Orlando Bloom

In 2004, Bloom converted to Nichiren Buddhism, a spirituality that he was long associated with. Burton is sometimes erroneously referred to as "Sir Richard Burton", perhaps due to the similarity of his assumed name to that of Richard Francis Burton, but unlike the 19th century scholar, he never received a knighthood. Additionally, Bloom has won various Empire Awards and Teen Choice Awards, and been nominated for many others. Burton appears in the 2002 List of "100 Great Britons" (sponsored by the BBC and voted for by the public). In 2003, the ensemble cast of The Return of the King won a Screen Actors' Guild Award for Best Ensemble Acting, after having been nominated for the previous two movies in the trilogy. He was only 58 years old. In 2004, Orlando was named People Magazine's hottest bachelor in the magazine's annual list of Hollywood bachelors. Burton died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage at his home in Switzerland, where he is buried.

IMDBPro's StarMeter reported that Orlando Bloom was the most searched for actor in January 2002, one month after the Fellowship of the Ring was released; that year, he was also chosen as one of Teen People Magazine's "25 Hottest Stars Under 25". Burton was banned permanently from BBC productions in 1974 for questioning the sanity of Winston Churchill and others in power during World War II--Burton reported hating them "virulently" for the alleged promise to wipe out all Japanese people on the planet. This high-profile role made an unknown British actor one of the hottest Internet celebrities. The film is reputed to have been similar to Burton and Taylor's real-life marriage. His first major role (he was still in drama school during the casting) was in the movie version of The Lord of the Rings (2001–2003), where he played Legolas; the ensemble cast of The Fellowship of the Ring (including Bloom), and a year later that of The Two Towers, was nominated for Best Ensemble Acting at the Screen Actors' Guild Awards. Burton and Taylor played opposite each other in Mike Nichols's film of the play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, in which a bitter erudite couple spend the evening trading vicious barbs in front of their horrified and fascinated guests. However, in 1998, he broke his back in a three story fall, and it was briefly feared that he would never walk again, but he made a complete recovery. An insomniac and notoriously heavy drinker, Burton was married five times - twice, consecutively, to Elizabeth Taylor.

He earned a few television roles to further his career, including his film debut in 1997 in Wilde, opposite Stephen Fry, before entering the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. In 1954, he took his most famous radio role, as the narrator in the original production of Under Milk Wood, a role he would reprise in the film version twenty years later. In 1993, he moved to London and joined the National Youth Theatre,spending two seasons there and earning a scholarship to train at the British American Drama Academy. In 1952, Burton successfully made the transition to Hollywood star, appearing in My Cousin Rachel opposite Olivia de Havilland. He attended St Edmunds School in Canterbury, but struggled in many courses due to his dyslexia. This was made possible only because it was wartime and he was an air force cadet. Although he carries the name of novelist and political activist, Harry Bloom, Orlando's biological father is actually Colin Stone, a reported friend of the family. In 1943, at the age of eighteen, Richard Burton (who had now taken his teacher's surname), was allowed into Exeter College for a term of six months study.

Copeland. His former teacher, Philip Burton, recognising his talent, adopted him and enabled him to return to school. J. The facts, as recorded by Burton himself in his own autobiography and in Richard and Philip, which he co-wrote, are as follows: At the age of sixteen, he was forced to leave school and find work as a shop assistant. He was born in Canterbury, Kent to Sonia C. There is a widespread myth (perhaps encouraged or even believed by some members of his stoutly working-class family) that Richard Burton "won a scholarship to Oxford at the age of sixteen" but left after six months. He also had major roles in Black Hawk Down, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Troy. It was at this time that he began to develop the distinctive speaking voice that became his hallmark, having been encouraged by Philip (who sidelined as a BBC radio producer) to "lose his Welsh accent".

Orlando Bloom (born January 13, 1977) is a British actor, who became famous playing Legolas in the The Lord of the Rings trilogy. With the assistance of his inspirational schoolmaster, Philip H Burton (who legally adopted him), he excelled in school productions. Wilde (1997) – Rent boy. He was born Richard Walter Jenkins in the village of Pontrhydyfen near Port Talbot. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) – Legolas Greenleaf.
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