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While in New York, Bullock took acting classes with Sanford Meisner.

She appeared in several student films, and later landed a role in an Off-Broadway play No Time Flat.

Director Alan J. Levi was impressed by Bullock's performance and offered her a part in the TV movie Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman ( 1989 ).

Afterward, she was cast in a series of small roles in several independent films as well as in the lead role of the short-lived NBC television version of the film Working Girl ( 1990 ).

She later appeared in several films, such as Love Potion No. 9 ( 1992 ), The Thing Called Love ( 1993 ) and Fire on the Amazon.

A prominent supporting role in the science-fiction / action movie Demolition Man ( 1993 ) led to her breakthrough performance in Speed the following year.

She became a movie star in the late 1990s, carrying a string of successes, including While You Were Sleeping, and Miss Congeniality in 2000.

Bullock received $ 11 million for Speed 2: Cruise Control, which she agreed to star in for financial backing for her own project, Hope Floats, and has revealed she regrets making the sequel.

She later received $ 17. 5 million for Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous.