Sandra Bullock Biography

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. After her big hit with 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; it was a huge hit and won her the Oscar. However, her marriage to James fell apart at almost the same time, after news of his affairs with a series of women became public. Bullock filed for divorce in April of 2010, while announcing that she would complete as a single parent the adoption of a son, Louis Bardo Bullock, begun before her break with James.