
Age: 49
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Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Copeland Bloom (born 13 January 1977) is an English actor. He made his breakthrough as the character Legolas in The Lord of the Rings film series (2001–03). He reprised his role in The Hobbit film series (2013–14). Considered by some to be the Errol Flynn of his time, he gained further notice appearing in epic fantasy, historical, and adventure films, notably as Will Turner in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series(2003–07, 2017), Paris in Troy (2004), Balian de Ibelin in the Kingdom of Heaven (2005), and the Duke of Buckingham in The Three Musketeers(2011). Bloom appeared in Hollywood films such as the war film Black Hawk Down (2001), the Australian Western Ned Kelly (2003), the romantic comedy Elizabethtown (2005), and New York, I Love You(2007). In 2020, he gained acclaim for the Afghanistan War drama film The Outpost (2020). He also starred in the Amazon Prime Video series Carnival Row (2019–2023). He debuted professionally in In Celebration at the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End in 2007. He starred in an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in 2013. He returned to the theatre in a West End revival of Tracy Letts' Killer Joe in 2018. In 2009, Bloom was named a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. In 2015, he received the BAFTA Britannia Humanitarian Award.

Orlando Bloom

Colonel Next
for Colonel Next in Lost in a Good Book
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Thursday Next tries to build a quiet life after her last case, but the world around her starts to fracture. A political storm rises. A lost Shakespeare play reappears at the perfect moment. The powerful Goliath Corporation moves in the shadows. A new threat targets Thursday’s family. Reality feels unstable and someone is rewriting lives. To fight back, Thursday pushes deeper into fiction than ever. She learns to “bookjump,” entering stories without machines. Inside the vast universe of literature she meets Jurisfiction, a secret police force that protects the order of books. Miss Havisham becomes her volatile mentor as Thursday trains, solves crises inside classic novels, and uncovers traces of a hidden enemy manipulating memories. As pressure mounts in the real world and inside fiction, Thursday races to expose the conspiracy behind the political rise of a dangerous figure, the stolen manuscript at the center of the chaos, and the force trying to erase parts of her life. She crosses between worlds, evades time-agents and corporate hunters, and chases the truth buried in her own memories. The story builds toward a showdown that tests Thursday’s loyalty to her family, her world, and the fragile boundary between fiction and reality.