Sandra Bullock Biography

Sandra Bullock
Sign : Leo
Weight : 120 lbs
Height : 5' 7

Fan Mail : Sandra Annette Bullock
c/o United Talent Agency (UTA)
9560 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 500
Beverly Hills, California 90212

Family
A girl next door, Sandra, born on 26 July 1964, in Arlington, Virginia, USA to Helga Meyer and John Bullock. Her mother, Helga Meyer was Germen-born opera singer who died of cancer on April 4, 2000. Her father, John was Alabama born voice teacher. She has a sister Gesine.

Before Acting
She started singing as a child in Germany, where she also studied ballet and performed small parts in her mother's operas. It has been said that if she ever gave up acting, she could easily take up dance as a second professional career. She lived 12 years in Fürth, Germany. Sandra's family moved back to the United States when she was around ten years old. Sandra went on to become a cheerleader at Washington Lee High, being voted "Most Likely to Brighten Your Day" by her senior class. After high school graduation, Sandra majored in drama at East Carolina University (ECU). But she dropped out to pursue acting in New York City. She left ECU during the spring semester of her senior year at ECU, only three credits short of graduating. But found it difficult to establish herself. She later received an honorary degree from ECU.

First Break - 1988
Her first real break was an off-Broadway performance as a sassy Southern belle in No Time Flat (1988). This led to the TV movie The Bionic Showdown: The Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman. She moved to Los Angeles, California and landed a series of small roles in several independent films and, eventually, she got the lead role in the TV version of the movie Working Girl.

Breakthrough Performance - Speed
Her first starring film role in Love Potion No. 9 (1992), following the similarly ill-fated The Thing Called Love. However, things began to look up the same year when the struggling actress became the last-minute replacement for Lori Petty in the Sylvester Stallone action flick Demolition Man. It was her first notable movie appearance was in Demolition Man in 1993, which led to her breakthrough performance in Speed in 1994. Which is one of the most successful action films ever made? This film makes Sandra a star.

In 1995, she starred in romantic comedy While You Were Sleeping Followed with John Grisham's A Time to Kill, co-starring Ashley Judd and Matthew McConaughey.
After that she did In Love and War (1996), Two If By Sea (1996), and, perhaps most excruciating, Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997). But all these films made disappointment.
In 1998, Hope Floats the first project of her production company 'Fortis Films' as released. The same year, Bullock also starred in another romantic comedy, Practical Magic, opposite Nicole Kidman. This film gives her a modest success, that led to another romantic comedy, Forces of Nature Ben Affleck in 1999.
In year 2000, she had many projects including the comedy Gun Shy, 28 Days, a comedy that starred the actress as a newspaper columnist forced to enter rehab after her drinking problem assumes uncontrollable proportions. Following her role in Miss Congeniality as an FBI agent forced to go undercover in the Miss U.S.A. beauty pageant in order to prevent a bombing.
In 2002, she appeared in the thriller Murder By Numbers following a lighthearted drama Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood 2002.

Her personal life now was fairly complex. She'd split from actor Ryan Gosling, 15 years her junior, who'd she'd met on the set of Murder By Numbers. Then 2004 saw her dating the tattooed Jesse James, owner of the celebrity motorbike manufacturer West Coast Chopper and star of his own TV show.

In 2005, first came Loverboy, directed by Kevin Bacon. After that she moved on to a sequel to Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous also Crush was released in 2005.
Her upcoming movies Grace (2006) Have You Heard? (2006) and Il Mare (2006) are in production.

Sandra's Marriage Life

• Bullock married motorcycle builder and Monster Garage host Jesse James on July 16, 2005.
• In the past, she had previously dated Troy Aikman, Matthew McConaughey, and Ryan Gosling.
• She was engaged to actor Tate Donovan.

Sandra's Biography in Short:

• Name: Sandra Bullock
• Full Name: Sandra Annette Bullock
• Date of birth : 26 July 1965
• Height : 5' 7
• Sign : Leo
• Weight : 120 lbs
• Father : John (voice coach)
• Mother : Helga (opera singer)
• Sister : Gesine
• Husband : Jesse James

  Education :

  Graduation - Washington-Lee HS in Arlington, VA in 1982.

  Dropped out of East Carolina University (majoring Drama) to pursue acting