Sandra Bullock is an American actress and producer who made her film debut with a minor role in J. Christian Ingvordsen's thriller Hangmen in 1987. [1] She made her television debut in the television film Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1989) and played the lead role in the short-lived sitcom Working Girl (1990) [2] before making her breakthrough starring in Jan de Bont's action film Speed (1994). [3] In 1995, Bullock founded her own production company, Fortis Films, and starred in the romantic comedy While You Were Sleeping . [4] Her performance in the film earned her first nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. [5] In 1996, Bullock starred in the film adaptation of John Grisham's novel A Time to Kill . In 1998, Bullock starred in the romantic comedy Practical Magic , voiced Miriam in the DreamWorks animated film The Prince of Egypt , and executive produced her first film, Hope Floats .
In 2000, Bullock garnered a second nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical for her role as undercover FBI agent Gracie Hart, in the comedy Miss Congeniality . [6] In 2002, she executive produced her first television series George Lopez and starred with Hugh Grant in the romantic comedy Two Weeks Notice . In 2004, Bullock starred in the crime drama Crash and shared the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture with the rest of the film's ensemble cast. [7] In 2006, Bullock reunited with her Speed co-star Keanu Reeves in the romantic drama The Lake House , and she also played Harper Lee in the Truman Capote biographical film Infamous .
In 2009, Bullock starred in the films The Proposal , All About Steve , and The Blind Side . Bullock won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Blind Side, and also received the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress for All About Steve. In doing so, she became the first person to win both a Razzie and an Oscar in the same weekend. [8] In 2013, Bullock starred in the films The Heat and Gravity . For her performance in the latter, she received the Saturn Award for Best Actress and was also nominated at the Academy Awards, British Academy Film Awards, and Golden Globe Awards. [9] [10] [11] [12] In 2015, Bullock voiced the supervillain Scarlet Overkill in the animated film Minions . As of August 2020, Minions is her highest-grossing film, with a worldwide box office total of over $1.1 billion. [13] [14] In 2018, Bullock starred in the heist comedy film Ocean's 8 , a spin-off of the Ocean's franchise, which was a commercial success. [15] That same year, she starred in the post-apocalyptic thriller Bird Box , which had the largest debut week viewership for a Netflix film. [16]
† | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
Year | Title | Role(s) | Notes | Ref(s) |
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1987 | Hangmen | Lisa Edwards | [17] | |
1989 | A Fool and His Money | Debby Cosgrove | Also known as Religion, Inc.; Direct-to-video | [18] [19] |
Who Shot Pat? | Devlin Moran | Direct-to-video | [18] [20] | |
1992 | Love Potion No. 9 | Diane Farrow | [18] [21] | |
1993 | The Vanishing | Diane Shaver | [22] | |
When the Party's Over | Amanda | [23] | ||
The Thing Called Love | Linda Lue Linden | [24] | ||
Demolition Man | Lenina Huxley | [25] | ||
Fire on the Amazon | Alyssa Rothman | [26] [27] [28] | ||
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway | Elaine | [29] | ||
1994 | Speed | Annie Porter | [30] | |
Who Do I Gotta Kill? | Lori | Also known as Me & The Mob; Direct-to-video | [18] [31] | |
1995 | While You Were Sleeping | Lucy Eleanor Moderatz | [32] | |
The Net | Angela Bennett | [33] | ||
1996 | Two If by Sea | Roz | [34] | |
A Time to Kill | Ellen Roark | [35] | ||
In Love and War | Agnes von Kurowsky | [36] [37] | ||
1997 | Speed 2: Cruise Control | Annie Porter | [38] | |
1998 | Hope Floats | Birdee Pruitt | Also executive producer | [39] |
Making Sandwiches | Melba Club | Short film; Also producer, director, and screenwriter | [40] | |
Practical Magic | Sally Owens | [41] | ||
The Prince of Egypt | Miriam | Voice role | [42] | |
1999 | Forces of Nature | Sarah Lewis | [43] | |
2000 | Gun Shy | Judy Tipp | Also producer and executive album producer | [44] [45] |
28 Days | Gwen Cummings | [46] | ||
Miss Congeniality | Gracie Hart | Also producer | [47] | |
2002 | Murder by Numbers | Det. Cassie Mayweather / Jessica Marie Hudson | Also executive producer | [48] |
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood | Siddalee Walker | [49] | ||
Two Weeks Notice | Lucy Kelson | Also producer | [50] | |
2004 | Crash | Jean Cabot | [51] | |
2005 | Loverboy | Mrs. Harker | [52] | |
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous | Gracie Hart | Also producer | [53] | |
2006 | The Lake House | Dr. Kate Forster | [54] | |
Infamous | Harper Lee | [55] | ||
2007 | Premonition | Linda Hanson | [56] | |
2009 | The Proposal | Margaret Tate | Also executive producer | [57] |
All About Steve | Mary Horowitz | Also producer | [58] | |
The Blind Side | Leigh Anne Tuohy | [59] | ||
2011 | Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | Linda Schell | [60] | |
2013 | The Heat | Special Agent Sarah Ashburn | [61] | |
Gravity | Dr. Ryan Stone | [62] | ||
The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers | Golda Meir | Documentary film; Voice role | [63] | |
2015 | Minions | Scarlet Overkill | Voice role | [64] |
Our Brand Is Crisis | "Calamity" Jane Bodine | Also executive producer | [65] | |
2018 | Ocean's 8 | Deborah 'Debbie' Ocean | [66] | |
Bird Box | Malorie Hayes | Also executive producer | [67] | |
2021 | The Unforgivable | Ruth Slater | Also producer | [68] |
2022 | The Lost City | Loretta Sage / Angela | [69] | |
Bullet Train | Maria Beetle | [70] | ||
Year | Title | Role(s) | Notes | Ref. |
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1989 | Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman | Kate Mason | Television film | [71] |
Starting from Scratch | Barbara Webster | Episode: "Confidence Game" | [72] | |
The Preppie Murder | Stacy | Television film | [73] | |
1990 | Working Girl | Tess McGill | 12 episodes | [74] |
Lucky Chances | Maria Santangelo | Miniseries | [75] | |
1996 | Muppets Tonight | Herself | Episode: "Sandra Bullock" | [76] |
Miss Congeniality is a 2000 American action comedy film directed by Donald Petrie, written by Marc Lawrence, Katie Ford, and Caryn Lucas, and produced by and starring Sandra Bullock as Gracie Hart, a tomboy agent who is asked by the FBI to go undercover as a contestant when a terrorist threatens to bomb the Miss United States pageant. Michael Caine, Benjamin Bratt, Candice Bergen, William Shatner, and Ernie Hudson star in supporting roles.
Sandra Annette Bullock is an American actress and film producer. She has received several accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. She was the world's highest-paid actress in 2010 and 2014, and was named one of Time's 100 most influential people in the world in 2010.
Two Weeks Notice is a 2002 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Marc Lawrence and starring Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant, with Alicia Witt, Dana Ivey, Robert Klein, and Heather Burns.
Speed 2: Cruise Control is a 1997 American action thriller film produced and directed by Jan de Bont, and written by Randall McCormick and Jeff Nathanson. The sequel to Speed (1994), it tells the story of Annie Porter and Alex Shaw, a couple who go on vacation to the Caribbean aboard a luxury cruise ship, which is hijacked by a villain named John Geiger. While trapped aboard the ship, Annie and Alex work with the ship's first officer to try to stop it after they discover it is programmed to crash into an oil tanker.
Juliet of the Spirits is a 1965 fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Federico Fellini and starring Giulietta Masina, Sandra Milo, Mario Pisu, Valentina Cortese, and Valeska Gert. The film is about the visions, memories, and mysticism that help a middle-aged woman find the strength to leave her philandering husband. The film uses "caricatural types and dream situations to represent a psychic landscape". It was Fellini's first feature-length color film, but followed his use of color in "The Temptation of Doctor Antonio" episode in the portmanteau film, Boccaccio '70 (1962).
Tom Cruise is an American actor and producer who made his film debut with a minor role in the 1981 romantic drama Endless Love. Two years later, he made his breakthrough by starring in the romantic comedy Risky Business (1983), which garnered his first nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. In 1986, Cruise played a naval aviator in the Tony Scott-directed action drama Top Gun which was the highest-grossing film of the year, and also appeared with Paul Newman in the Martin Scorsese-directed drama The Color of Money. Two years later, he starred with Dustin Hoffman in the drama Rain Man (1988). His next role was as anti-war activist Ron Kovic in the film adaptation of Kovic's memoir of the same name, Born on the Fourth of July (1989), for which he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama.
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