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Sandra Annette Bullock (born
July 26,
1964) is a
Golden Globe Award-nominated,
Screen Actors Guild Award- and
Saturn Award-winning
film American actress. She came to fame in the 1990s, after roles in successful films such as
Speed and
While You Were Sleeping, and has since established her career as a well-known leading
Hollywood actress, with the
box office comedy hit
Miss Congeniality and one of her most recent film roles, in 2004's
Crash, having received critical acclaim. She was ranked as the 14th richest female celebrity with an estimated fortune of $85 million in early 2007.
Early life
Bullock was born in
Arlington County, Virginia, the daughter of
Helga D. Meyer, a
German opera singer, and John W. Bullock, a
Pentagon contractor, executive and part-time vocal coach from
Alabama. Bullock's maternal grandfather was a rocket scientist from
Nuremberg,
Germany. Bullock lived in Nuremberg until age twelve, where she sang in the opera's children's choir at the
Staatstheater Nürnberg. She frequently traveled with her mother on her opera tours, and lived in Germany and other parts of Europe for much of her childhood. Bullock studied
ballet and vocal arts as a child, taking small parts in her mother's opera productions.
Bullock attended
Washington-Lee High School where she was a cheerleader, participated in high school theater productions and dated a football player. She graduated in
1982 and enrolled in
East Carolina University in
Greenville, North Carolina. During this time, she worked as a waitress at a restaurant. She is fluent in
German. However, she prefers to speak English when appearing on German TV shows, although the TV hosts speak German. She has besides the american also the
German nationality.
Career
While in New York, Bullock took acting classes at the
Neighborhood Playhouse. She had appeared in several student films and had later landed a role in an Off-Broadway play
No Time Flat. for her efforts, as the executive producer of the sitcom
The George Lopez Show, in helping expand career openings for Hispanic talent in the media and entertainment industry.
In
2004, Bullock had a supporting role in the film
Crash. She received positive reviews for her performance, with some critics suggesting that it was the best performance of her career. Bullock later appeared in
The Lake House, a romantic drama also starring her
Speed co-star,
Keanu Reeves; it was released on
June 16,
2006. Because their film characters are separated throughout the film (due to the plot revolving around
time travel), Bullock and Reeves were only on set together for two weeks during filming. The same year, Bullock appeared in
Infamous, playing author
Harper Lee. Bullock also stars in
Premonition with
Julian McMahon, which was released in March 2007.
Bullock received a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame on
March 24,
2005. In January 2007, Bullock was named the 14th richest woman in entertainment by
Forbes, with a net worth of $85 million.
Entrepreneurship
Bullock currently runs her own production company, Fortis Films. Her sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado, is president of the company and her father, John Bullock, is its
CEO. She was an executive producer of
George Lopez which garnered a lucrative syndication deal that banked Bullock some $10 million. She also made sporadic
"cameo" appearances in the show as "Accident Amy," a factory worker prone to accidents in the workplace. Bullock tried to produce a film based on
F.X. Toole's short story
Million-Dollar Baby, but couldn't interest studios in a female boxing drama. The story was eventually filmed by Clint Eastwood as the
Oscar-winning film
Million Dollar Baby (2004). Bullock's production company, Fortis Films, will produce her next movie,
All About Steve. In the meantime, she tends to her Austin restaurant, Bess Bistro, and its first merchandising tie-in, a line of organic candles.
Personal life
Bullock was once engaged to actor
Tate Donovan whom she met while filming
Love Potion No. 9. Their relationship lasted four years.
Bullock is stepmother to Chandler, Jesse Jr., and Sunny.
On
December 20,
2000, Bullock survived the crash of a chartered business jet at
Jackson Hole Airport. The aircraft hit a snowbank instead of the runway, resulting in both the nose gear and nose cone being ripped off, the right wing partially separated from the aircraft and the left wing bent back. When the
September 11, 2001 attacks occurred, Bullock was staying at the Soho Grand hotel, twelve blocks from the
World Trade Center. She saw the attacks from her hotel bedroom window and went to a nearby hospital to offer help. As all phone lines in
New York City were down, she spent the rest of the day using her
Palm Pilot to send
e-mails on behalf of patients wanting to contact their families.
Bullock has twice donated $1 million to the
American Red Cross, first to its
Liberty Disaster Relief Fund and four years later in
response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunamis.
In October 2004, Bullock won a multimillion dollar judgment against Benny Daneshjou, the builder of her
Lake Austin Texas mansion; the jury ruled the house was uninhabitable. It has since been torn down and rebuilt, and her
Porsche 911 Turbo replaced by a
Toyota Prius. Bullock also owns a house on
Tybee Island,
Georgia, which is a few miles from
Savannah, Georgia. After four years of preparation, Bullock's first restaurant, Bess, opened in November 2006 in
Austin, Texas.
She has a scar in the corner of her left eye which she received as a child when she fell into a lake and cut her head on a rock.
On
April 22,
2007, a woman was lying outside James and Bullock's Southern California home in
Orange County. When James confronted the woman, she ran inside her 2004 silver Mercedes and tried to run him over 3 to 4 times. The woman is said to be an obsessed fan of Sandra Bullock. The woman, Marcia Diana Valentine, was arrested on investigation of assault with a deadly weapon. In May, Bullock won a three-year restraining order against the woman. Valentine pleaded not guilty to charges of aggravated assault and stalking.
On
April 18,
2008, while Bullock was in
Massachusetts shooting the film
The Proposal, she and her husband were in an
SUV that was hit head on by a drunken driver. There were no injuries.
Filmography
Awards and Nominations
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