He also participated in school plays and was active at his local theater. He did embrace the arts, however, and enjoyed pottery, photography and sculpturing. Edmund's School in Canterbury but struggled in many courses because of dyslexia. When Orlando was 13, Sonia revealed to him that Colin is actually the biological father of Orlando and his sister the two were conceived after an agreement by his parents, since Harry, who suffered a stroke in 1975, was unable to have children. After that, Orlando and his older sister, Samantha Bloom, were raised by their mother and family friend, Colin Stone. But Harry died of a stroke when Orlando was only four years old. The man he first knew as his father, Harry Bloom, was a legendary political activist who fought for civil rights in South Africa.
His mother, Sonia Constance Josephine Bloom (née Copeland), was born in Kolkata, India, to an English family then-resident there. Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Copeland Bloom was born on Januin Canterbury, Kent, England.
