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Adam Richard Sandler (born September 9, 1966) is an American comedian, producer, and musician. After becoming a popular Saturday Night Live cast member, he went on to become a major Hollywood actor, starring in several $100 million films. Though he is best known for his comedic roles, he has also had success in romantic and dramatic roles, such as the films Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Spanglish (2004), and Reign Over Me (2007). Sandler is also known by his nickname "The Sad Man".

Sandler was born in a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York to Judy, a housewife, and Stan Sandler, an electrician. He has three older siblings, Scott, Elizabeth and Valerie. He was born with a speech-impediment that causes his jaw to move diagonally when he talks. It went away after speech therapy, but can be spotted when he gets emotional. Sandler's family moved to the city of Manchester, New Hampshire when he was six, where he was one of only a few Jewish students. He attended Webster Elementary School and Hillside Junior High. He later attended Manchester Central High School and New York University, where he worked as a resident assistant while studying drama.

In the mid to late 1980s, Sandler played Theo Huxtable's friend Smitty on The Cosby Show (1985-1989). He also was a performer for the MTV game show Remote Control, on which he made appearances as the characters "Trivia Delinquent" or "Stud Boy."

Sandler started performing in comedy clubs early on, taking the stage at his brother's urging when he was only 17. He was then discovered by comedian Dennis Miller, who caught Sandler's act in Los Angeles. Miller immediately 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, quickly making a name for himself by performing amusing original songs on the show, including "The Chanukah Song". He left the show in 1995 to focus on his acting career.

Sandler's first successful starring role was in 1989 when he starred in the movie Going Overboard. In 1995 he starred in Billy Madison, in which he plays a grown man repeating grades 1-12 to earn his father's respect back, along with the right to inherit his father's multi-million-dollar hotel empire. He followed this movie up with other financially successful comedies such as Happy Gilmore (1996) and The Wedding Singer (1998). He was initially cast in the bachelor-party-themed comedy/thriller Very Bad Things, but had to back out due to his involvement in The Waterboy (1998), where Sandler reached box-office superstardom, and has remained since then.

Although most of his earlier films were almost universally despised by movie critics, many of his recent films starting with Punch-Drunk Love have received almost uniformly positive reviews, leading many movie critics to believe that Sandler possesses considerable acting ability that they believed had been previously wasted on poorly written scripts and characters with no development. Audiences have remained faithful to Sandler's slapstick humor to the tune of $100-million-plus grossing movies. Sandler has moved outside the genre of goofball humor to take on more serious parts such as the aforementioned Punch-Drunk Love (for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe), and Spanglish. He also plays a loving father figure in Big Daddy (1999). Ironically, during filming, he met Jacqueline Samantha Titone -- his future wife and mother of his daughter. Jackie was cast as the charming waitress from The Blarney Stone Bar.

At one point, Sandler was considered for the part that went to Jamie Foxx in Collateral (2004). He also was one of the finalists along with Jim Carrey and Johnny Depp for the role of Willy Wonka in Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but Depp in the end got the role. Most recently, he starred in the movie Click (2006), which features some humor typical of his earlier films as well as a serious message about the stresses of everyday life. He returned to more dramatic fare with Mike Binder's Reign Over Me, a drama about a man who lost his entire family in 9/11 and rekindles a friendship with his old college roommate (played by Don Cheadle). His next comedy will be I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, in which he and Kevin James will portray firemen who pretend to be a gay couple in order to receive domestic partner benefits. Future projects include You Don't Mess with the Zohan, a film written by Sandler, The 40-Year-Old Virgin writer-director Judd Apatow, and Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog creator Robert Smigel and being directed by Happy Gilmore director Dennis Dugan about a Mossad agent who fakes his own death and moves to the United States to become a hair stylist, and Bedtime Stories, a fantasy film being directed by Bringing Down the House director Adam Shankman about a stressed real estate developer whose bedtime stories he reads to his niece and nephew begin to come true, which will mark Sandler's first family film and first film under the Walt Disney banner. Sandler has also been long-rumored to costar with Michael Madsen in Quentin Tarantino's upcoming World War II saga Inglorious Bastards.

Sandler made a cameo appearance on an episode of The Price Is Right during the "Happy Gilmore Showcase." Host Bob Barker appeared in the movie Happy Gilmore which featured a famous fight scene with Sandler's character (where Barker wins).

Adam may have guest spots on a talk shows, as a special audience member in an episode of The Showbiz Show with David Spade and Peter La maybe also be a costar on the show, and as the feature guest on the final episode of John McEnroe's eponymous CNBC talk show, airing in late 2004. McEnroe had appeared in two of Sandler's movies, both times as himself (Mr. Deeds and Anger Management). In The Animal, starring Rob Schneider, Sandler appears briefly as Schneider's "'You can do it' Guy" from The Waterboy. On March 20, 2007 Sandler was scheduled to be a guest on The Late Show with David Letterman. However, due to a minor illness, Letterman could not host the show and Sandler filled in as host.

Sandler and Rob Schneider have always made cameos in each other's movies:

• The Hot Chick, where Schneider stars, Sandler plays the drummer


• The Animal, where Schneider stars, Sandler played the townie


• Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, where Schneider stars, Sandler does cameo as one of the deceased gigolos


• The Longest Yard, where Sandler stars, Schneider suggests to the prisoners around him, that they hug in the showers


• Little Nicky, where Sandler stars, Schneider is an angry man (Townie) in riot


• Big Daddy, where Sandler stars, Schneider plays a man named Nazo


• Mr. Deeds, where Sandler stars, Schneider makes two short appearances as Nazo; Schneider's character in Sandler's movie, Big Daddy.


• 50 First Dates, where Sandler stars, Schneider plays a Hawaiian friend of Adam's character with one eye and is the priest to his wedding.


• The Waterboy, where Sandler stars, Schneider plays the same angry man or Townie from Little Nicky


• Eight Crazy Nights, where Sandler stars, Schneider voices a Chinese waiter who doesn't like Sandler's character, not to mention that Schneider also provided the narration to the film.


• Click, where Sandler stars, Schneider plays Prince Habeeboo, a potential foreign customer for Sandler's architect firm. (Schneider is not credited on-screen)


• I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, where Sandler stars, Schneider is the priest who marries Sandler and James' characters.

• The King of Queens, he made a cameo appearance on his friend Kevin James's show in the episode Mild Bunch in season 9. Sandler's friends Allen Covert, Peter Dante, J.D. Donaruma, Kevin Grady and Jonathan Loughran also appears in the episode.

Most of his characters have a short temper or fuse. Also, many of Sandler's films involve large denomonations of money and/or something worth a large amount of money ($200,000 in Big Daddy, $270,000-$275,000 in Happy Gilmore, $40 billion and Blake Media in Mr. Deeds, Madison Hotels in Billy Madison, etc.) A lot of Sandler's films involve the antagonist using an accomplice to take him down (Chuck Cedars and Mac McGrath in Mr. Deeds, etc.) Many of his films end with a scene in which his character is being cheered on by a large audience for one reason or another (knowledge bowl in Billy Madison, baseball game in Anger Management, golf tournament in Happy Gilmore, stockholders' meeting in Mr. Deeds, the airport passengers in The Wedding Singer, etc). He has also occasionally followed up the cheering scenes with a judge going the opposite direction of the crowd sentiment and ruining the moment (the Billy Madison contest and the trial in Big Daddy being two examples). This can be interpreted as a response to the lack of realism in other "cheesy" movies where a dumb protagonist wins over contest judges in the end or has serious crimes overlooked by a trial judge to produce a happy ending.

Most of Adam Sandler's films have a family that are bully or pests named the O'Doyles

Sandler's character names in many of his earlier films end with a "y" or an "ie" sound. Examples include his characters in Going Overboard (Schecky), Billy Madison (Billy), Happy Gilmore (Happy), Bulletproof (Archie), Wedding Singer (Robbie), Waterboy (Bobby), Big Daddy (Sonny), Little Nicky (Nicky), Punch-Drunk Love (Barry), 50 First Dates (Henry), and Reign Over Me (Charlie). In many of his movies, the lead female character's name starts with a V (i.e., Vicki Vallencourt, Veronica Vaughn, Virginia Venit, Valerie Veran, Vanessa).

The titles of many of Sandler's films are either the name of his character (Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Little Nicky, Mr. Deeds) or describe his character in some way (The Waterboy, The Wedding Singer, Big Daddy).

He is a huge fan of the band Styx, and will often feature their music in his movies. In Big Daddy, he admitted to refusing to show his late aunt around Manhattan so he could catch a Jethro Tull concert in New Jersey.

Sandler often casts Allen Covert, Blake Clark, Steve Buscemi, Peter Dante, Jonathan Loughran, Rob Schneider, and former SNL players in his films.

Sandler (being a huge New York Jets fan) has made many references to the Team. Seen in Click (when he is a young boy wearing a Jets jersey), Mr.Deeds (when the helicopter pilot informs him that he now owns the Jets), Big Daddy (when Sonny and Julian go to a sports bar and the waitress asks Julian which football team he wanted to win and he replies by saying "the goddamn Jets"), In Little Nicky (When Dan Marino tries to sell his soul to win the Super Bowl, but the Devil refuses. When Dan leaves, the Devil informs Nicky that he's a Jets fan) and most notably in The Longest Yard.

In almost all of his movies somebody yells "You can do it (name), (then something such as "Bite his fricking head off)" this is usually said by Rob Schneider, with the exception of "Anger Management" where Mayor Gulliani says the line.

He pairs in both The Wedding Singer and 50 First Dates with Drew Barrymore, and in both the song True is played, in its original version and a remixed version respectively.

Sandler is good friends with comedian Norm MacDonald. Sandler subsequently made a cameo appearance in MacDonald's Dirty Work. He is a fan of professional wrestling, and most of his self-written films have references to professional wrestling in them. Five professional wrestlers had a role in The Longest Yard due to Sandler's insistence. He was also seen at WWE WrestleMania 21. Kevin Nash and Paul Wight additionally made appearances in Grandma's Boy and The Waterboy respectively.

Sandler is also a huge fan of the New York Yankees, which has also been evident in some of his films including Anger Management.

Actor Thomas Wilson of Back to the Future fame, states Sandler is the "nicest famous guy he knows".

In the movie "Click", Sandler goes to Lake Winnipesauke, a lake in New Hampshire where he went to camp. He also makes reference to the lake in his song "The Thanksgiving Song."

The song "Lunchlady Land" is dedicated to the lunchlady at Central High School in Manchester, NH, where Sandler went to school.

• Angelo from "Good Morning, Brooklyn"


• Audience McGee, a random audience member who interrupts SNL sketches


• Cajun Man, a Weekend Update commentator from Louisiana


• Fabio, one of the La Cantore waiters who hits on Mrs. Kirkpatrick (played by two-time host Kirstie Alley)


• Canteen Boy, an adult scouting enthusiast who is frequently mocked by adults and was once molested by his scoutmaster (Alec Baldwin).


• Gil Graham, a geek who tours with bands


• Helios, from Hub's Gyros


• Opera Man, Weekend Update commentator from Italy, who would sing the stories in opera form

• Axl Rose


• Bill Cosby


• Bobcat Goldthwait


• Bono from U2


• Bruce Springsteen


• Charles Manson


• Ray Charles


• Barry Williams


• David Brenner


• Donnie Wahlberg


• Eddie Vedder


• Eric Bogosian


• Gary Dell'Abate


• Tina Turner


• Hector Camacho


• Jackie Mason


• Mark Wahlberg


• Orville Wright


• Pauly Shore


• Richard Lewis


• Steven Tyler from Aerosmith


• Tom Jones


• Tony Roberts