![]() ![]() The company has produced most of Sandler's subsequent films to date, and is on the Sony/ Columbia Pictures lot in Culver City, California. Sandler formed his film production company, Happy Madison Productions, in 1999, first producing fellow SNL alumnus Rob Schneider's film Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo. 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. He followed this film with Bulletproof (1996), and the financially successful comedies Happy Gilmore (1996) and The Wedding Singer (1998). The film was successful at the box office despite negative reviews. Sandler 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. In 1994, he co-starred in Airheads with Brendan Fraser and Steve Buscemi.ġ995–2007: Box office success and Happy Madison founding Sandler at 2002 Cannes Film Festival In 1993, Adam Sandler appeared in the film Coneheads with Farley, David Spade, Dan Aykroyd, Phil Hartman, and Jane Curtin. Sandler used his firing as part of his monologue when he returned in 2019 to host the show. Sandler told Conan O'Brien on The Tonight Show that NBC fired him and Chris Farley from the show in 1995. He made a name for himself by performing amusing original songs on the show, including " The Thanksgiving Song" and " The Chanukah Song". Sandler was hired as a writer for SNL in 1990, and became a featured player the following year. 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. After his film debut in Going Overboard in 1989, Sandler performed in comedy clubs, having first taken the stage at his brother's urging when he was 17. In 1987, Sandler played Theo Huxtable's friend Smitty on The Cosby Show and the Stud Boy or Trivia Delinquent on the MTV game show Remote Control. See also: List of awards and nominations received by Adam Sandler 1987–1995: Early television and film roles He graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1988. As a teen, Sandler was in BBYO, a Jewish youth group. ![]() He attended Manchester Central High School. Sandler grew up in Manchester, New Hampshire, after his family moved there when he was six years old. ![]() His family is Jewish and descends from Jewish Russian immigrants on both sides. Sandler was born in Brooklyn, New York, on September 9, 1966, to Judith "Judy" ( née Levine), a nursery school teacher, and Stanley Sandler, an electrical engineer. Several Sandler comedies, such as Jack and Jill (2011), have been panned, resulting in nine Golden Raspberry Awards and 37 Raspberry Award nominations, more than any actor except Sylvester Stallone. He also voiced Davey, Whitey, and Eleanore in Eight Crazy Nights (2002) and Dracula in the first three films of the Hotel Transylvania franchise (2012–2018). He has also taken dramatic roles in Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Reign Over Me (2007), The Meyerowitz Stories (2017), Uncut Gems (2019), and Hustle (2022), with the latter three ranked as major career highlights. Sandler's comedic roles include Billy Madison (1995), Happy Gilmore (1996), The Waterboy (1998), The Wedding Singer (1998), Big Daddy (1999), Mr. Sandler had an estimated net worth of $420 million in 2020, and signed a new four-movie deal with Netflix worth over $250 million. He has starred in Hollywood comedy films that cumulatively grossed over $2 billion worldwide. He returned to Saturday Night Live as a host in 2019 earning a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Sandler was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1990 to 1995. A cultural icon of Generation X, Sandler became a staple of American comedy, television, and film in the waning years of the 20th century. In 2023, Sandler was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Primarily a comedic leading actor in film and television, his accolades include nominations for three Grammy Awards, five Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Adam Richard Sandler (born September 9, 1966) is an American actor and comedian. ![]()
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