Saturday, March 20, 2010

Sandra Bullock: Congenial but Ambitious?


Sandra Bullock - an American actress who rose to fame in the 1990s, after roles in successful films such as Speed and While You Were Sleeping. She has since established her career with films such as Miss Congeniality and Crash, which received critical acclaim. In 2007, she was ranked as the 14th richest female celebrity with an estimated fortune of $85 million. In 2009, Bullock starred in the most financially successful films of her career, The Proposal and The Blind Side. Bullock was awarded a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, and the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her role as Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side.

The Blind Side star is the latest in a long line of actresses to see their marriages collapse right after winning an Oscar.

The Oscar-winner will be hoping to capitalize on the chance for more meaty roles, although two of the films in her upcoming slate, rom-coms called The Sprinkler Queen and One of the Guys, suggest it may be some battle. Acting, she had said, got better once she took more time choosing her projects. "I enjoy it now, even more so, because I pick only what is worth leaving home for. Do you know what I mean? People don't realize that when you make a film, you're gone."

The hope would be that Bullock can salvage a personal life from the current tangle. If not, she must wish that the public honor her early attempts to keep her marriage private. "A friend of mine once said: 'If you invite People magazine to the wedding, they should be allowed to come to the divorce,'" Bullock once quipped.

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