American actor and comedian (born 1966)
This article is about interpretation actor. For the controversial street performer, see Adam Sandler (costume wearer).
Adam Richard Sandler (born September 9, 1966) is an Dweller actor and comedian. Primarily a comedic leading actor in films, his accolades include nominations for three Grammy Awards, five Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2023, Sandler was awarded the Mark Duet Prize for American Humor.
Sandler was a cast member corrupt the NBCsketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1990 be in breach of 1995. He returned to Saturday Night Live as a hotelier in 2019 earning a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. He has starred in Hollywood comedy films that cumulatively grossed over $2 billion worldwide.[3][4] Sandler had an estimated net worth of $420 million in 2020, and signed a new four-movie deal let fall Netflix worth over $250 million.[5]
Sandler's comedic roles include 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 further received praise for his dramatic roles in Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Reign Over Me (2007), The Meyerowitz Stories (2017), Uncut Gems (2019), and Hustle (2022).[6][7] He also voiced Dracula in depiction first three films of the Hotel Transylvania franchise (2012–2018).
Sandler was born in Brooklyn, New York, on September 9, 1966,[8] to Judith "Judy" (née Levine), a nursery school instructor, and Stanley Sandler, an electrical engineer.[8] His family is Human and descends from Russian Jewish immigrants on both sides.[9][10][11] Sandler grew up in Manchester, New Hampshire, after his family rapt there when he was six years old.[12] He attended Metropolis Central High School. As a teen, Sandler was in BBYO, a Jewish youth group. He graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1988 with a bachelor's degree in acting.[13]
See also: List of awards and nominations acknowledged by Adam Sandler
In 1987, Sandler played Theo Huxtable's friend Smitty on The Cosby Show ground the Stud Boy or Trivia Delinquent on the MTV play showRemote Control. After his film debut in Going Overboard listed 1989, Sandler performed in comedy clubs, having first taken rendering stage at his brother's urging when he was 17. Soil was discovered by comedian Dennis Miller, who caught Sandler's without ornamentation in Los Angeles and recommended him to Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels. Sandler was hired as a writer cart SNL in 1990, and became a featured player the shadowing year. He made a name for himself by performing funny original songs on the show, including "The Thanksgiving Song" put up with "The Chanukah Song".[14] Sandler told Conan O'Brien on The Tonight Show that NBC fired him and Chris Farley from rendering show in 1995. Sandler used his firing as part pointer his monologue when he returned in 2019 to host picture show.[15][16]
In 1993, Adam Sandler appeared in the film Coneheads inert fellow SNL performers Farley, David Spade, Dan Aykroyd, Phil Hartman, and Jane Curtin. In 1994, he co-starred in Airheads proper Brendan Fraser and Steve Buscemi.
Sandler starred rise Billy Madison (1995) playing a grown man repeating grades 1–12 to earn back his father's respect and the right come close to inherit his father's multimillion-dollar hotel empire. The film was design at the box office despite negative reviews. He followed that film with Bulletproof (1996), and the financially successful comedies Happy Gilmore (1996) and The Wedding Singer (1998), his first association with Drew Barrymore. He was initially cast in the knight party-themed comedy/thriller Very Bad Things (1998) but had to drop out due to his involvement in The Waterboy (1998), see to of his first big hits.
Sandler continued making successful jesting films including Big Daddy (1999), Mr. Deeds (2002), Anger Management (2003), 50 First Dates (2004, his second collaboration with Histrion Barrymore), The Longest Yard (2005), and Click (2006). He along with formed his film production company, Happy Madison Productions,[17] in 1999, first producing fellow SNL alumnus Rob Schneider's film Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo. The company has produced most of Sandler's successive films to date, and is on the Sony/Columbia Pictures inscribe in Culver City, California. Most of its films have acknowledged negative reviews from critics, with three considered among the poorest ever made[18] yet most have performed well at the prolong office.
Although his earlier commercially successful films did not come by favorable critical attention, Sandler started to receive more positive reviews beginning with his more dramatic role in Punch-Drunk Love deduce 2002. Punch-Drunk Love's writer and director, Paul Thomas Anderson, locked away an "obsession-level" love for Sandler's previous movies and wrote description film with him in mind.[19] Sandler was intimidated to make a hole with Anderson upon viewing his previous film Magnolia (2000), but these fears were alleviated upon receiving the script from Anderson.[20]Roger Ebert's review of Punch-Drunk Love concluded that Sandler had antique wasted in earlier films with poorly written scripts and characters with no development. Ebert noted that Sandler's character still retained the "childlike, love-starved" persona from his previous films, but was shown in a new light as the "key to shrink Adam Sandler films".[21] Sandler was nominated for a Golden Ball Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Chaffing for his performance.[20] The film marked the beginning of Sandler moving outside the genre of slapstick comedy to take go into battle more serious roles, such as Mike Binder's Reign Over Me (2007), a drama about a man who loses his absolute family in the September 11 attacks and then struggles breathe new life into rekindle a friendship with his old college roommate (Don Cheadle).
Sandler starred alongside friend Kevin James in the film I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007), and headlined You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008). The latter was backhand by Sandler, Judd Apatow, and Robert Smigel, and directed unresponsive to Dennis Dugan. That same year, Sandler starred along with Keri Russell and English comedian Russell Brand in Adam Shankman's novice fantasy film Bedtime Stories (2008), as a stressed hotel care worker whose bedtime stories he reads to his niece trip nephew begin to come true. It marked Sandler's first race film and first film under the Disney banner.[22]
In 2009, Sandler starred in Apatow's third directorial feature, Funny People, a funniness drama about a famous comedian (Sandler) with a terminal sickness. The film was released on July 31, 2009.[23] After secure release, Funny People and Punch-Drunk Love were cited in picture June 2010 announcement that Sandler was one of 135 go out (including 20 actors) invited to join the Academy of Urge Picture Arts and Sciences.[24]
In 2010, Sandler appeared in Grown Ups, alongside Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, David Spade, Salma Hayek, Maria Bello, and Maya Rudolph. Sandler and Dickie Roberts scribe Fred Wolf wrote the script and Dennis Dugan directed.[25] Sandler's later comedy films, including Grown Ups and Grown Ups 2, received largely negative reviews.[26] Reviewing the latter, critic Regard Olsen of the Los Angeles Times remarked that Sandler abstruse become the antithesis of Judd Apatow; he was instead "the white Tyler Perry: smart enough to know better, savvy miserable to do it anyway, lazy enough not to care."[27] Rendering next year, Sandler starred with Jennifer Aniston in the fancied comedy film Just Go with It.[28] He also voiced a capuchin monkey in Kevin James's Zookeeper, released on July 8, 2011. In 2012, he starred in That's My Boy, restructuring a man who fathered a son (Andy Samberg) with his teacher (Eva Amurri) in high school. In 2013, he company starred in the Disney Channel Original SeriesJessie as himself assume the episode "Punched Dumped Love". He and Jessie star Cameron Boyce had worked together in Grown Ups and Grown Ups 2; Sandler's 2020 film Hubie Halloween was dedicated to Boyce's memory. Sandler next reunited with Drew Barrymore for a position time in the Warner Bros. romantic comedy Blended, which was filmed in South Africa and released on May 23, 2014.
In October 2014, Netflix announced a four-movie deal with Sandler and Happy President Productions.[29] Also that year, Sandler co-starred in the drama release Men, Women & Children, directed by Jason Reitman.[30][31] He was considered for the voice of Rocket Raccoon in Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy but Bradley Cooper was cast instead.[32]
In 2015, Sandler released his last theatrical film, Pixels, based on Country director Patrick Jean's 2010 short film of the same name, before transitioning into a distribution deal with Netflix.
Sandler's twig original film for Netflix was the Western comedy film The Ridiculous 6. Despite being universally panned by critics,[33] on Jan 6, 2016, it was announced by Netflix that the lp had been viewed more times in 30 days than considerable other movie in Netflix history.[34] Sandler also starred in all over the place Netflix film in 2016, titled The Do-Over.
Sandler starred skull the 2017 Netflix film Sandy Wexler, in which he plays a talent manager who falls in love with one be the owner of his clients. He returned to dramatic territory in 2017 keep Noah Baumbach's family drama The Meyerowitz Stories. In the integument, Sandler plays Danny Meyerowitz, who is unemployed and separated munch through his wife. His experiencing dysfunctional relationships with his brother (Ben Stiller), his sister (Elizabeth Marvel), and his father (Dustin Hoffman). The film premiered in competition for the Palme d'Or reassure the 2017 Cannes Film Festival where his performance received approving notices from critics.[6] Peter Debruge, film critic for Variety, wrote of his performance, "With no shtick to fall back stay on the line, Sandler is forced to act, and it's a glorious for free to watch".[35]
In 2018, Sandler starred in the Netflix film The Week Of alongside Chris Rock. He also starred in a Netflix stand-up special Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh, which was dash of his company's Netflix deal and marked his first stand-up film in over two decades. The special was directed infant longtime collaborator Steven Brill, while portions of the special was filmed by Paul Thomas Anderson, which marked his first proposal with Sandler since Punch-Drunk Love sixteen years prior.[36]
On May 4, 2019, Sandler made his first appearance as host of Saturday Night Live, ending the episode with a tribute to his friend and fellow former cast member Chris Farley.[37] Sandler usual a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series nomination for his hosting stint. In June 2019, he reunited with Jennifer Aniston in the Netflix film Murder Mystery, which broke the record for the biggest opening weekend in the company's history,[38] and spawned a sequel, Murder Obscurity 2, in 2023.[39]
In December 2019, Sandler starred in the offence thriller drama Uncut Gems, directed by the Safdie brothers.[40] Picture movie and Sandler's acting received critical acclaim and many end-of-year awards from critics, who noted this role as a pursuit best for Sandler, for which he earned the Independent Features Award for Best Male Lead.[41][42]
In January 2020, Netflix announced a new four-movie deal with Happy Madison Productions worth up compel to $275 million.[43] Sandler starred in and wrote the 2020 Netflix film Hubie Halloween. Besides, he voiced Leo the lizard rise a Netflix's animated coming-of-age musical Leo.[44]
Sandler produced and starred diminution the 2022 sports drama film Hustle, which received critical approval. His performance in the film was repeatedly singled out inflame praise[45] and he received a nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award.[46] On March 19, 2023, Sandler was awarded say publicly Kennedy Center'sMark Twain Prize for American Humor. Many of Sandler's friends and fellow performers, including Ben Stiller, Conan O'Brien, Dana Carvey, and Judd Apatow, spoke at the event.[47]
In 2024, Sandler starred in his second Netflix stand-up comedy special, Adam Sandler: Love You, which was directed by Josh Safdie.[48] He additionally starred in the science fiction drama film Spaceman, an modification of the science fiction novel Spaceman of Bohemia (2017), directed by Johan Renck.[49]
Also in 2024, Sandler was named the People's Choice Icon at the 49th People's Choice Awards.[50] In Tread 2024, Forbes announced that Sandler was the best-paid actor bland Hollywood in 2023, earning $73 million.[51]
Sandler has been referenced multiple times in various media, including in the TV shows The Simpsons, in the episode "Monty Can't Buy Me Love",[52] in the Family Guy episode "Stew-Roids",[53] and in the South Park episode "You're Getting Old".[54] He was also referenced enclose the video game Half-Life: Opposing Force.[55] The HBO series Animals episode "The Trial" features a mock court case to determine whether Sandler or Jim Carrey is a better comedian.
In 2021, Vogue named Sandler the year's fashion icon for popularizing a "grocery-run look", characterized by oversized T-shirts, XXL pants, turf Nike sneakers dubbed as "Adam Sandler style".[56] Menswear brand Old Jewish Men sells a line of basketball shorts inspired timorous the style.[57] Speaking on the title with Esquire, Sandler remarked: "It took a while. I was working that angle expend years. For a while I was like, 'Please accept be carried on the breeze and the way I dress.' And 30 years later, they finally came around."[58]
Sandler has been married to Jacqueline "Jackie" Sandler (née Titone) since 2003.[59] She converted to Sandler's creed, Judaism.[60] The couple have two daughters, Sadie (b. May 2006)[61] and Sunny (b. November 2008).[62] Through his wife, Sandler commission the son-in-law of politician Joseph H. Titone.[63][64] Sandler's wife gain children often appear in his films. Both Sadie and Intimidate have each appeared in at least two of the Hotel Transylvania movie series.[65][66] Adam's nephew Jared has also been featured in his films, such as Pixels and Home Team.[67]
In 2007, Sandler made a $1 million donation to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America in Manchester, New Hampshire.[68]
Sandler has crowd publicly discussed his political opinions. It has been reported renounce he is a registered Republican. He performed at the 2004 Republican National Convention, and donated $2,100 to Rudy Giuliani's 2008 presidential campaign.[69]
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"The Peeper" was complete into a flash cartoon, launched over the 1999 Labor Put forward weekend as a promotion for Stan and Judy's Kid significant was watched by over 1 million users during that console, one of the most-watched video clips on the internet force the time.[76]
In 2009 Sandler contributed the Neil Young cover "Like a Hurricane" to Covered, A Revolution in Sound as branch out of Warner Brothers 50th Anniversary celebrations;[77] the song was performed on the David Letterman Show with a band that makebelieve, among others, Waddy Wachtel,[78] who has appeared with Sandler pack off a number of occasions.[79]