She appeared in several student films and later landed a role in an Off-Broadway play No Time Flat. While in New York, Bullock took acting classes with Sanford Meisner. Career Early roles and breakthrough (1987–1995) She then moved to Manhattan, New York, where she supported herself as a bartender, cocktail waitress, and coat checker while auditioning for roles. While at ECU, she performed in multiple theater productions, including Peter Pan and Three Sisters. After graduating in 1982, she attended East Carolina University (ECU) in Greenville, North Carolina, where she received a BFA in Drama in 1987. īullock attended Washington-Lee High School, where she was a cheerleader and performed in school theater productions. While she maintains her American citizenship, Bullock applied for German citizenship in 2009. Bullock has a scar above her left eye which was caused by a fall into a creek when she was a child.

In Nuremberg, she sang in the opera's children's choir. Bullock studied ballet and vocal arts as a child and frequently accompanied her mother, taking small parts in her opera productions.

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. She had a Waldorf education in Nuremberg. įor 12 years, Bullock was raised in Nuremberg, West Germany, and Vienna and Salzburg, Austria, and grew up speaking German. Bullock has a younger sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado, who served as president of Bullock's production company Fortis Films. The family returned to Arlington, where her father worked with the Army Materiel Command before becoming a contractor for The Pentagon. Bullock's maternal grandfather was a German rocket scientist from Nuremberg. Her father, who was in charge of the Army's Military Postal Service in Europe, was stationed in Nuremberg when he met her mother. Dubbed 'America's sweetheart' by the media, Bullock was also named the Most Beautiful Woman by People magazine in 2015.īullock 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 Bullock (1925–2018), an Army employee and part-time voice coach from Birmingham, Alabama.

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. In addition to acting, Bullock is the founder of the production company Fortis Films. She was nominated for the same award for playing an astronaut stranded in space in the science fiction thriller Gravity (2013), which is her highest-grossing live-action film. For her portrayal of Leigh Anne Tuohy in the biographical drama The Blind Side (2009), Bullock won the Academy Award for Best Actress. 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).

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). In 2010, she was named one of Time 's 100 most influential people in the world.Īfter 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). She was the world's highest-paid actress in 20. She has received numerous awards and nominations, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. Sandra Annette Bullock ( / ˈ b ʊ l ə k/ born July 26, 1964) is an American actress and producer.

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