Sandra Annette Bullock born July 26, 1964 in Arlington Virginia. Her Mothers name was Helga D. Meyer who was a German opera singer and voice teacher passed away in the year 2000. Her father John W. Bullock a voice coach and executive from Alabama. Sandras maternal grandfather was a rocket scientist from Nuremburg, Germany. Sandra lived in Nuremberg until age twelve, where she sang in the opera's children's choir at the Staatstheater Nürnberg. She frequently traveled with her mother on her opera tours, and lived in Germany and other parts of Europe for much of her childhood. She is fluent in German.
Sandra studied ballet and vocal arts as a child, taking small parts in her mother's opera productions. Bullock has a sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado.
Bullock attended Washington-Lee High School where she was a cheerleader, participated in high school theater productions, and even dated a football player.
She graduated in 1982 and enrolled in East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. She left East Carolina during her senior year in the spring of 1986, only three credits short of graduating, to pursue an acting career. She moved to Manhattan to pursue auditions and supported herself with a variety of odd jobs (bartender, cocktail waitress and coat checker. Sandra later completed her coursework at East Carolina University.
On December 20, 2000, Bullock survived the crash of a chartered business jet at Jackson Hole Airport. The aircraft hit a snowbank instead of the runway, resulting in both the nose gear and nose cone being ripped off, the right wing partially separating from the aircraft, and the left wing being bent back. On April 18, 2008, while Bullock was in Massachusetts shooting the film The Proposal, she and her husband were in an SUV that was hit head-on (driver's side offset) at moderate speed by a drunken driver. Vehicle damage was not catastrophic and amazingly there were no injuries.









I have to watch every movie that comes out by her good or bad, usually good... One of the best actresses out there...
ReplyDeleteBeing an attractive actress, I pray that she has a very long and successful career. I love too see her in more action and comedy films.
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