Sandra Bullock Biography

Sandra was born on July 26th 1964 in Arlington, VA (a suburb of Washington D.C.) as Sandra Annette Bullock. However, she never uses her second name. Her mother's name is Helga, born as Meyer, who was a German opera singer. Unfortunately she already died on April 4th 2000 because of cancer. Her father John, who now helps managing her production company Fortis Films and Rebaw, he worked as a voice coach for the Pentagon in Bavaria (Germany), where he also met Helga. Sandra also has a younger sister. Gesine's profession is a lawyer, and mainly deals with youth crimes.

Sandra grew up as a young girl between artists and actors, because of her mother's profession. From 1964 until 1977 she moved often with her parents between Europe and America. By this time she mainly lived in Salzburg (Austria) and Nuremburg (Germany). Sandra was on stage for the first time at age 12. In 1977 Helga got a job for 1 1/2 years in the opera of Salzburg. Today Sandra says, she remembers that when she played around backstage , she knew since that time she has always wanted to be in the spotlight.

In 1978 her father John got a job directly in the Pentagon so they finally move to Arlington, where she was born. She went to Washington Lee High School there, and in the year-book she is called "clown of the grade" (in the positive way). Though her parents wished she would have attended The Jilliard University where her father went to, but she choose to go to the less spectecular East Carolina Universitiy in Greenville. Today she says that this decision was just perfect. This University is close enough to visit her parents easily but it is also far enough away to fool around a little. In second term she changes from her original study to do drama.
With her friend at that time, Mark Brunetz, she participated in many dancing competitions of which she won a lot. But that's not all , In 1984 she was voted Cheerleader Captain and in the year-book she is voted "Most likely to brighten up your day".

Suddenly she decided to leave the University and then she goes to New York. There she earned her money with several jobs in bars, she even worked (of course without knowing it) in a "crack-bar" until it is found out. Her final education she gets from the acting-teacher-legend Sanford Meisner in New York. After applying for several roles in theaters she got her first stage preformace in 1987 in "No Time Flat", an off-Broadway theater. In the New York Daily she was the only one mentioned positively in this theater production. A talent seeker found Sandra by this time and arranged her first starring role in the action movie "Hangmen", also in 1987. She already appears for about 15 minutes in that movie and had the main supporting actress role.

This is the beginning of Sandra's long and great movie career.

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