![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Co-producer, Actor Born: January 13, 1977 in Canterbury, Kent, England Biography:"Orlando Bloom" began reading J.R.R.
Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy as a teenager before abandoning the
books in favor of sports and girls. He did not complete the three volumes until
his early twenties: first in print, and then on camera as one of a handful of
actors carefully selected for New Line Cinema's highly anticipated, $270
million, three-film screen adaptation of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. The
international success of the trilogy's first installment, The Fellowship of the
Ring (2001), made Bloom a sought-after young actor. The talented Brit works the
talk show circuit, mugs in magazines, and appears at every important award show
-- always with a playful demeanor and an uncorrupted smile that suggest he could
still be just as easily fulfilled by rugby and romance.
Bloom was raised in Canterbury, Kent, with his sister, Samantha. Their mother taught them... Full Biography
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