Sandra Annette Bullock (born July 26, 1964 in Arlington, Virginia) is an American actress of German descent.
She's been Hollywood's go-to actress when looking for slightly tomboyish, quirky, or Hollywood Homely characters who later prove to be Beautiful All Along/Sugar-and-Ice Personality/"not so helpless after all" since The '90s. This was exemplified in the film Miss Congeniality and its sequel in the mid-2000s. She also starred in Speed, A Time to Kill, Hope Floats, Practical Magic (alongside Nicole Kidman), the Romantic Comedy While You Were Sleeping, Gravity, and Minions.
Bullock has the unique distinction of winning a Razzie Award for Worst Actress (for All About Steve) and an Oscar for Best Actress (for The Blind Side) 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.
Notable Roles (in chronological order):
- Love Potion Number Nine (1992) as Diane Farrow
- Demolition Man (1993) as Lenina Huxley
- Speed (1994) as Annie
- Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)
- While You Were Sleeping (1995) as Lucy
- The Net (1995) as Angela Bennett
- A Time to Kill (1996) as Ellen Roark
- In Love and War (1996) as Agnes von Kurowsky
- Hope Floats (1998) as Birdee Pruitt
- Practical Magic (1998) as Sally Owens
- The Prince of Egypt (1998) as Miriam (Voice)
- 28 Days (2000) as Gwen Cummings
- Miss Congeniality (2000) as Gracie Hart
- Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005)
- Murder by Numbers (2002) as Cassie Mayweather
- Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002) as Sidda
- Crash (2004) as Jean
- Loverboy (2005) as Mrs. Harker
- The Lake House (2006) as Kate Forster
- Premonition (2007) as Linda Hanson
- The Proposal (2009) as Margaret Tate
- All About Steve (2009) as Mary Horowitz
- The Blind Side (2009) as Leigh Anne Tuohy (Oscar win for Best Actress)
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011) as Linda Schell
- The Heat (2013) as Agent Sarah Ashburn
- Gravity (2013) as Dr. Ryan Stone (Oscar nomination for Best Actress)
- Minions (2015) as Scarlet Overkill (Voice)
- Ocean's 8 (2018) as Debbie Ocean
- Bird Box (2018) as Malorie
- The Lost City (2022) as Loretta Sage
- Bullet Train (2022) as Maria
Tropes relating to Sandra Bullock:
- Actor Allusion: Invoked. It was Sandra's idea to name her character's dog 'Jack' in The Lake House, after Keanu Reeves's character in Speed.
- Actor Shipping: The huge lesbian fanbase behind Ocean's 8 love shipping her with co-star Cate Blanchett due to their scorching chemistry, friendship and camaraderie in real life and the fact that their characters have an incredibly ambiguous relationship in the film.
- Celebrity Resemblance: To some, Julia Roberts. Becomes
Hilarious in Hindsight when she ended up playing George Clooney's sister in the Oceans franchise, and Julia Roberts previously played his ex-wife in the same franchise. - Covered in Gunge: She got slimed at both the 2009 and 2013 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards. The former was alongsideh Hugh Jackman, while the latter was alongside Neil Patrick Harris when they were presenting an award to Kristen Stewart.
- Hollywood Homely: She's found herself cast as the plain or less glamorous girl in many movies. Miss Congeniality is actually a subversion - as Gracie gets picked as the Undercover Model precisely because she looks good in a swimsuit.
- Ms. Fanservice: Not always, but in some of her roles she occasionaly wears some revealing clothes and sometimes even a bikini.
- She agreed to do the nude scene in The Proposal only on the condition that it would be funny and humiliating for her character. She prefers not to play this trope straight.
- Older Than They Look: Still looks like she did in the 90s thirty years later.
- Old Shame:
- Google Fire on the Amazon and see what pops up (but first make sure you're not at work).
- She isn't particularly proud of Speed 2: Cruise Control either.
- Or 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.
- She Also Did: She co-wrote and directed a short film called Making Sandwiches.
- Typecasting:
- While You Were Sleeping typecast her as a Girl Next Door in romantic comedies.
- Miss Congeniality turned her image into that of a more no-nonsense persona.
