Sandra Bullock is a Virginia-born actress and producer who has a net worth of $250 million.

After moving to Los Angeles, Bullock maintained a steady roster of small roles until landing a major part in 1993's Demolition Man opposite Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes.

The following year, Bullock co-starred opposite Keanu Reeves in Speed, which grossed $350.4 million worldwide. Bullock's career exploded overnight into the stratosphere, where it has remained ever since.

Sandra Annette Bullock was born in Arlington, Virginia, on July 26, 1964. She is the daughter of an American voice coach and Army employee, John W. Bullock, and a German opera singer, Helga Mathilde Meyer. 

Sandra spent a good portion of her youth singing in a choir in Nuremberg, Germany where her father was stationed and in charge of the Army's Military Postal Service. 

This is where her father and mother had met and gotten married. She was raised for the first decade of her life in Nuremberg, Viena, and Salzburg. 

The family returned to Arlington when Sandra was around 12, and her father became a contractor for The Pentagon. 

 Bullock attended Washington-Lee High School, where she was a cheerleader and participated in school plays. She graduated in 1982 and went to East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. She got a BFA in Drama in 1987.