Sandra Bullock : Top Artist

Sandra, born on 26 July 1964, in Arlington, Virginia, USA to Helga Meyer and John Bullock. Her mother, Helga Meyer was Germen-born opera singer who died of cancer on April 4, 2000. Her father, John was Alabama born voice teacher. She has a sister Gesine.
Sandra started singing as a child in Germany, where she also studied ballet and performed small parts in her mother's operas. It has been said that if she ever gave up acting, she could easily take up dance as a second professional career. She lived 12 years in Fürth, Germany. Sandra's family moved back to the United States when she was around ten years old. Sandra went on to become a cheerleader at Washington Lee High, being voted "Most Likely to Brighten Your Day" by her senior class. After high school graduation, Sandra majored in drama at East Carolina University (ECU). But she dropped out to pursue acting in New York City. She left ECU during the spring semester of her senior year at ECU, only three credits short of graduating. But found it difficult to establish herself. She later received an honorary degree from ECU.
Her first real break was an off-Broadway performance as a sassy Southern belle in No Time Flat (1988). This led to the TV movie The Bionic Showdown: The Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman. She moved to Los Angeles, California and landed a series of small roles in several independent films and, eventually, she got the lead role in the TV version of the movie Working Girl.
Her first starring film role in Love Potion No. 9 (1992), following the similarly ill-fated The Thing Called Love. However, things began to look up the same year when the struggling actress became the last-minute replacement for Lori Petty in the Sylvester Stallone action flick Demolition Man. It was her first notable movie appearance was in Demolition Man in 1993, which led to her breakthrough performance in Speed in 1994. Which is one of the most successful action films ever made? This film makes Sandra a star. In 1995, she starred in romantic comedy While You Were Sleeping Followed with John Grisham's A Time to Kill, co-starring Ashley Judd and Matthew McConaughey. After that she did In Love and War (1996), Two If By Sea (1996), and, perhaps most excruciating, Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997). But all these films made disappoint

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