Gesine Bullock-Prado

Gesine Bullock-Prado (born March 6, 1970) is an American pastry chef, TV personality, author, attorney, and former film executive. Life and career Bullock-Prado was born in Washington, D.C. Her father, John Wilson Bullock (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. 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, and helped develop dozens of others, including Practical Magic, Miss Congeniality, and the series The George Lopez Show. She left the film industry in 2004 and relocated to Vermont. From 2005 to 2008, she owned a bakery, Gesine Confectionary, in Montpelier; she is now a pastry instructor at her own baking school in Hartford, Vermont, Sugar Glider Kitchen, and at King Arthur Flour Company.