Sandra Bullock has come a long way from her quiet childhood in Arlington, Virginia. She went on to become an Academy Award-winning actress as well as one of the most powerful women in Hollywood. The woman who’s led hit movies like Speed, Miss Congeniality, The Proposal, The Blind Side, Gravity and Bird Box has also been the world’s highest paid actress at multiple points in her career.
While she’s remained busy at work since first hitting the scene in the late 1980s, Sandra’s also found time to devote to her own production company as well as to her two children. But it all started in the Washington, D.C., suburb where she was born to an opera singer mother and an Army employee father.
For much of her childhood, Sandra Bullock and her family, which includes younger sister Gesine Bullock-Prado, also lived in Nuremberg, Germany, as well as Vienna and Salzburg, Austria, before the family returned to Arlington, Virginia, where Sandra attended high school. She studied ballet and vocal arts as a child before taking part in numerous theater productions as a teenager. Upon graduating from East Carolina University with a drama degree, Sandra headed to the Big Apple to pursue her dream of acting full time. She supported herself as a bartender, cocktail waitress and coat checker while auditioning and eventually landed a role in the off-Broadway play No Time Flat, which got her seen by a director who offered her a supporting role in the 1989 made-for-television film Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman.
Sandra Bullock closed out the 1980s by snagging small roles in a few independent films before landing her first on-screen lead role on the 1990 sitcom Working Girl. The NBC series was loosely based on the hit 1988 film of the same name starring Melanie Griffith, with Sandra taking over the part for the television adaptation. The midseason series follows a spunky, independent secretary who’s suddenly become a junior executive after charming the company’s owner. Unfortunately, the show drew low ratings and was short-lived: It was canceled after eight of the 12 episodes produced aired.
Here, below are some amazing photographs of a very young Sandra Bullock back in the late 1980s:
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