Sandra Bullock

Biography

This unconventionally beautiful, raven-haired lead of film and TV first gained widespread attention as Sylvester Stallone's partner in the satirical sci-fi actioner "Demolition Man" (1993).

The daughter of a German opera singer mother and an American voice coach father, Bullock had marked time in a number of TV projects, including the short-lived NBC sitcom "Working Girl" (1990). She began concentrating on a feature career with the female lead in the small indie, "Who Shot Patakango?" (1989) and a co-starring role in the romantic comedy "Love Potion No. 9" (1992).

The same year that "Demolition Man" brought her attention, Bullock appeared as an aspiring country-and-western singer in Peter Bogdanovich's ill-fated "The Thing Called Love".

Bullock savored her first taste of movie stardom opposite Keanu Reeves in the blockbuster "Speed" (1994). As Annie, the reluctant bus driver, Bullock's innate wit, intelligence and general likability helped elevate what could have been a standard "girl" role. As a result, she drove off with the film's best notices.

Bullock demonstrated that she could headline a romantic comedy as the star of the surprise hit "While You Were Sleeping" (1995). Now a full-fledged movie star, she proved equally capable in a Julia Roberts-type role as a hapless computer operator who stumbles onto a major conspiracy in the successful thriller "The Net" (1995).

While she stumbled somewhat at the box office with her teaming opposite Denis Leary in the pallid caper comedy "Two If By Sea", Sandra rebounded with a dramatic turn as a law student in the feature version of John Grisham's best-seller "A Time to Kill" (both 1996).

Her career suffered several setbacks, however, with her next vehicles. Bullock was miscast as a WWI nurse romanced by future author Ernest Hemingway in the overblown "In Love and War" (1996). While on paper a sequel to "Speed" may have seemed a good thing, the resulting "Speed 2: Cruise Control" (1997), set aboard a luxury liner, was merely misguided.

The actress, however, shouldered some of the blame for those failures. Returning to safer material, Bullock earned respectable reviews as a woman rebuilding her life in the soap opera-ish "Hope Floats" but stumbled as a modern-day witch alongside Nicole Kidman in "Practical Magic" (both 1998).

Pics

Nude pictures:
Fire on the Amazon (1993)

Naked movie clip:
Who Shot Pat? (1989)

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