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.