Yearbook photo of Sandra Bullock from Washington - Lee High School
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Yearbook photo of Sandra Bullock from Washington - Lee High School
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Yearbook photo of Sandra Bullock from Washington - Lee High School
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Yearbook photo of Sandra Bullock from Washington - Lee High School
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Yearbook photo of Sandra Bullock from Washington - Lee High School
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Yearbook photo of Sandra Bullock from Washington - Lee High School
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Yearbook photo of Sandra Bullock from Washington - Lee High School
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Yearbook photo of Sandra Bullock from Washington - Lee High School
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Yearbook photo of Sandra Bullock from Washington - Lee High School
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Yearbook photo of Sandra Bullock from Washington - Lee High School
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Yearbook photo of Sandra Bullock from Washington - Lee High School
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Yearbook photo of Sandra Bullock from Washington - Lee High School
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Yearbook photo of Sandra Bullock from Washington - Lee High School
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Yearbook photo of Sandra Bullock from Washington - Lee High School
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Yearbook photo of Sandra Bullock from Washington - Lee High School
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Yearbook photo of Sandra Bullock from Washington - Lee High School
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Yearbook photo of Sandra Bullock from Washington - Lee High School
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Young Sandra Bullock
College/University
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1986
Greenville, North Carolina, United States
Actress and East Carolina University alumna Sandra Bullock portraying Irina in East Carolina University's production of the play Three Sisters. Photograph taken from page 182 of the 1986 Buccaneer, yearbook of East Carolina University.
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Career
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1990
The Sandra Bullock Files #6: Working Girl (1990)
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1992
Sandra Bullock as Diane Farrow in Love Potion No. 9
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1995
The Net (1995)
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1996
Sandra Bullock as Agnes von Kurowsky in In Love and War
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1997
Sandra Bullock as Annie Porter in Speed 2: Cruise Control
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1997
Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)
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1998
Sandra Bullock as Sally Owens in Practical Magic
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2000
Sandra Bullock as Judy Tipp in Gun Shy
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2000
Miss Congeniality (2000)
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2002
Sandra Bullock as Lucy Kelson in Two Weeks Notice
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2002
Sandra Bullock as Siddalee Walker in Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
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2002
Sandra Bullock as Det. Cassie Mayweather in Murder by Numbers
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2002
Bullock at the Cannes Film Festival in 2002
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2004
Sandra Bullock as Jean in Crash
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2005
Sandra Bullock as Gracie Hart in Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
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2006
Sandra Bullock as Harper Lee in Infamous
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2006
Sandra Bullock as Dr. Kate Forster in The Lake House
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2007
Sandra Bullock as Linda Hanson in Premonition
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2009
Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side
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2009
Sandra Bullock as Mary Horowitz in All About Steve
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2011
Sandra Bullock as Linda Schell in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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2011
Bullock at the 83rd Academy Awards in 2011
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2013
Sandra Bullock as Dr. Ryan Stone in Gravity
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2013
Sandra Bullock as Special Agent Sarah Ashburn in The Heat
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2013
Bullock at the 2013 San Diego Comic Con
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2015
2015 Sandra Bullock as ‘Calamity’ Jane Bodine in Our Brand Is Crisis
Actress and East Carolina University alumna Sandra Bullock portraying Irina in East Carolina University's production of the play Three Sisters. Photograph taken from page 182 of the 1986 Buccaneer, yearbook of East Carolina University.
Sandra Bullock, in full Sandra Annette Bullock, is an American actress and film producer known for her charismatic energy and wit on-screen, especially as girl-next-door characters in romantic comedies.
Background
Bullock was born on July 26, 1964, in Arlington, Virginia. 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. Helga was German, while John is from Birmingham, Alabama. Bullock's maternal grandfather was a German rocket scientist from Nuremberg. John, who was in charge of the U.S. Army's Military Postal Service in Europe, was stationed in Nuremberg when he met Helga. They married in Germany and moved to Arlington, where John worked with the Army Materiel Command before becoming a contractor for The Pentagon. Bullock has a younger sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado, who went on to serve as vice president of Bullock's production company Fortis Films.
Bullock was raised in Germany (Nuremberg) and Austria (Vienna and Salzburg) for 12 years, and grew up speaking German. As a child, while her mother went on European opera tours, Bullock usually stayed with her aunt Christl and cousin Susanne, the latter of whom would later marry German politician Peter Ramsauer.
Education
Sandra attended the humanistic Waldorf School in Nuremberg. Bullock studied ballet and vocal arts as a child and frequently accompanied her mother, taking small parts in her opera productions. She sang in the opera's children's choir at the Staatstheater Nürnberg.
Sandra 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 BFA in Drama in 1987. While at ECU, she performed in multiple theater productions, including Peter Pan and Three Sisters.
Sandra then moved to Manhattan, New York, where she supported herself as a bartender, cocktail waitress, and coat checker while auditioning for roles. While in New York, Bullock took acting classes with Sanford Meisner.
After receiving positive attention for the Off-Broadway play No Time Flat, Bullock made her motion-picture debut in Hangman (1987) and took supporting roles in such films as Religion, Inc. (1989) and the television movie Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1989). Her first leading role was in Who Shot Pat? (1989), a romantic coming-of-age film that examines racial tensions in the 1950s. In 1990 Bullock starred in the short-lived TV series Working Girl, playing an ambitious New York City executive.
In 1992 Bullock displayed her earnest charm in the romantic comedy Love Potion No. 9. This led to a series of films the following year, including the thriller The Vanishing; Demolition Man, in which she starred alongside action star Sylvester Stallone, and the drama Wrestling Ernest Hemingway. Her big breakthrough, however, was the thriller Speed (1994), about a policeman (played by Keanu Reeves) who, with the assistance of a plucky passenger (Bullock), must deactivate a bomb on a bus. In 1996 Bullock earned a Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance in the romantic comedy While You Were Sleeping (1995). Seeking parts outside her typical romantic comedy roles, she appeared in the thriller The Net (1995); A Time to Kill (1996), based on the legal novel of the same name by best-selling author John Grisham; and In Love and War (1996), a drama about Ernest Hemingway’s wartime romance that inspired his novel A Farewell to Arms (1929).
In the late 1990s Bullock founded the production company Fortis Films, which in 1998 produced the romantic drama Hope Floats and the comedy Practical Magic; Bullock starred in both movies. That same year her voice was featured in the animated The Prince of Egypt. She returned to familiar territory as an endearing but eccentric lead in the romantic comedy Forces of Nature (1999), opposite Ben Affleck. In 2000 her performance in 28 Days was praised, as she balanced humour with vulnerability to portray a writer and party girl who is sent to rehabilitation. Later that year Bullock had a box office hit with Miss Congeniality, a comedy in which she played an FBI agent who goes undercover as a beauty pageant contestant.
Continuing to pursue work in all genres of film, she starred as a homicide detective in Murder by Numbers (2002), as a playwright who has a difficult relationship with her mother in Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002), and as an underappreciated lawyer in Two Weeks Notice (2002). She later appeared as the racist wife of a Los Angeles district attorney in the critically acclaimed Crash (2004). Bullock took another serious role when she portrayed the American author Harper Lee in Infamous (2006), a biopic about writer Truman Capote. In 2006 she reunited with Reeves in The Lake House, a romance about two people who fall in love by sending letters forward and backward in time.
After appearing in the romantic comedies The Proposal (2009) and All About Steve (2009), Bullock starred as a determined mother in the sports drama The Blind Side; she won numerous accolades for her performance, including an Academy Award for best actress. Another maternal role followed in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011), a film about a boy coping with the death of his father in the September 11 attacks. In 2013 Bullock earned laughs as half of a mismatched pair of female FBI agents in the broad, raunchy comedy The Heat. Later that year she starred with George Clooney in Gravity, an acclaimed drama about astronauts struggling to survive after their spacecraft has been destroyed; Bullock earned an Oscar nomination for her performance. She then voiced the villainous Scarlett Overkill in the animated comedy Minions and depicted the struggles of an American political strategist guiding a Bolivian presidential campaign in the dark farce Our Brand Is Crisis (both 2015). Bullock later played the mastermind of a jewelry heist in Ocean’s 8 (2018), the female-driven reboot of the Ocean’s Eleven franchise from the early 2000s.
Bullock keeps her religious views out of the spotlight. She once said:
"I don’t like to talk about personal things. … And by keeping it private, you have a better shot at a healthy relationship. I learned at a young age that there are certain things you just don’t talk about."
Views
She believes in karma, she once said:
"I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it's bad or good."
Quotations:
"I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform."
"Don't corral me, and I'll always come home. Just let me go out and play during the day."
"I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl."
"Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a ’bus movie.’"
"Does age matter? Time doesn't matter."
"I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring."
Personality
Favorite food of Sandra Bullock is Kentucky fried chicken and chocolate.
Her favorite colors are black and red.
She is very fond of her 2 pet dogs, Ruby and Poppy. She has designed special seat-belts for them to ride safely in her car.
Physical Characteristics:
Her height is 5 ft 7.5 in (171 cm), weight - 119 pounds (54 kg). Sandra's hair and eyes are dark brown.
Bullock has a scar above her left eye, caused by falling into a creek when she was a child.
While she was working on Two If by Sea (1996), discovered she is allergic to horses.
Quotes from others about the person
"At this critical time, I am grateful to Sandra Bullock for once again demonstrating her leadership, compassion and belief in our global humanitarian mission. Sandra continues to enable our lifesaving work and is a model for personal generosity." - Marsha Evans, American Red Cross President and Chief Executive Officer, on Bullock's donation of one million dollars to the American Red Cross for relief of the victims Indian Ocean tsunami at the end of 2004.
Interests
Philanthropy. Bullock has been a public supporter of the American Red Cross, having donated $1 million to the organization at least five times. Her first public donation of that amount was to the Red Cross's Liberty Disaster Relief Fund. Three years later, she sent money in response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunamis. In 2010, she donated $1 million to relief efforts in Haiti following the Haiti earthquake, and again donated the same amount following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. In 2017, she donated $1 million to support Red Cross relief efforts for Hurricane Harvey in Texas.
Along with other stars, Bullock did a public service announcement urging people to sign a petition for clean-up efforts of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Bullock backs the Texas non-profit organization The Kindred Life Foundation, Inc., and in late 2008 joined other top celebrities in supporting the work of KLF's founder and CEO Amos Ramirez. At a fundraising gala for the organization, Bullock said, "Amos has led many efforts across our nation that have helped families that are in need. Our country needs more organizations that are committed to the service that Kindred Life is."
In November 2006, Bullock founded an Austin, Texas restaurant, Bess Bistro, located on West 6th Street. She later opened another business, Walton's Fancy and Staple, across the street in a building she extensively renovated. Walton's is a bakery, upscale restaurant and floral shop that also offers services including event planning. After almost nine years in business, Bess Bistro closed on September 20, 2015.
Artists
Favorite movie - The Wizard of Oz and all films of Audrey Hepburn.
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Music & Bands
Her favorite music - Spice Girls, Louis Armstrong, Tom Jones and Bob Schneider.
Connections
Bullock was once engaged to actor Tate Donovan, whom she met while filming Love Potion No. 9. Their relationship lasted three years. She previously dated football player Troy Aikman, and actors Matthew McConaughey and Ryan Gosling.
Bullock married motorcycle builder and Monster Garage host Jesse James on July 16, 2005. They first met when Bullock arranged for her ten-year-old godson to meet James as a Christmas present. In November 2009, Bullock and James entered into a custody battle with James' second ex-wife, former adult film actress Janine Lindemulder, with whom James had a child. Bullock and James subsequently won full legal custody of James' five-year-old daughter.
In March 2010, a scandal arose when several women claimed to have had affairs with James during his marriage to Bullock. Bullock canceled European promotional appearances for The Blind Side citing "unforeseen personal reasons." On March 18, 2010, James responded to the rumors of infidelity by issuing a public apology to Bullock. He stated, "The vast majority of the allegations reported are untrue and unfounded … beyond that, I will not dignify these private matters with any further public comment." James declared, "There is only one person to blame for this whole situation, and that is me." He asked that Bullock and their children one day "find it in their hearts to forgive me" for their "pain and embarrassment." James' publicist subsequently announced on March 30, 2010 that James had checked into a rehabilitation facility to "deal with personal issues" and save his marriage to Bullock. However, on April 28, 2010, it was reported that Bullock had filed for divorce on April 23 in Austin, Texas. Their divorce was finalized on June 28, 2010, with "conflict of personalities" cited as the reason.
Bullock announced on April 28, 2010 that she had proceeded with plans to adopt a son born in January 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Bullock and James had begun an initial adoption process four months earlier. Bullock's son began living with them in January 2010, but they chose to keep the news private until after the Oscars in March 2010. However, given the couple's separation and then divorce, Bullock continued the adoption of her son as a single parent.
In December 2015, Bullock announced that she had adopted a second child, and appeared on the cover of People magazine with her then 3 1⁄2-year-old new daughter.