Biography: Orlando Bloom, birth name: Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom, born 13 January 1977, height: 5 ft 11 (180 cm), Zodiac Sign: Capricorn. Orlando is an English actor. 

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Orlando had his breakthrough 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 was born in Canterbury, Kent, England. He is named after the 17th century composer Orlando Gibbons, has one sister, Samantha Bloom, who was born in 1975. He lives in London and he’s a big fan of Manchester United.

Bloom also has a tattoo of a sun on his lower, left abdomen, which he got at the age of 16 after moving to London.

Bloom has sustained several injuries: he broke his left arm and cracked his skull three times, broke his nose while playing rugby union, broke his right leg skiing in Switzerland, broke his left leg in a motorbike crash, broke his right wrist while snowboarding, and broke a toe and a finger.He also broke his back when he slipped trying to reach a roof terrace of a friend’s house and fell three floors. The doctors operated on his back, inserting screws and plates. During the hospital stay, Bloom said that he didn’t think he would walk again, but twelve days later, he was walking on crutches. Bloom also sustained cracked ribs while working on The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and along with Viggo Mortensen, who had broken two toes, and Gimli stunt double Bret Beattie, who had a knee injury, were considered by director Peter Jackson as ‘the running wounded’. Ouch!

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