Biography

TOUTED as the latest American ingenue, Sandra Bullock aka " Sandy " currently corners the cute-as-a-button market, threatening the reigning Pretty Woman's chokehold on the title with her elementary -school-valentine appeal. She catapulted to insta-stardom with the back-to-back successes of Speed, for which she garnered MTV Movie Awards for most desirable female, best female performance, and best on-screen duo (with co-star Keanu Reeves), and While You Were Sleeping. The fresh-faced Sandra Bullock is known for her abnormal normalcy --Sandy Bullock wasn't voted "most likely to brighten your day" in high school for nothing --and her uncontrollable craving for junk food. Sandra readily admits that her favorite cuisine is Kentucky Fried Chicken.

The daughter of a German opera singer (mother Helga) and a voice coach (father John), Sandra Bullock spent her formative years continent-hopping between her home base of Arlington, Virginia, and Vienna, Austria. Sandra Bullock learned German and the particulars of theatre life at an impressionable age, often appearing on-stage with her mother. "Sandy" found plenty of parts in Hollywood, but they were limited to such box-office bombs as When the Party's Over, The Vanishing, and The Thing Called Love. She earned her first breakthrough role in Sylvester Stallone's Demolition Man, replacing Lori Petty (Tank Girl), who was fired several days into shooting. Though the movie itself misfired, producer Joel Silver, favorably impressed with Bullock's work, recommended her to Speed director Jan De Bont, and her price has been skyrocketing ever since.

After the subsequent success of While You Were Sleeping, Sandra Bullock indulged her avid interest in the online world by starring as a computer debugger in the techno-thriller The Net, and most recently she charmed audiences in the romantic comedy Two If by Sea. Not one to sit back on her fast-won laurels, Bullock immediately started work on Joel Schumacher's production of John Grisham's A Time To Kill. Sandra Bullock next plans to star in her newly formed production company's first property, a short she wrote and will also direct called Making Sandwiches. The project will team her once again with her A Time To Kill co-star, Matthew McConaughey. Sandra's next feature-length film will be In Love and War, the Richard Attenborough W.W.I. epic love story, in which she will play a nurse to Chris O'Donnells Ernest Hemingway.

Filmography

Exactly 3:30 (2003)
Two Weeks Notice (2002) .... Lucy Kelson
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002) .... Siddalee Walker
Murder by Numbers (2002) .... Cassie Mayweather
... aka Murder 8y Num8ers (2002) (USA: promotional title)
74th Annual Academy Awards, The (2002) (TV) .... Presenter: Best Original Score
AFI's 100 Years, 100 Thrills: America's Most Heart-Pounding Movies (2001) (TV) .... Herself
Celebrity Profile: Sandra Bullock (2000) (TV) .... Herself
Conversations with Jon Turteltaub (2000) (V) .... Herself
... aka Spotlight On John Turteltaub (2000) (V) (Australia: DVD title)
Miss Congeniality (2000) .... FBI Agent Gracie Hart
... aka Miss Undercover (2001) (Europe: DVD title)
My VH1 Music Awards (2000) (TV) .... Herself
Famous (2000) .... Herself
... aka Lisa Picard Is Famous (2001) (USA)
28 Days (2000) .... Gwen Cummings
Gun Shy (2000) .... Judy Tipp
... aka Gunshy (2000) (Australia: video title)

Forces of Nature (1999) .... Sarah Lewis
Welcome to Hollywood (1998) .... Herself
Prince of Egypt, The (1998) (voice) .... Miriam
Practical Magic (1998) .... Sally 'Sal' Owens
Making Sandwiches (1998) .... Melba Club
Hope Floats (1998) .... Birdee Pruitt
Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997) .... Annie Porter
In Love and War (1996) .... Agnes 'Aggie/Ag' von Kurowsky
Time to Kill, A (1996) .... Ellen Roark
Two if by Sea (1996) .... Roz
... aka Stolen Hearts (1996)
1995 MTV Movie Awards (1995) (TV) .... Presenter
Net, The (1995) .... Angela Bennett
While You Were Sleeping (1995) .... Narrator/Lucy Eleanor 'Luce' Moderatz
Speed (1994) .... Annie Porter
Fire on the Amazon (1993) (V) .... Alyssa Rothman
... aka Lost Paradise (1993/II) (V)
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993) .... Elaine
Demolition Man (1993) .... Lenina Huxley
Thing Called Love, The (1993) .... Linda Lue Linden
Vanishing, The (1993) .... Diane Shaver
When the Party's Over (1992) .... Amanda
Who Do I Gotta Kill? (1992) .... Lori
... aka Me and the Mob (1992)
Love Potion No. 9 (1992) .... Diane Farrow
"Lucky/Chances" (1990) (mini) TV Series .... Maria
... aka "Jackie Collins' Lucky/Chances" (1990) (mini) (USA: complete title)
"Working Girl" (1990) TV Series .... Tess McGill

Religion, Inc. (1989) .... Debby
... aka Fool and His Money, A (1989)
Who Shot Patakango? (1989) .... Devlin Moran
... aka Brooklyn Love Story (1989)
... aka Who Shot Pat? (1989)
Preppie Murder, The (1989) (TV) .... Stacy
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1989) (TV) .... Kate Mason
Hangmen (1987) .... Lisa Edwards