Portrait of Orlando Bloom

Orlando Bloom

Acting

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.

Born: January 13, 1977

Place of Birth: Canterbury, Kent, England, UK

Filmography

2025
The Cut

as The Boxer

2025
Deep Cover

as Marlon

2024
Life Train

as Self

2024
Peppa Pig: Wedding Party!

as Mr. Racoon (voice)

2024
2024
Peppa's Cinema Party

as Mr Raccoon (voice)

2023
Gran Turismo

as Danny Moore

2021
Needle in a Timestack

as Tommy Hambleton

2021
The Prince

as Prince Harry (voice)

2020
The Outpost

as CPT. Benjamin D. Keating

2020
2019
Wonder Boy

as Self

2019
Carnival Row

as Rycroft 'Philo' Philostrate

2019
2018
2017
Romans

as Malky

2017
S.M.A.R.T. Chase

as Danny Stratton

2017
Tour de Pharmacy

as JuJu Pepe

2017
Unlocked

as Jack Alcott

2016
Easy

as Tom

2014
2013
Zulu

as Brian Epkeen

2011
The Three Musketeers

as Duke of Buckingham

2011
The Good Doctor

as Dr. Martin Blake

2010
Main Street

as Harris Parker

2010
2006
2006
The Armenian Genocide

as Auguste Berneau (voice)

2005
2005
Elizabethtown

as Drew Baylor

2005
Extras

as Orlando Bloom

2005
Kingdom of Heaven

as Balian de Ibelin

2004
Haven

as Shy

2004
Troy

as Paris

2004
The Calcium Kid

as Jimmy Connelly

2003
Ned Kelly

as Joseph Byrne

2002
2001
Black Hawk Down

as PFC Todd Blackburn

1999
1999
Smack the Pony

as (uncredited)

1998
1998
So Graham Norton

as Self - Guest

1997
Wilde

as Rent Boy

1997
Midsomer Murders

as Peter Drinkwater

1996
1986
Casualty

as Noel Harrison

1981
1953
The Oscars

as Self

1952
Today

as Self

1948
Bambi

as Self

1944
Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Presenter