andra Bullock, 54, follows up the hit heist film Ocean’s 8 with the dystopian Netflix thriller Bird Box (December 21). She plays Malorie, a mother of two fleeing a mysterious deadly force. Here are five facts about the Oscar winner.

1. Her mother, Helga (1942–2000), born in Nuremberg, Germany, was an opera singer.
2. The small scar above her left eye is the result of a childhood fall into a lake, where she cut her head on a rock.
3. High heels don’t faze her. “I think it’s my mother’s gene because she did everything in high heels.”
4. She made history as the only female performer to win both an Oscar (The Blind Side) and a Razzie Award, for Worst Actress (All About Steve), in the same year.
5. Bullock’s role in the hit romantic comedy While You Were Sleeping (1995) was originally meant for Demi Moore.