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* ''Our Brand is Crisis'' (2015) as Jane
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She's been Hollywood's go-to actress when looking for slightly tomboyish, [[TheDitz quirky]], or HollywoodHomely characters who later prove to be BeautifulAllAlong[=/=]SugarAndIcePersonality[=/=]Not So Helpless after all since TheNineties. This was exemplified in the film ''Film/MissCongeniality'' and its sequel in the mid [[TurnOfTheMillennium Noughties]]. She has also starred in ''Film/{{Speed}}'', ''Film/ATimeToKill'', ''Film/HopeFloats'', ''Film/PracticalMagic'' (alongside Creator/NicoleKidman), the RomanticComedy ''Film/WhileYouWereSleeping'', and 2013's ''Film/{{Gravity}}'', but her biggest hit so far has been the 2015 animated film, ''WesternAnimation/{{Minions}}''.

Has the unique distinction of winning a [[MedalOfDishonor Razzie Award]] for Worst Actress (for ''Film/AllAboutSteve'') and an [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]] for Best Actress (for ''Film/TheBlindSide'') in ''the same year''. She not only turned up to accept the Razzie Award in person, but brought with her a cart filled with ''All About Steve'' Blu-ray discs to hand out to the audience members.

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She's been Hollywood's go-to actress when looking for slightly tomboyish, [[TheDitz quirky]], or HollywoodHomely characters who later prove to be BeautifulAllAlong[=/=]SugarAndIcePersonality[=/=]Not So Helpless BeautifulAllAlong[=/=]SugarAndIcePersonality[=/=]"not so helpless after all all" since TheNineties. This was exemplified in the film ''Film/MissCongeniality'' and its sequel in the mid [[TurnOfTheMillennium Noughties]]. mid-[[TurnOfTheMillennium 2000s]]. She has also starred in ''Film/{{Speed}}'', ''Film/ATimeToKill'', ''Film/HopeFloats'', ''Film/PracticalMagic'' (alongside Creator/NicoleKidman), the RomanticComedy ''Film/WhileYouWereSleeping'', and 2013's ''Film/{{Gravity}}'', but her biggest hit so far has been the 2015 animated film, and ''WesternAnimation/{{Minions}}''.

Has Bullock has the unique distinction of winning a [[MedalOfDishonor Razzie Award]] for Worst Actress (for ''Film/AllAboutSteve'') and an [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]] for Best Actress (for ''Film/TheBlindSide'') in ''the same year''. She not only turned up to accept the Razzie Award in person, but brought with her a cart filled with ''All About Steve'' Blu-ray discs to hand out to the audience members.
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* CoveredInGunge: This happened to her at both the 2009 and 2013 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards. The former happened alongside Creator/HughJackman, while the latter was alongside Creator/NeilPatrickHarris when they were presenting an award to Creator/KristenStewart.

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* CoveredInGunge: This happened to her She got slimed at both the 2009 and 2013 [[UsefulNotes/KidsChoiceAward Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards. Awards]]. The former happened alongside was alongsideh Creator/HughJackman, while the latter was alongside Creator/NeilPatrickHarris when they were presenting an award to Creator/KristenStewart.
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* OlderThanTheyLook: Still looks like she did in the 90s twenty years later.

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* OlderThanTheyLook: Still looks like she did in the 90s twenty thirty years later.
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* CoveredInGunge: This happened to her at both the 2011 and 2013 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards. The former happened alongside Creator/HughJackman, while the latter was alongside Creator/NeilPatrickHarris when they were presenting an award to Creator/KristenStewart.

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* CoveredInGunge: This happened to her at both the 2011 2009 and 2013 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards. The former happened alongside Creator/HughJackman, while the latter was alongside Creator/NeilPatrickHarris when they were presenting an award to Creator/KristenStewart.
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* CoveredInGunge: Happened to her at both the 2011 and 2013 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, the latter while she and Creator/NeilPatrickHarris were presenting an award to Creator/KristenStewart.

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* CoveredInGunge: Happened This happened to her at both the 2011 and 2013 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, Awards. The former happened alongside Creator/HughJackman, while the latter while she and was alongside Creator/NeilPatrickHarris when they were presenting an award to Creator/KristenStewart.
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* ''Film/{{In Love and War|1996}}'' (1996) as Agnes von Kurowsky
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* CoveredInGunge: Happened to her at both the 2011 and 2013 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 2013, the latter while she and Creator/NeilPatrickHarris were presenting an award to Creator/KristenStewart.

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Sandra Annette Bullock (born July 26, 1964 in Arlington, Virginia) is Hollywood's go-to actress when looking for slightly tomboyish, [[TheDitz quirky]], or HollywoodHomely characters who later prove to be BeautifulAllAlong[=/=]SugarAndIcePersonality[=/=]Not So Helpless after all. This was exemplified in the film ''Film/MissCongeniality'' and its sequel in the mid [[TurnOfTheMillennium Noughties]]. She has also starred in ''Film/{{Speed}}'', ''Film/ATimeToKill'', ''Film/HopeFloats'', ''Film/PracticalMagic'' (alongside Creator/NicoleKidman), the 1990s RomanticComedy ''Film/WhileYouWereSleeping'', and 2013's ''Film/{{Gravity}}'', but her biggest hit so far has been the 2015 animated film, ''WesternAnimation/{{Minions}}''.

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Sandra Annette Bullock (born July 26, 1964 in Arlington, Virginia) is an American actress of German descent.

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Hollywood's go-to actress when looking for slightly tomboyish, [[TheDitz quirky]], or HollywoodHomely characters who later prove to be BeautifulAllAlong[=/=]SugarAndIcePersonality[=/=]Not So Helpless after all.all since TheNineties. This was exemplified in the film ''Film/MissCongeniality'' and its sequel in the mid [[TurnOfTheMillennium Noughties]]. She has also starred in ''Film/{{Speed}}'', ''Film/ATimeToKill'', ''Film/HopeFloats'', ''Film/PracticalMagic'' (alongside Creator/NicoleKidman), the 1990s RomanticComedy ''Film/WhileYouWereSleeping'', and 2013's ''Film/{{Gravity}}'', but her biggest hit so far has been the 2015 animated film, ''WesternAnimation/{{Minions}}''.
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** She agreed to do the nude scene in ''Film/TheProposal'' only on the condition that it would be funny and humiliating for her character. She prefers not to play this trope straight.
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* ''Film/{{Loverboy}}'' (2005) as Mrs. Harker
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* ''Film/LovePotionNumberNine'' (1992) as Diane Farrow
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Sandra Annette Bullock (born July 26, 1964) is Hollywood's go-to actress when looking for slightly tomboyish, [[TheDitz quirky]], or HollywoodHomely characters who later prove to be BeautifulAllAlong[=/=]SugarAndIcePersonality[=/=]Not So Helpless after all. This was exemplified in the film ''Film/MissCongeniality'' and its sequel in the mid [[TurnOfTheMillennium Noughties]]. She has also starred in ''Film/{{Speed}}'', ''Film/ATimeToKill'', ''Film/HopeFloats'', ''Film/PracticalMagic'' (alongside Creator/NicoleKidman), the 1990s RomanticComedy ''Film/WhileYouWereSleeping'', and 2013's ''Film/{{Gravity}}'', but her biggest hit so far has been the 2015 animated film, ''WesternAnimation/{{Minions}}''.

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Sandra Annette Bullock (born July 26, 1964) 1964 in Arlington, Virginia) is Hollywood's go-to actress when looking for slightly tomboyish, [[TheDitz quirky]], or HollywoodHomely characters who later prove to be BeautifulAllAlong[=/=]SugarAndIcePersonality[=/=]Not So Helpless after all. This was exemplified in the film ''Film/MissCongeniality'' and its sequel in the mid [[TurnOfTheMillennium Noughties]]. She has also starred in ''Film/{{Speed}}'', ''Film/ATimeToKill'', ''Film/HopeFloats'', ''Film/PracticalMagic'' (alongside Creator/NicoleKidman), the 1990s RomanticComedy ''Film/WhileYouWereSleeping'', and 2013's ''Film/{{Gravity}}'', but her biggest hit so far has been the 2015 animated film, ''WesternAnimation/{{Minions}}''.
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* MsFanservice: Not always, but in some of her roles she occasionaly wears some revealing clothes and sometimes even a bikini.
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Sandra Annette Bullock (born July 26, 1964) is Hollywood's go-to actress when looking for slightly tomboyish, [[TheDitz quirky]], or HollywoodHomely characters who later prove to be BeautifulAllAlong[=/=]{{Kuudere}}[=/=]Not So Helpless after all. This was exemplified in the film ''Film/MissCongeniality'' and its sequel in the mid [[TurnOfTheMillennium Noughties]]. She has also starred in ''Film/{{Speed}}'', ''Film/ATimeToKill'', ''Film/HopeFloats'', ''Film/PracticalMagic'' (alongside Creator/NicoleKidman), the 1990s RomanticComedy ''Film/WhileYouWereSleeping'', and 2013's ''Film/{{Gravity}}'', but her biggest hit so far has been the 2015 animated film, ''WesternAnimation/{{Minions}}''.

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Sandra Annette Bullock (born July 26, 1964) is Hollywood's go-to actress when looking for slightly tomboyish, [[TheDitz quirky]], or HollywoodHomely characters who later prove to be BeautifulAllAlong[=/=]{{Kuudere}}[=/=]Not BeautifulAllAlong[=/=]SugarAndIcePersonality[=/=]Not So Helpless after all. This was exemplified in the film ''Film/MissCongeniality'' and its sequel in the mid [[TurnOfTheMillennium Noughties]]. She has also starred in ''Film/{{Speed}}'', ''Film/ATimeToKill'', ''Film/HopeFloats'', ''Film/PracticalMagic'' (alongside Creator/NicoleKidman), the 1990s RomanticComedy ''Film/WhileYouWereSleeping'', and 2013's ''Film/{{Gravity}}'', but her biggest hit so far has been the 2015 animated film, ''WesternAnimation/{{Minions}}''.

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* ActionGirl: In several of her films.



* BeautifulAllAlong: Many of her roles.
* BrainyBrunette: Again, often her roles.



* CuteWitch: In ''Film/PracticalMagic''.



* TheLadette
* MsFanservice: Very often in her roles, even up to her [[MrsRobinson forties and fifties]] in [[Film/TheHeat recent]] [[Film/{{Gravity}} years]].
** She {{Does Not Like Shoes}} and has often appeared barefoot in magazine pictures and in her movies.



* [[SurprisinglyGoodEnglish Surprisingly Good German]]: She has a German mother and grew up in Nuremberg, Vienna and Salzburg in her youth. When [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQlm29I5GVE accepting an award in 2000]], she baffled many viewers with her fluent, accent-free German.
* {{Tomboy}}: Her roles.
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* ''Film/TheNet1995'' (1995) as Angela Bennett

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Has the unique distinction of winning a [[MedalOfDishonor Razzie Award]] for Worst Actress (for ''Film/AllAboutSteve'') and an [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]] for Best Actress (for ''Film/TheBlindSide'') in ''the same year''. She not only turned up to accept the Razzie Award in person, but brought with her a wheelbarrow filled with ''All About Steve'' Blu-ray discs to hand out to the audience members.

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Has the unique distinction of winning a [[MedalOfDishonor Razzie Award]] for Worst Actress (for ''Film/AllAboutSteve'') and an [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]] for Best Actress (for ''Film/TheBlindSide'') in ''the same year''. She not only turned up to accept the Razzie Award in person, but brought with her a wheelbarrow cart filled with ''All About Steve'' Blu-ray discs to hand out to the audience members.
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* [[SurprisinglyGoodEnglish Surprisingly Good German]]: Unknown to many people, she has a German mother and temporarily grew up in Nuremberg, Vienna and Salzburg. When [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQlm29I5GVE accepting an award in 2000]], she baffled many viewers with her fluent, accent-free German.

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* [[SurprisinglyGoodEnglish Surprisingly Good German]]: Unknown to many people, she She has a German mother and temporarily grew up in Nuremberg, Vienna and Salzburg.Salzburg in her youth. When [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQlm29I5GVE accepting an award in 2000]], she baffled many viewers with her fluent, accent-free German.

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!!Notable for:!!'''Notable Roles (in chronological order):'''
* ''Film/DemolitionMan'' (1993) as Lenina Huxley
* ''Film/{{Speed}}'' (1994) as Annie
** ''Film/Speed2CruiseControl'' (1997)
* ''Film/WhileYouWereSleeping'' (1995) as Lucy
* ''Film/TheNet'' (1995) as Angela Bennett
* ''Film/ATimeToKill'' (1996) as Ellen Roark
* ''Film/HopeFloats'' (1998) as Birdee Pruitt
* ''Film/PracticalMagic'' (1998) as Sally Owens
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'' (1998) as Miriam [-(Voice)-]
* ''Film/TwentyEightDays'' (2000) as Gwen Cummings
* ''Film/MissCongeniality'' (2000) as Gracie Hart
** ''Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous'' (2005)
* ''Film/MurderByNumbers'' (2002) as Cassie Mayweather
* ''Film/DivineSecretsOfTheYaYaSisterhood'' (2002) as Sidda
* ''Film/{{Crash}}'' (2004) as Jean
* ''The Lake House'' (2006) as Kate Forster
* ''Film/{{Premonition}}'' (2007) as Linda Hanson
* ''Film/TheProposal'' (2009) as Margaret Tate
* ''Film/AllAboutSteve'' (2009) as Mary Horowitz
* ''Film/TheBlindSide'' (2009) as Leigh Anne Tuohy [-(Oscar win for Best Actress)-]
* ''Film/ExtremelyLoudAndIncrediblyClose'' (2011) as Linda Schell
* ''Film/TheHeat'' (2013) as Agent Sarah Ashburn
* ''Film/{{Gravity}}'' (2013) as Dr. Ryan Stone [-(Oscar nomination for Best Actress)-]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Minions}}'' (2015) as Scarlet Overkill [-(Voice)-]
* ''Our Brand is Crisis'' (2015) as Jane
* ''Film/OceansEight'' (2018) as Debbie Ocean

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!!'''Tropes relating to Sandra Bullock:'''



* ActorAllusion: Invoked. It was Sandra's idea to name her character's dog 'Jack' in ''Film/TheLakeHouse'', after Keanu Reeves's character in ''Speed''.
* BeautifulAllAlong: Her roles.
* BrainyBrunette: Often her roles.
* CelebrityResemblance: To some, Creator/JuliaRoberts.

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* ActorAllusion: Invoked. It was Sandra's idea to name her character's dog 'Jack' in ''Film/TheLakeHouse'', ''The Lake House'', after Keanu Reeves's character in ''Speed''.
* ActorShipping: [[invoked]] The huge [[LGBTFanbase lesbian fanbase]] behind ''Film/OceansEight'' love shipping her with co-star Creator/CateBlanchett due to their scorching chemistry, friendship and camaraderie in real life and the fact that their characters have an incredibly [[AmbiguouslyBi ambiguous]] relationship in the film.
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BeautifulAllAlong: Her Many of her roles.
* BrainyBrunette: Often Again, often her roles.
* CelebrityResemblance: To some, Creator/JuliaRoberts. Becomes HilariousInHindsight when she ended up playing Creator/GeorgeClooney's sister in the ''Oceans'' franchise, and Julia Roberts previously played his ex-wife in the same franchise.



* HollywoodHomely: She's found herself cast as the plain or less glamorous girl in many movies. ''Film/MissCongeniality'' is actually a subversion - as Gracie gets picked as the UndercoverModel precisely because she looks good in a swimsuit.

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* HollywoodHomely: [[invoked]] She's found herself cast as the plain or less glamorous girl in many movies. ''Film/MissCongeniality'' is actually a subversion - as Gracie gets picked as the UndercoverModel precisely because she looks good in a swimsuit.



* MsFanservice: Very often in her roles, even up to her [[MrsRobinson forties and fifities]] in [[Film/TheHeat recent]] [[Film/{{Gravity}} years]].

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* MsFanservice: Very often in her roles, even up to her [[MrsRobinson forties and fifities]] fifties]] in [[Film/TheHeat recent]] [[Film/{{Gravity}} years]].



* OldShame:
** Google ''Fire on the Amazon'' and see what pops up (but first make sure you're [[{{NSFW}} not at work]]).
** She isn't particularly proud of ''Film/Speed2CruiseControl'' either.
** Or ''[[Film/MissCongeniality Miss Congeniality 2: Armed And Fabulous]]''.
** And as mentioned in the description, her reaction to ''All About Steve'' getting her a Razzie was to come to the ceremony and happily admit it was terrible. Especially notable since she ''produced'' it.

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* OldShame:
OldShame: [[invoked]]
** [[invoked]] Google ''Fire on the Amazon'' and see what pops up (but first make sure you're [[{{NSFW}} not at work]]).
** [[invoked]] She isn't particularly proud of ''Film/Speed2CruiseControl'' either.
** [[invoked]] Or ''[[Film/MissCongeniality Miss Congeniality 2: Armed And Fabulous]]''.
** [[invoked]] And as mentioned in the description, her reaction to ''All About Steve'' getting her a Razzie was to come to the ceremony and happily admit it was terrible. Especially notable since she ''produced'' it.



* TypeCasting:
** ''Film/WhileYouWereSleeping'' typecast her as a GirlNextDoor in romantic comedies.
** ''Film/MissCongeniality'' turned her image into that of a more no-nonsense persona.

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* TypeCasting:
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** [[invoked]] ''Film/WhileYouWereSleeping'' typecast her as a GirlNextDoor in romantic comedies.
** [[invoked]] ''Film/MissCongeniality'' turned her image into that of a more no-nonsense persona.
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->''"The acting thing is so beyond my control. Acting isn't mine. You're like a tiny piece in this big, corporate mechanism that needs chemistry and divine intervention."''

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