When he grew up in Canterbury, his mother inspired children's interest in art and literature and encouraged them to participate in local art festivals. Orlando began to recite poems and essays in public there, and his interest in performance was aroused. He once said, "I am always fascinated by watching school plays. My teacher often plays some plays, and he gives me a chance to play a very interesting role. My mother took us to the theater to see those great and immortal performing artists, and I made up my mind to become an actor. "
Orlando's alma mater in Canterbury is Steedmunds School, a very good private school. He got an A in photography, sculpture and drama. /kloc-at the age of 0/6, he left his hometown to develop in London and performed on the stage of the National Youth Theatre for two years until he won a scholarship from the British and American Theatre Academy. After graduation, he appeared in some plays and TV works. At the age of 20, he played his first movie role in Wilde, a charming street prostitute. This role won him more film contracts, but he turned them down and entered the prestigious Music and Drama Academy of City Hall, which trained many famous artists including ewan mcgregor and joseph fiennes. At school, he appeared in many plays, such as Chekhov's Twelfth Night, trojan women, Three Sisters, Uncle Vanya, Seagull, Sophocles' antigone, and made guest appearances in some TV series, such as Casualty and Murder.
1998, when he was still in the city hall, Orlando once fell three stories high and hurt his back when he tried to cross the roof terrace at a friend's house. The doctor told him that he might never walk again, but less than two weeks after the operation, he walked out of the hospital on crutches. This was an event that had a great influence on him, and he learned how to face the difficulties more firmly. Orlando has been broken many times since he was a child. He broke his ribs, nose, leg, arm, wrist, fingers and toes, and even his skull three times.
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Orlando tried to read Professor Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings when he was a teenager, but he gave up in the middle of reading and sought more exciting activities for him at that time. It was not until 1999 that he had every reason to finish reading this set of classics at the age of 22. He participated in the global audition of The Lord of the Rings, the masterpiece of New Zealand director Peter Jackson. Just three days before graduation, he received a phone call from his agent and got unexpected good news: he didn't get the initial application for faramir, the Human Warrior, but he was finally chosen as an actor in Legolas. Legolas is a member of The Lord of the Rings, a sharpshooter prince from the dark forest, and will appear in all three films. Orlando Bloom plays this role in this film. Legolas Green Leaf is the prince of the black forest elves, a descendant of an elf aristocrat. Legolas means "green leaf" in Cinda elvish.
1In the autumn of 1999, Orlando left London and flew to New Zealand just after graduation, and started the first round of shooting for 15 months. Orlando was trained in fencing, archery and equestrian before the official shooting. Legolas is an elf beyond human ability, strong, flexible, agile and intelligent. He quickly grasped the characteristics of the role from the aspects of temperament, language, posture, fighting skills, etc., shaved a Mohican's head to match the golden long vacation hair, and put on blue contact lenses ... Orlando, a mortal boy appearing in the camera, was simply transformed into a tall, beautiful, quiet and brave elf.
In Orlando's eyes, Legolas is a quiet and down-to-earth guy. He didn't have many lines in the trilogy, but his appearance attracted attention. In June, 20001,after the audition of the first The Lord of the Rings Film Festival, many media paid close attention to this newcomer's praise. After the release, he jumped from an unknown mistress to a hot star. But for Orlando, the most important gain from the filming experience of The Lord of the Rings is that he has worked with countless dedicated and excellent cast members for a long time, learned his valuable first lesson of "entering the Jianghu" and forged a profound friendship with them. He recalled an interesting conversation with his film partner Vigo (the actor of Aragon): "Vigo always called me' elf boy' and I called him' dirty human'. As an elf, I won't get scratched or dirty, but Vig always perspires and says to me,' Go get a manicure'. He always makes fun of the elves how to manicure their nails and comb their long hair all day. I am timid and say,' What's the matter, at least I am a fairy, a fairy!' "。
During the filming, in order to commemorate their friendship, he and dominic monaghan (the actor of Merry) suggested that the friends of the Lord of the Rings collectively get tattoos as a souvenir, and they got a response. Except John Rhys-Davies (who plays Gimli), all the actors in The Lord of the Rings wrote "9" in elvish in different parts, while Orlando was written on his wrist (he had an early tattoo on his waist).
After the first song was released at the end of 200 1 year, many actors often came back to make up the second and third films. The The Lord of the Rings trilogy has become one of the great films in film history, and the The Lord of the Rings team is also an unforgettable memory of Orlando's life. He has repeatedly publicly thanked Peter Jackson for giving him the opportunity to play in Legolas, and said that he would like to play even if he played forever. Although The Lord of the Rings has brought him countless followers, awards and titles, such as the "Most Breakthrough Newcomer Award" at the MTV Film Festival in 2002, it has even been affirmed by many predecessors. But at that time, most people thought of Orlando as the elegant elf with blond hair and blue eyes, not the olive skin, dark curly hair and chocolate eyes.
Orlando is a caring "animal lover" and adopted several puppies (including Sidi, the black dog who was later picked up on the set of Paradise). He used to be a vegetarian, but for the sake of his health, especially his old back injury, he now begins to eat some meat. He claims to be a "technophobia" patient and is unwilling to contact modern media, including not reading newspapers, magazines and TV, let alone playing computer and surfing the Internet. He is interested in sculpture and other arts and hopes to have his own sculpture studio one day. "It's important to exercise different creative fields in your mind," he said, just as he longed to break through the barriers of the elf prince and be affirmed in different roles.
200 1 left Britain to develop in Hollywood, participated in ridley scott's highly acclaimed documentary war film Black Hawk Down (released in early 2002), and gathered many male stars such as josh hartnett, ewan mcgregor and eric bana. Based on a tragic real war in Mogadishu, Orlando plays a small but key role in the film-a recruit who falls from a helicopter and becomes the beginning of a series of nightmares for American soldiers. Because of his outstanding performance in two consecutive blockbusters, The Times of London predicted that he would become a "well-known world star".
In the spring of 2002, he got an important role in the Australian film Ned Kelly (released in March 2003): Joe Bourne, the think tank of the Kelly gang. This character is deep, wise, elegant and very feminine. Orlando has a chance to play against the already famous Heath Ledger, geoffrey rush and naomi watts. His just-right performance made him particularly outstanding in this depressing tragic biographical film. In the summer of 2002, he welcomed his first hero. Although he starred in a low-budget production called calcium kid, he played a milkman who happened to be a boxer. Although the film's evaluation is not good, it doesn't have much influence, but it is also good to have the opportunity to see his pure and lovely fashion appearance.
Popular all over the world
After the autumn of 2002, Orlando experienced a very important adventure in the Caribbean: he played a major role in Disney's action blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (released in July 2003), and had the opportunity to play against his idol Johnny Depp and the hot newcomer keira knightley. Orlando plays a brave blacksmith who doesn't know that he is a descendant of pirates. He and Elizabeth, the daughter of the governor, were childhood friends, and even together with Jack, the legendary pirate played by Johnny Depp, saved her from the cursed thief. Pirates of the Caribbean is another popular blockbuster starring Orlando. Once again, he played with a sword and grew a long hair and moustache, which made people realize that he was a truly fearless person, not an unrealistic elf.
In the summer and autumn of 2003 in Mexico, he starred in another epic, Troy (released in April 2004). This time, he played an anti-hero role completely different from the previous screen image, driving away Helen, the prince of Troy and queen of Sparta, thus triggering the war between Greece and Troy. Eric bana, an Australian actor who worked with him on the Black Hawk Project, plays his brother hector, Brad Pitt, a popular idol, plays Achilles, a legendary Greek warrior, sean bean, who is also a member of The Lord of the Rings, plays Odysseus, a Greek wise man, and wolfgang petersen directs the film. However, this expensive mythical epic film has completely turned into a mediocre commercial film. Although the box office was impressive, it didn't win praise. Orlando's clothes are amazing, and his "coward" role makes his fans "uncomfortable".
Paradise is the first co-produced film in Orlando. This intense and creative low-cost film was shot in the Cayman Islands, directed and written by Frank E. Flowers, an emerging film industry. The main plot revolves around an Englishman and a Cayman couple in bill paxton. This film attracted attention at the beginning of the Toronto Film Festival in 2004 and will be officially released in September this year.
With the release of The Lord of the Rings's second and third films in 2003 and 2004, the box office is getting higher and higher, and more and more awards are won. Actors in The Lord of the Rings, including Orlando, continue to attract attention, but his goal at this time is to focus on several films that are more helpful to his career.
The most concerned is another representative work of ridley scott, The Kingdom of Heaven (released in May 2005). Orlando's popularity and reputation in the circle have improved. In 2004, he finally got a chance to play the leading role in a big production. The story takes place in the kingdom of Jerusalem established by the Crusaders in the12nd century. He plays an engineer who has suffered from the loss of his wife, seeks spiritual liberation with his father he has never met, and finally grows into a real knight. Liam neeson plays his father, French actress Eva Green plays the Princess who falls in love with him, and a group of powerful old actors such as Jeremy Irons, brendan gleeson, david thewlis and Edward Harrison Norton also gather together. The great war scenes and generous benevolent thoughts in the film catch up with The Lord of the Rings, which had great influence in previous years. Although Orlando devoted himself to this film, and he, ridley scott and other creative staff made a lot of efforts for this film, Fox's poor editing did not make this film glow as it should. After the film was released, there were different opinions. Orlando's performance didn't convince everyone, and "Paradise" didn't achieve the expected results.
After the Battle of the Kingdom, he came to beautiful and quiet Kentucky to take part in the filming of Elizabethtown by cameron crowe (released in June 2005, 165438+ 10). Sports shoe designers in Orlando began to plan creative suicide after suffering a series of blows: losing their jobs and being abandoned by their girlfriends. Then he received a very sad phone call: his father died of a heart attack in his hometown. So he went back to his hometown to deal with the aftermath, met Claire, a lively and optimistic stewardess played by kirsten dunst, and found all the reasons to live in her and Elizabethtown. For Orlando, this is a very happy moment. It is rare to play an ordinary boy instead of a hero with a sword. This is a warm and touching feature film about life and family, and wonderful country music runs through the film.
The lively year of 2005 passed, Orlando took a break for a while, and then continued to return to his pirate career. The continuous shooting of the second and third films of Pirates of the Caribbean has ended, and the more exciting second episode of Dead Man's Chest in the summer of 2006 finally met the audience. The sequel continues the funny style of the last episode, but the plot is longer and more sidelined. Will, played by Orlando, began to face some unpredictable dark sides, and his friendship with Jack and Elizabeth's marriage were also tested. The second movie was a box office success and became one of the most popular movies of the year. But Orlando didn't make a big breakthrough in his career.
Perhaps he was more inspired by the small-budget production of Harbor, which was shown in dozens of theaters in the United States at the end of summer. In the film, he first tried the work of behind-the-scenes production and cooperated with the cutting-edge director Flower. E makes him very happy. He attaches importance to this film as much as his other big productions. Orlando plays the second protagonist in the film, a white boy from Cayman Islands, who is shy and falls in love with Andrea, a rich girl. The couple's love is considered inappropriate in the local area and brutally suppressed by her parents-local bullies. Shyness even suffered the price of disfigurement, followed by revenge, murder and cruel fate. This is a concept production with strong style. For Orlando, he wants to try more art films instead of simply becoming a commercial actor.
New direction
After the promotion of two films, Orlando broke up with his long-time girlfriend kate bosworth. Over the past few years, he has had mixed success and failure. The auditions for big productions and commercial films and the fame and fortune circle in Hollywood have exhausted him physically and mentally. Orlando has grown from an unknown teenager to a sexy and charming actor, and has paid a lot, learned a lot and lost a lot.
On June 5438+ 10, 2007, he celebrated his 30th birthday and faced the most important change in his life. For the first time, he didn't have to rush to fill the work schedule for the next few months in the next episode, so he had more time to do what he wanted to do. He consciously slowed down the pace of his career, giving himself time to think quietly and wait and see how to choose the direction next. He put more and more enthusiasm into public welfare undertakings, went to the South Pole to inspect, adjusted his mentality, and gradually got out of the state of confusion and hesitation.
In May, 2007, the last movie in the Pirate series, At the End of the World, was released again in early summer, and Orlando participated in the promotion of this movie as one of the leading characters for the last time. Although At the End of the World continues to set a box office record, fans are still arguing endlessly about this romantic epic about pirates. Orlando has a clearer understanding and planning of his life. Orlando, standing in front of people in their thirties, is a more mature, tenacious and tolerant man. As soon as he finished the promotion of At the End of the World, he threw himself into the rehearsal of the celebration stage play.
Celebrating is a realistic drama written by David Storey, a famous screenwriter, in 1969. It was put on the screen in 1975, starring Brian Cox and others. It tells the story of three brothers who seem to have a successful career, but feel frustrated and empty about their career and life, and return to their hometown to celebrate their parents' 40th wedding. Orlando plays Steven, the youngest son, a depressed, introverted, sensitive and fragile middle-aged writer who has to give up the novel he spent several years writing. Although there are not many lines, there are many interpretations of inner drama, which is quite suitable for Orlando, which has a quiet style. In Celebration was staged in London from July to September, and the mainstream British literary criticism media gave positive comments on the whole play and the premiere in Orlando. What is more gratifying to the organizers is that the play attracted many young audiences to watch, which is undoubtedly an encouragement for Orlando, which is looking for a new development direction.
In the near future, new adventures and new work plans are waiting for him, and he will not stop for temporary honor or slander.
We are really looking forward to it. Orlando won't let us down.
personal file
Name: Orlando Bloom.
Orlando Bloom
Nickname: Ollie, flowering (from the meaning of Bloom)
Hometown: Canterbury, Kent, England.
Birthday:1977 65438+1October 13 (some versions say 14 because of the time difference).
Constellation: Capricorn
Height: 180cm
Eyes: dark brown
Hair: dark brown
Hobbies: performance, photography, sculpture, extreme sports.
Favorite pet: Sidi, a black Labrador (a treasure he found on the set of Paradise).
Tattoos: He has two tattoos, one is the sun he stabbed when he was fifteen years old, and there is the word "nine" in elvish on his wrist (everyone in the environmental protection team has such a tattoo, but the position is different).
Favorite color: yellow
Favorite food: spaghetti, pizza, cereal, rice, vegetables and baked potatoes.
Favorite vegetable: spinach
Favorite football team: Manchester United (also because Beckham likes Real Madrid)
Favorite sports: skiing and surfing.
Favorite stars: Johnny Depp, Edward Harrison Norton, paul newman and Daniel Day Lewis.
Favorite girl type: kind and sweet.
First job: 13 years old, working as a doorman in a pigeon shooting range.
The first screen role: a small role of Wilde.
The first car: a dark green Volkswagen, valued at 160.
Listening to the concert for the first time: the performance of the scorpion band Canterbury
My first job was as a waiter in a pigeon shooting club, setting traps for shooters.
The first CD was Edie Brickel and the New Bohemian thriller.
The first 45-minute short film was "Thriller" by rock star Michael Jackson.
Watching a movie for the first time: Superman