Adam Sandler
Born: 1966-09-09 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
Known For: 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.
Filmography
2025
- Jay Kelly as Ron Sukenick
- Marty Supreme ... (Thanks)
- Happy Gilmore 2 as Happy Gilmore
- Bunny ... (Thanks)
- Kinda Pregnant ... (Producer)
- Stans as Self
- Netflix Tudum 2025 as Self
- My Next Guest with David Letterman and Adam Sandler as Self - Guest
- Being Eddie as Self
- Everybody's Live with John Mulaney as Self - Actor and Comedian
- Madha Gaja Raja ... (Original Story)
- SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night as Self
- SNL50: The Homecoming Concert as Self
- Downey Wrote That as Self
- Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music as Self
- The Making of Jay Kelly as Self
2024
- Spaceman as Jakub Procházka
- Adam Sandler: Love You as Self
- Stand-Up: The Laughing Therapy as Self (archive footage)
2023
- Leo as Leo (voice)
- Murder Mystery 2 as Nick Spitz
- You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah as Danny Friedman
- The Out-Laws ... (Producer)
- Chris Rock: Road To Live Special as Self
2022
- The Jennifer Hudson Show
- Hustle as Stanley Sugerman
- Home Team ... (Producer)
- New Heights as Self
- Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special as Self
- BIANCA as Self - Guest (video link)
- Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called as TV Producer (archive footage)
- Finding Sandler as Self
2020
- The Drew Barrymore Show as Self
- The Wrong Missy ... (Producer)
- Hubie Halloween as Hubie Dubois
- Home Movie: The Princess Bride as The Grandfather
- Goldman v Silverman as Rod Goldman
- Feeding America Comedy Festival as Self
- Money on the Street: The Making of Uncut Gems as Self
- Adam Sandler: Funny Guy as self
- Question & Answer as Self
2019
- Murder Mystery as Nick Spitz
- Uncut Gems as Howard Ratner
2018
- Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation as Count Dracula (voice)
- Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh as Self
- The Week Of as Kenny Lustig
2017
- Sandy Wexler as Sandy Wexler
- Puppy!: A Hotel Transylvania Short as Count Dracula (voice)
- Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism Programs as Self
- The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) as Danny Meyerowitz
- Netflix Live as Self
2016
- The Do-Over as Max Kessler
- Kevin Can Wait as Jimmy (Kevin's former partner)
2015
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- Pixels as Brenner
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- Hotel Transylvania 2 as Dracula (voice)
- Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 ... (Producer)
- I Am Chris Farley as Self
- The Ridiculous 6 as Tommy
2014
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- Blended as Jim
- Top Five as Self
- Men, Women & Children as Don Truby
- The Cobbler as Max Simkin
- Eat Drink Laugh: The Story of The Comic Strip as Self
2013
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine as Adam Sandler
- Grown Ups 2 as Lenny Feder
- Norm Macdonald Live as Self
- Rob Schneider: Soy Sauce and the Holocaust ... (Thanks)
- The Improv: 50 Years Behind the Brick Wall as Narrator (voice)
2012
- Hotel Transylvania as Count Dracula (voice)
- That's My Boy as Donny Berger
- 12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief as Self
- Eddie Murphy: One Night Only as Self
2011
- Jessie as Self
- Just Go with It as Danny Maccabee
- The Jonathan Ross Show as Self
- Jack and Jill as Jack / Jill
- Zookeeper as Donald the Monkey (voice)
- Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star ... (Writer)
- Breaking In ... (Producer)
- Der Weg des Ruhms - Hollywoods Walk of Fame as Self (archive footage)
2009
- The Shortcut ... (Executive Producer)
- Paul Blart: Mall Cop ... (Producer)
- Funny People as George Simmons
- SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas as (archive footage)
- It's On with Alexa Chung
- Funny People: Live as Self
2008
- Bedtime Stories as Skeeter Bronson
- You Don't Mess with the Zohan as Zohan Dvir
- Strange Wilderness ... (Executive Producer)
- The House Bunny ... (Producer)
- VH1 Rock Honors: The Who as Self
2007
- The Graham Norton Show as Self
- Rules of Engagement ... (Executive Producer)
- Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives as Self
- Reign Over Me as Charlie Fineman
- I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry as Charles 'Chuck' Levine
- Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation as Self
- Comedy Club Greats as Self
2006
- El hormiguero as Self - Guest
- The One Show as Self
- Click as Michael Newman
- The Benchwarmers ... (Producer)
- Grandma's Boy ... (Executive Producer)
- Kings of Comedy USA as Self (archive footage)
- VH1 Rock Honors
- Saturday Night Live: The Best of Alec Baldwin as Self / Various
- Comedy Club Shoot-out: Vol. 1 as Self
2005
- So You Think You Can Dance
- The Longest Yard as Paul Crewe
- The Reichen Show as Self
- Made in Hollywood as Self
- Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo as Javier Sandooski (uncredited)
- WWE WrestleMania 21 as Adam Sandler
- The Showbiz Show with David Spade
2004
- 50 First Dates as Henry Roth
- On Air with Ryan Seacrest as Self
- Spanglish as John Clasky
2003
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self - Guest
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- The Mayor ... (Executive Producer)
- Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star ... (Producer)
- Anger Management as Dave Buznik
- Saturday Night Live: The Best of Chris Farley as Various (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Pauly Shore Is Dead as Adam Sandler (Voice)
- Couch as Couch Testing Man
2002
- Mr. Deeds as Longfellow Deeds
- The Hot Chick as Mambuza Bongo Guy (uncredited)
- Punch-Drunk Love as Barry Egan
- Eight Crazy Nights as Davey / Whitey / Eleanore / Deer (voice)
- Pet Star as Self - Judge
- The Master of Disguise ... (Executive Producer)
- A Day with the Meatball as Adam Sandler
- The Cosby Show: A Look Back as Self
2001
- Joe Dirt ... (Executive Producer)
- The Animal as Townie
- Undeclared as Adam Sandler (uncredited)
- America | A Tribute to Heroes as Self
- The Concert for New York City as Self
- Laughing Out Loud: America's Funniest Comedians as Self (archive footage)
- Satan’s Top Forty as Self
- Satan’s Top 40 as Self / Little Nicky
- Anime-ban Little★Nicky: Henachoko Akuma Nicky no NY Taikenki ... (Characters)
- Adam Sandler Goes to Hell as Self
- VH1 News Special: Grunge as Self (archive footage)
2000
- Little Nicky as Nicky
- Diary as Self
1999
- Big Daddy as Sonny Koufax
- Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo as Robert Justin (Voice)
- The Peeper as The Peeper
- Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special as Self
- SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler as Self (archive footage)
- Teen Choice Awards as Self
1998
- The King of Queens as Jeff 'The Beast' Sussman
- The Waterboy as Bobby Boucher
- The Wedding Singer as Robbie Hart
- Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman as Self
- Saturday Night Live: A Tribute to Chris Farley as Self
- Dirty Work as Satan (uncredited)
- Bad Boys of Saturday Night Live as Self / Various (archive footage)
1997
1996
- Happy Gilmore as Happy Gilmore
- Bulletproof as Archie Moses
- Sat.1-Frühstücksfernsehen as Self
- Adam Sandler: What the Hell Happened to Me? as Self
1995
- Billy Madison as Billy Madison
1994
- Mixed Nuts as Louie
- Airheads as Pip
1992
1991
- Shakes the Clown as Dink the Clown
1990
- Testing Dirty as Drug Dealer
- The Marshall Chronicles as Usher
1989
- Going Overboard as Schecky Moskowitz
1987
- Kids' Choice Awards as Self
1984
- Jeopardy! as Self - Clue Presenter
- The Cosby Show as Smitty
1979
- CBS News Sunday Morning as Self
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Various Characters
1972
- The Price Is Right ... (Co-Executive Producer)
- ABC Afterschool Special as Drug Dealer
1953
- The Oscars as Self
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee