Sandra Bullock

About

Sandra Bullock (born July 26, 1964) is an American actress and producer. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. She was the world’s highest-paid actress in both 2010 and 2014. And in 2010, she was named one of Time‘s 100 most influential people in the world.

Acting

Sandra Bullock received attention for her role in the action film Demolition Man (1993). Her breakthrough came in the action thriller Speed (1994). She established herself in the 1990s with leading roles in comedies While You Were Sleeping (1995) and Hope Floats (1998).

Sandra Bullock achieved further success with the comedies Miss Congeniality (2000), Two Weeks Notice (2002), The Proposal (2009), The Heat (2013), and Ocean’s 8 (2018), the drama Crash (2004), and the thrillers Premonition (2007) and Bird Box (2018). For her role in the biographical drama The Blind Side (2009), Bullock won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She nominated for the same award for playing an astronaut stranded in space in the science fiction thriller Gravity (2013), which ranks as her highest-grossing live-action film to date.

Other Work

Outside of the film industry, Bullock is the founder of the production company Fortis Films. She has produced some of the films in which she has starred, including Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005) and All About Steve (2009). She served as an executive producer on the ABC sitcom George Lopez (2002–2007), on which she made numerous appearances.