Sandra Bullock: Snapshot
- Name
- Sandra Bullock
- Birth Date
- July 26, 1964
- Birth Place
- Arlington, Va.
While producing and starring in her own films (Miss Congeniality), Bullock also kept busy building a life away from Hollywood in Austin, Texas. At 40, Bullock, who has been linked to Ryan Gosling and Matthew McConaughey, married twice-divorced, tattooed motorcycle tycoon Jesse James and embraced her role as stepmother to his three children.
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Sandra Bullock: Five Fun Facts
- As a struggling actress, Sandra Bullock served drinks to pay the rent. "I learned a lot of accents as a bartender," she told the AP in 1990. "A lot of girls came in looking for rich husbands. I learned to imitate them."
- Costar and friend Hugh Grant called Sandra Bullock's 16-years-younger boyfriend Ryan Gosling, "The Child. I'd do the sound of a baby crying and she'd know who I meant."
- As a kid, Sandra Bullock played a beggar in one of her mother's operas, but almost upstaged the lead. "What they did was throw up these chocolates...like a bravo," she told Vogue, "and I hit the ground, crawling. But I'm rolling in front of him...picking up the chocolates. So my mother had to pull me aside in the end and say, 'We never upstage the tenor.'"
- While filming 2002's Murder By Numbers, Sandra Bullock brought a Chinese herbalist and acupuncturist to help the cast and crew cope with stress. "She paid for that," costar Ryan Gosling told PEOPLE.
- A crazed stalker tried to put an end to her marital bliss in 2007 by trying to run over husband Jesse James with her Mercedes.
Sandra Bullock: Biography 
- 1970s
Imported from Germany
John (a government administrator and voice coach) and Helga (a German opera singer) shuttle their teenage daughters, Sandra and Gesine, between Europe and the Washington, D.C. area. "I landed back in the United States hitting puberty, not looking like an American kid," she tells PEOPLE in 2007 of her time in Arlington, Va. "And everything in junior high's about how you look. It was hell."
- 1988
Bionic Debut
New York Magazine theatre critic John Simon singles out Bullock for her Off-Broadway performance as a Southern belle in No Time Flat. The review helps her land an agent, and soon after she makes her TV acting debut as a crippled girl-turned-bionic woman in NBC's Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman with Lee Majors and Lindsay Wagner (left).
- 1992
Finding Love At Work
After starring in the short-lived NBC sitcom version of Working Girl, Bullock stars as a nerdy psychobiologist in Love Potion No. 9. While filming, she falls for costar Tate Donovan (right), who she dates for more than three years. "The person who needed me most was always the person I was attracted to," Bullock tells PEOPLE of the split. "My priorities were him first, me second."
Photo Credits
Top Left: EPA/Landov
BIOGRAPHY (top to bottom): Globe; Everett Collection; Ron Galella/WireImage
