Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom is an English actor. After having his breakthrough as Legolas in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, he rose to fame by further appearing in epic fantasy, historical epic, and fantasy adventure films. His other roles include Legolas in The Hobbit trilogy, Will Turner in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Paris in Troy, and Balian de Ibelin in Kingdom of Heaven.
Bloom was born in 1977 in Canterbury, Kent, and was named after the 16th century composer Orlando Gibbons. He has one halfsister, Samantha Bloom , and two stepsiblings, the photographer and jewellery designer Susan Storm Bloom and the photographer Stephen Jack Bloom .
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