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Sandra Bullock

Sandra Bullock

Birthday: 1964-07-26 | Place of Birth: Arlington County, Virginia, USA

Sandra Annette Bullock (born July 26, 1964) is an American actress and producer. She rose to fame in the 1990s with roles in films such as Demolition Man (1993), Speed (1994), The Net (1995), While You Were Sleeping (1995), A Time to Kill (1996), and Hope Floats (1998). In the new millennium, Bullock starred in Miss Congeniality (2000), Two Weeks Notice (2002), The Lake House (2006), and the critically acclaimed Crash (2004). In 2007, she was ranked as the 14th richest woman in the entertainment industry with an estimated fortune of $85 million. In 2009, Bullock starred in two of the more financially successful films of her career, The Proposal and The Blind Side. Bullock was awarded the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama, and the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side. Bullock was born in Arlington, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C. Her father, John W. Bullock (born 1925), was a United States Army employee and part-time voice coach; her mother, Helga Mathilde Meyer (1942–2000), was an opera singer and voice teacher.Bullock's father was from Birmingham, Alabama, and had English, Irish, German, and French ancestry, while Bullock's mother was German. Bullock's maternal grandfather was a rocket scientist from Nuremberg, Germany. Bullock's father, then in charge of the Army's Military Postal Service in Europe, was stationed in Nuremberg when he met his wife. They married in Germany and moved to Arlington, where John worked with the Army Materiel Command, before becoming a contractor for The Pentagon.She has a younger sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado, who was formerly the vice-president of Bullock's production company Fortis Films. Bullock was raised in Nuremberg, Germany for twelve years and grew up speaking German.She attended the humanistic Waldorf School. As a child, Bullock frequently accompanied her mother on European opera tours. Bullock studied ballet and vocal arts as a child, taking small parts in her mother's opera productions. She sang in the operas children's choir at the Staatstheater Nürnberg. The scar above her left eye was caused when she fell into a creek as a child. Bullock attended Washington-Lee High School, where she was a cheerleader and performed in high school theater productions. After graduating in 1982, she attended East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, where she received a degree in drama in 1986.She then moved to Manhattan and supported herself as a bartender, cocktail waitress, and coat checker while auditioning for roles. Until the age of eighteen, Bullock held German and American dual citizenship. In 2009 Bullock reapplied for German citizenship.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
The Lost City

as    Loretta Sage / Angela

2022
Bullet Train

as    Maria

2021
The Unforgivable

as    Ruth Slater

2018
Ocean's Eight

as    Deborah 'Debbie' Ocean

2018
Bird Box

as    Malorie Hayes

2015
Our Brand Is Crisis

as    'Calamity' Jane Bodine

2015
Minions

as    Scarlet Overkill (voice)

2013
Aningaaq

as    Dr. Ryan Stone

2013
The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers

as    Golda Meir (voice)

2013
Gravity

as    Ryan Stone

2013
The Heat

as    Sarah Ashburn

2011
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

as    Linda Schell

2009
The Blind Side

as    Leigh Anne Tuohy

2009
The Proposal

as    Margaret Tate

2009
All About Steve

as    Mary Horowitz

2007
Premonition

as    Linda Hanson

2006
The Lake House

as    Kate Forster

2006
Infamous

as    Nelle Harper Lee

2005
2005
Crash

as    Jean Cabot

2005
Loverboy

as    Mme Harker

2002
Murder by Numbers

as    Cassie Mayweather

2002
Two Weeks Notice

as    Lucy Kelson

2002
2000
Miss Congeniality

as    Gracie Hart

2000
28 Days

as    Gwen Cummings

2000
Gun Shy

as    Judy Tipp

1999
Forces of Nature

as    Sarah Lewis

1998
Practical Magic

as    Sally Owens