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Orli Facts:

His birthdate is January 13, 1977, making him 26 years old.

His nicknames are Orli and OB.

He has brown hair and brown eyes.

He's @ 5'10"

He's a vegetarian, and stays away from dairy products.

His father named him after the hero/heroine of Virginia Woolf's novel "Orlando", because he thought everyone would remember it.

He used to smoke, but quit in 2002, which caused him to start biting his nails instead.

While filming Lord of the Rings in New Zealand, he got into sky diving, bungee jumping, paragliding, surfing and snowboarding. Now he enjoys "just taking time to walk whether it be on location somewhere or on a beach." "most of the time I just chill with my friends and have a mellow time" He also enjoys photography, shopping and buying old antiques, and he "can't stand computers".

He says he's accident prone, and has the injury list to prove it. He's broken his back, his ribs, his nose, both his legs, his arm, his wrist, a finger and a toe, and cracked his skull three times!

A year before doing the Lord of the Rings, he fell 3 stories off a friend's porch while trying to open a jammed door and broke his back. He was almost confined to a wheelchair, but luckily the doctors were able to patch him up.

His father, Harry Bloom, died when Orlando was 4 and was a legendary figure in antiapartheid circles in South Africa. Harry also wrote a famous tome called Episode In The Transvaal, was jailed for his beliefs, and worked alongside Nelson Mandela.

He's not married.

Has a tattoo of nine' in Elvish on his right forearm, and a sun on his torso that he got when he was 15.

He can speak French.

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."

For LOTR, he had to learn archery, how to ride a horse bareback (while shooting an arrow), and how to fight and wield two swords. "I started off with archery, I rode about 20 different horses, I had physical training in the gym, and I had to learn the Elvish ways of speaking and fighting. Their fighting is based on ancient European and Asian martial arts, so I had a trainer who taught me how to use the blades. I also did a lot of movement training, because movement is my way into the character."

Faves ...

Favorite Color: Yellow.
Favorite Foods: Pasta, pizza, oatmeal, rice and vegetables and baked potatoes.
Favorite Football Team: Manchester United.
Favorite Sports: Snowboarding and Surfing.
Favorite Actors: Johnny Depp, Edward Norton, Paul Newman, and Daniel Day-Lewis.
Favorite Movie: Stand By Me. He also likes The Hustler and Amelie.
First Job: A clay trapper at a pigeon shooting range when he was 13.
First Movie Role: Rentboy in Wilde.
First Car: A darkgreen VW Golf that cost $230.