Sandra Bullock's Bio
Name: Sandra Bullock
Birth Name: Sandra Annette Bullock
Height: 5' 7 1/2''"
Sex: F
Nationality: American
Date: July 26, 1964
Birth Place: Arlington, Virginia
Occupation: actress, director, writer, producer
Education: Washington-Lee High School, Arlington, VA (graduated in 1982)
East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina (majored in drama; B.A.)
Neighborhood Playhouse, New York (studied with Sanford Meisner)
Relationship: Benjamin Bratt (actor), Guy Forsythe (blues guitarist; reportedly involved summer 1999), Matthew McConaughey (actor), Tate Donovan (actor)
Father: John Bullock (voice coach)
Mother: Helga Bullock (German opera singer; died April 4, 2000)
Sister: Gelsine Bullock (law student)
Claim to fame: as Annie Porter in Speed (1994)
Contact:
9830 Wilshire Blvd.
Beverly Hills,Ca. 90212
USA
BIOGRAPHY:
She’s wholesome; she’s exuberant; she’s ordinary, but she’s not. Sandra Bullock is an all-American girl whose regular good looks belie unusual talent, and an exotic upbringing.
Born to a voice coach dad and opera singer mom, Bullock spent her early years touring Europe and appearing in operatic child roles and children’s choruses. She left the stage behind, though, working to fit in with her U.S. high school peers by taking on the “role” of sunny cheerleader, but returned to drama in university, and ultimately left even that for a New York acting career. The parts didn’t come right away -- Bullock spent three years bartending and waitressing -- but the off-Broadway production No Time Flat eventually came her way, and good reviews got her an agent.
She was cast in the film Hangmen (1987), but a television career came next for the 25 year old actor, beginning with the 1989 movie Bionic Showdown: The Six-Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman. Bullock moved to Los Angeles, and took a starring role in the NBC series Working Girl. She went on to the TV movies Religion Inc./A Fool and His Money (1989), The Preppie Murder (1989), Jackie Collins’ Lucky Chances (1990), and the feature films Who Shot Patakango (1990), Who Do I Gotta Kill (1992), When the Party’s Over (1992), Love Potion No. 9 (1992), The Vanishing (1993), The Thing Called Love (1993), Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993), Demolition Man (1993), and Me and the Mob (1994).
In 1994, the brunette Bullock was cast (over producers’ clamourings for yet another blonde bombshell) in the runaway blockbuster Speed. That led, the next year, to another huge success -- While You Were Sleeping -- and a solidly booked calendar with The Net (1995), A Time To Kill (1996), Stolen Hearts (1996), Two If By Sea (1996) and In Love and War (1996). 1997's Speed 2: Cruise Control turned out to be less a hit than the first Speed (Bullock “won” a Worst Actress Razzie), but the silver lining was the establishment of her own production company, Fortis Films. Bullock co-produced and starred in the successful Hope Floats (1998), and continued to fulfil an ambitious schedule with The Prince of Egypt (1998 - voice), Practical Magic (1998), Making Sandwiches (1998), and Forces of Nature (1999). As well, Fortis Films produced the animated films Nicholas Cricket and Jingle.
Coming up for Bullock are roles in the movies Gunshy, Miss Congeniality (the actor will also produce), 28 Days, Wildest Dreams, The List, and Babe Behind Bars: Alison’s Starting To Happen.
Bullock’s many awards show that she is a favorite with audiences. She’s won three MTV Movie awards (1995), the 1996 ShoWest Female Star of the Year, and People’s Choice awards (1997, 1999, and nominated for 2000). She’s valuable to studios -- in 1996 she was number 40 on the list of highest earning entertainers, one below Mel Gibson. Audiences and industry peers alike recognize that her power is the ability to play ordinary women in extraordinary circumstances. Bullock has the common touch. She’s just uncommonly good at it.
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