Gesine Bullock-Prado
Gesine Bullock-Prado | |
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 Bullock in 1988 | |
| Born | Gesine Bullock March 6, 1970 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Virginia Southwestern Law School |
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| Spouse |
Raymond Prado (m. 1999) |
| Relatives | Sandra Bullock (sister) |
Gesine Bullock-Prado (born March 6, 1970) is an American pastry chef, TV personality, author, attorney, and former film executive.
Life and career
[edit]Bullock-Prado was born in Washington, D.C. Her father, John Wilson Bullock[1] (1925–2018), was a United States Army employee and voice coach; her German mother, Helga Mathilde Meyer (1942–2000), was an opera singer who sang at the Staatstheater Nürnberg and the Salzburg Festival and taught voice at the Mary Washington College. Bullock attended the University of Virginia and Southwestern Law School, and became a licensed attorney in 1997.[2][3]
She joined the production company Fortis Films in 1995 with her sister, actress Sandra Bullock. As the company's lawyer and president, Bullock-Prado co-produced the films Gun Shy and Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous,[citation needed] and helped develop dozens of others, including Practical Magic, Miss Congeniality, and the series The George Lopez Show.[4]
In 2004, Bullock-Prado left the film industry and relocated to Vermont. From 2005 to 2008, she owned a bakery, Gesine Confectionary, in Montpelier.[5]
Personal life
[edit]She has been married to storyboard artist Raymond Prado since April 3, 1999.[6]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Obituary". Archived from the original on 2020-11-13. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
- ↑ "California State Bar attorney database". California State Bar. Archived from the original on 2013-07-02. Retrieved 2013-01-30.
- ↑ "As children, the Bullock sisters lived in Germany, moving to Virginia when Sandra was 11 and Gesine was five where their father, John, worked at the Pentagon. Helga, a German opera singer, continued to travel back to Europe for work – sometimes taking her daughters with her on tour."
- ↑ Wethington, Jessica (2001-03-05). "Fortis fortifies future deals". Variety. Retrieved 2013-01-30.
- ↑ Pasanen, Melissa (2011-06-10). "Former Montpelier bakery owner Bullock-Prado cooks up sweet new book she wished she had". The Burlington Free Press. Retrieved 2013-01-30.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) [dead link] - ↑ Strauss, Alix (31 October 2018). "Two Decades Filled with Laughter and Pastry". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2018-10-31. Retrieved 2018-10-31.
External links
[edit]- Official blog
- Gesine Bullock-Prado at IMDb
- "From film-making to cake-baking" by Melissa McClements, The Guardian, 19 March 2011
| International | |
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| National | |
- 1970 births
- Living people
- American bakers
- American people of German descent
- Writers from Washington, D.C.
- Southwestern Law School alumni
- University of Virginia alumni
- Writers from Virginia
- American television chefs
- American memoirists
- American women memoirists
- American cookbook writers
- American food writers
- American women food writers
- American women chefs
- 21st-century American women lawyers