Her overripe smile and clear, imploring eyes are sometimes evocative of Julia Roberts". Twice as nice! Sandra Bullock's sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado, has her own career onscreen -- but it's a very different one from the type that the "Miss Congeniality" (and "Miss Congeniality 2!") star has enjoyed. 'I have friends and we're close. The cookbook author had a wide-eyed grin on her face, and the duo lovingly . According to Gesines website, she owns Sugar Glider Kitchen, a very successful baking school in Hartford, Vermont that sells out within minutes. Shes also the host of Food Networks Baked in Vermont. Movies, found Bullock and Grant to be "perfectly paired", stating: "The script allows the two actors to be at their comedic best, even though the film as a whole is amateurish in many ways". Even though Gesine went to the University of Virginia to become a lawyer, she decided to be a baker instead. In 2009, Bullock starred as a pushy editor-in-chief in the romantic comedy The Proposal, opposite Ryan Reynolds, which grossed $317million at the worldwide box office, making it her fourth-most successful picture to date. Net Worth. Bullock was nominated for Favorite Actress Drama by Teen Choice Awards. [37], In A Time to Kill (1996), a legal drama based on John Grisham's 1989 novel of the same name, Bullock portrayed a member of the defense team in the trial for the murder of two men who raped a young girl, opposite Samuel L. Jackson, Matthew McConaughey and Kevin Spacey. 'In times of stress I would bake more and more,' she told theMilwaukee Journal Sentinel. Family And Net Worth. Bullock's breakthrough came in 1994, when she played Annie Porter, a passenger eventually driving a bus that was rigged by a terrorist, in the smash-hit blockbuster Speed alongside Keanu Reeves. While Sandra, 57, may have the most name recognition in the family, Gesine, 52, has made a name for herself in the foodie world after stepping away from the production company that she and Sandra launched in the '90s. "[35] She received her first Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. [110][111] The film was favorably received by critics, who praised the chemistry between Bullock and Tatum,[112] and grossed $190.8 million globally,[113] which made Bullock "the first actress to have $100 million earners in live-action star vehicles over four different decades", according to Forbes. [164], Beginning in 2002 Bullock was stalked across several states by a man named Thomas James Weldon.