SANDRA BULLOCK
Famous Hollywood actress Sandra Bullock gained an extraordinary achievement in her acting career. She gained ‘Best Actress Oscar’ and ‘Worst Actress Razzie’ awards in the same year. Bullock won her first ‘Oscar award’ for the Best Actress category for the film “The Blind Side”. In this film, she portrays the role of a mother Leigh Anne Tuohy who decides to receive and adopt a large black kid. She won ‘Worst Actress Razzie’ award for her performance in the romantic comedy film “All About Steve”.
BIOGRAPHY
Sandra Annette Bullock was born on 26th July, 1964 in Arlington, Virginia, U.S as the daughter of a German opera singer and voice teacher Helga D. Meyer and John W. Bullock. In childhood, she studied ballet and vocal arts and appeared in her mother’s opera productions. In her school days in ‘Washington-Lee High School’, she participated in high school theater productions. She later enrolled in ‘E. Carolina University’ in North Carolina, where she studied acting. She discontinued her graduation in the University and moved to New York to pursue a career on the stage. After that, she acted in many television programs and feature films including “Working Girl “, “Love Potion No. 9″, “The Thing Called Love”, “Fire on the Amazon”, “Demolition Man”, “Wrestling Ernest Hemingway”. She got a break through the performance of the super hit film “Speed” in 1994. This film’s success made her one of Hollywood’s most talked about actresses. Her other notable films are “While You Were Sleeping”, “Forces of Nature”, “Miss Congeniality”, “Two Weeks Notice”, “Lake House”, “Infamous”, “Premonition”, “The Proposal”, “All About Steve” and “The Blind Side”. The films “The Proposal” and “The Blind Side” were the super hit films of 2009. She won the award for Best Actress at the ‘Golden Globes’, ‘Academy Awards’, and the ‘Screen Actors Guild Award’ for her performance in “The Blind Side”. In addition to the acting field, she is also famous in other fields. She has own production company titled ‘Fortis Films’ and a restaurant, bakery and floral shop. She is also a supporter of the ‘American Red Cross’ and she donated $1 million after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 and $1 million after the tsunami devastation of December 2004 to the American Red Cross society. Sandra Bullock earlier dated to actor Tate Donovan, football player Troy Aikman, Austin musician Bob Schneider and actors Matthew McConaughey and Ryan Gosling. Now she is married to motorcycle builder and ‘Monster Garage’ TV show host Jesse James.
