Orlando Bloom
Bloom in 2011, Featureflash / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom
Place of Birth: Canterbury, Kent, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 13 January, 1977
Ethnicity: English, small amounts of Scottish and Northern Irish
Orlando Bloom is an English actor. His roles include the Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean films, as well as Ned Kelly (2003), Troy, Kingdom of Heaven, Elizabethtown, New York, I Love You, and The Three Musketeers (2011).
Orlando’s mother, Sonia Constance Josephine (Copeland), was born in Calcutta, India, and is of English, with some Scottish and Northern Irish, descent. Orlando was raised believing that his legal father, Harry Bloom, was also his biological father. Harry was 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. Harry and Sonia, who together could not have biological children, had agreed that Colin would be the biological father of Sonia’s children.
Orlando has a son with his former wife, Australian model Miranda Kerr; and a daughter with his fiancée, American singer and songwriter Katy Perry.
Orlando practices Buddhism.
Orlando’s biological paternal grandfather was Henry/Harry Stone (the son of Robert Byatt Stone and Bessie Agnes Meech). Henry was born in Weymouth, Dorset, England. Robert was the son of John Robert Flew Stone and Elizabeth Chaddock. Bessie was the daughter of Frederick George Meech and Emily Pullman.
Orlando’s biological paternal grandmother was Lilian/Lillian Morris (the daughter of Walter William Dennison Morris and Lily Rosina Crabb). Orlando’s grandmother Lilian was born in Weymouth, Dorset, England. Walter was the son of Walter Gibbs Morris and Lydia Catherine Philips Symes. Orlando’s great-grandmother Lily was the daughter of Jesse/Jessie Crabb and Susan Cox.
Orlando’s maternal grandfather was Francis John Copeland (the son of Isaac Copeland and Mary Cairns). Francis likely was born in Belfast, Ireland, and was a physician and surgeon. Isaac was the son of John Copeland and Mary Ann/Anne Cowan, and was of Northern Irish descent. Orlando’s great-grandmother Mary was the daughter of Samuel Cairns, who was born in Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland, and of Isabella/Isabel Scott.
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, Australia or Calcutta, to English parents; and of Eva Isabella Connew/Conneu, who was born in Calcutta, to an English father, and to a mother who was of at least part Scottish ancestry. Orlando’s great-grandmother Iris was born in Edmonton, Middlesex, England, the daughter of Arthur Madgewick Good and Jessica/Jessie Louisa Foley. Some of Orlando’s ancestors had been born in Assam, India, as well as Tasmania and Melbourne, Australia, and were of English/British Isles descent.
Bloom in 2007, photo credit: Ben Sutherland
Sources: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Family history of Orlando Bloom – http://www.telegraph.co.uk
Obituary of Orlando’s biological paternal grandfather, Henry/Harry Stone – https://www.dorsetecho.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
Marriage record of Orlando’s maternal great-grandparents, Frederic/Frederick Percy Walker and Iris Mary Constance Good – https://www.familysearch.org
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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.