Adam Sandler

80 FOLLOWERS • 154 CREDITS • SEP 9, 1966 • 59

Biography

Adam Richard Sandler (born September 9, 1966) is an American comedian, actor, 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. Sandler had an estimated net worth of $420 million in 2020, and signed a further four-movie deal with Netflix worth over $250 million. 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 also voiced Davey, Whitey, and Eleanore in Eight Crazy Nights and Dracula in the first three films of the Hotel Transylvania franchise (2012–2018). While some of his comedic films, including Jack and Jill (2011), have been panned, resulting in Sandler receiving nine Golden Raspberry Awards and 37 Raspberry Award nominations, more than any actor other than Sylvester Stallone, he has received critical acclaim for his dramatic performances in the dramedy films Spanglish (2004), Reign Over Me (2007), and Funny People (2009). He has also been roundly praised for his leading roles in auteur films including Punch-Drunk Love (2002) by Paul Thomas Anderson, Noah Baumbach's The Meyerowitz Stories (2017), and the Safdie brothers' Uncut Gems (2019), the last of which earned him the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead.

Overview

Known For

Saturday Night Live

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Oscars

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Golden Globe Awards

Late Night with Seth Meyers

El hormiguero

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The One Show

Everybody's Live with John Mulaney

Teen Choice Awards

The King of Queens

The Graham Norton Show

CBS News Sunday Morning

The Larry Sanders Show

The Jonathan Ross Show

Jeopardy!

MTV Movie & TV Awards

So You Think You Can Dance

Home Movie: The Princess Bride

Kevin Can Wait

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Dirty Work

SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night

Hotel Transylvania: Transformania

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

The Hot Chick

The Animal

Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo

Coneheads

Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo

Zookeeper

Top Five

You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah

Men, Women & Children

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

You Don't Mess with the Zohan

Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh

Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

Eight Crazy Nights

Adam Sandler: What the Hell Happened to Me?

Adam Sandler: Funny Guy

Production Credits