Celebrity Arc

Name : Sandra Annette Bullock

Birth Date : July 26, 1964

Place : Wyomissing, Pennsylvania

Profession : Actress

Bullock was born in Arlington County, Virginia, the daughter of Helga D. Meyer, a German opera singer, and John W. Bullock, a Pentagon contractor, executive and part-time vocal coach from Alabama. Sandra Bullock’s maternal grandfather was a rocket scientist from Nuremberg, Germany. Bullock lived in Nuremberg until age twelve, where she sang in the opera’s children’s choir at the Staatstheater Nürnberg.

Bullock attended Washington-Lee High School where she was a cheerleader, participated in high school theater productions and dated a football player. She graduated in 1982 and enrolled in East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. During this time, she worked as a waitress at a restaurant. She went on to Manhattan to pursue auditions and supported herself with a variety of odd jobs.

Bullock later completed her coursework and was awarded a bachelor’s degree from East Carolina University. She is fluent in German. However, she prefers to speak English when appearing on German TV shows, although the TV hosts speak German.

She had appeared in several student films and had later landed a role in an Off-Broadway play No Time Flat. Director Alan J. Levi was impressed by Bullock’s performance and offered her a part in the made-for-TV movie Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1989). After filming the TV movie, Bullock had stayed in Los Angeles, California, and was cast in a series of small roles in several independent films as well as in the lead role of the short-lived NBC television version of the film Working Girl (1990). She had later appeared in several films such as Love Potion No. 9 (1992), The Thing Called Love in 1993 and Fire on the Amazon ( where she agreed to appear topless, she covered herself with duct tape ).

FILMOGRAPHY

1. The Proposal (2009) (Filming)
2. All About Steve (2008) (post production)
3. Premonition (2007/I)
4. Infamous (2006)
5. The Lake House (2006)
6. Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous (2005)
7. Loverboy (2005)
8. Crash (2004/I) …. Jean Cabot
   … aka L.A. Crash (Germany)
9. “George Lopez” …. Amy (3 episodes, 2002-2004)
   - Bachelor Party (2004) TV Episode …. Amy
   - No Free Launch (2002)TV Episode…. Amy
   - Happy Birthdays (2002) TV Episode…. Amy
10. Two Weeks Notice (2002)
11. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)
12. Murder by Numbers (2002)
13. Miss Congeniality (2000)
14. 28 Days (2000)
15. Gun Shy (2000)
16. Forces of Nature (1999)
17. The Prince of Egypt (1998) (voice) …. Miriam
18. Practical Magic (1998)
19. Making Sandwiches (1998)
20. Hope Floats (1998)
21. Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)
22. In Love and War (1996)
23. A Time to Kill (1996)
24. Two If by Sea (1996)
25. The Net (1995)
26. While You Were Sleeping (1995)
27. Who Do I Gotta Kill? (1994)
28. Speed (1994/I)
29. Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993)
30. Fire on the Amazon (1993)
31. Demolition Man (1993)
32. The Thing Called Love (1993)
33. The Vanishing (1993)
34. Love Potion No. 9 (1992)
35. When the Party’s Over (1992)
36. “Lucky/Chances” (1990) (mini) …. Maria Santangelo
    … aka Jackie Collins’ Lucky/Chances (USA: complete title)
37. “Working Girl” …. Tess McGill (12 episodes, 1990)
    - Oh, Brother (1990) TV episode …. Tess McGill
    - Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1990) TV episode …. Tess McGill
    - We Can Work It Out (1990) TV episode …. Tess McGill
    - Hungry Heart (1990) TV episode …. Tess McGill
    - Two’s a Crowd (1990) TV episode …. Tess McGill
    (7 more)
38. The Preppie Murder (1989)
39. Who Shot Patakango? (1989)
40. Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1989)
41. Religion, Inc. (1989)
42. “Starting from Scratch”
43. Hangmen (1987)

Sandra Bullock was engaged to actor Tate Donovan whom she met while filming Love Potion No. 9. Their relationship lasted four years.

She has also dated guitarist Guy Forsythe, Bob Schneider ,film co-star Matthew McConaughey. McConaughey and Bullock met each other while filming A Time to Kill and became friends, dating for a while. Some notable celebrity friends include Heather Burns and Hugh Grant.

Bullock married motorcycle builder and Monster Garage host Jesse James on July 16, 2005.

On April 22, 2007, a woman was lying outside James and Bullock’s Southern California home in Orange County. When James confronted the woman, she ran inside her 2004 silver Mercedes and tried to run him over 3 to 4 times. The woman is said to be an obsessed fan of Sandra Bullock. The woman, Marcia Diana Valentine, was arrested on investigation of assault with a deadly weapon. In May, Bullock won a three-year restraining order against the woman. Valentine pleaded not guilty to charges of aggravated assault and stalking.