Sandra Bullock

Sandra Bullock has dazzled the world with her talents since the early '90s. If you're like me, you likely know the Oscar-winning actor from her blockbuster ...

“I think about how sweet Keanu Reeves was and how handsome,” Bullock told Ellen DeGeneres in a 2018 interview. After being asked if her distance from social media had anything to do with her role as a computer programmer who gets her identity erased in the 1995 film The Net, Bullock told SiriusXM, “You just unearthed the social gem…that no one’s asked me, so I figured they didn’t want to know. A few months later, Reeves followed Bullock’s confession with one of his own. (It was originally established as Walton’s Florist and Nursery in 1969.) The five-star-rated establishment serves breakfast, lunch, dinner, and sweet bakery treats, besides also selling fresh flowers. So for her birthday, here’s a list of things you might not know—but probably should—about Sandra Bullock. I learned a lot.

Although the veteran performer's first acting credit belongs to a minor part in the 1987 thriller “Hangmen” (which she'd follow up with a handful of straight-to ...

(Bullock would reprise the role as the star of “Speed 2: Cruise Control,” which is regrettably not great.) Bullock earned her second Academy Award nomination for “Gravity,” Alfonso Cuarón’s 2013 Best Picture nominee and the winner of seven Oscars. While on a mission to service the Hubble Telescope, astronauts Dr. Ryan Stone (Bullock) and lieutenant Matt Kowalski (George Clooney) are left stranded by an unexpected collision with space debris. Bullock deftly navigates the comedy of errors to produce her all-time best rom-com role. When terrorists threaten the Miss United States pageant, rough-and-tumble FBI agent Gracie Hart must go undercover as a proper beauty queen. But it has since become something of a cult favorite, loved for the soapy charm of Reeves and Bullock fully commiting to the story of a magic mailbox. Photo : Warner Bros./Everett Collection That said, Bullock puts on a solid show in this very ’90s cyber caper as a California systems analyst kidnapped for the contents of a floppy disc. Photo : Warner Bros./Everett Collection Bullock plays opposite Melissa McCarthy in director Paul Feig’s “The Heat,” an odd couple comedy about an uptight FBI agent assigned to work with a rule-breaking Boston cop. Still, it’s arguably the cult classics — Donald Petrie’s “Miss Congeniality,” Alejandro Agresti’s so-bad-it’s-good “The Lake House,” and Griffin Dunne’s underrated “Practical Magic” — that have made Bullock beloved by generations of audiences. From “28 Days” to “Murder by Numbers,” Bullock’s most enduring suspense films lean on her physical skills and emotional depths as an accomplished action star. After dazzling audiences and the box office as bus-jumping hero Annie Porter in the 1994 smash hit “Speed” opposite Keanu Reeves, Bullock was regularly cast in action-packed suspense flicks and lighter rom-com fare.