Biography And Filmography:

One of Hollywood's biggest stars, Sandra Bullock first found attention as Sylvester Stallone's partner in the comedy "Demolition Man" featuring a young Benjamin Bratt in1993. The daughter of a German opera singer mother and an American voice coach father, she started acting as an extra in her mother's operas. After college, she was hired for some Off-Broadway work and a role in the television show "Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman" (1989), and "The Preppie Murder" with Lara Flynn Boyle (1989), before starring in the television situation comedy "Working Girl" (1990).

After being cast as the female lead role in "Who Shot Patakango?" (1989), she saw her movie career began to take off. She co-starred in the romantic comedy "Love Potion No. 9" with Anne Bancroft, and gave a fine performance as a doubtful artist in "When the Party's Over" (1992). "Demolition Man” with Wesley Snipes, and her role as a country music singer in "The Thing Called Love" starring River Phoenix (1993), introduced her to a larger audience, allowing her to carry a major film for the first time as Annie, the bus driver opposite Keanu Reeves and Dennis Hopper, in the blockbuster "Speed" (1994). 

In a role first developed for Demi Moore, she starred in the romantic comedy "While You Were Sleeping" (1995), a smash hit co-starring Bill Pullman. Now a Hollywood celebrity and movie star, she next worked as a computer operator stumbling into a major problem in "The Net" (1995). She next starred in the comedy "Two If By Sea" (1996), and then took a supporting role as a law student who finds herself involved with a married attorney (Matthew McConaughey) she is working with in Joel Schumacher's "A Time to Kill" (1996), with a blockbuster cast including Samuel L. Jackson and Kiefer Sutherland.

Next was Richard Attenborough's "In Love and War" (1996), based on the real life romance between novelist Ernest Hemingway (Chris O'Donnell) and the nurse he wrote about in "A Farewell to Arms.” She followed with the sequel "Speed 2: Cruise Control" (1997), which teamed her with Jason Patric and Willem Dafoe on a cruise ship controlled by a lunatic.

She wrote, produced, directed and co-starred in "Making Sandwiches" (1997) opposite McConaughey, a one hour short first seen at the Sundance Film Festival. Later that year, the actress lent her voice talents to the character of Miriam in DreamWorks animated bible tale "The Prince of Egypt", with other celebrity voices provided by the likes of Val Kilmer, Michelle Pfieffer, Jeff Goldblum, Danny Glover, Patrick Stewart and Steve Martin. She then co-starred with Nicole Kidman as sisters who use witchcraft to solve their problems in "Practical Magic". She wrapped her year by joining with Ben Affleck in the romantic "Forces of Nature" (1999).

She then played the role of a New York City writer and party girl sentenced to "28 Days" of drug and alcohol rehabilitation after stealing a limousine and crashing it into a house.  She was superb in the role of an FBI agent posing as a beauty queen in the romantic "Miss Congeniality", with Benjamin Bratt. She then appeared in the sequel, "Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous" (2005), this time posing as a Las Vegas show girl. 

In 2002, she starred as a detective in "Murder by Numbers", and as a writer in "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood." She next returned to her romantic comedy background, starring with Hugh Grant in "Two Weeks Notice" (2002), where she played the secretary to a ruthless businessman who doesn't value the loving care she gives him. She then had a role in "Crash" with Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon and Jennifer Esposito (2005), with her playing a middle aged white Los Angeles rich women who, after a interrupting a carjacking, acts out on all of her worst prejudice and racial fears.

The actress then played "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Nelle Harper Lee opposite Toby Jones as Truman Capote in the movie "Infamous" starring Sigourney Weaver (2006), and then reunited with her "Speed" co-star Keanu Reeves for "The Lake House" (2006), as a doctor who lives in the same house two years apart in time, and falls in love by writing letters they exchange through a mailbox that mysteriously bridges the gap in time. 

In “Premonition” (2007), she played the wife and mother living the perfect family life who is driven mad by knowledge of impending events, including the tragic death of her husband in a car accident.  

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