After the aforementioned successes he settled in Hollywood, where he starred in several films like Elizabethtown and Kingdom of Heaven. His most recent works include the ensemble film New York, I Love You and their roles in Sympathy for Delicious and Main Street. Bloom made his theatrical debut on stage at the Duke of York, with a role in the play In Celebration, which was performed until 2007. On 12 October 2009, Bloom was named a goodwill ambassador for Unicef.
Orlando Bloom was born in Canterbury ( Kent , England) , and has one sister , Samantha Bloom, who was born in 1975. His mother, Sonia Constance Josephine ( maiden Copeland ) , was born in the British section of Kolkata , India , the daughter of Betty Constance Josephine Walker and Francis John Copeland , who was a physician and surgeon. Through her, Bloom is a cousin of photographer Sebastian Copeland . The family of Bloom 's maternal grandmother lived in Tasmania, Australia , Japan and India , and were of English origin , some of them originally come from Kent. During his childhood , he was told Bloom that his father was the husband of his mother, a novelist born Jewish South Africa and anti - apartheid Harry Saul Bloom , but when he was thirteen (nine years after Harry's death ) , the Bloom 's mother revealed that his biological father was actually Colin Stone, his mother's partner and family friend.
Stone, the principal of the Concorde International language school , was made Orlando Bloom 's legal guardian after Harry Bloom 's death . Bloom is named after the sixteenth century composer Orlando Gibbons.
Bloom was raised as an Anglican . In childhood , he managed to go to school The King and St. Edmund 's School in Canterbury despite his dyslexia. He was encouraged by his mother to take art and drama classes . In 1993 , he moved to London to follow a two-year course of Drama , Photography and Sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Hampstead . He joined the National Isa Youth Theatre , spending two seasons there and earning a scholarship to train at the American British Academy.
Bloom began acting professionally in television roles in episodes of Casualty and Midsomer Murders , and subsequently made his debut for the big screen in Wilde ( 1997 ), starring Stephen Fry, in which he played a small role as a child of rent . Right after , he entered the Guildhall Drama , where he studied acting and music school .
