Sandra Bullock, an American actress, gained fame in the 1990s. In 2007 she was ranked as the 14th richest female celebrity with an estimated fortune of $85 million. Despite a few lukewarm reviews at the box office, Sandra Bullock remains an immensely popular actress, with her girl next door, America’s sweetheart appeal.

Sandra Bullock is the daughter of a German opera singer and a government contractor from Alabama. While she was born in Virginia, Bullock lived in Nuremberg, Germany until age 12. She is fluent in German and holds dual citizenships from the U.S. and Germany.

Bullock attended high school in Virginia and college in North Carolina before moving to New York to pursue acting where she took acting classes, appeared in an Off-Broadway play, an effort in which she won praise from New York Magazine theatre critic John Simon. The positive review helps Sandra land an agent, and she is eventually offered a role in the made-for-TV movie "Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman," in 1989, which was filmed in Los Angeles.

After the TV movie, Sandra Bullock remained in Los Angeles and landed many small but memorable roles in independent movies such as Love Potion No. 9, The Thing Called Love and Fire on the Amazon. She also appeared in the short-lived TV version of the hit movie Working Girl. In 1993 she appeared in the action movie Demolition Man with Sylvester Stallone; the movie opens at No.1 at the box office and Entertainment Weekly magazine raved about Bullock’s performance.

But her breakthrough role came in the form of the action movie Speed with Keanu Reeves in 1994, which would earn a cool $121 million at the box office. The following year she also scored big and became a bona fide movie star with the romantic comedy While You Were Sleeping with Bill Pullman. She achieved her first of four People magazine covers that year; in 1996 People magazine named her one of the "50 Most Beautiful People," in its annual special issue.

In addition to People magazine, Sandra Bullock has appeared on the covers of Instyle, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan magazines; the cover stories usually include interviews and promotion of Bullock’s latest projects.

For the next few years Bullock stars in seven movies produced by Warner Bros, including Hope Floats and Two Weeks Notice. The movies rake in a combined total of $700 million at the box office, plus $255 million in DVDs by 2007, according to Forbes magazine. Sandra Bullock again found great success with the action-comedy Miss Congeniality in 2000. In 2002 Bullock adds executive television show producer to her resume when she produces the Latino sitcom, George Lopez, which runs for six successful seasons on ABC. Bulluck, along with her sister and father run her production company, Fortis Films.

In 2005, Bullock appeared in a supporting role in the film Crash. She received positive reviews for her performance, with some critics suggesting that it was the best performance of her career. Bullock later appeared in the modestly successful movies, The Lake House, Infamous and Premonition.

As for her personal life, Sandra Bullock has dated several actors including Tate Donovan, Matthew McConaughey and Ryan Goslin along with football player Troy Aikman and musican Bob Snider before marrying motorcycle builder and "Monster Garage" host Jesse James in 2005. Sandra Bullock talks about her relationship with Jesse James in a 2009 issue of Glamour magazine.

Sandra Bullock is currently starring in the romantic comedy "The Proposal," with Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds. She also has several upcoming projects in development.