Orlando Bloom
Biography
Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Copeland Bloom (born 13 January 1977) is an English actor. He made his breakthrough as the character Legolas in The Lord of the Rings film series (2001–03). He reprised his role in The Hobbit film series (2013–14). Considered by some to be the Errol Flynn of his time, he gained further notice appearing in epic fantasy, historical, and adventure films, notably as Will Turner in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series (2003–07, 2017), Paris in Troy (2004), Balian de Ibelin in the Kingdom of Heaven (2005), and the Duke of Buckingham in The Three Musketeers(2011).
Bloom appeared in Hollywood films such as the war film Black Hawk Down (2001), the Australian Western Ned Kelly (2003), the romantic comedy Elizabethtown (2005), and New York, I Love You(2007). In 2020, he gained acclaim for the Afghanistan War drama film The Outpost (2020). He also starred in the Amazon Prime Video series Carnival Row (2019–2023).
He debuted professionally in In Celebration at the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End in 2007. He starred in an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in 2013. He returned to the theatre in a West End revival of Tracy Letts' Killer Joe in 2018. In 2009, Bloom was named a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. In 2015, he received the BAFTA Britannia Humanitarian Award.
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Full filmography
- Midsomer Murders (1997) as Peter Drinkwater
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (2009) as Self - Guest
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014) as Self
- The Daily Show (1996) as Self
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015) as Self - Guest
- Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014) as Self
- Casualty (1986) as Noel Harrison
- The Graham Norton Show (2007) as Self
- Conan (2010) as Self
- The Late Late Show with James Corden (2015) as Self - Guest
- The Late Late Show with James Corden (2015) as Self
- The View (1997) as Self
- The Colbert Report (2005) as Self - Guest
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) as Legolas
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) as Legolas
- Golden Globe Awards (1944) as Self - Presenter
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) as Self
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) as Self - Guest
- LIVE with Kelly and Mark (1988) as Self
- LIVE with Kelly and Mark (1988) as Self - Guest
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) as Will Turner
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) as Legolas
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003) as Self
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993) as Self - Guest