orlando's father,harry bloom, was a novelist and died when orlando was only four years old; orlando was then brought yp by his mother and sister,Samantha, who is two years older than him. when growing up in canterbury, his mother taught him and his sister to enjoy the arts and encouraged then to join a drama group. At the age of sizteen, orlando moved away from kent to london to act with the national youth theartre, he was casted into his first film at twenty,the film called Wilde
In 1998 , orlando suffered a bad accident, he was climbing onto a friend's rooftop terrace hen he fell three stories and broke his back, doctors told him he wouldn't be able to walk again, but he walked out of hostipital 12 days later, He said in his own words "they didn't think i would walk again, and twelve days later, i walked out of hospitalon crutches.my back is a consistan reminder of how lucky i am"
orlando descides himself as being accident prone and has broken his nose,both legs,an arm,a wrist,a rid,a finger,a toe and has cracked his skull three times. as a teen, orlando tried reading the lord of the rings trilogy but disreagarded them for more exciting things, he didn't complete the books until his early twenties when he thad 3 days left of drama school, orlando was chosen to play legolas in lord of the rings, he had originally set out to play faramir,boromirs youngerbrotherbut was muck more suited for the elf warrior, he says"legolas's movesare smooth an ellegant, like a cat. You know how cat's jump and land steadily on thiers paws? thats what im trying to do. theres a strength in that, but its balletic. it's also bloody hard to do without falling over!"
Also, while he was filming LOTR, he gave up smoking.
