Two days after graduating from Guildhall in 1999, he was cast in his first major role, playing Legolas in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003). Career īloom's first appearance on the screen was in a small role, as a rent boy, in the 1997 film Wilde. Bloom began acting professionally with television roles in episodes of Casualty and Midsomer Murders, and subsequently made his film debut in Wilde (1997), opposite Stephen Fry, before entering the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where he studied acting. He then joined the National Youth Theatre, spending two seasons there and earning a scholarship to train at the British American Drama Academy. After being spurred into action following his school prize submission to panto actor Richard Sieben in 1992, in 1993, he moved to London to follow a two-year A-Level course in Drama, Photography and Sculpture at Fine Arts College, Hampstead. Bloom was discovered to be dyslexic, and was encouraged by his mother to take art and drama classes. He attended St Peter's Methodist Primary School, then the junior school of The King's School before proceeding to St Edmund's School Canterbury. īloom was brought up in the Church of England. Bloom's mother's family lived in Tasmania (Australia), Japan, and India. Through her, Bloom is a cousin of photographer Sebastian Copeland. ![]() īloom's mother, Sonia Constance Josephine ( née Copeland), was born in Kolkata, India, the daughter of British parents Francis John Copeland, a physician and surgeon, and Betty Constance Josephine ( née Walker), who were from Kent. Stone, the principal of the Concorde International language school, became Orlando Bloom's legal guardian after Harry Bloom's death. However, when he was thirteen, Bloom's mother revealed to him that his biological father was actually Colin Stone, his mother's partner and family friend. īloom initially believed that his biological father was his mother's husband, the South African-born anti- apartheid novelist Harry Bloom (1913–1981), who died when Bloom was four years old. Early life īloom was born on 13 January 1977 in Canterbury, Kent, and was named after the 16th-century English composer Orlando Gibbons. In 2015 he received the BAFTA Britannia Humanitarian Award. In 2009, Bloom was named a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. He returned to the theatre in a West End revival of Tracy Letts' Killer Joe in 2018. He made his professional stage debut in In Celebration at the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End in 2007 and starred in a Broadway adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in 2013. He also starred in the Amazon Prime Video series Carnival Row (2019–2023). In 2020 he gained acclaim for the Afghanistan War drama film The Outpost (2020). Considered by some to be the Errol Flynn of his time, he gained further notice appearing in epic fantasy, historical, and adventure films, notably as Will Turner in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series (2003–07, 2017), Paris in Troy (2004), Balian de Ibelin in Kingdom of Heaven (2005), and the Duke of Buckingham in The Three Musketeers (2011).īloom appeared in Hollywood films such as the war film Black Hawk Down (2001), the Australian Western Ned Kelly (2003), the romantic comedy Elizabethtown (2005), and New York, I Love You (2007). ![]() He reprised his role in The Hobbit film series (2013–14). He made his breakthrough as the character Legolas in The Lord of the Rings film series (2001–03). Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Copeland Bloom (born 13 January 1977) is an English actor.
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