How Adam Sandler Encourages His Daughters' Musical Talents
Adam Sandler has been one of Hollywood's favorite funnymen since being cast on Saturday Night Live in 1990, and he's gone on to star in loads of movies—Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore and Murder Mystery, to name a few. But he also plays another, more ordinary role: Dad. Although Sandler keeps his kids mostly shielded, he's shared a bit about them over the years. Here's what we can report.
Who is Adam Sandler's wife?
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Adam Sandler married Jacqueline "Jackie" Sandler (née Titone) in 2003. As the story goes, the two met on the set of Big Daddy, which was released in theaters in 1999. It appears to have been love at first sight. "22 years ago today, we locked eyes and fell deep," Sandler wrote in an Instagram post celebrating their pair's anniversary in 2020.
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How many kids does Adam Sandler have?
Sandler has two children, daughters Sadie and Sunny. Sadie was born in May 2006, while Sunny came along in November 2008.
How old are Adam Sandler's kids?
Adam Sandler's first daughter, Sadie, was born on May 6, 2006, making her 17 years old. Sunny Sandler arrived on Nov. 2, 2008, so she's 14.
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Who are Adam Sandler's kids?
Sadie Sandler
Sadie Madison Sandler (whose middle name is a nod to Sandler's Billy Madison) was born on May 6, 2006 and is the eldest of two daughters shared by Adam and Jackie Sandler.
In an interview with Jay Leno when Sadie was 14 months old, Sandler bragged that his little one was a total Daddy's girl.
"We’re very tight with this child. Everything...is about the kid, and the kid now all of a sudden worships me. It was my wife the whole time, and then the last month or two, it’s Sandler. It’s like anything I do, the kid wants to do," the Waterboy actor said.
In recent years, he was in his eldest daughter's good graces for getting Adam Levine to play at her bat mitzvah in 2019, an arrangement he made by text.
"I didn’t even know why I did this, but I said, ‘I’d love to do something special for my daughter, I love her so much and blah, blah, blah,'" Sandler said on an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! alongside Jennifer Aniston, who was a guest at the star-studded celebration. “And I text him, ‘I’m sorry to do this to you, my kid’s getting bat mitzvahed Saturday night. Would you mind coming and singing a few tunes? It would be incredible.’”
He did—and Sadie was impressed. "She hugged me so much, my Sadie,” Sandler said.
Sadie has appeared in a number of her father's movies, including Hubie Halloween (2020) and Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2020).
Sunny Sandler
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Sunny Sandler was born on Nov. 2, 2008, and is the second of two daughters shared by Adam and Jackie Sandler.
Sandler was a proud papa when Sunny was born, calling her "beautiful" in the birth announcement on his website.
Sunny wowed the crowd at one of her father's comedy shows in 2019 when, at 10 years old, she belted out "The Greatest Showman." Like her sister, Sadie, Sunny has made cameos in her father's films, including Grown Ups 2 (2013) and Jack and Jill (2011).
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Which Adam Sandler movies do his real-life kids appear in?
The two have appeared in numerous films with their father. According to Sadie's IMDB profile, she's appeared in 19 films, including The Wrong Missy (2020), all three Hotel Transylvania movies (2012, 2015, 2018) and Grown Ups (2010). Sunny also has 19 film credits to her name, including all three films in the Hotel Transylvania series, Hustle (2022) and Pixels (2015).
Although Sandler has welcomed his daughters onto his sets, he remains very protective of them overall.
“I’m a worrier," Sandler has said about fatherhood. "I’ve learned in life now that when your kid is upset you’re rocked until they’re not upset anymore. Even when they’re not upset, you’re rocked. You’re always nervous because you want your kid to be happy. Now I understand why my folks were always saying, ‘Be nice and be safe. Make sure everyone in the family is OK. That’s the most important thing.’ Making sure everyone in the family is OK is the most important thing. If the family hurts then you hurt.”
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