Orlando Bloom (full name Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom) is a British actor, Hollywood star and one of the highest paid performers in the film industry. Wide fame came to him after his roles in the films: "The Lord of the Rings", "Troy", "Pirates of the Caribbean", "The Hobbit".
Orlando Bloom has already played more than a hundred roles in television and film projects, including participation in show programs, award ceremonies, documentaries. In the spring of 2014, Bloom won a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at number 6927.
Biography facts
The future famous Hollywood actor was born in England in the winter of 1977. His parents were well-known and respected people.
Mom was born in Calcutta to an English family who lived in India at the time. After graduating, she opened a language school in Canterbury, where mainly foreign students studied.
Orlando believed that Harry Bloom, a well-known civil rights activist in South Africa, was his father. This was a legendary person. Bloom was known as a prominent politician and hero of the country. When the boy was four years old, Harry died of a stroke. After that, Orlando and his older sister Samantha were raised by their mother and family friend, Colin Stone.
A few years later, the mother admitted that in fact her husband Harry could not have children. Colin became the biological father by agreement of the parents.
Orlando spent his school years in Canterbury at St Edmund's School. Studying was given to the boy with great difficulty due to the diagnosis of dyslexia. But his passion for creativity gave him real pleasure. He was engaged in modeling pottery, photography, painting. Participated in all school activities and played in the local theater.
Together with his sister, he became interested in poetry and literary creativity. At one of the festivals, they read works of classical literature from the stage and won a poetry competition.
Orlando dreamed of becoming an actor and at the age of sixteen went to London, where he began acting on the stage of the National Youth Theater. There he performed for two seasons and received a personal scholarship to study at the British American Drama Academy.
During his work at the Orlando Theater, he more than once held auditions for television projects. He played cameo roles in several British TV series and films: "Catastrophe", "Pure English Murders", "Women's Pranks", "Wilde".
Orlando then attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. It was during this period that an accident happened to him. The young man fell from the roof of a three-story terrace and suffered a spinal fracture. Despite fears that he would not be able to walk or would be paralyzed, doctors literally saved Orlando and quickly put him on his feet. Soon he was already able to return to theatrical creativity and again perform on stage.
Film career
Once, while performing on the television show One Night, Orlando was spotted by director Peter Jackson. After the end of the program, he asked the actor to audition for his new film. The casting was successful: Bloom got a role in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. True, initially he applied for the role of Farmir, but the director decided that the actor would look more attractive in the image of the elf Legolas.
Bloom spent eighteen months on set in New Zealand creating his character. Working on the role was quite a challenge for Orlando. He first took part in such a large-scale project almost immediately after graduating from acting school.
Gradually he managed to show what he is capable of. The actor performed all the stunt scenes himself. This is not surprising, because in life Orlando is a fan of extreme sports. In the process of preparing for work, he mastered surfing, horse riding, archery, kayaking and canoeing, and the use of cold weapons.
Not without injuries. During filming, the actor broke a rib, but this did not prevent him from continuing to work. Within a few days he was again on the site.
After the release of the film, Bloom's career began to develop rapidly. Today he is one of the busiest and most sought-after representatives of the film industry.
Having played the role of Paris in the film "Troy", Bloom added to his popularity even more and increased the army of female fans tenfold. Along with Orlando, famous actors were involved in the film: Sean Bean, Brad Pitt, Brian Cox, Eric Bana. The picture turned out to be large-scale and one of the most expensive to produce. But the rental fees justified the investment and amounted to $ 497.4 million.
Bloom's next major work was his role in the Pirates of the Caribbean project, where he starred with Keira Knightley, Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush and other famous performers.
In 2013, Bloom received an invitation from director Peter Jackson to play the role of Legolas in The Hobbit trilogy. Like The Lord of the Rings, the project became a real blockbuster, grossing nearly a billion dollars at the box office for each part.
Having already become a famous actor, Orlando received an invitation to join the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford. The actor himself dreams of playing the role of Hamlet. He hopes that as soon as he has more free time, he will be able to perform on stage in one of Shakespeare's most difficult works.
Hollywood star fees and awards
Fans of the actor's talent will probably be interested to know how much Orlando Bloom earns.
It is known that on the set of "The Hobbit" the actor's fee was about a million dollars. This is despite the fact that in the film his character is far from the main one and appears on the screen for only a few minutes.
The actor received the largest royalties for his roles in the films: "Kingdom of Heaven" - 2 million dollars, "Elizabethtown" - 3 million, for each part of "Pirates of the Caribbean" 11, 9 million.
Bloom is the owner of a large number of prestigious film awards and nominations, including: Saturn, Empire, Actors Guild, MTV, European Film Academy, Teen Choice Awards, Phoenix Film Critics Society, US Film Critics Council, Milan Film Festival, Hollywood Film Festival.
