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Orlando Bloom named UN ambassador
British actor Orlando Bloom is to be a goodwill ambassador for the UN children’s organisation Unicef.
Unicef said the star of Lord Of The Rings and Pirates Of The Caribbean would work to help poor children and raise awareness of the organisation.
The 32-year-old actor’s first job will be to film an appeal about the importance of clean water supplies.
Past ambassadors include David Beckham, Audrey Hepburn, Roger Moore, Vanessa Redgrave, Shakira and Ryan Giggs.
Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom (born 13 January 1977) is an English actor. Classically trained, he had his break-through roles in 2001 as the elf-prince Legolas in The Lord of the Rings[3] and starting in 2003 as blacksmith Will Turner in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy of films, and subsequently established himself as a lead in Hollywood films, including Troy, Elizabethtown and Kingdom of Heaven. He is starring in the upcoming ensemble film New York, I Love You, Sympathy for Delicious, and Main Street. Bloom made his professional stage debut in West End’s In Celebration at the Duke of York’s Theatre, St. Martin’s Lane, which ended its run on 15 September 2007.
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