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
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.
Who knows he might have a bit of Mediterranean…
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