Birth Name: Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom
Place of Birth: Canterbury, Kent, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 13 January, 1977
Ethnicity: English
Orlando Bloom is an English actor.
Orlando’s mother, Sonia Constance Josephine (Copeland), was born in Calcutta, India, and is of English descent. Orlando was raised believing that his biological father was Harry Bloom, a Jewish South African journalist and novelist. During his teens, Orlando was told by his mother that his biological father is Colin Stone, who is English.
Orlando has a son with his former wife, Australian model Miranda Kerr.
Orlando practices Buddhism.
Orlando’s biological paternal grandparents were Henry/Harry Stone and Lilian/Lillian Morris.
Orlando’s maternal grandfather was Francis John Copeland (the son of Isaac Copeland). Francis was likely born in Belfast, Ireland.
Orlando’s maternal grandmother was Betty Constance Josephine Walker (the daughter of Frederic/Frederick Percy Walker and Iris Mary Constance Good). Frederic was born in Calcutta, India, the son of Frederic/Frederick Walker, who was born in Tasmania, and of Eva Isabella Connew, who was born in Calcutta. Iris was the daughter of Arthur Madgewick Good and Jessica Louisa Foley. Some of Orlando’s ancestors had been born in Assam, India, as well as Tasmania and Melbourne, in Australia, and were of English descent.
Sources: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Family history of Orlando Bloom – http://www.telegraph.co.uk
Obituary of Orlando’s biological paternal grandmother, Lilian/Lillian (Morris) Stone – http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk
Genealogies of Orlando Bloom (focusing on his mother’s side) – http://www.geni.com
http://www.genefiend.org
http://www.thegenealogist.co.uk
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CORRECTION
His father was born in Calcutta, not “Kolkata”, which didn’t exist until 2001.
@Andrew
If you’re going to try and gain support for yourself, because you’re so feeble minded you can’t fight your own battles, at least be accurate about what I said
his stepfather is Jewish right
but also his biological father is Jewish
STONE is anglicized from STEIN (Jewish surname from Germany and Eastern European )
Bloom himself recently said he was a ‘Pikey’ from Kent. A pikey is British slang for someone from the travelling community, either an Irish traveller or a real Gypsy.
Keywords
India, Jewish, Bloom, stone
and he still is just ENGLISH ?
he’s attractive
Does not look English whatsoever. He looks pure Spaniard.
Not really. He’s just a dark haired and brown eyed English guy. He doesn’t look Spanish.
There is no such thing.
As a person of English descent with dark hair and brown eyes … ?
theres plenty..
Atlano-Med people definitely have a not-so-distant Mediterranean ancestry.
You can’t be a natural Northern European with an olive skin tone.
nonsense, my grand mother was a black haired olive skinned Irish woman, with Gaelic surnames in the family tree. My dna test confirms this. Dark hair is extremely common in Ireland (and in Wales). The only ‘Spanish’ ancestry in most (barring individsual cases) is back in ancient times. The Romans, after all, described the Welsh as having ‘curly dark hair’ and said they resembled Spaniards. They even said they probably descended from them, and dna/archaeology certainly points that way.
If you actually had a dna test stonelord you would know that dna doesn’t point that way at all.
I don’t necessarily disagree with other things you have said but the dna shows Irish are distant to Spanish.
@stonelord
No, an Afrocentric user claimed in this site that the inhabitants of modern Wales were “dark brown skin people”. Try to deal with him.
He looks typical atlanto-med. He could pass as French or Spanish.
He looks more than English. He looks a bit Latino..
His son with Miranda Kerr has a natural olive skin tone.
this is “olive”
http://ethnicelebs.com/aaron-sanchez
Can you use a better picture?
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/sites/default/files/2013/08/orlando_bloom_cannes_a_p.jpg
Thanks.
Typical Atlano-Med looks found in Western Europe.
Atlanto-Med
He looks like a Spaniard.
I think, he has Indian ancestry too.
He Looks british. Been many times to the UK… Typical feauters! The “boyish” face britains have.
Answer: he isn’t jewish…
The ancestry of his biological father, Colin Stone, isn’t (publicly?) known.
Stone is an English surname
It’s one of those surnames, like “Miller”, that can be English, Jewish, and so on.
For example, Oliver Stone had a Jewish father.
Just because one Jewish person has an English surname doesn’t make it Jewish
You don’t need to know who his father is to say that he isn’t jewish ;)….not in that case.
I’m just talking about his biological father’s ancestry.
She said “He Looks british. Been many times to the UK… Typical feauters! The “boyish” face britains have.”
She didn’t say anything about him being Jewish.
Many people of partial or even entirely Jewish ancestry don’t identify as Jewish and don’t talk about their heritage.
hmmmmm
People who are of entirely Jewish descent, and who don’t identify as Jewish, are rarer these days, but in the past, there were many examples, like Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. (who was raised a Christian) or Erich Von Stroheim. Back in the day, many Jews wanted to assimilate and shed their Jewish identity.
Sharon Stone??
Sharon Stone isn’t Jewish. I didn’t say all people named “Stone” were Jewish, just that some are.
follers, from the Telegraph article if I’m not wrong I got Orlando has people named Blanchard and Foley in his tree, who are French and Irish surnames
There are English people named “Foley” and (very often) “Blanchard”. I can’t really trace Orlando’s “Foley” and “Blanchard” lines out of England, though it’s possible they had some foreign origins.
“Blanchard” may be a French Norman surname, but it’s very common in England. I don’t think there are any people of English descent who are not partly descended from French Normans of the 1400s or so.
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=Search&includedb=&lang=en&ti=&surname=Foley&stype=Exact&given=&bplace=england&byear=&brange=0&dplace=&dyear=&drange=0&mplace=&myear=&mrange=0&father=&mother=&spouse=&skipdb=&period=All&submit.x=Search
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=Search&includedb=&lang=en&ti=&surname=blanchard&stype=Exact&given=&bplace=england&byear=&brange=0&dplace=&dyear=&drange=0&mplace=&myear=&mrange=0&father=&mother=&spouse=&skipdb=&period=All&submit.x=Search
ermm correction I’m from England he does not look typical English. typical English is light brown/blonde hair with blue/green eyes you’re clearlly judgeing by the city which imigrants over populate.
England is a populous country, you should visit it all to have a full opinion. Isn’t this the typical English?
http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090722224209/harrypotter/images/c/ce/Jonny_Greenwood.jpg
which is more English of the two?
http://gilbertblecken.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/blur-damon-albarn-alex-james-by-gilbert-blecken-1993-1.jpg
Why do you just assume someone is Jewish?
That someone with the surname “Bloom” is of Jewish heritage is a pretty good guess.
There is no evidence that he is Jewish and not everyone with “Bloom” as a surname is going to be Jewish stupid!
Well, he gets his surname from his legal father, Harry Bloom, who was Jewish.
His biological father was Colin Stone not Harry bloom.
Is not “was”.
Yes, I know, I was talking about the surname “Bloom” usually being Jewish.
Specify? British can be Northern Irish, English, Scottish or Welsh.
he looks very very non english
he looks spanish
are u from England? have u been in Spain to say that??
He looks spanish from Spain.
you’re some racist motherfucker i wonder what you are.
you can’t never assume anything by his looks or appearances because you don’t know.
Any person can look alike another it doesn’t mean you have the same ethnicity or something. in this world many people look similar and they’re not even related at all, not one bit
Why are you even signed up on this website?
People come here to talk about ethnicity. That’s the fucking point. If you don’t like it, go away man…
And how is it racist? Wtf…
He looks very exotic
his fathers name is Colin Stone
Stone is a jewish surname , most of the Stones in Britain are jewish immigrants from eastern europe
“Stone is a jewish surname ,
Stone is also of Anglo-Saxon origin.
most of the Stones in Britain are jewish immigrants from eastern europe”
Source? IMO, the majority of Britons with the surname, Stone, are not of Jewish descent.
@neiltennant
Orlando Bloom looks like the Prince Carl Philip of Sweden.
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg6avnhfyo1qc1lybo1_500.jpg
exotic?
Prince Carl Philip of Sweden is 1/4 Brazilian. So, yes.
Many people named Stone are not Jewish, though some are. I have never been able to find anything on Colin Stone’s background.
you know Royal ppl are of mixed ethnicity. He is French, German, Brazilian (Portuguese) for what I remember.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Carl_Philip,_Duke_of_V%C3%A4rmland#Ancestry
some sources state this man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibiri%C3%A7%C3%A1) is the “14th great-grandfather” of Queen Silvia of Sweden
Yes.
http://www.wargs.com/royal/silvia.html
Some Eastern Europeans have that look; Serbs, Croatians…..That’s what he looked to me….I see some Italian in him.
What a surprise!
Follers: I’m eager to believe, Stone is his father…after I see
DNA-analyse. Bloom is considered as his father, since his
name is in Orlando’s burth certificate – so are the laws.
So, I claim, my father is a king Juan-Carlos, call me “your majes-
tity”, please.
“”His biological father Colin Stone was an Englishmen”… Has he DNA
analyse? No. I saw a pic of his FATHER (Bloom), looks like a double of
him.
He looks pretty much the same as my family. They’re all olive skinned with dark eyes & look slightly foreign, though they are all from Wales or the Channel Islands. He possibly may have either welsh, scottish or irish blood in him somewhere to give him his foreign look.
no no no
actually there are many black haired brown eyed british people
but he must have some other blood in his body
there are a lot of people from SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN
ISRAEL
maybe ITALY
and ARABS who look the same
i have lived in britain for a while and non native brit man looked like him
He may have some Jewish heritage as both Copeland and Stone are sometimes Jewish surnames.
how can he be mexican there are no mexican in the uk.
The Name Bloom is not English Origin its German Origin
so i think he can also have some German Descent .
He looks English!! Look closely at his facial features. I don’t care about his skin or hair colour, because that doesn’t mean anything!!!
Why do so many people think the English are primarily blonde? Most have some shade of brown hair and brown/hazel eyes are found in nearly half of the native population! Not all look like standard ‘Anglo-Saxon/viking’ sterotypes because a hefty proportion aren’t descended from them. Western England (not just Cornwall but neighbouring counties) has lots of ‘native’ ancestry, more like the Welsh genetically. They are also darker than people in eastern England. Orlando actually does look kind of Welsh.
As for the guy who said most looke like Wayne Rooney–well Rooney is of Irish ancestry but he doesn’t even look like the average Irishman. His pugly looks are frequently made fun of in the press, which is unlikely to happen if ‘loads’ of people looked like that.
Hes White. Just leave it at that
I ALWAYS THOUGHT MAYBE HE WAS A PERCENTAGE OF SOUTHERN EUROPEAN EXTRACTION, SINCE, HIS NAME WAS ORLANDO AND OF HIS SWARTHY FEATURES. HE COULD BE HAVE BLACK IRISH BLOOD ROOTS, SOMEWHERE DOWN THE LINE…WHICH IS VERY PLAUSIBLE, SINCE, A LOT OF BRITS ARE MIX WITH THEIR NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES… LIKE SCOTLAND, IRELAND, WALES, SINCE, FROM BACK IN THE DAY , ESP. ROYAL MARRIAGES. TO ME…. IT SOUNDS LIKE ORLANDO REALLY DOESN’T KNOW OR MAYBE, HE REALLY DOESN’T HAVE THAT MUCH INTEREST IN FINDING OUT. WHICH IS WHY HE CONSIDERS HIMSELF JUST BRITISH.
he is a very dark haired/featured brit !!!! Wayne Rooney is more typical, but yeah he’s still white but more Italian/Greek looking !
Wayne Rooney is ethnically Irish.
The concept of racial purity is more a matter of ancestral amnesia than historical fact. Recent advances in genetic sequencing of ancient bones have shown that the ancient Greeks looked much like their modern counterparts (i.e. mostly dark-haired and olive-skinned), and there is little reason to believe that the same doesn’t apply to the Romans.
The Finns are a very pure group, and have been rewarded for extensive (albeit often unintentional) inbreeding with some 30 genetic diseases found almost nowhere else in the world.
Have you ever been to Africa or Asia? People on these continents are as diverse and mixed as those of Europe, or even more so – especially in Africa, as the cradle of mankind.
The above was a reply to A/N.
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I always thought he was italian:)
uhhh, his mum’s name is sonia, not sophia
Orlando is like many other people in England. Think about it: The Romans conquered parts of England and a city in the Southeast was called Londinium (London, anyone?) by the Romans. People in England are mongrels just like any other country. Most are mixed with Anglo, Saxon, Roman, Welsh, Cimric, Gaelic, and some of the ancient tribal peoples that lived on the islands of England , Ireland, and Scottland. Duh!
The vast majority of DNA in all parts of the British Isles (among natives) came over from the Iberian peninsula towards the end of the last major ice age speaking a language similar to Basque. That is a very long time. No subsequent invasion contributed more than 5%.
The article text can be read here:
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/Y-DNA-HAPLOGROUP-I/2007-08/1186836645
As the article says:
“Dr. Oppenheimer disputes this, saying the similarity between the English and northern European Y chromosomes arises because both regions were repopulated by people from the Iberian refuges after the glaciers retreated. ”
In any case, the total invader input is said to be 30% in the article, which seems plausible to me, give and take a little.
Nevertheless, there are many “dark Brits” who look as dark as Bloom, he’s not unusual at all. Just look at the Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd, English Rowan Atkinson,Tony Robinson, Charlie Chaplin, Colin Firth or the Beatles. Also Irish Dave Allen or Colin Farrell. They don’t look like him, but the all have dark features. They aren’t even among the darkest Brits. They’re like ordinary people you see every day on the streets in Britain/Ireland. They may be a minority, but they’re common enough.
Young Tony Robinson:
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/9434/tonyseatedbw.jpg
A very typical Brit, in the places I’ve mostly been to, which is south western England. People say that the NE Brits are more fair, with mostly blue eyes, but I’ve never been to those areas, so I dunno.
I would recommend that people visit England, though, the British countryside is very nice. Then they can see for themselves that the Brits aren’t all blonde blue eyed people. Big cities kind of don’t count due to Immigration, but in the countryside and in small towns they’re still predominantly native Brits, and many people have brown eyes and dark hair.
This theory is now outdated and not accurate. R1b is much younger than previously thought and the subclades are different in the British Isles than the Basque. Also on autosomal dna the British Isles cluster with Northern Europe and not the Basque.
Alice, if you read Dr. Oppenheimer’s words properly you’d see that it doesn’t contradict what he says.
“The similarity between the English and northern European Y chromosomes arises because both regions were repopulated by people from the Iberian refuges after the glaciers retreated. ”
Notice this little word, BOTH.
I don’t say that it’s exactly correct, but what you say actually makes it even more likely.
WHILE YOU ARE CORRECT ABOUT THE ROMANS INVADING GREAT BRITIAN FOR A TIME, JUST AS THE MOORS (BLACKS AND MIDDLE EASTERN ARMIES) INVADED LOWER/SOUTHERN EUROPE AROUND 711 A.D., WHICH CHANGED THE RACIAL MAKE-UP FOR SOME PEOPLE LIVING IN THOSE COUNTRIES, WHICH IS WHY SOME DARK SKINNED, DARK HAIR, DARK EYES, ETC., ECT., ETC., THE ROMANS WHO INVADED BRITIAN AT THAT TIME WERE ALSO WHITE ANGLO SAXON AND WERE NOT THE ITALIANS YOU KNOW TODAY. MOST EVERY BROWN OR DARK SKINNED PERSON WHO LIVED IN ROME DURING THAT ERA WERE SLAVES AND WOULD NOT HAVE TRAVELED TO GREAT BRITIAN WITH THE OCCUPYING ARMIES.
ORLANDO BLOOM IS BOTH ANGLO SAXON AND AFRICAN, BECAUSE THAT IS WHO JEWS, ITALIANS, SPANIARDS, PORTUGUESE, BASQUE, ALBANIANS, GREEKS, MOROCCANS, PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE EAST, ROMANIAN, ETC., DESCEND FROM.
THERE ARE ONLY THREE (3) GENETICALLY PURE RACES: THE WHITE SKINNED ANGLO SAXONS; THE BROWN/OLIVE SKINNED ASIANS; AND THE BLACK SKINNED AFRICANS, AND THAT IS IT. YOU ARE EITHER ONE, OR MORE, OF ONLY THESE THREE (3) GENETIC RACES. SORRY, BUT IT’S TRUE, WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT.
There are no “genetically pure races”. Genetics doesn’t support the idea of discrete races, in fact the opposite is the case. It does show genetic “clustering” based on geography, IE that people who live closely together are more closely related than people who live farther apart (obviously excepting migrations in the past 500 years).
Genetics doesn’t say that there are no races, but it shows that potential human races aren’t discrete, which also means that they’re not pure.
You can always find people who have extreme features and contrast them, but in doing that you ignore all the intermediate people, and the natural variation within the populations. Racialist views are based on stereotyping, and if humans should be split up in races, it would have to be split up into endless different racial categories, because there are always whole populations which does not fit into any of the few categories, no matter how you make them.
Just because you say: “SORRY, BUT IT’S TRUE, WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT” doesn’t mean that your post has any merit.
But then again, you write in ALL CAPS.
Actually the slave in the Roman empire were blonde haired blue eyed from the Germanic tribe captives. You don’t seem to know much about history do you? here is a little something for you to get you little Nordic dumb blonde brain active.
“These differentiations occurred following long-standing claims about the alleged differences between the Nordic and the Mediterranean people. Such debates arose from responses to ancient writers who had commented on differences between northern and southern Europeans. For the Greeks and Romans, Germanic and Celtic peoples were often stereotyped as wild red haired barbarians. Pseudo-Aristotle argued that the Greeks were an ideal race because they possessed a medium skin-tone, in contrast to pale northerners and dark southerners.”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_race
“Romans conquered england” – antic Romans were most blond
and with blue eyes. This man is not a pure Englishman.
Perhaps, partly indian, or his father IS his father
You are completely wrong since southern Europeans always viewed northern Europeans as barbarians and for good measure since they didn’t have much of a culture no written language no scientific achievement while as we all know how magnificent the Greek empire as well as the Roman and Persian empires were and that is the reason still to this day a lot of southern Europeans look down on northern Europeans “These differentiations occurred following long-standing claims about the alleged differences between the Nordic and the Mediterranean people. Such debates arose from responses to ancient writers who had commented on differences between northern and southern Europeans. For the Greeks and Romans, Germanic and Celtic peoples were often stereotyped as wild red haired barbarians. Pseudo-Aristotle argued that the Greeks were an ideal race because they possessed a medium skin-tone, in contrast to pale northerners and dark southerners.” Blonde slaves were sold in Roman markets since they were thought to have good muscle strength. Romans were tan with dark hair and dark eyes and purely Caucasian.
He Loos 100% hispanic to me.
Lol thats so true as an Englishman I can say someone could be 100% English with bright blonde hair/blue eyes pale complexion as could someone else with dark brown hair/brown eyes and a tanned complexion, then theres always gingers :)
What the hell is the matter with you people english people all look different, some are dark, some fair, some ruddy etc…
Orlando SAYS HE ENGLISH! Thats a clue.
I can say, I’m the King of Universum. Ridiculous, he denies,that
his father is his father, but he has no DNA -analyse
Orlando is a hispanic/portuguese name and he sure looks like it.
thats his GIVEN name, even if it is spanish it has nothing to do with his ancestry
i always thought he looked irish. but he looks english as well
Umm i don’t he does not look English to me, besides is not very usual to find an English named Orlando..
Bloom’s mother revealed to him that his biological father was actually Colin Stone, his mother’s partner and family friend. Colin Stone is english))) About the name.. O.B. is named after the 16th century composer Orlando Gibbons.
Isn’t bloom – German – Jewish surname ???
yeah, but thats his non-biological father’s last name.
Looks English to me! Might have a bit of Irish in there because his eyes slant a bit.
I guess just English. I thought he was mixed with something else too.
only english?
i thought he had some arabic decent !
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