Sandra Bullock
- Producer
- Actress
- Music Department
Sandra Annette Bullock was born in Arlington, a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. Her
mother, Helga Bullock (née Helga Mathilde
Meyer), was a German opera singer. Her father, John W. Bullock, was an
American voice teacher, who was born in Alabama, of German descent. Sandra grew up on the road with her parents
and younger sister, chef Gesine Bullock-Prado, and spent much of her childhood in Nuremberg, Germany. She often performed in the children's chorus of
whatever production her mother was in. That singing talent later came
in handy for her role as an aspiring country singer in
The Thing Called Love (1993).
Her family moved back to the Washington area when she was adolescent.
She later enrolled in East Carolina University in North Carolina, where
she studied acting. Shortly afterward she moved to New York to pursue a
career on the stage. This led to acting in television programs and then
feature films. She gave memorable performances in
Demolition Man (1993) and
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993),
but did not achieve the stardom that seemed inevitable for her until
her work in the smash hit Speed (1994). She
now ranks as one of the most popular actresses in Hollywood. For her
role in The Blind Side (2009) she
won the Oscar, and her blockbusters
The Proposal (2009),
The Heat (2013) and
Gravity (2013) made her a bankable star.
With $56,000,000, she was listed in the Guinness Book Of World Records
as the highest-paid actress in the world.
