Sandra Bullock

Bullock in While You Were Sleeping

Sandra Bullock (born July 26, 1964) is an American actress. Born as Sandra Annette Bullock in Arlington, Virginia, she started singing as a child. Her mother was the late German-born opera singer Helga Meyer, and her father is American voice teacher John Bullock. She studied acting at East Carolina University [1] in Greenville, North Carolina, but dropped out with her parents' blessing and moved to New York, where she acted in TV programs and later feature films. Her breakthrough film was Speed (1994). She currently lives in Austin, Texas.

Filmography

• A Fool and His Money (1988; aka Religion, Inc.; a bit part)
• Who Shot Pat? (1990; aka Who Shot Patakango?)
• Fire on the Amazon (1990; not released until 1996)
• Love Potion No. 9 (1991)
• When the Party's Over (1992)
• The Vanishing (1993)
• Demolition Man (1993; with Sylvester Stallone!)
• The Thing Called Love (1993)
• Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993; with Robert Duvall and Richard Harris)
• Speed (1994; big hit)
• While You Were Sleeping (1995; big hit)
• The Net (1995; big hit)
• Two If by Sea (1996; aka Stolen Hearts)
• A Time to Kill (1996; big hit; with Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, Donald Sutherland, and Kiefer Sutherland)
• In Love and War (1997)
• Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997; panned)
• Hope Floats (1998)
• Practical Magic (1998; with Nicole Kidman; Sandra plays a witch)
• The Prince of Egypt (1998; animation, voice only)
• Forces of Nature (1999)
• Gun Shy (2000; really a supporting role)
• 28 Days (2000)
• Miss Congeniality (2000; inside jokes)
• Murder by Numbers (2002)
• The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002; with Ellen Burstyn and Maggie Smith)
• Two Weeks Notice (2002) (with Hugh Grant)

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