Sandra Bullock
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Birth Name: Sandra Annette Bullock
Birth Date: July 26, 1964
Birth Place: Arlington, Virginia, USA
Height: 5′ 7½”
Star Sign: Leo
Sex: Female
Nationality: American
Profession: Actress, Producer, Director, Writer, Composer
Education: Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia (graduated in 1982)
East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina (B.A., Drama, 1986)
Neighborhood Playhouse in New York, New York (studied with Sanford Meisner)
Relationship: Guy Forsythe (blues guitarist; dated in 1999), Matthew McConaughey (actor; b. November 4, 1969; met while costarring in A Time to Kill – 1996), Tate Donovan (actor; b. September 25, 1963; 1992-1996)
Husband/Wife: Jesse James (mechanic/TV host; dating since early 2004; married on July 16, 2005 in Santa Barbara; split March 2010; filed divorce on April 23, 2010)
Father: John Bullock (voice coach)
Mother: Helga Bullock (German opera singer; died on April 4, 2000)
Sister: Gesine Bullock-Prado (producer; born in 1968; married Raymond Prado – assistant director on April 3, 1999)
Son: Louis Bardo Bullock (adopted and raised by Bullock as a single mother)
Step son: Jesse James Jr. (mother: Karla James)
Step daughter: Sunny James (born on January 1, 2004; father: Jesse James), Chandler James (father: Jesse James)
Contact Info: Sandra Annette Bullock,
C/O United Talent Agency (UTA)
9560 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 500 Beverly Hills,
California 90212
Claim to fame: As Annie Porter in Speed (1994)
Short Biography
Sandra Annette Bullock (pronounced /ˈbʊlək/; born July 26, 1964) is an American actress who rose to fame in the 1990s, after roles in successful films such as Speed and While You Were Sleeping. She has since established her career with films such as Miss Congeniality and Crash, which received critical acclaim. In 2007, she was ranked as the 14th richest female celebrity with an estimated fortune of $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.
Early life
Sandra Annette Bullock was born in Arlington, Virginia, the daughter of Helga D. Meyer (1942–2000), a German opera singer and voice teacher, and John W. Bullock (born 1925), a voice coach and executive from Alabama. Bullock’s maternal grandfather was a rocket scientist from Nuremberg, Germany. Bullock lived in Nuremberg until age twelve, where she sang in the opera’s children’s 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. She is fluent in German. Bullock studied ballet and vocal arts as a child, taking small parts in her mother’s opera productions. Bullock has a sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado (born 1970).
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. She left East Carolina during her senior year in the spring of 1986, only three credits short of graduating, to pursue an acting career. She moved to Manhattan to pursue auditions and supported herself with a variety of odd jobs (bartender, cocktail waitress, coat checker, etc.)
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