Adam Sandler Facts

Adam Sandler
Adam Richard Sandler (born September 9, 1966) is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker.
He was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1990 to 1995, before going on to star in many
Hollywood films, which have combined to earn more than $2 billion at the box office.[2][3]
Sandler is best known for his comedic roles including Billy Madison (1995), Happy
Gilmore (1996), The Waterboy (1998), The Wedding Singer (1998), Big Daddy (1999), Mr.
Deeds (2002), 50 First Dates (2004), The Longest Yard (2005), Click (2006), Grown
Ups (2010), Just Go with It (2011), Grown Ups 2 (2013), Blended (2014), Murder Mystery (2019)
and Hubie Halloween (2020). He also voices Dracula in the Hotel Transylvania franchise (2012–
present).
Some of Sandler's films, such as Jack and Jill (2011), have been widely panned, and Sandler is the
holder of three Golden Raspberry Awards and 11 Raspberry Award nominations, more than any
other actor but Sylvester Stallone. Conversely, he has earned praise for his dramatic performances
in films such as Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Spanglish (2004), Reign Over Me (2007), Funny
People (2009), The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017), and Uncut Gems (2019).
Early life
Sandler was born in Brooklyn, New York, on September 9, 1966,[5] to Judith "Judy" (née Levine), a
nursery school teacher, and Stanley Sandler, an electrical engineer.[5] His family is Jewish and
descends from Russian-Jewish immigrants on both sides.[6][7][8] Sandler grew up in Manchester, New
Hampshire, after moving there at the age of six.[9] He attended Manchester Central High School. As a
teen, Sandler was in BBYO, a Jewish youth group. Sandler graduated from New York
University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1988.
Acting career
Sandler at 2002 Cannes Film Festival
Early in his career, in 1987, Sandler played Theo Huxtable's friend, Smitty, in The Cosby Show and
the Stud Boy or Trivia Delinquent in the MTV game show Remote Control. After his film debut Going
Overboard in 1989, Sandler performed in comedy clubs, having first taken the stage at his brother's
urging when he was 17. He was discovered by comedian Dennis Miller, who caught Sandler's act in
Los Angeles and recommended him to Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels. Sandler was
hired as a writer for SNL in 1990 and became a featured player the following year, making a name
for himself by performing amusing original songs on the show, including "The Thanksgiving Song"
and "The Chanukah Song".[11] Sandler told Conan O'Brien on The Tonight Show that NBC fired him
and Chris Farley from the show in 1995, and played this up in his return to the show as a host in
2019.[12][13]
In 1993, Adam Sandler appeared in the film Coneheads with Chris Farley, David Spade, Dan
Aykroyd, Phil Hartman, and Jane Curtin. In 1994, he co-starred in Airheads with Brendan
Fraser and Steve Buscemi. He starred in Billy Madison (1995) playing a grown man repeating
grades 1–12 to earn back his father's respect and the right to inherit his father's multimillion-dollar
hotel empire. The film was successful at the box office despite negative reviews. He followed this
film with Bulletproof (1996), and the financially successful comedies Happy Gilmore (1996) and The
Wedding Singer (1998). He was initially cast in the bachelor party–themed comedy/thriller Very Bad
Things (1998) but had to back out due to his involvement in The Waterboy (1998), one of his first
hits.
Although his earliest films did not receive favorable critical attention, he started to receive more
positive reviews, beginning with Punch-Drunk Love in 2002. Roger Ebert's review of Punch-Drunk
Love concluded that Sandler had been wasted in earlier films with poorly written scripts and
characters with no development.[14] Sandler has moved outside the genre of slapstick comedy to take
on more serious roles, such as the aforementioned Punch-Drunk Love, for which he was nominated
for a Golden Globe, and Mike Binder's Reign Over Me (2007), a drama about a man who loses his
entire family during the September 11 attacks, and then struggles to rekindle a friendship with his old
college roommate (Don Cheadle).

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