
Sandra Annette Bullock was born in Arlington, Virginia, the daughter of Helga D. Meyer (1942–2000), a German opera singer and voice teacher, and John W. Bullock (born 1925), a voice coach and executive from Alabama. Bullock's maternal grandfather was a rocket scientist from Nuremberg, Germany. Bullock lived in Nuremberg until age twelve, where she sang in the opera's children's choir at the Staatstheater Nürnberg. She frequently traveled with her mother on her opera tours, and lived in Germany and other parts of Europe for much of her childhood. She is fluent in German. Bullock studied ballet and vocal arts as a child, taking small parts in her mother's opera productions. Bullock has a sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado (born 1970).
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A Fool and His Money | 1989 | |
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Love Potion No. 9 | Diane Farrow | 1992 |
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The Vanishing | Diane Shaver | 1993 |
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The Thing Called Love | Linda Lue Linden | 1993 |
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Demolition Man | Lt. Lenina Huxley | 1993 |
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Speed | Annie Porter | 1994 |
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While You Were Sleeping | Lucy Eleanor Moderatz | 1995 |
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The Net | Angela Bennett/Ruth Marx | 1995 |
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A Time to Kill | Ellen Roark | 1996 |
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In Love and War | Agnes von Kurowsky | 1996 |
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Speed 2: Cruise Control | Annie Porter | 1997 |
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Forces of Nature | Sarah Lewis | 1999 |
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28 Days | Gwen Cummings | 2000 |
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Miss Congeniality | Gracie Hart | 2000 |
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Murder by Numbers | Cassie Mayweather | 2002 |
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood | Siddalee 'Sidda' Walker | 2002 |
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Two Weeks Notice | Lucy Kelson | 2002 |
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Crash | Jean Cabot | 2004 |
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Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous | Gracie Hart | 2005 |
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The Lake House | Kate Forster | 2006 |
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Premonition | Linda Hanson | 2007 |
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The Proposal | Margaret Tate | 2009 |
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All About Steve | Sandra Horowitz | 2009 |
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The Blind Side | Leigh Anne Touhy | 2009 |
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | Linda Schell | 2011 |
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The Heat | Katerina James | 2013 |
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Gravity | Dr. Ryan Stone | 2013 |