Sandra Bullock Measurements Height Weight Bra Size Age Biography Family Wiki Net Worth, Affairs, Marriage & much more. Sandra Annette Bullock (born July 26, 1964) is an American actress and producer. The recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, Bullock was the world’s highest-paid actress in 2010 and 2014. In 2010, she was named one of Time’s 100 most influential people in the world.
After making her acting debut with a minor role in the thriller Hangmen (1987), Bullock received early attention for her supporting role in the action film Demolition Man (1993). Her breakthrough in the action thriller Speed (1994) led to leading roles in the romantic comedy While You Were Sleeping (1995), and the dramas A Time to Kill (1996) and Hope Floats (1998). She achieved further success in the following decades with the comedies Miss Congeniality (2000), Two Weeks Notice (2002), The Proposal (2009), The Heat (2013), Ocean’s 8 (2018), and The Lost City (2022); the dramas Crash (2004) and The Unforgivable (2021); and the thrillers Premonition (2007) and Bird Box (2018). For her portrayal of Leigh Anne Tuohy in the biographical drama The Blind Side (2009), Bullock won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was nominated for the same award for playing an astronaut stranded in space in the science fiction thriller Gravity (2013), which ranks as her highest-grossing live-action film.
In addition to acting, Bullock is the founder of the production company Fortis Films. She has produced some of the films in which she has starred, including Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005) and All About Steve (2009), and served as an executive producer on the ABC sitcom George Lopez (2002–2007), on which she made numerous appearances. Dubbed “America’s sweetheart” by the media, Bullock was also named the Most Beautiful Woman by People magazine in 2015.
Early life
Bullock was born on July 26, 1964, in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Arlington County, Virginia, the daughter of Helga Mathilde (née Meyer; 1942–2000), an opera singer and voice teacher from Germany, and John Wilson Bullock5, an Army employee and part-time voice coach from Birmingham, Alabama. Her father, who was in charge of the Army’s Military Postal Service in Europe, was stationed in Nuremberg when he met her mother. Her parents married in Germany. Bullock’s maternal grandfather was a German rocket scientist from Nuremberg. The family returned to Arlington, where her father worked with the Army Materiel Command before becoming a contractor for The Pentagon. Bullock has a younger sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado, who served as president of Bullock’s production company Fortis Films.
For 12 years, Bullock was raised in Nuremberg, Germany, and Vienna and Salzburg, Austria, and grew up speaking German. She had a Waldorf education in Nuremberg. 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 later married politician Peter Ramsauer. Bullock studied ballet and vocal arts as a child and frequently accompanied her mother, taking small parts in her opera productions. In Nuremberg, she sang in the opera’s children’s choir. Bullock has a scar above her left eye which was caused by a fall into a creek when she was a child. While she maintains her American citizenship, Bullock applied for German citizenship in 2009.
Bullock attended Washington-Lee High School, where she was a cheerleader and performed in school theater productions. After graduating in 1982, she attended East Carolina University (ECU) 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. She then moved to Manhattan, New York, where she supported herself as a bartender, cocktail waitress, and coat checker while auditioning for roles.
Personal life
Bullock owns properties in Los Angeles, Austin, and New Orleans.
On December 20, 2000, Bullock was in a private jet crash on a runway from which she and the two crew escaped uninjured. Pilot error and blizzard conditions were responsible. The crew were unable to activate the runway lights during a night landing at Jackson Hole Airport. While Bullock was in Massachusetts on April 18, 2008, shooting The Proposal, she and her then-husband Jesse James were in a vehicle that was hit head-on by a drunk driver. They were uninjured.
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Bullock won a multimillion-dollar judgment against Benny Daneshjou, the builder of her Lake Austin, Texas, home in October 2004. The jury ruled that the house was uninhabitable. It has since been torn down and rebuilt. Daneshjou and his insurer later settled with Bullock for roughly half the awarded verdict.
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Public image
Bullock has been dubbed “America’s sweetheart” by the media in reference to her “friendly and direct and so unpretentious” nature. She was selected as one of People magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People in the world in 1996, 1999, and 2011. The publication named her as its Woman of the Year in 2010 as well as the Most Beautiful Woman in 2015.
In 2010, Time magazine included Bullock in its annual Time 100 as one of the most influential people in the world, and Entertainment Weekly named her The Most Powerful Actress in Hollywood. In 2013, Bullock joined other Hollywood legends at the TCL Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard in making imprints of her hands and feet in the cement of the theater’s forecourt. That year, she was named among The Most Powerful Women in Entertainment by The Hollywood Reporter, and Entertainer of the Year, due to her success with The Heat and Gravity, by Entertainment Weekly. Bullock ranked at number two on the 2014 Forbes list of most powerful actresses and was honored with the Decade of Hotness Award by Spike Guys’ Choice Awards.
Business ventures
Bullock owns the production company Fortis Films, through which she has served as a producer for several of her star vehicles, including Hope Floats (1998), Miss Congeniality (2000), Two Weeks Notice (2002) and Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005), as well as for the sitcom George Lopez (2002–2007). Her father, John Bullock, was the company’s CEO and her sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado, is the former president. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas and West Hollywood, California.
In November 2006, Bullock founded an Austin, Texas, restaurant named Bess Bistro which was 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.
Philanthropy
Bullock has been a public supporter of the American Red Cross and has donated $1 million to the organization at least five times. Her first public donation of that amount was to the 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. She donated $1 million in 2017 to support relief efforts for Hurricane Harvey in Texas.
In 2010, along with other public figures, Bullock made a public service announcement urging people to sign a petition for clean-up efforts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Bullock was inducted into the Warren Easton Hall of Fame in 2012, for her donations to charities, and was honored with the Favorite Humanitarian Award at the 39th People’s Choice Awards, for her contributions to New Orleans’ Warren Easton High School, which was severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
Relationships and family
Bullock was once engaged to actor Tate Donovan, whom she met while filming Love Potion No. 9. Their relationship lasted three years. She 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.
A scandal arose in March 2010 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 relationship 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 in 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 ceremony that March. However, given the pair’s split and subsequent divorce, Bullock continued the adoption of her son as a single parent. Bullock announced in December 2015 that she had adopted a second child and appeared on the cover of People magazine with her then-three-year-old new daughter.
Since mid-2015, Bullock has been in a relationship with photographer Bryan Randall.
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Hangmen | Lisa Edwards |
| 1989 | A Fool and His Money | Debby Cosgrove |
| 1989 | Who Shot Patakango? | Devlin Moran |
| 1992 | Love Potion No. 9 | Diane Farrow |
| 1993 | The Vanishing | Diane Shaver |
| 1993 | When the Party’s Over | Amanda |
| 1993 | The Thing Called Love | Linda Lue Linden |
| 1993 | Demolition Man | Lenina Huxley |
| 1993 | Fire on the Amazon | Alyssa Rothman |
| 1993 | Wrestling Ernest Hemingway | Elaine |
| 1994 | Speed | Annie Porter |
| 1994 | Who Do I Gotta Kill? | Lori |
| 1995 | While You Were Sleeping | Lucy Eleanor Moderatz |
| 1995 | The Net | Angela Bennett |
| 1996 | Two If by Sea | Roz |
| 1996 | A Time to Kill | Ellen Roark |
| 1996 | In Love and War | Agnes von Kurowsky |
| 1997 | Speed 2: Cruise Control | Annie Porter |
| 1998 | Hope Floats | Birdee Pruitt |
| 1998 | Making Sandwiches | Melba Club |
| 1998 | Practical Magic | Sally Owens |
| 1998 | The Prince of Egypt | Miriam |
| 1999 | Forces of Nature | Sarah Lewis |
| 2000 | Gun Shy | Judy Tipp |
| 2000 | 28 Days | Gwen Cummings |
| 2000 | Miss Congeniality | Gracie Hart |
| 2002 | Murder by Numbers | Det. Cassie Mayweather / Jessica Marie Hudson |
| 2002 | Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood | Siddalee Walker |
| 2002 | Two Weeks Notice | Lucy Kelson |
| 2004 | Crash | Jean Cabot |
| 2005 | Loverboy | Mrs. Harker |
| 2005 | Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous | Gracie Hart |
| 2006 | The Lake House | Dr. Kate Forster |
| 2006 | Infamous | Harper Lee |
| 2007 | Premonition | Linda Hanson |
| 2009 | The Proposal | Margaret Tate |
| 2009 | All About Steve | Mary Horowitz |
| 2009 | The Blind Side | Leigh Anne Tuohy |
| 2011 | Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | Linda Schell |
| 2013 | The Heat | Special Agent Sarah Ashburn |
| 2013 | Gravity | Dr. Ryan Stone |
| 2013 | The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers | Golda Meir |
| 2015 | Minions | Scarlet Overkill |
| 2015 | Our Brand Is Crisis | “Calamity” Jane Bodine |
| 2018 | Ocean’s 8 | Deborah ‘Debbie’ Ocean |
| 2018 | Bird Box | Malorie Hayes |
| 2021 | The Unforgivable | Ruth Slater |
| 2022 | The Lost City | Loretta Sage / Angela |
| 2022 | Bullet Train | Maria Beetle |
Television
| Year | Title | Role(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman | Kate Mason |
| 1989 | Starting from Scratch | Barbara Webster |
| 1989 | The Preppie Murder | Stacy |
| 1990 | Working Girl | Tess McGill |
| 1990 | Lucky Chances | Maria Santangelo |
| 2002−2004 | George Lopez | Accident Amy |
References: Wikipedia