Date of
Birth: 9 September 1966 , Brooklyn, New
York City , New York , USA
Birth Name:
Adam Richard Sandler
Nicknames:
Sandman
Height: 5'
9½" (1.77 m)
Adam
Sandler was born on September 9, 1966, in Brooklyn ,
New York , to Judy and Stanley
Sandler. At 17, he took his first pace towards flattering a stand-up comic when
he impulsively took the phase at a Boston
humor club. He establish he was a usual comic. He nurtured his talent while at New York University (graduating with a single of
Fine Arts degree in 1991) by drama frequently in clubs and at universities.
During his freshman year, he snagged a chronic role as the Huxtable family's
friend Smitty on The Cosby Show (1984). While operational at a humor club in L.A. , he was
"discovered" by Dennis Miller, who optional him to Saturday Night
Live (1975) creator Lorne Michaels and told him that Sandler had a big
aptitude. This led to his life form shed in the show in 1990, which he also
wrote for in addition to performing. AfterSaturday Night Live (1975), Sandler
went on to the movies, starring in such hit comedies as Airheads (1994), Happy
Gilmore (1996), Billy Madison (1995) and Big Daddy (1999). He has also starred
in Mr. Deeds (2002) alongside Winona Ryder; Eight Crazy Nights (2002), an
lively movie about the Jewish festival of Chanukah; and Punch-Drunk Love(2002).
He also writes and produces many of his own films and has composed songs for
several of them, including The Wedding Singer (1998). Sandler has had several
of his songs placed on the "Billboard" charts, as well as the classic
"The Chanukah Song".