Sandra Bullock Trivia: 14 Facts on Sandra Bullock Movies, Her Private Life, Awards and More

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Sandra Bullock Trivia: 14 Facts on Sandra Bullock Movies, Her Private Life, Awards and More

Updated September 5, 2010
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1. Sandra Bullock was born in 1964, in Virginia.

2. She stands at 5' 7½" (1.71 m).

3. She divorced husband Jesse James for infidelity. He cheated and publicly admitted to sleeping with a tattoo artist.

4. She’s adopting a baby from New Orleans.

5. She has been good friends with Keanu Reeves since they met on the set of Speed in 1994. 12 years later, they worked together in The Lake House. Whereas Speed was a fast action film, The Lake House is a drama/romance.

6. She won Oscar for Best Actress in 2010; for her role in The Blind Side (2009).

7. Sandra Bullock won Razzie for Worst Actress with All About Steve, in the same year she won Oscar for Best Actress.

8. Her other awards and nominations include MTV Movie Awards, People’s Choice Award, Hollywood Film Award, Gotham Awards, Golden Globe, Blockbuster Entertainment Award and Saturn Award.

9. She is good friends with The Proposal co-star Ryan Reynolds. The proposal tells the story of a Canadian book editor in New York who forces her American assistant into marrying her so that she can stay in the country. In real life, Sandra Bullock is American and Ryan Reynolds is Canadian.

10. Sandra Bullock is one of the first actresses that come to mind while talking about (good) romantic comedies.

11. Her male co-stars include Bill Pullman (While You Were Sleeping), Keanu Reeves, Jason Patrick (Speed 2), Harry Connick Jr.(Hope Floats), Bradley Cooper (All About Steve), Julian McMahon (Premonition), Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Grant (Two Weeks Notice), Brendan Fraser, Matt Dillon, Don Cheadle and Tony Danza (Crash), Toby Jones, Lee Pace and Daniel Craig (Infamous), Ben Chaplin, Ryan Gosling and Michael Pitt (Murder by Numbers), Viggo Mortensen (28 Days), Liam Neeson (Gun Shy), Ben Affleck (Forces of Nature), Aidan Quinn (Practical Magic), Benjamin Bratt (Miss Congeniality), Chris O’Donnell (In Love and War), Matthew McConaughey, Kevin Spacey and Samuel L. Jackson (A Time to Kill), Jeremy Northam (The Net), Kiefer Sutherland and Jeff Bridges (The Vanishing), Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes (Demolition Man), River Phoenix and Dermot Mulroney (A Thing Called Love).

12. She made two movies concerning Ernest Hemingway: In” In Love and War”, she played a nurse falling in love with a young Ernest Hemingway (played by Chris O’Donnell). She also played in a movie called Wrestling Ernest Hemingway.

13. Her roles include a nurse, doctor, kidnapped girlfriend, lawyer, witch, lawyer’s assistant, FBI agent undercover as beauty pageant contestant, alcoholic in rehab, cop, housewife, software engineer, ticket token collector and book editor.

14. Her movie genres include comedy, romantic comedy, romantic drama, sci-fi, action, drama, thriller, biography and fantasy.

Resource: IMDB.com

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