The Sandra Bullock Handbook - Everything you need to know about Sandra Bullock

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Sandra Annette Bullock (born July 26, 1964) is an Academy Award-winning American actress and producer who rose to fame in the 1990s after roles in successful films such as Demolition Man, Speed, The Net, A Time to Kill, and While You Were Sleeping.

She continued with films such as Miss Congeniality, The Lake House, and Crash, the third of which received critical acclaim.

In 2007, she was ranked as the 14th richest female celebrity with an estimated fortune of US$85 million. In 2009, Bullock starred in the most financially successful films of her career, The Proposal and The Blind Side. Bullock was awarded a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, and the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her role as Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side.

She has been listed in the 2012 Guinness Book Of World Records as the Highest Paid Actress of all time with $56 million.

This book is your ultimate resource for Sandra Bullock. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about her Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Sandra Bullock, Who Shot Patakango?, The Preppie Murder, Lucky/Chances, Who Do I Gotta Kill?, Love Potion No. 9 (film), The Vanishing (1993 film), The Thing Called Love, Demolition Man (film), Fire on the Amazon, Wrestling Ernest Hemingway, Speed (1994 film), While You Were Sleeping, The Net (1995 film), Two If by Sea, A Time to Kill (film), In Love and War (1996 film), Speed 2: Cruise Control, Making Sandwiches, Hope Floats, Practical Magic, The Prince of Egypt, Forces of Nature, Gun Shy (film), 28 Days (film), Miss Congeniality (film), Murder by Numbers, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (film), Two Weeks Notice, Crash (2004 film), Loverboy (2005 film), Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous, The Lake House (film), Infamous (film), Premonition (2007 film), The Proposal (film), All About Steve, The Blind Side (film), Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (film), Gravity (film).

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Contents

Articles Sandra Bullock Who Shot Patakango?

The Preppie Murder Lucky/Chances Who Do I Gotta Kill? Love Potion No. 9 (film) The Vanishing (1993 film) The Thing Called Love Demolition Man (film) Fire on the Amazon Wrestling Ernest Hemingway Speed (1994 film) While You Were Sleeping The Net (1995 film) Two If by Sea A Time to Kill (film) In Love and War (1996 film) Speed 2: Cruise Control Making Sandwiches Hope Floats Practical Magic The Prince of Egypt Forces of Nature Gun Shy (film) 28 Days (film) Miss Congeniality (film) Murder by Numbers Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (film) Two Weeks Notice Crash (2004 film) Loverboy (2005 film) Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous The Lake House (film) Infamous (film)

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Premonition (2007 film) The Proposal (film) All About Steve The Blind Side (film) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (film) Gravity (film)

References Article Sources and Contributors Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors

Article Licenses License

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Bullock at the 2010 SAG Awards red carpet

Born

Residence

Occupation

Years active

Spouse

Children

Parents

Sandra Annette Bullock July 26, 1964 Arlington County, Virginia, U.S.

New Orleans, Louisiana

Actress, comedian, producer

1985–present

Jesse G. James (2005–2010)

Louis Bardo (2010)

John Bullock Helga Meyer (deceased)

Sandra Annette Bullock(ˈ/bʊlək/; born July 26, 1964) is an Academy Award-winning American actress and producer who rose to fame in the 1990s after roles in successful films such asDemolition Man,Speed,The Net,A Time to Kill, andWhile You Were Sleeping. She continued with films such asMiss Congeniality,The Lake House, andCrashthe third of which received critical acclaim. In 2007, she was ranked as the 14th richest female celebrity, [1] with an estimated fortune of US$85 million. In 2009, Bullock starred in the most financially successful films of [2] [3] her career,The ProposalandThe Blind Side. Bullock was awarded a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, and the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her role as Leigh Anne Tuohy inThe Blind Side. She has been listed in the 2012 [4] Guinness Book Of World Recordsas the Highest Paid Actress of all time with $56 million.

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Early life Sandra Annette Bullock was born in Arlington, Virginia. Her father, John W. Bullock (born 1925), was a United States Army employee and part-time voice coach from Birmingham, Alabama, and her mother, Helga D. Meyer [5] [6] [7] (1942–Bullock's maternal grandfather was a rocket2000), was a German opera singer and voice teacher. scientist from Nuremberg, Germany. John Bullock, then in charge of the Army's Military Postal Service in Europe, was stationed in Nuremberg when he met his wife. They married in Germany, soon moving to Arlington, where John [8] [9] Bullock worked with the Army Materiel Command, before becoming a contractor for The Pentagon. Bullock frequently accompanied her mother on her opera tours throughout Europe. She spent time in Salzburg and Nuremberg, where she stayed with her aunt and grandmother and became fluent in German. Bullock studied ballet [5] and vocal arts as a child, taking small parts in her mother's opera productions. She sang in the operas children's [10] choir at theünbergStaatstheater Nr . Bullock attended Washington-Lee High School, where she was a cheerleader and performed in high school theater productions. After she graduated in 1982, she entered East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. However, she dropped out in her fourth year in spring of 1986, just three credits short of graduating, to become an actress. She moved to Manhattan and supported herself as a bartender, cocktail waitress, and coat checker. She later [11] completed her coursework and graduated from East Carolina University.

Acting

While in New York, Bullock took acting classes with Sanford Meisner. She appeared in several student films, and later landed a role in an Off-Broadway playNo Time Flat. Director Alan J. Levi was impressed by Bullock's performance and offered her a part in the TV movie Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1989). Afterward, she 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 filmWorking Girl(1990). She later appeared in several films, such asLove Potion No. 9(1992),The Thing Called Love(1993) andFire on the Amazon. A prominent supporting role in the science-fiction/action movieDemolition Man(1993) led to her breakthrough performance inSpeedthe following year. She became a movie star in the late 1990s, carrying a string of successes, including While You Were Sleeping, andMiss Congenialityin 2000. Bullock received $11 million forSpeed 2: Cruise Control, which she agreed to [12] star in for financial backing for her own project,Hope Floats, and [13] has revealed she regrets making the sequel. She later received $17.5 million forMiss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous.

Bullock at the 83rd Academy Awards in 2011. The previous year she won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her work inThe Blind Side.

Bullock was selected as one ofPeoplemagazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in the World in 1996 and 1999, and was also ranked #58 inEmpiremagazine's Top 100 Movie Stars of All [14] Time list. She was presented with the 2002 Raal Julib Award for Excellence for her efforts, as the executive producer of the sitcomGeorge Lopez, in helping expand career openings for Hispanic talent in the media and entertainment industry. She also made several appearances on the show as Accident Amy, an accident-prone employee at the factory Lopez's character manages. In 2002, she starred opposite Hugh Grant inTwo Weeks Notice and in the filmDivine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.

In 2004, Bullock had a supporting role in the filmCrash. She received positive reviews for her performance, with [15] some critics suggesting that it was the best performance of her career. In 2005, she was a co-recipient of the

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Women in Film Crystal Award. In 2008, Sandra Bullock was announced as "the face" of prestigious cosmetic brand Artistry. Bullock later appeared inThe Lake House, a romantic drama also starring herSpeedco-star, Keanu Reeves; it was released on June 16, 2006. Because their film characters are separated throughout the film (due to the plot revolving [16] around time travel), Bullock and Reeves were only on set together for two weeks during filming. The same year, Bullock appeared inInfamous, playing author Harper Lee. Bullock also starred inPremonitionwith Julian [17] McMahon, which was released in March 2007. 2009 proved to be especially good for Bullock, giving the actress two record highs in her career, as earlier in the year she releasedThe Proposal, with co-star Ryan Reynolds, a huge [18] hit that took in more than $314 million at the box office worldwide, making it her most successful picture to date. In November 2009, Bullock starred inThe Blind Side, which opened at #2 behindNew Moonwith $34.2 million, making it her highest opening weekend ever.The Blind Sideis unique in that it had a 17.6% increase at the box office its second weekend, and it took the top spot of the box office in its third weekend. The movie cost $29 million to make according to the Box Office Mojo. It has grossed over $250 million to date, making it her domestic highest [19] [20] grossing film and the first movie in history to pass the $200 million mark with only one top-billed female star. She won the award for Best Actress at the Golden Globes, Academy Awards, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for [21] her performance inThe Blind Sidehad initially turned down the role three times due to a discomfort. Bullock [22] with portraying a devout Christian. Winning the "Oscar" also gave her another unique distinction—since she won two "Razzies" the day before, for her performance inAll About Steve, she is the only performer ever to have [23] been named both "Best" and "Worst" for the same year. Sandra was asked to return her 2009 "Worst Actress of the Year" Razzie award; however, this wasn't because of a change of heart for Bullock's performance but because Bullock personally accepted her Razzie and accidentally took the original one-of-a-kind prototype Razzie, as [24] opposed to the cheap trinket normally handed out to celebrities.

Recognition

As of 2009, Bullock's films have grossed over $3.1 billion [25] worldwide. According toThe Numbers, her total domestic gross stands at $1.7 billion, placing her among the Top 100 Stars at the Box [26] Office. [27] Critics, while praising her screen persona, have been less receptive to her films. As of the 2009 release ofThe Proposal, Mark Kermode said she's made only three "good" films in her career—Speed,While You Were Sleeping, andCrash, and says "she's funny, she's gorgeous, it's impossible not to love her and yet she makes rotten film after rotten Sandra Bullock's star on the Hollywood Walk of [28] film after rotten film." As of December 2009, Bullock has appeared Fame. on threeEntertainment Weeklycovers. She was selected byPeople [29] [30] Magazine as its "Woman of the Year" for 2010. She was ranked #12 onPeople's Most Beautiful 2011 list.

Entrepreneurship Bullock runs her own production company, Fortis Films. Bullock was an executive producer ofThe George Lopez Show, which garnered a lucrative syndication deal that banked her some $10 million (co-produced with Robert Borden). Bullock tried to produce a film based on F.X. Toole's short story,Million-Dollar Baby, but could not interest the studios in a female boxing drama. The story was eventually adapted and directed by Clint Eastwood as the Oscar-winning film,Million Dollar Baby(2004). Bullock's production company, Fortis Films, also producedAll [31] About Steve, which was released in September 2009. Her father, John Bullock, is the company's CEO, and her sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado, is the former president.

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[32] Since November 2006, Bullock founded a popular Austin, Texas, restaurant, Bess Bistro. She later opened another business across the street in a building she extensively renovated downtown called Walton's Fancy and [33] Staple a bakery, upscale restaurant and floral shop that also offers services such as event planning.

Personal life

Relationships and children Bullock was once engaged to actor Tate Donovan, whom she met while filmingLove Potion No. 9; their relationship lasted four years. She previously dated football player Troy Aikman, Austin musician Bob Schneider (for two years), [34] [35] and actors Matthew McConaughey and Ryan Gosling. Bullock married motorcycle builder andMonster Garagehost 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 pornographic actress Janine Lindemulder, with whom James had a child. Bullock and James subsequently won full [36] legal custody of James' five-year-old daughter. In March 2010, a scandal arose when several women claimed to [37] [38] have had affairs with James during his marriage to Bullock. [39] Bullock cancelled European promotional appearances forThe [40] [41] Blind Sideciting "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" and "Beyond that, I will not dignify these private matters with any further public [42] comment." James declared that "There is only one person to blame for this whole situation, and that is me", and asked that his wife and children one day "find it in their hearts to forgive me" for [42] their current "pain and embarrassment". James’publicist subsequently announced on March 30, 2010, that James had checked into a rehab facility "to deal with personal issues" and [43] "save his marriage" to Bullock. However on April 28, 2010, it Bullock at the 2010 Golden Raspberry Awards [44] accepting her Razzie for "Worst Actress" forAll About was reported that Bullock had filed for divorce on April 23 in [45] Steve Austin. Their divorce was finalized on June 28, 2010, with [46] "conflict of personalities" cited as the reason.

Bullock announced on April 28, 2010, that she had proceeded with plans to adopt a baby boy born in January 2010 [47] in New Orleans. Bullock and James had begun an initial adoption process four years earlier. The child 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 the baby, named Louis [47] Bardo Bullock, as a single parent.

Vehicular accidents On December 20, 2000, Bullock and another passenger survived the crash of a chartered business jet during an attempted night landing at Jackson Hole Airport. The pilots were unable to activate the runway lights due to having out-of-date approach plates, but continued the landing. The aircraft landed in the airport's graded safety area between the runway and parallel taxiway and hit a snowbank. The accident caused a separation of the nose cone and landing [48] gear, partial separation of the right wing, and a bend in the left wing.

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On April 18, 2008, while Bullock was in Massachusetts shooting the filmThe Proposal, she and her then-husband were in an SUV that was hit head-on (driver's side offset) at moderate speed by a drunken driver. Vehicle damage [49] was not major and there were no injuries.

Legal matters In October 2004, Bullock won a multimillion-dollar judgment against Benny Daneshjou, the builder of her Lake [50] Austin, Texas home; the jury ruled the house was uninhabitable. It has since been torn down and rebuilt.

Stalking On April 22, 2007, Marcia Diana Valentine was found lying outside James and Bullock's Southern California home in Orange County. When James confronted the woman, she ran to her 2004 silver Mercedes, got behind the wheel, [51] and tried to run over James. The woman is said to be an obsessed fan of Sandra Bullock. The woman was charged with one felony count each of aggravated assault and stalking, while Bullock obtained a restraining order to bar [52] Valentine from "contacting or coming near her home, family or work for three years." Valentine pleaded not [53] guilty to charges of aggravated assault and stalking. Valentine was subsequently convicted of stalking and was [54] sentenced to three years of probation.

Charity work Bullock has been a public supporter of the American Red Cross, having donated $1 million to the organization at least four times. Her first public donation of that amount was to the Red Cross's Liberty Disaster Relief Fund. Three [55] 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 [56] 2011 Japan Earthquake. Along with other stars, Bullock did a PSA urging people to sign a petition for clean-up efforts of the oil spill in the [57] Gulf of Mexico.

Filmography

Year

1987

1989

1989

1989

1989

1990

1992

1992

1992

1993

1993

Hangmen

Title

Religion, Inc.(aka "A Fool and His Money")

Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman

Who Shot Patakango?

The Preppie Murder

Lucky/Chances

Who Do I Gotta Kill?(aka "Me and the Mob")

When the Party's Over

Love Potion No. 9

The Vanishing

The Thing Called Love

Feature films

Role

Lisa Edwards

Debby

Kate Mason

Devlin Moran

Stacy

Maria Santangelo

Lori

Amanda

Diane Farrow

Diane Shaver

Linda Lue Linden

Notes

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Alyssa Rothman

Elaine

Sarah Lewis

Ellen Roark

Melba Club

Miriam

Roberta "Birdee" Pruitt

Black Reel Award for Best Ensemble Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated—Gotham Awards for Best Ensemble

Jean Cabot

Saturn Award for Best Actress MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo (with Keanu Reeves) MTV Movie Award for Most Desirable Female Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss (with Keanu Reeves)

Lucy Moderatz

Producer

Making Sandwiches

1997

1996

A Time to Kill

Speed 2: Cruise Control

1995

While You Were Sleeping

2002

Debut—Sundance Film Festival; also writer, director, and producer

Practical Magic

1998

1998

Hope Floats

1998

Murder by Numbers

1999

Forces of Nature

2000

2000

28 Days

2000

Gun Shy

Miss Congeniality

Nominated—Razzie Award for Worst Actress Nominated—Razzie Award for Worst Screen Couple (with Jason Patric)

Blockbuster Entertainment Awards for Favorite Actress Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance

2002

Two Weeks Notice

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous

2005

2005

Loverboy

2002

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

2006

The Lake House

Crash

2004

Executive Producer

Co - Producer

1994

Speed

(Voice)

Wrestling Ernest Hemingway

Sandra Bullock

Demolition Man

Fire on the Amazon

1993

1993

1993

Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress–Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actress–Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Also Producer

The Prince of Egypt(animated film)

Judy Tipp

Gwen Cummings

Gracie Hart/ Gracie Lou Freebush

Producer

Executive Producer

Annie Porter

Agnes Von Kurowsky

Roz

Angela Bennett/ Ruth Marx

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Kate Forster

Gracie Hart

Mrs. Harker

Annie Porter

The Net

1996

1995

Two If by Sea

Producer

Lucy Kelson

Cassie Mayweather /Jessica Marie Hudson

Sally Owens

1997

1996

In Love and War

Siddalee Walker

Lt. Lenina Huxley

Nominated—Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress

Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress–Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Most Desirable Female

Teen Choice Award for Best Liplock (with Keanu Reeves)

Sandra Bullock

2006

2007

2009

2009

2009

2011

2012

Infamous

Premonition

The Proposal

All About Steve

The Blind Side

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Gravity

Nelle Harper Lee

Linda Hanson

Margaret Tate

Mary Horowitz

Leigh Anne Tuohy

Teen Choice Award for Best Dance (with Betty White) Teen Choice Award for Best Romantic Comedy Actress Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress–Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated—Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie: Chemistry (with Ryan Reynolds) Nominated—Teen Choice Award for Choice Summer: Movie Star—Female Nominated—Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie: Liplock (with Ryan Reynolds) Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss (with Ryan Reynolds) Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance Nominated—People's Choice Award for Favorite On Screen Team (with Ryan Reynolds) Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actress–Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Producer

Producer Razzie Award for Worst Actress Razzie Award for Worst Screen Couple (with Bradley Cooper)

Academy Award for Best Actress Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress (tied with Meryl Streep) Golden Globe Award for Best Actress–Motion Picture Drama Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Teen Choice Award for Best Actress Drama MTV Generation Award Nominated—Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated—Denver Film Critics Award for Best Actress Nominated—Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance Nominated—NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture Nominated—Washington D.C. Area Films Critics Association for Best Actress

Post-production

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