Sandra Bullock Biography

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Sandra Bullock won the Academy Award as best actress for her 2009 film The Blind Side. Bullock had been a Hollywood favorite since starring as Keanu Reeves's plucky love interest in the 1994 bus-gone-crazy film Speed. The film's success made her one of Hollywood's go-to actresses. The honeymoon was brief, but Bullock moved into making light comedies and romances as a solid lead, usually playing klutzy girl-next-door types. Her films in the era included While You Were Sleeping (1995), Forces of Nature (1999, with Ben Affleck), Miss Congeniality (2000) and Two Weeks Notice (2002, with Hugh Grant). After a few years away from the screen, Bullock married Jesse James, the star of the reality TV show Monster Garage, on 16 July 2005 and settled in Texas. Although without a big hit since Miss Congeniality, Bullock stayed busy appearing in The Lake House (2006), Infamous (2006, as author Harper Lee), Premonition (2007), The Proposal (2009, with Ryan Reynolds) and All About Steve (2009, with Bradley Cooper). Her 2009 film The Blind Side cast her as an upscale interior designer who adopts a struggling black high school football player.

Extra credit: The marriage to James is Bullock's first; she was 41, he 35. James owns the high-end motorcycle shop West Coast Choppers and claims to be a distant relative of the outlaw Jesse James... After the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, Bullock donated $1 million to the American Red Cross... After the tsunami devastation of December 2004, she donated another $1 million to the Red Cross.

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