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Samantha</div> <bR> <div> <B>Lives:</b> He's always traveling but he has places in L.A. and London.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Education:</b><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT>Primary and Secondary Education, two seasons at National Youth Theater, scholarship at British American Drama Academy, Guildhall School of Music and Drama.  He has A-levels in theater, photography and sculpture.</div> <div> Orlando started filming as Legolas on The Lord of the Rings right after he graduated.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Bad habits: </b>He seems to be prone to breaking parts of his body.  He has broken three of his ribs (one from falling of a horse, training for the Lord of the Rings), his nose, both his legs, his arm his wrist, a finger and a tow, cracked is skull three times, and broke his back falling three stories from a friends window.  He spent 12 months in the hospital and the doctors said he might never walk again, but then he had surgery and walked out of the hospital on crutches.</div> <div> "I often sit and dream and drift away into my own little world. People may get the impression that I'm rude, but I don't mean anything by it."</div> <div> He also used to smoke but quit in 2002, which caused him to start biting his nails.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Pets: </b>One dog named Maude.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Favorite Sports Team</b>: Manchester United</div> <bR> <div> <B>Hobbies: </b>Extreme sports (surfing, bungie jumping, skydiving, skiing/snow boarding and paragliding), sculpture, photography and driving. </div> <bR> <div> <B>Other facts:</b></div> <div> <B>- </b>He is very close to his older sister Samantha (26).  "She's the one who makes me keep my feet to the ground."</div> <bR> <div> <B>- </b>He has been shortly engaged with the British supermodel Jemma Kidd. </div> <bR> <div> <B>- </b>Two of his favorite films is "Amélie" and "Stand by Me."</div> <bR> <div> <B>- </b>It really is Orlando who is firing those arrows in ”The Lord of the Rings”, he trained very hard and very long, he got so good that when his instructor threw a plate up in the air Orlando could hit it. </div> <bR> <div> <B>- </b>One of the reasons why he got the part in ”The Lord of the Rings” was because of his pretty face and agile body that reminded of an elf.</div> <bR> <div> <B>- </b>Orlando has stayed away from girls after his (former) best friend André Schneider stole his girlfriend, actress Joanna Morley, but she left him for André.</div> <bR> <div> <B>-</b> Orlando's father Harry Bloom fought against the apartheid regime in South Africa, his efforts even resulted in him spending some time in prison.  He was also a talented novelist who won great acclaim for his books <I>Episode In The Transvaal</I> and the boxing story <I>King Kong.  </I>Latter the family fled to Britain and had Orlando, a few years latter, in 1981 Harry passed away.  "Harry was a great man," says Orlando. "It was as though he'd done his job and he left the world."</div> <bR> <div> <B>-</b> It was recently revealed that Orlando's surname belongs to a man who is not his biological father. Harry Bloom, who died when Orlando was 4, and Colin Stone, a close family friend, was appointed his legal guardian. Nine years later, Orlando learned that Stone was his biological father. "I grew up with [Harry Bloom] as a role model and that has never changed," Bloom, now 26, said through his rep. "Having Colin in my life, I never felt the absence of a father. In actual fact, I had two amazing men to look up to."</div> <bR> <div> <B>-</b> Orlando is no longer a vegetarian, he says that he has given up on vegetarianism after learning that one steak a week will apparently ease his back pain. Orlando has been battling back pains ever since a nasty fall and he now swears by his weekly intake of cow. 'I'm never ill now', he claims.  He still stay's away from dairy products.</div> <bR> <div> <B>-</b> His father named him after the hero/heroine of Virginia Woolf's novel "Orlando", because he thought everyone would remember it. </div> <bR> <div> <B>-</b> He has a tattoo of nine in Elvish on his right forearm, and a sun on his torso that he got when he was 15.</div> <bR> <div> <B>-</b> He can speak French. </div> <bR> <div> <B>-</b> As a kid, he was dyslexic, and now he says he is "mildly dyslexic". </div> <bR> <div> <B>-</b> He originally auditioned for Lord of the Rings in the part of Faramir, Boromir's brother, who wouldn't be introduced until The Two Towers. He was turned down for that part, but was then asked to audition for Legolas. He learned that he got the part the day before he graduated from Guildhall. </div> <bR> <div> <B>-</b> He says he's currently into "all sorts of music, mostly the Ben Harper, the David Gray, and the Bob Dylan type of folk music." </div> <bR> <div> <B>Random Quotes:</b></div> <div> "They are waiting for me to start to behave like a real star", Orlando laughs. -referring the his friends comments.  "But they will have to wait long for that! I'd rather be a hermit than a millionaire. To be honest, being a hermit attracts me, lock myself up in my own home with my pets and doing a bit of art."</div> <bR> <div> "When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about when you're going to see them again, I love that," "Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected." And, he adds with a laugh, "They're a handful." </div> <bR> <div> "I went bungee jumping - I went off the highest bungee jump in New Zealand six times. To throw yourself in the air with only something attached to your feet is a different head space altogether."</div> <bR> <div> "This is a battered body all right. But, each time, it made me stronger and more determined to do things." - Referring to the numerous accidents he's had </div> <bR> <div> "People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you." </div> <bR> <div> "I'm probably a good boyfriend, but I'm pretty intense. When you're with me it's exciting, fun and very intense. At the same time I'm easy going. But all that depends on what girl I'm with." </div> <bR> <div> "I mean, I have a great job. I get to dress up and become somebody else, especially when it's someone like Legolas, who's this super-cool kind of otherworldly elf. It's, like, I'm lucky, man, so why would I not appreciate that?" </div> <bR> <div> "The girls have got a bit excited. I spoke to my agent and she says she's wading through the fan mail. We've got bags of it." </div> <bR> <div> "I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?" </div> <bR> <div> "Viggo will go on about Elves and how they're always doing their nails and brushing their long, blonde hair, and being all prissy. And I just say: Well, at least I'm going to live forever! Got that? LIVE FOREVER!" </div> <bR> <div> "Out of the blue, I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her to visit.  I guess that's quite romantic." -Orlando on being romantic</div> <bR> <div> "I had all but bought it when I had the most dreadful night's sleep I had ever had.  The next day I decided that I didn't need a picture of a dead man in my life."  </div> <div> -Orlando on almost buying one of the last surviving photos of Joe Bryne</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>