Adam Sandler
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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.
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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
Saturday Night Live
The Oscars
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Golden Globe Awards
Late Night with Seth Meyers
El hormiguero
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The One Show
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
Teen Choice Awards
The King of Queens
The Graham Norton Show
CBS News Sunday Morning
Honest Trailers
The Larry Sanders Show
The Jonathan Ross Show
MTV Movie & TV Awards
Kids' Choice Awards
The Cosby Show
Jessie
The Chris Rock Show
So You Think You Can Dance
Kevin Can Wait
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Dirty Work
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
The Hot Chick
The Animal
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
Coneheads
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
Zookeeper
Top Five
You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah
Airheads
Bulletproof
Adam Sandler: What the Hell Happened to Me?
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
Hubie Halloween
Murder Mystery 2
Hotel Transylvania 2
Pixels
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
That's My Boy
The Do-Over
Sandy Wexler
Eight Crazy Nights
Leo 2
Mr. Deeds
The Week Of
The Longest Yard
Spanglish
The Ridiculous 6
Happy Gilmore 2
Blended
The Waterboy
Click
Adam Sandler: Funny Guy
Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh
Anger Management
Billy Madison
Going Overboard
Hotel Transylvania
Hustle
Happy Gilmore
Just Go with It
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Grown Ups 2
Big Daddy
Uncut Gems
Murder Mystery
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
Bedtime Stories
Leo
Grown Ups
Men, Women & Children
The Cobbler
The Wedding Singer
50 First Dates
Spaceman
Jack and Jill
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