.
To portray these qualities, Orlando developed a graceful style of combat based on the characters in Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai and worked to manage his posture, poise, and composure. Standing 5'11", Orlando's Legolas the Elf is a tall, athletic, and skilled fighter of evil--he truly is larger than life.
Sporting a long blond wig, makeup, and blue contacts to disguise his natural dark hair and eyes, and olive complexion, Orlando was unrecognizable as he immersed himself in the role of Legolas, although he does share his impressive cheekbones in common with the Elf Prince. The piercing intelligence and intensity behind his eyes also shine through to give his performance unusual depth and sensitivity, even when he has few or no lines of dialogue in many scenes. Orlando allows Legolas's actions to speak for him, and like many great performances, he does not need words to speak volumes.
As Movieline Magazine described his performance, in selecting it as one of the Ten Standout Performances from young actors in 2001: "He did have an almost unreal, cheekbone-bedecked handsomeness, but he also moved with crystalline resolve and athletic grace. Even when a million things are happening at once, Bloom grabs your attention and makes you feel everything that depends on the great battle of good and evil.
While on location in New Zealand, despite warnings from producers to avoid high-risk activities that might result in injuries, Orlando quickly became known as the daredevil of the cast, and frequently went bungee jumping and snow boarding, and learned to surf with the actors playing the Hobbits. As he explained, "We sampled everything the country has to offer.
The weirdest things to throw yourself off are to be found in New Zealand." He and Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) also had many scenes together and became close friends during filming, although the differences between their human and elf characters led to a lot of good-natured ribbing. "Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.' . . . "Viggo will go on about Elves and how they're always doing their nails and brushing their long, blonde hair, and being all prissy. And I just say: Well, at least I'm going to live forever! Got that! LIVE FOREVER!"
In fact, all of the actors became such close friends during filming that Orlando and Dominic Monaghan (Merry) came up with the idea that the nine actors playing the members of the Fellowship should get tattoos to commemorate their experience, which all of them did, except for John Rhys-Davies (Gimli), who sent his stunt double to get the tattoo in his place. Even Sir Ian McKellen (Gandalf) participated in the tattoo ritual. The tattoo is the Elvish symbol for "nine," and Orlando got his on his forearm. (He also has a small tattoo of the sun on his abdomen that he got when he was fifteen.) The actors made a pact not to display the tattoo to the media during publicity for the film, but one or two later caved on that promise, and photos of the tattoo have surfaced in the press.
Orlando also lived up to his "accident prone" reputation during filming of Lord of the Rings, but surprisingly it was not while he was out surfing or bungee-jumping. When shooting a scene on horseback, the horse he was riding on fell and the stunt double for John Rhys-Davies (Gimli) that was also riding on the horse landed on Orlando, cracking one of his ribs. Doctors gave Orlando medication for the pain, but he was back on the set able to resume filming again within a day or two.
The Fellowship of the Ring was released in December, 2001, and was instantly a huge critical and box office success around the world, going on to become one of the highest grossing films of all time. Orlando received widespread praise for his performance as Legolas, and although his role is significantly smaller than other more prominent characters, he immediately became a breakout star, with young girls around the world swooning over his elvish good looks. Orlando immediately became an internet darling and began appearing in magazines all over the world and making the talk show circuit, with a winning smile and charming British wit that earned him even more fans.
He won an award for "Breakthrough Male" at the 2002 MTV Movie Awards, and was also nominated along with the entire Fellowship cast, for Best Ensemble acting at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Upon winning the award for "Best Debut" at the 2002 Empire Awards sponsored by British film magazine Empire, Orlando thanked director Peter Jackson for seeing some kind of "pointy-eared quality" in him that persuaded Jackson to cast him as Legolas. In her own acceptance speech at those same Empire Awards for Best Actress (for Enigma), Kate Winslet even went out of her way to praise Orlando's performance in Fellowship of the Ring as "brilliant." 3;"Breaking the Hobbit: Life after Rings
In 2002, Orlando's increasingly higher profile in Hollywood led to a co-starring role in the big-budget Disney production of Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, in which he plays the swashbuckling sidekick to Johnny Depp. Pirates, based on the popular Disney theme-park ride of the same name, was produced by Hollywood hitmaker Jerry Bruckheimer. Orlando plays Will Turner, who teams up with gentleman rogue Captain Jack Sparrow (Depp) in a daring attempt to rescue the kidnapped daughter of the governor from pirates led by the evil Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush).
Pirates was released in the U.S. on July 9, 2003, and was the surprise smash hit of the summer, eventually earning over $300 million in the USA and over $650 million worldwide. A sequel is already in the works, with both Orlando and Johnny Depp signed on to reprise their roles. Filming is expected to begin in late 2004.
Like the first two LOTR installments, the third and final movie in the LOTR trilogy, The Return of the King, opened to worldwide acclaim and huge box office success in December, 2003. For the third year in a row, Orlando was nominated along with the entire cast of Return of the King for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, which will be awarded on February 22, 2004.
Orlando also received a nomination as Best Supporting Actor in the AOL Moviegoer Awards (along with ROTK co-stars Sean Astin and Ian McKellen), which are voted on by movie fans. Winners will be announced February 24, 2004.
Not content to rest on his Elvish laurels, by the time ROTK was released Orlando had already completed work on Troy, which is an epic account of the Trojan War loosely adapted from Homer's The Iliad and other historical sources by screenwriter David Benioff (The 25th Hour). Directed by Wolfgang Petersen (The Perfect Storm, Air Force One), Troy stars Brad Pitt as Greek warrior Achilles and Eric Bana as the noble Hector, Prince of Troy.
Orlando plays Hector's younger brother Paris, who steals the beautiful Helen away from her husband, Menelaus, the king of Sparta, and prompts the 10-year war between Greece and Troy. Troy boasts an all-star cast, including Peter O'Toole as King Priam, father of Hector and Paris; Julie Christie as Thetis, mother of Achilles; Sean Bean (Boromir in Fellowship of the Ring) as Odysseus; Saffron Burrows as Andromache, Hector's wife; Brian Cox as Agamemnon; and Brendan Gleeson as Menelaus. Soon after wrapping production on Pirates, Orlando headed back to London to begin work on Troy, which filmed on location in the UK and Mexico in the summer and fall of 2003. It is scheduled to be released in the USA on May 14, 2004.
Following up his role in Troy, Orlando garnered his first producer credit on Haven, a low-budget crime-drama set and filmed in the Cayman Islands in which he co-stars with Bill Paxton. Production on Haven was completed in December 2003. It earned very good critics at the 2004 Toronto Film Festival but it was obviously difficult to find a distributor for it. It finally has its cinema release in autumn of 2006 (fingers crossed).
After the huge box office success of the LOTR trilogy and Pirates, Orlando's status as a supporting actor was upgraded to leading man when he reteamed with director Ridley Scott (Black Hawk Down) for the epic film Kingdom of Heaven. Orlando plays Balian, a young blacksmith who becomes a knight, saves a kingdom, and falls in love with the princess of Jerusalem (Eva Green) while defending the city against the Crusaders in the 12th century. Liam Neeson co-stars as Balian's father, and other members of the cast include Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson (also in Troy), and David Thewlis.
Unfairly treated by the critics before-hand the film flopped in the US but did very good in the international market. Almost 6 months later the special extended version of Kingdom of Heaven had a short revival in selected US cinemas. The critics were now raving about about "This fantastic piece of period movie" and some considered it even better than Ridley Scott's Oscar showered Gladiator. Sadly for fans the extended version is only available on DVD.
He also made a friend for life on the set - his black Labrador mutt Siddi which is now following him around to press junkets and sets all over the world whenever possible. Orlando became friends with the dog when he saw it eating camel dung at the set close to Ouazazarte (the capital of southern Morocco with the Atlas Mountains as panoramic backround) in Morocco.
2006 marks the year for the second Pirates of the Caribbean movie with the subtitle Dead Man's Chest. Again onboard is Johnny Depp whose portrayal of Capt. Jack Sparrow had been a nightmare for studio executives involving sleepless nights and problems while shooting the first of the trilogy. This was not what they thought a pirate should look like. This time around the studio kept quiet and gave Johnny Depp free hand to do whatever he wanted to do for this by fans so beloved character.
The roles for Keira Knightley and Orlando have become more fleshed out. Eagerly anticipated by both the fans and the media hopes were high this film would get Hollywood out of the ticket sales bottom it had been in for over two years. And what a staggering entrance it made. Despite the critics not being in unison about what to make from the storyline (may have something to do with the fact it's the second of a trilogy that doesn't tell stories in itself but the plot goes over all three films); some called it really bad, others raved about it the film grossed 35 Million US $ at its opening two days.
That is a new record for any movie ever made. And it doesn't stop here. It also had the biggest turnout in the UK and has become the first film ever to break the 300 million Dollars in only 16 days in US theatres.
Orlando has three more films in the pipeline. In 2007 the third of the Pirates trilogy will have its release and of course everyone involved is tightlipped about the plot. Orlando said in an interview that Will will even become darker giving him the opportunity to hone his acting skills.
Love And Other Disasters was completed already in 2005 and has a release date for France in 2006 only. Orlando plays Hollywood Paolo a cameo role and the character's name gives fodder for thought. Also in this film is his sister Samantha Bloom.
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BLOOPERS FROM POTC
Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man's Chest bloopers.
ORLANDO ON EXTRAS
Orlando Bloom guest stars on the British comedy show "Extras Extras."
THEY'RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD
The infamous and very funny music video.
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