The famous British actor Orlando Bloom has played important roles in several box office films that have become popular throughout the world. Roles in “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “Lord of the Rings” brought him worldwide recognition, great fame and a lot of money. And it should be noted that all this is completely deserved – the actor is really great. There is no doubt that we will see Bloom more than once on the big screen.
He was named in honor of Orlando Gibbons, a famous British composer who worked in the 17th century. The father of the future actor, who lived in South Africa, opposed racial segregation and the apartheid regime. For this, he was subjected to persecution, as a result of which he was forced to immigrate to the UK, where he later met his future wife. The biological father of Orlando was not he, but a friend of their family, appointed guardian after the official father of the future star passed away. Orlando was then four years old. Nine years later, his mother told him who his real father was. As a child, he liked to recite stories and poems to the public. Even in his youth, Orlando Bloom became interested in horse riding. He is still a very good rider.
At school, he was teased by his classmates because of his dysgraphies — he could hardly write by hand, and he constantly made mistakes. For the first time, apart from school productions as a child, Bloom began playing on the stage when he was sixteen years old. At nineteen he starred in several episodes of the series, and the following year he received a cameo in a film, in a film about the life of Oscar Wilde. Already rich and famous, he took part in a three-week Arctic trip aboard an icebreaker. At the same time, he did not have a separate cabin, like the other sailors, and he worked all this time on a par with other crew members. Orlando Bloom has quite extreme hobbies – parachuting, rafting on mountain rivers, surfing, speedy descents from the mountains on a bicycle. He himself says that he has already lost count of numerous fractures. His only work injury is a fracture of the ribs on the set of The Lord of the Rings.
Bloom never read the famous saga of J. R. R. Tolkien to the end. At one time he was a vegetarian, but he began to eat meat again for a long time. Unlike many other Hollywood stars, Bloom shows almost no activity on the worldwide network. As he himself once said, the Internet scares him. Orlando Bloom’s favorite book is The Brothers Karamazov. On the theater stage he took part in the productions of several plays based on the works of A.P. Chekhov. Orlando Bloom is a Buddhist. The actor is a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF.
He is an ardent environmentalist. His house is powered by electricity solar panels. Leonardo di Caprio has similar views. During the filming in Morocco, Orlando Bloom picked up a stray dog, which he later took with him. As part of his work at a charitable organization, he visited Nepal, where he made a significant contribution to the development of sanitary and educational programs. Orlando Bloom thinks that his most bad habit is that he bites his nails. He is not indifferent to the old American car. Bloom prefers to ride in a rare 1968 Ford Mustang. For filming in The Lord of the Rings, Orlando Bloom learned to skillfully throw knives. Initially it was assumed that in this film he would play the role of Faramir, and not Legolas. Being an Englishman, Bloom is very fond of tea, but it always adds milk to it. And for some reason it is soy, but on the natural.
