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

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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

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singer who sang at the

Staatstheater Nürnberg The Staatstheater Nürnberg is a German theatre company in Nuremberg, Bavaria. The theatre is one of four Bavarian state theatres and shows operas, plays, ballets and concerts. History Its main venue, the opera house ("Opernhaus Nürnberg"), i ...

and the

Salzburg Festival The Salzburg Festival (german: Salzburger Festspiele) is a prominent festival of music and drama established in 1920. It is held each summer (for five weeks starting in late July) in the Austrian town of Salzburg, the birthplace of Wolfgang Amad ...

and taught voice at the

Mary Washington College The University of Mary Washington (UMW) is a public liberal arts university in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Founded in 1908 as the Fredericksburg Teachers College, the institution was named Mary Washington College in 1938 after Mary Ball Washing ...

. Bullock attended the

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and

Southwestern Law School Southwestern Law School is a private law school in Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles. It is accredited by the American Bar Association and enrolls nearly 1,000 students. Its campus includes the Bullocks Wilshire building, an art deco National Register ...

, and became a licensed attorney in 1997. She joined the production company

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in 1995 with her sister, actress

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. 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 ''Practical Magic'' is a 1998 American fantasy romantic drama film based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Alice Hoffman. The film was directed by Griffin Dunne and stars Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing, Dianne Wiest, Aidan ...

'', '' Miss Congeniality'', and the series ''

The George Lopez Show ''George Lopez'', commonly referred to as ''The George Lopez Show'', is an American sitcom created by George Lopez, Bruce Helford and Robert Borden, which originally aired for six seasons, consisting of 120 episodes, on ABC from March 27, 2002, ...

''. 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

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, Sugar Glider Kitchen, and at King Arthur Flour Company. She is the host of

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's ''Baked in Vermont'' and appears as a judge on ''

Beat Bobby Flay ''Beat Bobby Flay'' is an American cooking competition show on the Food Network. It features various chefs competing against Bobby Flay. The show is taped in front of a live audience. Format In the first round, two guests, often a celebrity che ...

'', ''Christmas Cookie Challenge'', and ''Worst Cooks''. She is the author of books, including the memoirs ''Confections of a Closet Master Baker'' (2009) aka ''My Life from Scratch'' (2010) – dedicated to her mother, and the cookbooks ''Sugar Baby'' (2011), ''Pie It Forward'' (2012), ''Bake It Like You Mean It'' (2013), ''Let Them Eat Cake'' (2016), and ''Fantastical Cakes'' (2018). She has been married to

storyboard artist A storyboard artist (sometimes called a story artist or visualizer) creates storyboards for advertising agencies and film productions. Work A storyboard artist visualizes stories and sketches frames of the story. Quick pencil drawings and marke ...

Raymond Prado since April 3, 1999.

References

External links

Official blog
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"From film-making to cake-baking"
by Melissa McClements, ''

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'', 19 March 2011 {{DEFAULTSORT:Bullock-Prado, Gesine 1970 births Living people American bakers American chefs American people of German descent Writers from Washington, D.C. Southwestern Law School alumni University of Virginia alumni Writers from Virginia American memoirists American women memoirists American women lawyers American cookbook writers Women food writers American food writers Women cookbook writers American women chefs 21st-century American women