
Adam Sandler
Department: Acting
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.
Known For

Leo
2023

Bedtime Stories
2008

50 First Dates
2004

Reign Over Me
2007

Spanglish
2004

Murder Mystery 2
2023

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
2007

The Waterboy
1998

You Don't Mess with the Zohan
2008

Comedy Club Shoot-out: Vol. 1
2006

Mr. Deeds
2002

Bulletproof
1996

Funny People
2009

The Wedding Singer
1998

Billy Madison
1995

Mixed Nuts
1994

Punch-Drunk Love
2002

Big Daddy
1999

Anger Management
2003

The Longest Yard
2005

Click
2006

Coneheads
1993

Happy Gilmore
1996

Little Nicky
2000

Chris Rock: Road To Live Special
2023

Eight Crazy Nights
2002

Airheads
1994

Grown Ups
2010

Zookeeper
2011

Dirty Work
1998

Couch
2003

Going Overboard
1989

Just Go with It
2011

Jack and Jill
2011

Comedy Club Greats
2007

Hotel Transylvania
2012

Buddy
1993

That's My Boy
2012

Grown Ups 2
2013

Finding Sandler
2022

Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special
2022

Blended
2014

The Cobbler
2014

Men, Women & Children
2014

Der Weg des Ruhms - Hollywoods Walk of Fame
2011

You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah
2023

Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
2022

SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler
1999

Pixels
2015

SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
2009

Top Five
2014

Laughing Out Loud: America's Funniest Comedians
2001

Hotel Transylvania 2
2015

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Chris Farley
2003

Adam Sandler: Funny Guy
2020

The Animal
2001

Leo 2
—

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
1998

Satan’s Top Forty
2001

Adam Sandler: Love You
2024

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Alec Baldwin
2006

The Ridiculous 6
2015

I Am Chris Farley
2015

A Day with the Meatball
2002

Jay Kelly
2025

Happy Gilmore 2
2025

The Do-Over
2016

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
2017

Sandy Wexler
2017

Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
2018

Bad Boys of Saturday Night Live
1998

Puppy!: A Hotel Transylvania Short
2017

The Week Of
2018

Pauly Shore Is Dead
2003

Eddie Murphy: One Night Only
2012

Shakes the Clown
1991

Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism Programs
2017

Murder Mystery
2019

Adam Sandler: What the Hell Happened to Me?
1996

Uncut Gems
2019

Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh
2018

The Hot Chick
2002

The Improv: 50 Years Behind the Brick Wall
2013

Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
1999

Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
2005

The Concert for New York City
2001

Kings of Comedy USA
2006

Hubie Halloween
2020

Eat Drink Laugh: The Story of The Comic Strip
2014

Saturday Night Live: A Tribute to Chris Farley
1998

Goldman v Silverman
2020

Funny People: Live
2009

Money on the Street: The Making of Uncut Gems
2020

America | A Tribute to Heroes
2001

Feeding America Comedy Festival
2020

Hustle
2022

WWE WrestleMania 21
2005

12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief
2012

Satan’s Top 40
2001

Spaceman
2024

Adam Sandler Goes to Hell
2001

Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
1999

VH1 Rock Honors: The Who
2008

The Cosby Show: A Look Back
2002

Question & Answer
2020

Testing Dirty
1990

Netflix Live
2017

The Peeper
1999

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
2025

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Adam Sandler
—

Netflix Tudum 2025
2025

Stans
2025

Downey Wrote That
2025

Being Eddie
2025

VH1 News Special: Grunge
2001

My Next Guest with David Letterman and Adam Sandler
2025

Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
2007

The Making of Jay Kelly
2025

Sesame Street: Singing with the Stars
2012

Untitled Adam Sandler / Josh Safdie Project
—

Time Out
—

Saturday Night Live: Christmas
1999

Roommates
2026

The Dog Police
1990

The One Show
2006

Saturday Night Live
1975

The Showbiz Show with David Spade
2005

The Cosby Show
1984

The King of Queens
1998

Pet Star
2002

Diary
2000

VH1 Rock Honors
2006

The Marshall Chronicles
1990

The Jonathan Ross Show
2011

ABC Afterschool Special
1972

BIANCA
2022

Brooklyn Nine-Nine
2013

Norm Macdonald Live
2013

The Larry Sanders Show
1992

So You Think You Can Dance
2005

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014

MTV Movie & TV Awards
1992

Kids' Choice Awards
1987

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014

Saturday Night Live
1975

It's On with Alexa Chung
2009

The Chris Rock Show
1997

MTV Movie & TV Awards
1992

Home Movie: The Princess Bride
2020

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
2007

The Graham Norton Show
2007

Jessie
2011

The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014

Kevin Can Wait
2016

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992

The Reichen Show
2005

Teen Choice Awards
1999

Saturday Night Live
1975

On Air with Ryan Seacrest
2004

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015

Sat.1-Frühstücksfernsehen
1996

Made in Hollywood
2005

The Drew Barrymore Show
2020

Conan
2010

CBS News Sunday Morning
1979

Stand-Up: The Laughing Therapy
2024

Undeclared
2001

The Oscars
1953

The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003

Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
2025

Golden Globe Awards
1944

El hormiguero
2006

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015

Jeopardy!
1984

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014

Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
2025

C à vous
2009

Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!
2026

Saturday Night Live
1975