Forbes recently named Sandra Bullock the highest paid actress of the last 12 months, after a bonzer year at the box office that was capped with an Oscar.

It hasn't always been so rosy for Sandy though, who started out in some rubbish telly and DTV movies. After five minutes screentime in Hangmen, Sandy appeared in TV movie Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman, which saw her gifted with super-charged robotic innards.

Hollywood's Sweetheart? Far from it, though her perkiness cuts through the hokum.