Sandra Bullock
Bullock in 2011, kathclick/bigstock.com
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
Sandra Bullock’s father has his roots in Alabama. Once on the Today Show she responded to a question regarding her family origins as Germany for her mother and Alabama for her father. The confusion about her paternal ancestry may be because she made up the term “Alabamian” referring to her father’s geographic origins, which is close to Alabanian, which is obviously totally different.
In Germany an all the world does exist caucasian people of the mediterranean types.and often they have brown to black hair and eyes.,Turks are dinarid race and is close to mediterranean,in Germany,mediterranean and dinarid people exist since centuries ago.
I read that she was half Mexican
Most people don’t realize that Turks are extremely prevelant in Germany! Ethnic Turks and the mixture of them in the population account for a distinctive ( NOW GERMAN ) look! It’s especially noticeable in german men with dark features and are extremely hairy – dark, hairy (forearms, legs, chest) ; the confussion comes from their Slavic similarities!
She must have Native American and something ethnic in her because she is dark eyed and dark haired. She doesn’t look like a pure white woman.
This is the stupidest comment known to mankind. You do know that most Caucasians have dark hair and dark eyes, right? It is the dominating color combination in all parts of the world. Most white people are not naturally blonde-haired and blue-eyed. Those are recessive traits.
And people from France are relatively dark, especially in Southern France. See Marion Cotillard and Sophie Marceau for example.
There are also dark Germans, and quite a few dark Brits as well. See Catherine Zeta Jones, George Clooney, Sean Connery, Frankie Sandford, Cheryl Cole, Autumn Reeser, Tom Jones, Marlon Brando, Russell Brand, Gerard Butler, and many others for example.
You are just ignorant.
You know what I’m tired of “ethnic” people (like myself) complaining about ignorance when they are clueless. Italians, Portugese, Spanish, Russian etc are all almost as dark if not darker then Indians and hispanics (such as myself). My ex had dark skin,eyes a big round butt and a little tiny waist. She was Italian and German. Read a book