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25 Aug 2014

Adam Sandler Biography and Filmography

Adam Sandler Biography and Filmography

The comedian, screen actor, screenwriter, entrepreneur, film producer, and musician Adam Sandler was born into a Jewish working-class family in the New York borough of Brooklyn.

Name at Birth : Adam Richard Sandler

Born: September 9, 1966 (age 47), Brooklyn, New York, USA

Nationality: American
Height: 5' 10" (1.77m)
Parents: Stanley Sandler, Judy Sandler
Spouse: Jackie Sandler (m. 2003-present)
Children: Sunny Madeline Sandler, Sadie Madison Sandler
Upcoming movies: Pixels, Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2

Sandler was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1966, the son of Judy, a nursery school teacher, and Stanley Sandler, an electrical engineer. His family is Jewish, descending from immigrants from Russia on both sides. When he was five, his family moved to Manchester, New Hampshire where he attended Manchester Central High School. After graduation, he became a regular on MTV's game show, Remote Control. In 1989, he starred in his first film, Going Overboard. He was later spotted by Saturday Night Live cast member Dennis Miller who got him a job on the show, which lasted from 1990 to 1995. It was there that Sandler created such characters as Cajun Man, Opera Man and Canteen Boy.

In 2009, he went on to star in director Judd Apatow's comedy ‘Funny People’ alongside Seth Rogen and Leslie Mann and followed this with ‘Grown Ups’. The latter saw him team up once more with Kevin James, as well as Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider, and was a commercial success.

Sandler’s private life appears to be happy and contented. In 2003, he married his girlfriend of four years’ standing, actress and model Jacqueline Titone. She gave birth to a baby girl called Sadie in May 2006. But Sandler’s relationship with the print media is far from harmonious. Indeed, Sandler became so tired of being misquoted in the press that he now totally refuses to give interviews to newspapers and magazines, and even only occasionally agrees to give interviews on TV. This reluctance to talk to the print media has earned Sandler the nickname 'The Goofball Garbo' - but since he’s now appeared in no less than seven films that have grossed in excess of $100 million, he certainly doesn’t need the publicity.

Regardless of the occasional accusations of typecasting, one thing is certain: thanks to Sandler’s ability to amuse and entertain us while delivering substantial box-office revenues, we’ll be seeing him in starring Hollywood roles for a considerable time to come.

On June 22, 2003, Sandler married actress Jacqueline Samantha Titone. Titone converted to Sandler's religion, Judaism, in 2000. The couple has two daughters: Sadie Madison Sandler (born 2006) and Sunny Madeline Sandler (born 2008). Sandler lives with his family in Los Angeles, but also owns homes in New York City and Florida.

Filmography

1987-1988 The Cosby Show
1989 Going Overboard
1990 The Marshall Chronicles
1990 ABC Afterschool Specials
1991 Shakes the Clown
1993 Coneheads
1993 The Larry Sanders Show
1994 Airheads
1994 Mixed Nuts
1995 Billy Madison
1990-1995 Saturday Night Live
1996 Happy Gilmore
1996 Bulletproof
1998 The Wedding Singer
1998 Dirty Work
1998 Late Night with Conan O'Brien: 5th Anniversary Special
1998 The Waterboy
1999 Big Daddy
2000 Little Nicky
2001 The Animal
2002 Punch-Drunk Love
2002 Mr. Deeds
2002 Eight Crazy Nights
2002 The Hot Chick
2003 Anger Management
2003 Couch
2003 Blossoms & Blood
2004 50 First Dates
2004 Spanglish
2005 The Longest Yard
2005 Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
2006 Click
2007 Reign Over Me
2007 The King of Queens
2007 I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
2008 You Don't Mess with the Zohan
2008 Bedtime Stories
2009 Funny People
2010 Grown Ups
2010 Cubed
2011 Just Go with It
2011 Zookeeper
2011 Jack and Jill
2012 I Hate You, Dad
2012 Hotel Transylvania

21 Nov 2011

Adam Sandler Biography

NAME: Adam Sandler

OCCUPATION: Film Actor, Comedian, Songwriter, Singer, Screenwriter

BIRTH DATE: September 09, 1966 (Age: 45)

EDUCATION: New York University

PLACE OF BIRTH: New York, New York

Adam Sandler Relationships:

Sunny Madeline Sandler - Daughter

Elizabeth Sandler - Sister

Jackie Titone - Wife

Judy Sandler - Mother

Sadie Madison Sandler - Daughter

Scott Sandler - Brother

Stan Sandler - Father

Valerie Sandler - Sister

Actor, comedian, musician. Born on September 9, 1966, in New York City. Raised in Manchester, New Hampshire, as one of seven children, Sandler was always the class clown. However, he never aspired to be a comedian until age 17 when his brother encouraged him to perform at a Boston comedy club.

Sandler continued to perform after he left Boston to attend New York University. After graduation, he became a regular on MTV's game show, Remote Control. In 1989, he starred in his first film, Going Overboard. He was later spotted by Saturday Night Live cast member Dennis Miller who got him a job on the show, which lasted from 1990 to 1995. It was there that Sandler created such characters as Cajun Man, Opera Man and Canteen Boy.

Sandler's first starring role was in 1989, in the film Going Overboard. In 1995, he starred in Billy Madison, in which he plays a grown, though uneducated, man repeating grades 1?12 to earn back his father's respect, along with the right to inherit his father's multi-million-dollar hotel empire. He followed this film with other financially successful comedies such as Bulletproof (1996), 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 earlier films did not receive critical praise, his more recent films, beginning with Punch-Drunk Love (2002), have received almost uniformly positive reviews. Some critics concluded that Sandler possessed considerably more acting ability that they believed had been previously wasted on poorly written scripts and characters with no development. Sandler has moved outside the genre of slapstick comedy to take on more serious parts such as the aforementioned Punch-Drunk Love (for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe), Spanglish (2004).

A remake of the prison football comedy "The Longest Yard" (2005) - with Sandler in the Burt Reynolds role of a jailed NFL quarterback leading a team of inmates against their guards - was a half-step backward, and though it lacked much of the original's charm and edge, it proved popular at the box office. In "Click" (2006), he was back to playing a misunderstood everyman who stumbles onto a device that allows him to rewind, fast-forward and pause his life at will. Critics were fairly merciless about the film's debt to "It's a Wonderful Life" and other superior explorations of the film's theme, but audiences flocked to the tune of over $200 million dollars. Taking another sojourn into the dramatic arena, Sandler played a dentist coping with the loss of his family on September 11th in "Reign Over Me" (2007). Again critics and audiences disagreed, and the well-received film made a paltry box office showing - audiences wanted the silly, senseless Sandler; the same Sandler who had beaten Bob Barker with a golf club and declared "The price is wrong, bitch!" Sandler made a financial rebound to somewhat familiar territory with "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry" (2007), starring as a heterosexual firefighter who feigns marriage with another fireman (Kevin James) to qualify for the department's domestic partner benefits.

In 2008, Sandler joined forces with Judd Apatow for "You Don't Mess With the Zohan," an unlikely pairing that brought the mastermind behind real-life based comedies like "40-Year-Old Virgin" (2005) into Sandler's preposterous premise land. This time, Sandler starred as an Israeli intelligence officer who fakes his own death to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a hairstylist in New York City. The film was not as strongly received as Sandler's Disney family film, "Bedtime Stories" (2008), but Apatow signed him on for a starring role as a possibly-dying stand-up comedian for "Funny People" (2009). Although the script gave Sandler one of his most demanding acting roles up to that point, the film itself did mediocre box office compared to Apatow's previous smashes. Embracing all the sides of his career, Sandler moved on to the good-natured "Grown Ups" (2010), reuniting with old "SNL" pals David Spade, Chris Rock and Rob Schneider, as well as "Chuck and Larry" co-star Kevin James, about a group of friends gathering together to reminisce after the death of their childhood basketball coach. The film seemed to capture the tone of Sandler and company's lives off camera as well - nostalgic for the earlier days, but looking towards the future with optimism.

Adam Sandler Awards:

2003 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy - Nominee

1991 Emmy: Outstanding Writing in a Variety or Music Program - Nominee

1992 Emmy: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a Variety or Music Program - Nominee

1993 Emmy: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a Variety or Music Program - Nominee