Orlando Bloom – British Celebrity, Actor

The British Actor, Orlando Bloom was born in the town of Canterbury in the English county of Kent, in the late 70s. Her portrayal of Legolas in the trilogy The Lord of the Rings has made ​​him known internationally, but his film history is rather extensive and includes many successes.

His Full name is Jonathan Blanchard Bloom, known as Orlando Bloom. He was born January 13, 1977 in UK. Bloom was raised as an Anglican. In childhood, he managed to go to school The King and St. Edmund School in Canterbury despite his dyslexia.  His mother encouraged him to take art classes and drama.  In 1993, he moved to London to follow a two year course of Drama, Photography and Sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Hampstead. He joined the National Isa Youth Theatre, learning two seasons there and earning a scholarship to train at the American British Academy.

Bloom began acting professionally in television roles in episodes of Casualty and Midsomer Murders, and subsequently made ​​his big-screen debut in Wilde in 1997, starring Stephen Fry, in which he played a small part, as a rent boy. Just after, he entered the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he studied acting.

Two days after graduating from Guildhall in 1999, was elected to his first major role, playing the prince elf Legolas Greenleaf in the trilogy of The Lord of the Rings (2001 - 2003). In the first instance had auditioned for the role of Faramir, who does not appear until the second movie but the director Peter Jackson instead assigned the role of Legolas, with great weight in all three films. At the same time, Bloom also played a brief role in the movie Black Hawk Down. The success of the trilogy of The Lord of the Rings and Black Hawk Down transformed Bloom from an unknown actor into one of the best known celebrities around the world. In 2002 he was elected for Teen People on ‘The Sexiest Stars under 25’ and was named by People as the single most beautiful in the list of 2004. All members of the films of The Lord of the Rings were nominated for Best Ensemble at the Screen Actors Guild Award for three consecutive years, finally winning in 2003 for the 3rd film, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Bloom also won other awards, including European Film Awards, Hollywood Festival Awards, Empire Awards and Teen Choice Award, and has been nominated by others. Most of Bloom's box office successes have been as part of a deal.

Bloom next starred opposite Keira Knightley and Johnny Depp film Pirates of the Caribbean: the Curse of the Black Pearl, which was a box office hit in the summer of 2003. After the success in this film, Bloom took the role as Paris, the man who effectively started the Trojan War, in the 2004 Spring blockbuster, Troy, with Brad Pitt, Eric Bana and Peter O’Toole. He then played the lead roles in Kingdom of Heaven and Elizabethtown (both in 2005). In 2006, Bloom starred in sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, and the indie film Haven, of which he was executive producer. In the same year, was one of the guest stars in the series Extras, in which he played an arrogant narcissistic version of himself who had a great repugnance to Johnny Depp, (fellow film Pirates of the Caribbean); Bloom tried to Extras to go further by unsympathetic role, and contributed to the gag about admiring Depp out of sheer envy, that Depp was more talented than him, not to mention that Depp was on the lists of the 'most sexy'. Also in 2006, Bloom was the most searched in Google News. As of May 2007, Bloom appeared in four of the 15 highest grossing films of all time.

Bloom's recent film role is in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, released on May 24, 2007. Bloom, who had tried to become stage actor after graduating from the school of Music and Drama Guildhall, has said he would like to leave films for a while instead of appearing in stage roles, and "is looking eagerly for the correct media type in that he can do something " and go ‘back to basics.’ During in the summer of 2007, he appeared in a play by David Storey in the London revival In Celebration. His character was one of three brothers returning home for the 40th wedding anniversary of their parents. On August 24, 2007, he made ​​his first television commercial on Japanese TV promoting the Uno brand of Shiseido cosmetics. A two-minute version of "one night only" a science fiction trading began in the campaign. In 2008, signed on to play a small role in the British film An Education but dropped out to be in Johnny To's film Red Circle. In 2009 he was one of the many stars who appeared in New York, I Love You, which contained twelve short films in one. Bloom has resumed his role as Legolas in Peter Jackson's films based on The Hobbit, currently in post-production.

Orlando Bloom maintains a relationship with Australian model Miranda Kerr, famous for his work for the firm of lingerie Victoria's Secret, since 2007. In June 2010, the representative of the model confirmed to the magazine People that the couple had committed, and on July 23 confirmed the news that the couple had already married in Los Angeles. Shortly later, the magazine U.S. Weekly reported that the model was pregnant, and that the recent marriage expecting their first child. On January 6 of 2011 had the baby, they have called Flynn Bloom.

On October 12 of 2009, Orlando Bloom was named goodwill ambassador of UNICEF and in July 13, 2010, he was presented with an honorary degree from the University of Kent in Canterbury Cathedral.

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