Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Copeland Bloom was born on January 13, 1977 in Canterbury, Kent, <em><u>England</u></em>. His mother, Sonia Constance Josephine Bloom (née Copeland), was born in Kolkata, India, to an English family then-resident there. The man he first knew as his father, Harry Bloom, was a legendary political activist who fought for civil rights in South Africa.
