Today MANDAKINIYA focus is Award Winning Hollywood Actresses Sandra Annette Bullock. This is her biography.
BIOGRAPHY
Birth name: Sandra Annette Bullock
Nickname: Sandy
Height: 5' 7½" (1.71 m)
Born in Arlington a Virginia suburb of Washington D.C. daughter to a German opera singer and a voice teacher, Sandra grew up on the road with her parents and younger sister. She was raised, in part, in Nuremberg. She often performed in the children's chorus of whatever production her mother was in, usually playing the part of a gypsy child in the background. Sandra and her family moved back to Virginia when she was ten years old. That singing talent later came in use for her role of an aspiring country singer in The Thing Called Love (1993). Her family moved back to the Washington D.C. area when she was a teenager.
She later enrolled in E. Carolina University in North Carolina, USA where she studied acting. Shortly thereafter she moved to New York to pursue a career on the stage. This led to acting in television programs and then feature films. She gave memorable performances in Demolition Man (1993) and Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993) but did not achieve the stardom that seemed inevitable for her until her work in the smash hit Speed (1994). She now ranks as one of the most popular actresses in Hollywood.
In 1982 she graduated from Washington-Lee High School, where she was voted "The girl most likely to brighten up your day". After high school she majored in Drama at East Carolina University in North Carolina. She then moved to New York to pursue a career in acting. She worked as a waitress, went to auditions, and tried to get herself established in the acting field. She got a role in the TV version of "Working Girl", co-starring with Nana Visitor but she hated every minute of it, and was glad when it was canceled.
She moved to Los Angeles, and got a job as a supporting role in the made-for-TV movie, "The Preppie Murder" with William Baldwin. But after making several smaller budget films (Fire in the Amazon, Who Do I Gotta Kill, etc) she replaced Lori Petty as Sylvester Stallone's partner in the futuristic action/sci-fi flick, Demolition Man. In this film, she gained a bunch of fans, and nice addition to her resume.
This helped get Sandra the part in Jan de Bont's directorial debut film, Speed, which also starred Keanu Reaves and Dennis Hopper. Speed was a huge success, grossing over 120 million dollars at the box office. In this film she stole the show from the larger stars and became a star overnight, although she missed most of the launch buzz, as she was in Europe, promoting the film.
Sandra then moved on to the hit, While You Were Sleeping, which was carried by her now-well-known name. While You Were Sleeping was a hit, bringing in 85 million, and showed that she could be very funny.
After WYWS, came The Net, and recently she starred in Two If By Sea, which brought in disappointing reviews, and didn't stay at the theaters for very long.
I thoroughly enjoyed Sandra's performances in Speed, then Demolition Man and finally Miss Congeniality. One day out of curiosity, I put on a DVD which came as a promotional bundle - hence B movies. The film was called Fire on the Amazon. I had to force myself to watch it, since the lead actor deserved a punch on the nose for his performance and the dirty cop was only slightly less annoying. Then without warning Sandra was performing a breathtaking love scene, which I watched with my jaw still on the floor.
Although the film was badly directed, the quality was poor and it was obviously made on a low budget, I applaud Ms Bullock for making the film, which I take as her statement to the rape of the rain forests all over the world. Well done Sandy.
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