By Michelle Dumas
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Sandra Annette Bullock (/ˈbʊlək/; born July 26, 1964) is an American actress and film producer. She has received several accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. She was the world’s highest-paid actress in 2010 and 2014, and was named one of Time‘s 100 most influential people in the world in 2010.
After making her acting debut with a minor role in the thriller Hangmen (1987), Bullock received early attention for her supporting role in the action film Demolition Man (1993). Her breakthrough in the action thriller Speed (1994) led to leading roles in the romantic comedy While You Were Sleeping (1995), and the dramas A Time to Kill (1996) and Hope Floats (1998). She achieved further success in the following decades with the comedies Miss Congeniality (2000), Two Weeks Notice (2002), The Proposal (2009), The Heat (2013), Ocean’s 8 (2018), and The Lost City (2022); the dramas Crash (2004) and The Unforgivable (2021); and the thrillers Premonition (2007) and Bird Box (2018). For her portrayal of Leigh Anne Tuohy in the biographical drama The Blind Side (2009), Bullock won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was nominated for the same award for playing an astronaut stranded in space in the science fiction thriller Gravity (2013), which is her highest-grossing live-action film.
In addition to acting, Bullock is the founder of the production company Fortis Films. She has produced some of the films in which she has starred, including Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005) and All About Steve (2009), and served as an executive producer on the ABC sitcom George Lopez (2002–2007), on which she made numerous appearances. Dubbed “America’s sweetheart” by the media, Bullock was also named the Most Beautiful Woman by People magazine in 2015.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
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Born
- George Bernard Shaw (playwright) –
- Blake Edwards (director) –
- Jason Robards (actor) –
- Stanley Kubrick (director) –
- Sir Michael Philip “Mick” Jagger (singer) –
- Dorothy Hamill (Olympic gold medal figure skater) –
- Sandra Bullock (actress) –
- Jeremy Piven (actor) –
- Kate Beckinsale (actress) –
Died
- Sam Houston (president of Texas, 1836-38; 1841-44) –
- Eva Peron (wife of Argentine President Juan Peron) –
Events
- Benjamin Franklin became the first Postmaster General–
- New York ratified the Constitution and became the 11th state–
- Black Bart made his first stagecoach robbery in California–
- The Potsdam Declaration was issued by President Truman, Winston Churchill, and Chiang Kai-Shek, which outlined the terms of surrender for Japan–
- The SS Andrea Doria sunk near Nantucket Lightship, MA–
- First Moon rock samples analyzed, Lunar Receiving Laboratory, Houston, Texas–
- A federal grand jury indicted Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing a computer worm, making him the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act–
- Jim Rice and Ricky Henderson were inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame–
- The Plastiki, a boat made mostly from recycled plastic bottles (12,500 of them), reached Sydney, Australia, to complete a 4-month journey across the Pacific Ocean–
Weather
- Catskill, New York, and Westfield, Massachusetts, each got 15 inches of rain, causing flash floods and enormous erosion damage–
- The temperature in Salt Lake City soared to an all-time high of 107 degrees F–
- Eastport, Maine, the northeastern most tip of the U.S., reached 96 degrees–
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