Orlando Bloom

Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Copeland Bloom was born on 13 January 1977 in Canterbury, England. He is an English actor. He made his breakthrough as Legolas in The Lord of the Rings film series (2001–03), earning three Actors Award nominations and winning once, and he reprised the role in The Hobbit film series (2013–14).

He went on to appear in epic fantasy, historical and adventure films, including as Will Turner in the Pirates of the Caribbean series (2003–2007, 2017), Paris in Troy (2004), Balian de Ibelin in Kingdom of Heaven (2005) and the Duke of Buckingham in The Three Musketeers (2011). His other films include 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 The Outpost, and he starred in the Amazon Prime Video series Carnival Row (2019–2023).

On stage, he made his professional debut in In Celebration at the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End in 2007, starred in a Broadway production of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in 2013, and returned to the West End in a revival of Killer Joe in 2018. In 2009 he was named a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, and in 2015 he received the BAFTA Britannia Humanitarian Award.