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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Primarily2025 Jay Kelly as Adam Doherty
2025 Dirty Work: Dirtier Cut as Satan (Uncredited)
2025 Happy Gilmore 2 as Happy Gilmore Writer, Producer
2025 Untitled Adam Sandler/Josh Safdie Project
2025 They Were Just Nice People Producer
2025 Leo 2 as Leo (voice) Writer
2025 Saturday Night Live: The Best Of Adam Sandler as Himself
2025 Adam Sandler: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize For American Humor
2025 Conan O'Brien: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor as Self
2025 SNL50: The Homecoming Concert as Self
2025 Kinda Pregnant Producer
2025 Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music as Self
2025 Madha Gaja Raja Original Story
2024 Adam Sandler: Love You as Self Producer, Writer
2024 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: 10th Anniversary Special as Self (archive footage)
2024 Spaceman as Jakub Procházka
2023 Leo as Leo (voice) Producer, Writer
2023 You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah as Danny Friedman Producer
2023 The Out-Laws Producer
2023 Murder Mystery 2 as Nick Spitz Producer
2023 Chris Rock: Road To Live Special as Self
2022 Finding Sandler as Self
2022 Hustle as Stanley Sugerman Producer
2022 Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special as Self
2022 Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called as TV Producer (archive footage)
2022 Home Team Producer
2020 Hubie Halloween as Hubie Dubois Producer, Writer
2020 Adam Sandler: Funny Guy as self
2020 The Wrong Missy Producer
2020 Feeding America Comedy Festival as Self
2020 Money on the Street: The Making of Uncut Gems as Self
2020 Question & Answer as Self
2020 Goldman v Silverman as Rod Goldman
2019 Uncut Gems as Howard Ratner
2019 Murder Mystery as Nick Spitz Producer
2018 Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh as Self Writer
2018 Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation as Count Dracula (voice)
2018 The Week Of as Kenny Lustig Writer, Producer
2017 Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism Programs as Self
2017 The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) as Danny Meyerowitz
2017 Puppy! as Count Dracula (voice)
2017 Sandy Wexler as Sandy Wexler Producer, Writer
2017 Netflix Live as Himself
2016 The Do-Over as Max Kessler Producer
2015 The Ridiculous 6 as Tommy Writer, Producer
2015 Hotel Transylvania 2 as Dracula (voice) Executive Producer, Writer
2015 I Am Chris Farley as Self
2015 Pixels as Brenner Producer
2015 Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 Producer
2014 Top Five as Self
2014 Men, Women & Children as Don Truby
2014 The Cobbler as Max Simkin
2014 Blended as Jim Producer
2014 Eat Drink Laugh: The Story of The Comic Strip as Self
2013 The Improv: 50 Years Behind the Brick Wall as Narrator (voice)
2013 Rob Schneider: Soy Sauce and the Holocaust Thanks
2013 Grown Ups 2 as Lenny Feder Writer, Producer, Characters
2012 12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief as Self
2012 Eddie Murphy: One Night Only as Self
2012 Hotel Transylvania as Count Dracula (voice) Executive Producer
2012 That's My Boy as Donny Berger Producer
2011 Jack and Jill as Jack / Jill Producer, Screenplay
2011 Der Weg des Ruhms as Self
2011 Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star Writer, Producer
2011 Zookeeper as Donald the Monkey (voice) Producer
2011 Just Go with It as Danny Maccabee Producer
2010 Grown Ups as Lenny Feder Writer, Producer
2009 SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
2009 Funny People as George Simmons
2009 Funny People: Live as Self
2009 The Shortcut Executive Producer
2009 Paul Blart: Mall Cop Producer
2008 Bedtime Stories as Skeeter Bronson Producer
2008 The House Bunny Producer
2008 VH1 Rock Honors: The Who as Self
2008 You Don't Mess with the Zohan as Zohan Dvir Producer, Screenplay
2008 Strange Wilderness Executive Producer
2007 I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry as Charles 'Chuck' Levine Producer
2007 Comedy Club Greats as Self
2007 Reign Over Me as Charlie Fineman
2006 Kings of Comedy USA as Self (archive footage)
2006 Comedy Club Shoot-out: Vol. 1 as Self
2006 Click as Michael Newman Producer
2006 The Benchwarmers Producer
2006 Saturday Night Live: The Best of Alec Baldwin as Self / Various
2006 Grandma's Boy Executive Producer
2005 Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo as Javier Sandooski (uncredited) Producer
2005 The Longest Yard as Paul Crewe Executive Producer
2005 WWE WrestleMania 21 as Adam Sandler
2004 Spanglish as John Clasky
2004 50 First Dates as Henry Roth
2003 Saturday Night Live: The Best of Chris Farley as Various (archive footage) (uncredited)
2003 Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star Producer
2003 Couch as Couch Testing Man
2003 Anger Management as Dave Buznik Executive Producer
2003 Pauly Shore Is Dead as Adam Sandler (Voice)
2003 The Mayor Executive Producer
2002 The Hot Chick as Mambuza Bongo Guy (uncredited) Executive Producer
2002 A Day with the Meatball as Adam Sandler
2002 Eight Crazy Nights as Davey / Whitey / Eleanore / Deer (voice) Writer, Producer
2002 Ballchewer
2002 Punch-Drunk Love as Barry Egan
2002 The Master of Disguise Executive Producer
2002 Mr. Deeds as Longfellow Deeds Executive Producer
2002 The Cosby Show: A Look Back as Self
2001 The Concert for New York City as Self
2001 America | A Tribute to Heroes as Self
2001 The Animal as Townie Executive Producer
2001 Satan’s Top Forty as Self
2001 Joe Dirt Executive Producer
2001 Laughing Out Loud: America's Funniest Comedians as Self (archive footage)
2001 Satan’s Top 40 as Self / Little Nicky
2001 Adam Sandler Goes to Hell as Self
2000 Little Nicky as Nicky Writer, Executive Producer
1999 Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo as Robert Justin (Voice) Executive Producer
1999 SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler as Self (archive footage)
1999 Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special as Self
1999 The Peeper as The Peeper Writer, Producer
1999 Big Daddy as Sonny Koufax Executive Producer, Screenplay
1998 The Waterboy as Bobby Boucher Screenplay, Executive Producer
1998 Bad Boys of Saturday Night Live as Self / Various (archive footage)
1998 Dirty Work as Satan (uncredited), Satan
1998 The Wedding Singer as Robbie Hart
1998 Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman as Self
1998 Saturday Night Live: A Tribute to Chris Farley as Self
1996 Adam Sandler: What the Hell Happened to Me? as Self Writer
1996 Bulletproof as Archie Moses
1996 Happy Gilmore as Happy Gilmore Screenplay
1995 Billy Madison as Billy Madison Writer
1994 Mixed Nuts as Louie
1994 Airheads as Pip
1993 Buddy as Buddy 1
1993 Coneheads as Carmine
1991 Shakes the Clown as Dink the Clown
1990 Testing Dirty as Drug Dealer
1989 Going Overboard as Schecky Moskowitz Additional Writing