Biography Channel: Adam Sandler

Biography: Adam Sandler

He hit the big time as the loveable goof who somehow manages to get the girl, but the multi-talented Waterboy turned Wedding Singer also writes and produces movies.

The comedian and screen actor Adam Sandler was born into a Jewish working-class family in the New York suburb of Brooklyn.

Stan, his father was an electrical engineer by trade, whilst his mother, Judy, was a full-time homemaker. Adam was the third of four children, and has one brother and two sisters, called Scott, Elizabeth and Valerie.

Shortly after birth, Adam was diagnosed with a troublesome speech impediment which makes his jaw move in a diagonal direction when he speaks. Adam had extensive speech therapy for this problem whilst he was growing up, but it has never totally been cured, and can still be observed if Adam gets upset or overly stressed.

When Adam was six-years-old, his family moved away from New York to the city of Manchester in New Hampshire. He went to school at Webster Elementary and Hillside Junior High, but did not shine at his studies, preferring wrestling and basketball to more academic pursuits. Adam remains a keen basketball player to this day and still like to shoot hoops wherever he happens to be performing.

He went on to study at Manchester Central High School and then enrolled for a degree course in Drama and Fine Arts at New York University. He also worked as a resident assistant to help pay his way through higher education.

Adam began his acting career in the 1980s, when he played Theo Huxtable's good friend Ed on "The Cosby Show", from 1985 - 89. He also took part in the MTV Game Show, "Remote Control", where he soon became renowned for playing the parts of Trivia Delinquent and Stud Boy. Adam then decided to broaden his acting experience by working as a stand-up comedian at a club in Boston, and as a result of this, he received his first really "big break". After his stint at Boston, he went on to perform at the Improv Club in L.A., where the comedian Dennis Miller happened to catch his set. Miller immediately recommended Adam to Lorne Michaels, the producer of "Saturday Night Live".

In 1990, he was engaged as a comedy scriptwriter for the show, but the producers soon realised that there was no-one as well equipped to deliver Sandler's zany material as the man himself! He quickly moved on to performing in SNL the following year, creating a string of wacky characters as well as impersonating such showbiz greats as Axel Rose, Bruce Springsteen, Tina Turner and Bono. Taking part in "Saturday Night Live" helped Adam build the foundations of his career as a comedy actor, and he left the show in 1995 to focus on movie acting.

Adam's first major leading role was in 1989, when he starred in the movie "Going Overboard." It wasn't until 1995, however, that he made his breakthrough movie, when he starred in a film called "Billy Madison". Here, Adam plays plays a man who is forced to repeat his primary education in order to satisfy the provisions for inheriting his father's multi-million-dollar hotel business, along with his father's respect! Adam followed his success in Billy Madison with a string of other box-office hits, including Happy Gilmore (1996), and The Wedding Singer (1998), which took $80 million in a short space of time, and was his biggest grossing movie to date. Adam was also originally cast to star in the black comedy bachelor party movie Very Bad Things, alongside Cameron Diaz, but was forced to drop out, due to owing to a clash schedules on other movies.

Adam has continually demonstrated his ability to keep many "irons in the fire" by maintaining a high-profile presence on a range of popular light entertainment TV shows, at the same time as pursuing his movie acting career. He had a cameo role in an episode of The Price Is Right, during the Happy Gilmore Showcase. (Incidentally, the show host Bob Barker also appeared in the movie Happy Gilmore, which featured a famous fight scene with Adam Sandler's character, which Barker happens to win!)

Adam also maintains a high profile small-screen presence by being a frequent guest on popular TV talk shows; for instance, he was a special audience member in an episode of The Showbiz Show with David Spade, and he was also the feature guest on the final episode of John McEnroe's CNBC talk show. Adam has also demonstrated his ability to reverse roles and even act as a talk-show host on occasion; on March 20th 2007, he was due to appear as a guest on The Late Show with David Letterman. But Letterman fell ill, and Adam stepped in and acted as host instead!

Many of Adam's early films were poorly received by the critics, but more recently, he has received far more positive reviews, perhaps on account of his ever-growing ability to generate substantial box-office revenues. It's also become popular to cite the idea that Adam possesses far great acting talent than the critics originally believed, and to blame this oversight on the fact that he was given poor scripts and shallow characters to play.

Meanwhile, Adam has consistently capitalised on his genius for slapstick humour and goof-ball comedy. But in recent years, he has also broadened the scope of his repertoire, to embrace more serious roles as well, such as his starring role in Punch-Drunk Love, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination, and he was also highly praised for his performance in Spanglish.

Adam attracted a flurry of negative publicity when some critics commented on some recurring similarities in several of his movie roles. This observation was further highlighted when Adam was lampooned in the episode of South Park called AWESOM-O, where he was sardonically depicted as a repetitive film-maker. The character, who is an omniscient robotic figure called Cartman sends out hundreds of film ideas all portraying Adam Sandler in similar roles, as a desperate ploy to make a movie that would generate huge box-office returns.

Although Adam is certainly far from being type-cast, it's true that many of the characters that he plays in movies do tend to have a bad temper, which they're frequently provoked into losing - as in Anger Management. He has also starred in several movies in which a large amount of money is at stake, and Adam is called upon to save the day - as in Happy Gilmore, Mr Deeds, and Billy Madison. But whilst it may be true to comment that there are certain similarities to be found in many of the roles that he plays, Adam has frequently demonstrated his ability to move between different types of media (TV, movie acting and stand-up comedy), and well as his ability to play both humorous and serious roles, and even romantic heroes, as in 50 First Dates, with Drew Barrymore as his leading lady.

Adam is well known in Hollywood for his preference for acting with his buddies. He has often teamed up with his best friend Rob Scheider, and the two actors frequently play cameo roles in each other's movies. Notably, Schneider has played cameo roles in most of the films Adam has starred in, including The Longest Yard, Little Nicky, Big Daddy, Mr Deeds, 50 First Dates, The Waterboy, Eight Crazy Nights and Click. Conversely, Adam has played cameo roles in most of Schneider's leading-role movies, such as The Hot Chick, The Animal, Deuce Bungalow, and European Gigolo, where amusingly, Sandler plays a cameo role as one of the dead gigolos! Adam is also great friends with the well-known U.S. comedian Norm MacDonald, and played a cameo role in MacDonald's movie, Dirty Work.

Despite his wacky, "goofball" humour, Adam is very much a leading Hollywood star. He was a serious contender for the part of Willy Wonka in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, before the producers decided to give the role to Johnny Depp. Adam also starred in the movie Click in 2006, which delivers a serious message about the stresses and strains of everyday life, as well as featuring the more familiar elements of Adam's comedy acting style. Adam also starred in a highly challenging serious role in Mike Binder's movie, Reign Over Me, where he plays a man who loses his entire family in the tragedy of 9/11, and rediscovers a long-lost friendship with his old college room-mate, who is played by Don Cheadle. His latest comedy is I Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, in which he stars alongside Kevin James, as a fireman who's pretending to be gay and married in order to qualify for domestic partnership benefits.

Adam's private life appears to be happy and contented. In 2003, he married his girlfriend of four years' standing, actress and model Jacqueline Titone, who gave birth to a baby girl called Sadie in May 2006. But Adam's relationship with the print media is far from being harmonious. Indeed, media relations have deteriorated to the extent where Adam has become so tired of being misquoted in the press that he now totally refuses to give interviews to newspapers and magazines, and even only occasionally agrees to give interviews on TV. This reluctance to talk to the print media has earned Adam the nickname "The Goofball Garbo" - but since he's now appeared in no less than seven films that have grossed in excess of $100 million, he certainly doesn't need the publicity.

Regardless of the occasional accusations of typecasting, one thing is certain: thanks to Adam's ability to both amuse and entertain us, and deliver substantial box-office revenues, it's almost certain that we'll be seeing him play starring Hollywood roles for some considerable time to come.

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