Court accords restraining order to Sandra Bullock

by Srabanti Majumder
August 8, 2010

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Stunningly beautiful and most talented Oscar winning actor Sandra Bullock has received a fresh court order against a stalker, who has been bothering her for past seven years.

The 45-year old Sandra Bullock obtaining a restraining order from the court against Thomas Weldon when the 46 year old man started stalking Ms. Bullock back in 2003.

According to Bullock's lawyer, Ed McPherson Weldon has sent the actress numerous faxes and emails over the years.

Court papers stated that Weldon admitted himself to a Wyoming emergency room in June complaining of anxiety and sleeplessness. He later told hospital staff that he had driven from Tennessee to meet Bullock at her home in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Previous papers filed to the court claimed Weldon had repeatedly tried to contact Bullock and travelled around the country to try and meet her.

It has been a difficult year for the Speed actor as her marriage to Jesse James broke down days after she won the Best Actress Oscar for her role in The Blind Side.

Though her romantic life may be in shambles, but professionally, Sandra Bullock is on the top. The Blind Side star rides the No. 1 spot in Forbes' list of top earning actresses, banking $56 million between June 2009 and June 2010.

Sandra Annette Bullock [born July 26, 1964] rose to fame in the 1990s, after roles in successful films such as Speed and While You Were Sleeping. She has since established her career with films such as Miss Congeniality and Crash, which received critical acclaim. In 2007, she was ranked as the 14th richest female celebrity with an estimated fortune of $85 million. In 2009, Bullock starred in the most financially successful films of her career, The Proposal and The Blind Side. Bullock was awarded a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, and the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her role as Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side.

Sandra Annette Bullock was born in Arlington, Virginia, the daughter of Helga D. Meyer [1942–2000], a German opera singer and voice teacher, and John W. Bullock [born 1925], a voice coach and executive from Alabama. Bullock's maternal grandfather was a rocket scientist from Nuremberg, Germany. Bullock lived in Nuremberg until age twelve, where she sang in the opera's children's choir at the Staatstheater Nürnberg. She frequently traveled with her mother on her opera tours, and lived in Germany and other parts of Europe for much of her childhood. She is fluent in German. Bullock studied ballet and vocal arts as a child, taking small parts in her mother's opera productions. Bullock has a sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado [born 1970].

Bullock attended Washington-Lee School, where she was a cheerleader, participated in high school theater productions, and dated a football player. She graduated in 1982 and enrolled in East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. She left East Carolina during her senior year in the spring of 1986, only three credits short of graduating, to pursue an acting career. She moved to Manhattan to pursue auditions and supported herself with a variety of jobs including bartender, cocktail waitress and coat checker.

Bullock later completed her coursework at East Carolina University.

Bullock was selected as one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in the World in 1996 and 1999, and was also ranked #58 in Empire magazine's Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time list. She was presented with the 2002 Raúl Juliá Award for Excellence for her efforts, as the executive producer of the sitcom George Lopez, in helping expand career openings for Hispanic talent in the media and entertainment industry. She also made several appearances on the show as Accident Amy, an accident-prone employee at the factory Lopez's character manages. In 2002, she starred opposite Hugh Grant in the global hit Two Weeks Notice and in a lesser known film Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.

Bullock runs her own production company, Fortis Films. Her sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado, was president of the company, but has since quit the business and moved to Montpelier, Vermont, where she opened a pastry shop and published a book. Her father, John Bullock, is the company's CEO. Bullock was an executive producer of The George Lopez Show, which garnered a lucrative syndication deal that banked her some $10 million [co-produced with Robert Borden].

Bullock's production company, Fortis Films, also produced All About Steve, which was released in September 2009.

Since November 2006, Bullock has owned an Austin, Texas restaurant, Bess Bistro. She later opened another business in downtown Austin called Walton's Fancy and Staple, a bakery and floral shop that also offers services such as event planning.

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