Friday, August 30, 2013

Sandra Bullock and George Clooney

Sandra claims they are just friends.  Too bad!  They make a really cute couple!

Their new movie looks good!

         

Gravity (2013)

 -  Sci-Fi | Thriller  -  4 October 2013 (USA)
                   
A medical engineer and an astronaut work together to survive after an accident leaves them adrift in space.   
Director:  Alfonso Cuarón    

Writers:  Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón    

Stars:   Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Eric Michels | See full cast and crew                         

Sandra Bullock a Rare Gem in a Harsh World



Sandra Bullock -actress, producer, writer and mom was born on July 26, 1964 in a Washington DC suburb.  Her mother was a German opera singer and father a voice coach and executive from Alabama.  Sandra's grandfather was a German Rocket Scientist.

Sandra grew up in Germany.  She studied ballet and sang in children's choirs throughout her childhood.  She moved to the Washington DC area at age 12.   Sandra attended East Carolina University and left her Senior year, 3 credits short of graduation to pursue an acting career.

Sandra's most recent roll in 2009 won her a Best Actress Golden Globe, Academy Award and the Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance in The Blind Side.      http://www.theblindsidemovie.com/dvd/index.html

Her most recent rolls:

2009 All About Steve

2009 The Proposal

2007 Premonition

2006 Infamous

2006 The Lake House

2005 Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous

2005 Loverboy

2004 Crash

2002-2004 George Lopez (TV series)

2002 Two Weeks Notice

2002 Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

2002 Murder by Numbers

2000 Miss Congeniality

2000 28 Days

2000 Gun Shy

1999 Forces of Nature

1998 The Prince of Egypt

1998 Practical Magic

1998 Making Sandwiches (short)

1998 Hope Floats

1997 Speed 2: Cruise Control
 

1996 In Love and War

1996 A Time to Kill

1996 Two If by Sea

1995 The Net

1995 While You Were Sleeping

1994 Who Do I Gotta Kill?

1994 Speed

1993 Wrestling Ernest Hemingway

1993 Fire on the Amazon

1993 Demolition Man

1993 The Thing Called Love

1993 When the Party's Over

1993 The Vanishing

1992 Love Potion No. 9

1990 Lucky Chances (TV mini-series)

1990 Working Girl (TV series)

Future productions Scheduled

2012 Gravity - Sci-fi thriller about a female astronaut.  

2012 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Co-starring with Tom Hanks in an adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's 2005 book

2012 Most Wanted - stars Bullock as a criminal and Ryan Reynolds as an FBI agent caught in an ambush and forced to go on the run together.

2012 The Abstinence Teacher -  A  divorced sex ed teacher is forced to teach abstinence to her class.

2011 Kiss & Tango  - NY advertising executive rediscovers herself in Argentina

Other Achievements:

Sandra has been Producer/Executive Producer of 13 productions

Sandra Bullock has donated $1 million several times to the Red Cross- for the Liberty Disaster Relief Fund in 2001, the Indian Ocean earthquake in 2004 and tsunamis In 2010.  She also donated $1 million to relief efforts following the Haiti earthquake.  Sandra was also one of the many stars who urged people to sign the petition for clean-up of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Sandra Bullock threw her full efforts into her marriage to Jesse James to the extend of helping him file fand accepting custody of his young daughter.  Unfortunately the marriage ended after 5 years due to rumored infidelities on James part.  James later apologized publicly to Bullock and his children for his supposed actions.

After Bullocks recent divorce from Jesse James she started her new life with adoptive son Louis Bardo Bullock from New Orleans, now 3 years old.