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- Full Name:
Orlando
Bloom, Orlando is Spanish and means 'land of gold'.
- Nickname:
Orli,
O.B
- Date of
birth: January 13th 1977
- Birth
place: Canterbury, Kent, England
- Height:
5'11"
- Hair color:
Brown
- Eye Color:
Brown
- Parents: His
father, Harry Bloom died when Orlando was just 4 yrs old. He was a legendary
figure in antiapartheid circles in South Africa who worked alongside
Nelson Mandela. Recent articles have stated that Orlando's biological
father is Colin Stone, who had been Orlando's guardian.
- Siblings:
Samantha (Actress) and is two years older than him. " We fought a lot
as kids. Were just starting to get along a lot better now that were
older. She did get me into clothes at a young age, though. She used to
dress me and shed get stuff from thrift shops. I had loafers and
cowboy boots and cowboy shirts and, like, preppie-like check
shirts".
- Martial status:
currently
dating Blue Crush star Kate Bosworth.
- Favorite color:
yellow
- Bad
habits: used to smoke but quit, bites nails
- Into:
girls. extreme sports ( skydiving, bungee jumping, paragliding, surfing,
snowboarding, all while filming the LOTR), photography." I love to
hang out with my friends, I like going for walks, walking my dog. I
like going on road trips. I love to travel".
- Tattoos:
Number
9 in elvish on his arm , after filming LOTR, other fellow cast members
also have it "It was designed by Alan Lee. who illustrated all of the
lord of the rings books. its an elvish script, and its the word for 9. We
all chose to put them in different places. I got mine on my forearm, because
I'm an archer", and a sun near his bellybutton, there are rumors he
has a third.
- Has
broken: Back, ribs, nose, both legs, arm, wrist, finger, toe and
has cracked his skull 3 times!
- Pets:
Used to have a dog named Maude, apparently he had to give Maude away,
because of his tight filming schedule.
- Favorite
football team: Manchester United (c'mon you reds!)
- Languages:
English, French and of course elvish!
- First job:
clay trapper at a pigeon shooting range when he was 13." I set
the clay discs the gentlemen would try to shoot. It was fun to be out
in the fresh air".
- Food:
Vegetarian,
doesn't do dairy products!
- Briefly
engaged to: Jemma Kid, rumors have it!
- Favorite music:
Jamiroquai,
Radiohead, Ute Lemper,Depeche Mode, R.E.M,and Coldplay, Jeff Buckley,
Beck, Jurassic 5, Ben Harper and Bob Dylan.
- Education:
National
Youth Theatre, Guildhall School Of Music and Drama.
- First claim to
fame: Playing
a rent boy in Wilde
(1997)
- Awards won: Won
the 2002 MTV movie award for 'Breakthrough male'.
- People he
admires:
Johnny
Depp, Edward Norton, Daniel Day Lewis.
- What he was
like at school:
"
I never really responded to teaching, I was always far more interested
In what was happening on the playing fields".
- First
concert: "
Jamiroquai at a gig in my hometown of Canterbury".
- Why he wanted
to be an actor: "
When I was younger, I had an incredible imagination, like most kids,
and I was always drawn to these larger-than-life characters that I
would see either at the theatre, on TV or at the cinema. Once I
was old enough to realize that those characters weren't real,
they were actors - once I realized that I could be Superman or I could
be the Hustler or I could be Daniel Day Lewis' character in The Last
of the Mohicans - I was like, "Man, I can become an actor and be
all of those things!
- Girls he
falls for (it could be you!):
OB
says he likes blondes and "nice sweet girls" but is he a
good boyfriend? "Im a good boyfriend but pretty intense",
Orlando says "When you are with me it's exciting, fun and very
intense. At the same time I'm easy-going. But it depends
on the girl I'm with."
- First car:
A green VW Gold. "I bought it for 160 quid [about $230] at
an auction. I still wish I had it."
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