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Adam Richard Sandler (born September 9, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor, comedian, producer, and musician. After becoming a successful stand-up comedian and Saturday Night Live cast member, he went on to become a major Hollywood actor and has starred in six $100 million films.

Early life: Sandler was born to Jewish American parents, Stan and Judy Sandler in Brooklyn, New York. He has three older siblings, Scott, Liz and Val. He was raised in the city of Manchester, New Hampshire and attended Manchester Central High School in Manchester.

Career: In the mid to late 1980s, Sandler portrayed "Smitty" on The Cosby Show (1985-1989). He also was a performer for the MTV game show Remote Control, on which he made appearances as the characters "Trivia Delinquent" or "Stud Boy."

Sandler started performing in comedy clubs by spontaneously taking the stage at a club in Boston. He was then discovered by comedian Dennis Miller, who caught Sandler's act in Los Angeles. Miller immediately recommended him to Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels. Sandler was hired as a writer for "SNL" in 1990 and became a featured player the following year, quickly making a name for himself by performing amusing original songs on the show, including The Chanukah Song. He left the show in 1995 to focus on his acting career.

Sandler's first successful starring vehicle was Billy Madison, in which he plays a grown man repeating grades 1-12 to earn his father's respect - and, more importantly, the right to inherit his multi-million dollar hotel empire. He followed this movie up with other financially successful comedies such as Happy Gilmore (1996) and The Wedding Singer (1998). He was initially cast in the bachelor party themed comedy/thriller Very Bad Things, but had to back out because of his work in other movies at the same time. After The Waterboy (1998), Sandler reached box-office superstardom, where he has remained since.

Although most of his earlier films were almost universally despised by movie critics, many of his recent films starting with Punch-Drunk Love have received almost uniformly positive reviews, leading many movie critics to believe that Sandler possesses considerable acting ability that they believed had been previously wasted on poorly written scripts and characters with no development. Audiences have remained faithful to Sandler's slapstick humor to the tune of $100-million-plus grossing movies. 

Sandler has moved outside the genre of goofball humor to take on more serious parts such as the aforementioned Punch-Drunk Love (for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe), and Spanglish. At one point, Sandler was considered for the part that went to Jamie Foxx in Collateral (2004). 

He also was one of the finalists along with Jim Carrey and Johnny Depp for the role of Willy Wonka in Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but Depp in the end got the role. Most recently, he starred in the movie Click (2006), which features some humor typical of his earlier films as well as a serious message about the stresses of everyday life. 

He will return to more dramatic fare with Mike Binder's Empty City, a drama about a man who lost his entire family in 9/11 and rekindles a relationship with his old college roommate (Don Cheadle). There have also been whispers of him appearing in Quentin Tarantino's long-anticipated World War II epic Inglorious Bastards.

Personal life: Sandler, an alumni member of Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity, graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1991. On June 22, 2003, he married model Jackie Titone, whom he'd met on the set of Big Daddy. 

Sandler and Titone worked together again in the Rob Schneider comedy Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, which Sandler executive-produced. They welcomed their first child, a daughter named Lola Marie Titone-Sandler, on May 6, 2006. The child's name has also been reported as Sadie Madison Sandler. She is named after his father and his wife's grandpa.

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