Orlando Bloom movies

He had his break-through role in the early 2000s as the elf-prince Legolas in The Lord of the Rings and blacksmith Will Turner in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy of films, and subsequently established himself as a lead in Hollywood films, including Troy, Elizabethtown, and Kingdom of Heaven. Bloom most recently appeared in the sequels Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Mans Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End. Bloom has recently started rehearsals for his West End debut in In Celebration at the Duke of Yorks Theatre, St Martins Lane, which previews from the 5th July 2007.BiographyEarly lifeBloom was born in Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom.

His mother, Sonia Constance Josephine Copeland, was born in Calcutta, India, the daughter of Betty Constance Josephine Walker and Francis John Copeland, a physician and surgeon. Blooms maternal grandmothers family has lived in Tasmania, Australia and India, and are of English descent, some of them having originally come from Kent. Bloom had thought that his father was South African-born Jewish anti-Apartheid novelist Harry Saul Bloom, but when he was thirteen (nine years after Harrys death), Blooms mother revealed to him that his biological father was actually Colin Stone, his mothers partner and family friend, and the principal of the Concorde International language school. Stone was made Orlando Blooms legal guardian after Harry Blooms death. Bloom, who is named after the 17th century composer Orlando Gibbons, has one sister, Samantha Bloom, who was born in 1975.Bloom was not academic or athletic as a child, and managed to struggle through St Edmunds School in Canterbury despite his dyslexia. He was encouraged by his mother to take art and drama classes.

Orlando Bloom Movies

All movies starring Orlando Bloom.

• Haven
• Kingdom of Heaven
• Love and Other Disasters
• Ned Kelly
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• Troy