andra Bullock, 54, follows up the hit heist film Ocean’s 8 with the dystopian Netflix thriller Bird Box (December 21). She plays Malorie, a mother of two fleeing a mysterious deadly force. Here are five facts about the Oscar winner.
- Her mother, Helga (1942–2000), born in Nuremberg, Germany, was an opera singer.
- The small scar above her left eye is the result of a childhood fall into a lake, where she cut her head on a rock.
- High heels don’t faze her. “I think it’s my mother’s gene because she did everything in high heels.”
- She made history as the only female performer to win both an Oscar (The Blind Side) and a Razzie Award, for Worst Actress (All About Steve), in the same year.
- Bullock’s role in the hit romantic comedy While You Were Sleeping (1995) was originally meant for Demi Moore.
