Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Copeland Bloom is an English actor. He made his breakthrough as the character Legolas in The Lord of the Rings film series. Bloom gained further acclaim by appearing in epic fantasy, historical, and adventure films. He currently stars in the Amazon Prime Video series Carnival Row.
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Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Copeland Bloom is an English actor. He made his breakthrough as the character Legolas in The Lord of the Rings film series. Bloom gained further acclaim by appearing in epic fantasy, historical, and adventure films. He currently stars in the Amazon Prime Video series Carnival Row. In 2009, Bloom was named a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. In 2015 he received the BAFTA Britannia Humanitarian Award. Bloom was born on 13 January 1977 in Canterbury, Kent. He was named after the 16th-century English composer Orlando Gibbons. Bloom’s mother’s family lived in Tasmania, Japan, and India, and were of English descent, some of them having originally come from Kent. His biological father was Colin Stone, his mother’s partner and family friend. He has an older sister, Samantha Bloom. Bloom has won numerous awards, including European Film Awards, Hollywood Festival Award, Empire Awards and Teen Choice Awards. Most of Bloom’s box office successes have been as part of an ensemble cast in films such as Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, which was a blockbuster hit during the summer of 2003. In the same year he was also executive producer of Trojan War, in which he was effectively the man who started the Trojan War. In 2006, Bloom starred in Dead Man’s Chest, which he made independently of which he also made the guest stars. He also starred in a Broadway adaption of Romeo and Juliet in 2013.
Bloom is a cousin of photographer Sebastian Copeland. His mother, Sonia Constance Josephine, was born in Kolkata, India, the daughter of Francis John Copeland, a physician and surgeon, and Betty ConstanceJosephine. Through her, Bloom is also a relative of the photographer. He attended St Peter’s Methodist Primary School, then the junior school of the King’s School before proceeding to St Edmund’s School in Canterbury. Bloom began acting professionally with television roles in episodes of Casualty and Midsomer Murders, and subsequently made his film debut in Wilde, opposite Stephen Fry, before entering the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He then joined the National Youth Theatre, spending two seasons there and earning a scholarship to train at the British American Drama Academy. Two days after graduating from Guildhall in 1999, he was cast in his first major role, playing Legolas. He subsequently played the lead roles in Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven and Elizabeth Crowe’s Elizabethtown. In 2002, hewas chosen as one of the Teen People \”25 Hottest Stars Under 25\” and was named People’s hottest Hollywood bachelor in the magazine’s 2004 list. He had originally auditioned for the part of Faramir, who does not appear until the second movie, but the director, Peter Jackson, cast him as Legolas instead.
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