Sandra Bullock
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By our tally, here are the vital statistics behind the career of 2009's top-earning movie star:
4: Her total Golden Globe nominations, two of which she racked up in 2009 alone – as Best Actress in a Drama, for The Blind Side, and Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical, for The Proposal. "I am beyond stunned," she said when the nods were announced.
8: The number of movies Bullock has produced and starred in, from 1998's Hope Floats to 2009's All About Steve and The Proposal. "What's rare about Sandy," Castle Rock president Martin Shafer told Vogue in 2005, "is that I've never worked with a star who takes the producing chores as seriously as she does. She really does two whole jobs."
12: The approximate number of times it took Bullock and Ryan Reynolds to bump into one another perfectly for the much-discussed nude scene in The Proposal. "You know why I looked hot?" a self-deprecating Bullock told Glamour. "Because everyone was looking at Ryan."
16: The number of years in the age difference between Bullock and her ex Ryan Gosling – whom she met while filming 2002's Murder by Numbers. Good friend and costar Hugh Grant even admitted to nicknaming Bullock's much-younger beau "The Child." "I'd do the sound of a baby crying and she'd know who I meant," he told InStyle.
22: The number of performances Bullock made in her first professional job, the 1988 Off-Broadway play No Time Flat. Her good reviews (The New York Times found in her "a spark of forthrightness") helped to land her an agent.
50: The minimum m.p.h. speed limit for the the bomb-carrying bus she drove in Speed – her 1994 breakout flick with Keanu Reeves. "Everyone told me not to do Speed," she said. "I mean, it looked like I'd be just 'the girl,' [but] I've learned to do things by instinct."
1910: The year her Tiffany & Co. vintage engagement ring was made. Her tough guy hubby, motorcycle tycoon Jesse James, gave her the diamond stunner from jeweler Neil Lane's private collection in 2004.
1982: The year her senior class at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Va., voted her "Most Likely to Brighten Your Day."
10,000: The square footage of the stone house she built on Lake Austin, Texas, for a reported $7.5 million. "Everyone's allowed to play there: Republicans, Democrats, black, white, gay, straight," she said of choosing Austin as her home. "And that's really important to me."
2,000,000: Bullock has written two million-dollar checks to 2004's Asian tsunami and 2005's Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. She even helped rebuild New Orleans's Warren Easton High School, where her donation helped fund scholarships, renovations of the auditorium and new band uniforms.
17,000,000: Her reported per-movie salary since she starred in 2005's Miss Congeniality: Armed and Fabulous.
219,200,000: The domestic box office total (as of Jan. 11) for her family-and-football drama, The Blind Side, which became the first movie in history to pass the $200-million mark with only one top-billed female star.
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