Sandra Bullock
Birth Name: Sandra Annette Bullock
Place of Birth: Arlington, Virginia, U.S.
Date of Birth: July 26, 1964
Ethnicity:
*father – English, Irish, German, Swiss-German, French
*mother – German
Sandra Bullock is an American actress, producer, and philanthropist. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Blind Side (2009). She is also known for her roles in The Vanishing, Speed, While You Were Sleeping, The Net, A Time to Kill, Practical Magic, Miss Congeniality, Murder by Numbers, Crash, Infamous, The Proposal, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, The Heat, Gravity, Our Brand Is Crisis, and The Unforgivable, among many other films.
Her father, John Wilson Bullock, was born in Alabama, of English, Irish, German, Swiss-German, and French ancestry. Her mother, Helga Bullock (born Helga Mathilde Meyer), an opera singer and voice teacher, was German. Her parents met in Nuremberg, Germany, where her father was in charge of the U.S. Army’s Military Postal Service in Europe. Sandra’s father also worked with the Army Materiel Command and was a contractor for The Pentagon.
Sandra’s sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado, is a chef, author, and executive. Sandra spent part of her childhood in Nuremberg, and in Vienna and Salzburg in Austria. She has German citizenship and speaks German fluently. Sandra has two children, both adopted.
Her sister once said on Twitter:
As a German/Irish/English/French/kitchen sink lady person, I just write in “talented quaffer.”
Sandra’s paternal grandfather was Jesse Burch Bullock (the son of Eli Albert Bullock and Mahala Ellen Curl). Jesse was born in Kentucky. Eli was the son of Eli B. Bullock and Charlotte Sparks. Mahala was the daughter of John Wesley Curl and Hester Daily.
Sandra’s paternal grandmother was Mary LaBlanche Wilson (the daughter of Francis E. “Frank” Wilson and Anna Helen Finn). Mary was born in Wisconsin. Francis was the son of James Wilson and Susan A. Spencer. Anna was the daughter of John Finn and Bridget.
Sandra’s maternal grandfather was Eugen Meyer (the son of August Meyer and Lina Schöttler). Eugen was born in Altena, Märkischer Kreis, Nordrhein-Westfalen. August was the son of Karl Meyer and Wilhelmine Hüttebräncker/Huttebranker. Lina was the daughter of Karl August Schöttler and Henriette Grüper.
Sandra’s maternal grandmother was Elisabeth Wilhelmine Böhnert (the daughter of Karl August Böhnert and Marie Henriette Pauls). Elisabeth was born in Hamburg-Nord, Hamburg, Germany. Karl was the son of August Hermann Böhnert and Auguste Henriette Amalie Luther. Sandra’s great-grandmother Marie was the daughter of Johann Jakob Pauls and Anna Regine Schwabe.
Sources: Genealogies of Sandra Bullock – https://www.geni.com
http://laurenandtristan.net
https://www.wikitree.com
Genealogies of Sandra’s parents – https://www.findagrave.com
Genealogy of Sandra Bullock (focusing on her father’s side) – http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Sandra’s father on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Marriage record of Sandra’s paternal great-grandparents, Eli Albert Bullock and Mahala E. Curl – https://www.familysearch.org
Her father is Irish, English and French? Interesting, becouse on rootsweb her father also German and Swiss…
‘English, Irish and French’ comes straight from the horses’s mouth.
yeah she is definately not swiss. and she has said in interviews numerous times her father is not german only her mother. however, her mother does have some irish heritage.
she is not swiss. she has stated in numerous interviews that her father is not german (has never mentioned swiss) only her mother. she is english and irish and french on her father’s side. this came straight from sandra’s sister gesine bullock-prado which is as credible a source as anything.
Just reading above, Bullock (surname) is not an Albanian name and never was. It’s is English. How do people come up with this tripe??
actually her sister has said on twitter that they are german and irish from their mother. and on their father’s side they are english, irish, and french.
HEy, “ANONyMOUS” CAN yU GIVE US tHE LINK FOR AN EXACT SOURCE CUZ I CAN’T FIND IT….
I found a tweet from her sister stating something similar, it’s at the 372 mark :
”As a German/Irish/English/French/kitchen sink lady person, I just write in “talented quaffer.”
http://twitter.com/closetmastrbakr
I believe what anonymous has stated to be true.
WHAt d0 y0U MEAN tHE 372 MARk? 0H. ANd tHANkS! i bELiEVE iT N0W… =] yUR AWES0ME! =]]
Sorry..when I looked at it yesterday, it had 372 written on the left of the tweet. It’s a tweet written on Monday April 12 2010 02:43:36
thanks for the link!
She is Sinte/German
Sandra’s Father has German and Swiss Ancestry
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dowfam3&id=I164571
Just wanted to also write about it. lol