Orlando Bloom

Orlando Bloom, born 13 January 1977 in Canterbury, England, had the kind of early break most actors only fantasize about: Legolas in The Lord of the Rings, a role he returned to in The Hobbit films, plus a Jameson People's Choice win in 2005 and a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2014. What strikes me is how double-edged that break is. When a franchise that enormous lands on you at twenty-something, the world's memory of you calcifies fast — for millions of viewers he is permanently the elf with the bow, frozen in a shot from 2002. Getting out from under a silhouette that fixed is genuinely hard work, and the credits list here suggests he's been trying: stage acting, television, producing. I find that trajectory more telling than the trophies. The trophies came from a single extraordinary window; the stage and the production credits are what someone does when they intend the career to outlast the window.

Name (English)

Orlando Bloom

Name (Japanese)

オーランド・ブルーム

Reading

おーらんど・ぶるーむ

Born

January 13, 1977 (age 49)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Snake

Origin

Canterbury, United Kingdom

Occupation

film actor / stage actor / television actor / actor / film producer

University

Fine Arts College

Awards & achievements

• 2005 Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actor
• 2014 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/orlandobloom/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando%20Bloom
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44467

Tags

• film actor
• stage actor
• television actor

Last updated

2026-08-07

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.