On July 26, 1964, Sandra Bullock entered the world in Arlington, Virginia, already learning resilience backstage. Raised partly in Germany while her opera-singer mother rehearsed, she spent lonely nights doing homework in theaters, absorbing discipline and rejection early. Fame came late, after years of failed auditions, money anxiety, and being dismissed as “not Hollywood enough.” Her darkest chapter arrived in 2010, when her marriage to Jesse James collapsed publicly under betrayal, forcing he