His b-day is Jan. 13th!
He'll be 25. nice-5'11"! *runs off to take up sky-diving and bungee jumping*
Nickname
Orli
O.B.
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Height
5' 11"
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Mini biography
Born in 1977 in Canterbury, Orlando Bloom's plans of becoming an actor developed quite early, when he realized that "Superman" 'Christopher Reeve' (qv) was an actor. In 1993, he moved to London to improve his career, doing bit parts in TV series like "Casualty" or "London's Burning". His first memorable appearance, a cameo in the critically acclaimed movie Wilde (1997), earned him - only 20 years old by that time - various film offers, which he all turned down in favour to play theatre for about three years. On stage, he appeared in plays like "The Seagull", "Twelfth Night", and "Trojan Women". Peter Jackson then "discovered" the classically handsome Bloom for his much hyped _Lord Of The Rings (2001)_ (qv) trilogy in 1999. After doing three movies with Jackson, he's worked with Ridley Scott on Black Hawk Down (2002), and with Mark Mylod on Chequered Past (2002), co-starring with Andr? Schneider (I), a young German actor he's been admiring for a while then. They both came together again in the lackluster Lullaby Of Clubland (2002), "just to do another film together" (Bloom). Bloom lives in London with his dog, Maude.
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Trivia
His hobbies are sky diving, bungee jumping, paragliding, surfing and snowboarding.
Spent two years at the National Youth Theatre and went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Is close friends with Andr? Schneider (I).
Has three tattoos.
Has a dog named Maude.
Dated his "Lullaby of Clubland" girlfriend Joanne Morley (1996), until she left him for Andr? Schneider (I) (1997).
Was briefly engaged to model 'Jemma Kidd'.
Was voted #19 in the F.M. magazine's Top 50 list of the sexiest Brit Actors (2001).
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Personal quotes
(on salary) "I don't care much about the money at all. Frankly, if I get the chance to kiss someone in a movie, they wouldn't need to pay me at all."
"Basically, I can say that I came to acting because of the women."
"Never eat a Mars Bar offered to you by Schneider, Andr?."
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If you are really good friends with The Edge, you can just call him The~ Adam
The right side of my brain is kinda redundant~ Larry
[This message has been edited by Gina Marie (edited 01-01-2002).]
