Sandra Bullock (born July 26, 1964, Arlington, Virginia, U.S.) is an American actress and film producer known for her charismatic energy and wit onscreen, especially as girl-next-door characters in romantic comedies.

Bullock spent most of her childhood in Nürnberg, West Germany, though she often traveled with her mother, who was a German opera singer, and occasionally performed in her mother’s productions. Bullock attended high school in Virginia, and she later studied drama at East Carolina Un