Orlando Bloom

Orlando Bloom is an English actor, born on 13 January 1977 in Canterbury, Kent, and named after the sixteenth century composer Orlando Gibbons. After studying drama in London and graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1999, he was cast within days as the elf Legolas in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, which made him internationally known. He later played Will Turner in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Paris in Troy, and Balian de Ibelin in Kingdom of Heaven, and he returned to Middle-earth in the Hobbit films. His work also includes the television series Carnival Row and stage appearances in London and on Broadway. He became a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 2009 and received the BAFTA Britannia Humanitarian Award in 2015.