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Sandra Annette Bullock (born July 26,
1964) is an American film actress. She came to fame in
the 1990s, after roles in successful films like Speed
and While You Were Sleeping, and has since established a
career as a well-known Hollywood leading actress, with
the box office comedy hit Miss Congeniality and one of
her most recent film roles, in 2004's Crash, receiving
critical acclaim. She is the 14th richest female
celebrity with an estimated fortune of $85 million.
Early life: Bullock was born in Arlington County,
Virginia to John W. Bullock, a Pentagon contractor and
part-time vocal coach from Alabama, and Helga D. Meyer,
a German opera singer who died of cancer on April 4,
2000; Bullock's maternal grandfather was a rocket
scientist from Nuernberg. Bullock lived in Nuernberg
until age twelve, where she sang in the opera's
childrens' 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 left school during
her senior year (Spring 1986), three credits short of
graduating, to pursue an acting career. She went to
Manhattan to try to get auditions and supported herself
with a variety of odd jobs (bartender, cocktail
waitress, coat checker).
Sandra Bullock later completed her coursework and was
awarded a bachelor's degree from East Carolina
University. She is fluent in German. When appearing on
German TV shows, she prefers to speak English (the TV
hosts speak German though).
Career: While in New York, Bullock took acting
classes at The Neighborhood Playhouse. She appeared in
several student films and later landed a role in an
Off-Broadway play No Time Flat. Director Alan J. Levi
was impressed by Bullock's performance and offered her a
part in the made-for-TV movie Bionic Showdown: The Six
Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1989).
After filming the movie, Bullock stayed
in Los Angeles, California, and was cast in a series of
small roles in several independent films as well as in
the lead role of the short-lived NBC television version
of the film Working Girl (1990). She appeared in several
films such as Love Potion No. 9 (1992), The Thing Called
Love (1993) and Fire on the Amazon (where she agreed to
appear topless if the camera did not show that much, she
covered herself with duct tape which apparently was
somewhat painful to take off).
One of Bullock's first notable movie appearances was in
Demolition Man (1993), which led to her breakthrough
performance in Speed the following year. She became a
high-level movie star in the late 1990s, carrying a
string of successes, including While You Were Sleeping
(she replaced actress Demi Moore, who was originally
scheduled to star), Miss Congeniality and Two Weeks
Notice. Bullock received 11 million dollars for Speed 2
and 17.5 million dollars for Miss Congeniality 2: Armed
& Fabulous.
Bullock has been selected as one of People magazine's 50
Most Beautiful People in the World in 1996 and 1999, and
has also been ranked #58 in Empire magazine's Top 100
Movie Stars of All Time list. She was presented with the
2002 Raul Julia Award for Excellence[ 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.
Bullock 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 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.[8] The story was eventually made as
the Oscar-winning film Million Dollar Baby (2004).
In 2005, 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 of 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 entertaiment by Forbes, with a net
worth of $85 million.
Personal life: Bullock was once engaged to actor
Tate Donovan whom she met while filming Love Potion No.
9. Their relationship lasted four years She had
previously dated football player Troy Aikman, blues
guitarist Guy Forsythe, Steve Buscemi, Austin musician
Bob Schneider (for two years) and film co-stars, Ryan
Gosling and Matthew McConaughey. McConaughey and Bullock
met each other while filming A Time to Kill and became
friends. They dated for a while. Some notable celebrity
friends include Heather Burns and Hugh Grant.
Bullock married motorcycle builder and Monster Garage
host Jesse James on July 16, 2005; they met when Bullock
arranged for her ten-year-old godson to meet James as a
Christmas present. On her husband and her marriage,
Bullock has commented:
“ So basically through a courtship of letters... I
learned about a human being. It was not something I
wanted, needed, or looked for, but because he was a
stronger person than I was, spiritually and on a
tolerance level, I was lucky enough that he educated
me... I always thought of marriage as a death sentence,
that there'd be a ball and chain, and you'd be told,
'You need to stop doing these things and become a good
little wife.' Now people say 'Oh my God you're going to
have sex with one person the rest of your life!' I hope
I have sex with him for the rest of my life - because I
like it! ”
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 beloved 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.
Bullock was voted "Most Likely To Brighten Up Your
Day" in high school. Although she loves horses, she
is allergic to them. She has a scar on her head which
she received 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 Jesse James confronted the woman, she ran inside
her 2004 silver Mercedes and tried to run him over 3 to
4 times. Jesse James was not hit during the many
attempts to be run over. The woman is said to be an
obsessed fan of Sandra Bullock. The woman, Marcia Diana
Valentine, was arrested for investigation of assault
with a deadly weapon. She was released after posting
$25,000 bail. A court hearing is scheduled for May 22. |
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