Facts

• His birth date is January 13, 1977, making him 27 years old.
• His nicknames are Orli and OB.
• He has brown hair and brown eyes.
• He's around 5'11" (180 cm)
• He's not married.
• 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.
• 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.
• His sister Samantha is 2 years older than him.
• He had a dog named Maude but had to give her up because of work.
• His father, Harry Bloom, died when Orlando was 4 and was a legendary figure in antiapartheid circles in South Africa.
• When Orlando was 13, his mother told him that Harry was not his biological father, that Colin was.
• 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.
• As a kid, he was dyslexic, and now he says he is "mildly dyslexic".
• 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."