Sandra Bullock

Sandra Bullock

With her recent Golden Globe and Oscar® win for Best Actress for her performance as Leigh Ann Tuohy in The Blind Side which hits cinemas screens 26th March 2010, it’s safe to say that Sandra Bullock is pretty hot property right now.

With a career spanning over 20 years, here we take a look back at some of Sandra’s greatest moments in film:

Speed (1994)

Action, comedy and drama all rolled into one tight package. This was the movie that put Sandra on the map.

Bullock plays a woman caught driving a bus with a bomb, and she has to keep it at fifty miles per hour to keep it from blowing up!

The Net (1995)

This 1995 film made Sandra Bullock the poster babe for all computer/tech geeks worldwide. Bullock stars as a software expert who becomes the victim of identity theft and is thrust into a life and death struggle in this tale of computer espionage.

While You Were Sleeping (1995)

A feelgood movie with enough light-hearted comedy to keep it from being maudlin. Sandra Bullock thinks she's in love with a man she's never really met, and after rescuing him from almost being run over by a train, his family mistakenly believes she's his fiancée. While he's in a coma, she finds true love in the form of his brother.

A Time To Kill (1996)

One of Bullock’s best serious movies, this also stars a young Matthew McConnaughey. The movie centres on a team of lawyers trying to keep an innocent black man from being killed and the violence and civil unrest that follows.

A period movie to be sure, A Time To Kill is a must see for those that like this type of drama. It will not disappoint.

Hope Floats (1998)

After finding out about her husband's infidelity during an appearance on a national TV show, Birdee (Bullock) packs up her daughter and heads back to her hometown, and her mother's semi-open arms.

Harry Connick Jr. plays Justin, a former schoolmate of Birdee's who opens her heart to the prospect of a new love.

Practical Magic (1998)

Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock play sisters who are raised by their witchy aunts after their parents pass away. Sandra plays the responsible one who shies away from witchcraft, while Nicole gets to play the wild child where trouble is sure to follow.

28 Days (2000)

28 Days finds Sandra Bullock playing a drunk and disorderly newspaper columnist sent away to a rehab clinic to sober up. Although she's initially resistant to the program, Bullock eventually sees the light and admits to herself she has a problem that won't go away without help.

Viggo Mortensen co-stars as a major league baseball player and fellow rehab centre patient who connects with Bullock on an emotional level.

Miss Congeniality (2000)

Sandra Bullock stars as FBI agent Gracie Hart who is forced into going undercover at the Miss United States Beauty Pageant in order to track down a serial killer. The catch?

Bullock's uncoordinated; fashion challenged and has an irritating, horsey laugh. In other words, she's an ugly duckling who'll need lots of work to pass as a swan.

Crash (2004)

Crash follows an ethnically diverse group of Los Angeles citizens, including a Persian store owner, a Mexican locksmith, an upper-class housewife (played by Bullock), and a middle-aged Korean couple, and examines the complexities of racial tolerance when these individuals' lives collide.

Every actor in this film is first-class, and as a privileged, pampered woman, Bullock delivers one of her best dramatic performances.

Infamous (2006)

Infamous follows the dangerous quest for artistic greatness chosen by Truman Capote, accompanied by lifelong friend and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Nelle Harper Lee (Bullock), as he travels to Kansas to investigate the brutal murder of the Clutter family.

The Blind Side (2010)

Sandra Bullock gets tough, goes blonde, and delivers what will likely be considered the best performance of her career in The Blind Side.

Based on a true story, Bullock picked up her first Oscar® starring as a wealthy, outspoken wife and mum who takes in a homeless teen and turns his life completely around.

Teenager Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) is surviving on his own, virtually homeless, when he is spotted on the street by Leigh Anne Tuohy (Bullock). Learning that the young man is one of her daughter’s classmates, Leigh Anne insists that Michael, wearing shorts and a t-shirt in the dead of winter, come out of the cold.

Without a moment’s hesitation, she invites him to stay at the Tuohy home for the night. What starts out as a gesture of kindness turns into something more as Michael becomes part of the Tuohy family despite the differences in their backgrounds.

Living in his new environment, the teen faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome. And as the family helps Michael fulfill his potential, both on and off the football field, Michael’s presence in the Tuohys’ lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own.

The Blind Side is released 26th March

 

 

 


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