The Heartthrob

Orlando Bloom, actor.

Eight films.

Just how "totally yummy" is this kid? On the teenage-girl fan sites, 
he beats Josh Hartnett and punks Ashton Kutcher.

This by playing a 2,931-year-old elf in the Lord of the Rings 
trilogy. It was a tiny part in the 1997 film Wilde that landed this 
27-year-old the plum role of Legolas, the pointy-eared sharpshooter. 
Then, playing humble, swashbuckling blacksmith, he became the real 
reason girls went to see the Johnny Depp movie Pirates of the 
Caribbean. The kids already now that he's an extreme-sports 
enthusiast who has broken his back, nose, and skull, a wrist, a 
finger, and both legs, and that he has a potty mouth. But the 
Canterbury, England, native also used to win poetry-reciting 
competitions and is a man who can spot quality. Bloom has a number of 
upcoming movies, including a gritty Australian-gang film (Ned Kelly), 
a British mockumentary about a milkman (The Calcium Kid), and the 
Wolfgang Petersen epic Troy, and he counts among his idols men he has 
worked with: Viggo Mortensen, Depp, and Brad Pitt - three nearly 
perfect physical specimens, incidentally, who have learned that 
beauty means nothing if you don't have the chops.

Photographed by Mark Seliger in Los Angeles on December 4, 2003.

Styled by Alonzo Ester; Shirt by Prada; Pants by John Varvatos; 
Suspenders from Palace Costume, LA; Boots by Neil Barrett; Hair 
Products by Redken; Grooming Products by Kiehl's; Hair by Campbell 
McCauley; Grooming by Kerry Malouf; Set Design by Walter Barnett; for 
details, see credits page.