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Real Name: Sandra Annette Bullock
D.O.B: July 26, 1964
Nickname: Sandy
Place of Birth: Arlingtion, VA (USA)
Height: 5' 8"
Relationships: Benjamin Bratt (actor),
Guy Forsythe (blues guitarist),
Matthew McConaughey (actor),
Tate Donovan (actor)
Fan Mail:
C/O CAA
9830 Wilshire Blvd. Beverly Hills, CA
90212, USA
Tid Bits
� Is fluent in German. Does not want to speak German in interviews because of her "bad" grammer
� Received the scar on her head when she fell into a lake and cut her head at a rock
� Replaced Demi Moore in "While You Were Sleeping."
� Was engaged to actor Tate Donovan.
� Is the executive producer of the ABC sitcom, The George Lopez Show.
� Attended East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.
� Was considered for the lead in Runaway Bride (1999).
� Studied ballet when she was a child
� Loves horses, but is extremely allergic to them
� Owns a house in Austin, Texas where she filmed some scenes in Miss Congeniality (2000).
� A Los Angeles judge has granted a restraining order sought Bullock against 34-year-old Thomas James Weldon, a mentally ill man she says stalked her in three states -- According to the petition she filed on Friday, Weldon has stalked her for more than a year, causing her physical or emotional injury. (May 13, 2003)
� Bullock insists that Julia Roberts has made an enduring contribution to Hollywood, because she broke the stereotype of how ladies were expected to look and behave in Tinseltown.
Biography
Sandra Annette Bullock was born on July 26, 1964 in Washington D.C. , daughter of John Bullock (American voice coach) and Helga Meyer (German opera singer). She was joined by Sister, Gesine, at age three. Sandra spent the first twelve years of her life living between Salzburg, Austria (during opera season) and Arlington, Virginia, as her mother's work required her presence in both cities. At the young age of eight, Sandra performed on stage for the first time, assuming the role of a gypsy child in a play with her mother. Helga claims that by the sixth grade, Sandra had already set her mind on acting.
Sandra studied in the Washington-Lee High School from where she graduated in 1982. She was an above average student. Sandra pursued a higher education at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, where she enrolled as a drama major. Here she performed in Chekhov's Three Sisters.
Following her endeavors at ECU (three credits short of graduating), Sandra moved to New York to study method acting, instructed by Sanford Meisner. She dishonestly attained a bartending job. She was a bartender for three years after that while she worked hard at achieving her dream of becoming an actress. Sandra went to every casting call and audition she could.
Finally, in 1998, a critic named John Simon gave Sandra's career a push in the right direction when he made a positive comment about her acting talent in a review of No Time Flat an off-Broadway production that Sandra was in.
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.
After her stint on television, she fled to Los Angeles to continue studying acting. Four years after leaving ECU without a degree, Sandra landed the starring role in the NBC sitcom Working Girl, co-starring with Nana Visitor but she hated every minute of it, and was glad when it was cancelled, she later considered it her "quickest flop". She also starred in Love Potion No. 9 as a psychobiologist together with Tate Donovan. She didn't become famous with this movie, perhaps because the of movie itself. However she did meet her "soul mate", Tate Donovan, who co-starred with her in the same movie. Staffers on the film were surprised the two got together. The ending of the relationship left Sandra emotionally damaged, but she has recovered well, claiming the two are "really strong soul mates."
Sandra played the supporting role of a kidnapped victim in The Vanishing, a waitress in Wrestling Ernest Hemingway, a "wannabe country singer" in The Thing Called Love (for which she wrote and performed her own song entitled Heaven Knocking on My Door), and a futuristic street cop in Demolition Man, replacing Lori Petty (Tank Girl). It is this role which seemingly clinched her part as Annie, an "average 'girl'", in the 1994 box office smash Speed. This movie was the real boast to her career, for it was a real hit."Everyone told me not to do Speed. I mean, it looked like I'd be just 'the girl'. But I've learned to do things by instinct."
Speed launched her popularity intensely, which led her to star in upcoming movies like While You Were Sleeping, replacing Demi Moore, for whom the part was originally intended. That same year, Sandra rocked the box office again as Angela Bennett in The Net.
Sandra had a little slump in 1996, starring as Ellen Roark in John Grisham's A Time to Kill. Sandra's '96 schedule also includes Two If By Sea, and In Love and War.
1997's ill-conceived Speed 2: Cruise Control, a monumental misfire of a seafaring sequel that not even Bullock's reliable charm could rescue from the box-office doldrums. Thereafter, Bullock took matters into her own hands and established her own production company, Fortis Films, with the extensive assistance of her father and sister. The first title released under the Fortis imprint, 1998's Hope Floats, was a modest hit that rescued the golden girl from her string of duds. Her resurgence continued later that same year when she starred opposite Nicole Kidman in Practical Magic, the story of two New England sisters who practice magic; and lent her voice to DreamWorks' animated Moses biopic The Prince of Egypt. And 1999 even started very well for Sandra with her role in the romantic comedy Forces of Nature, opposite Ben Affleck and 28 Days in which she plays a recovering alcoholic. Proving to be a master of physical comedy, she starred as Miss Congeniality in 2000, and was next seen in the 2002 thriller Murder By Numbers. She can also add Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, co-starring Ashley Judd, and the romantic comedy Two Weeks Notice, to her already long filmography.
The cutest woman to hit Hollywood since Meg Ryan has all the necessary elements needed to have a career filled with success and abundance. Everyone, men and women alike, love the characters she plays in her film roles, and she is able to bring her characters to life in every movie she stars in.
In the months ahead, Bullock will undertake a starring role in Exactly 3:30, a romantic comedy that follows the travails of a punctuality- challenged working woman. She's also on tap to produce and star in a currently untitled feature with Liam Neeson.
Bullock makes her home in Austin, Texas; Jackson Hole, Wyoming; and Tybee Island, Georgia.
Filmography
� Exactly 3:30..... (2003)
� Two Weeks Notice..... Lucy Kelson (2002)
� Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood..... Siddalee 'Sidda' Walker (2002)
� Murder by Numbers..... Cassie Mayweather (2002)
� Miss Congeniality..... Grace Hart/Gracie Lou Freebush (2000)
� 28 Days..... Gwen Cummings (2000)
� Gun Shy..... Judy Tipp (2000)
� Forces of Nature..... Sarah Lewis (1999)
� The Prince of Egypt (voice)..... Miriam (1998)
� Practical Magic..... Sally Owens (1998)
� Making Sandwiches..... Melba Club (1998)
� Hope Floats..... Birdee Pruitt (1998)
� Speed 2: Cruise Control..... Annie Porter (1997)
� In Love and War..... Agnes 'Aggie/Ag' von Kurowsky (1996)
� A Time to Kill..... Ellen Roark (1996)
� Two if by Sea..... Roz (1996)
� The Net..... Angela Bennett (1995)
� While You Were Sleeping..... Narrator/Lucy Eleanor 'Luce' Moderatz (1995)
� Speed..... Annie Porter (1994)
� Wrestling Ernest Hemingway..... Elaine (1993)
� Fire on the Amazon (V)..... Alyssa Rothman (1993)
� Demolition Man..... Lenina Huxley (1993)
� The Thing Called Love..... Linda Lue Linden (1993)
� The Vanishing..... Diane Shaver (1993)
� When the Party's Over..... Amanda (1992)
� Who Do I Gotta Kill?..... Lori (1992)
� Love Potion No. 9..... Diane Farrow (1992)
� "Lucky/Chances" (mini) TV Series..... Maria Santangelo (1990)
� Working Girl TV Series..... Tess McGill (1990)
� Religion, Inc. ..... Debby (1989)
� The Preppie Murder (TV)..... Stacy (1989)
� Who Shot Patakango?..... Devlin Moran (1989)
� Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (TV)..... Kate Mason (1989)
� Hangmen..... Lisa Edwards (1987)
