Adam Sandler

He was born Adam Richard Sandler on the 9th of September, 1966, in Brooklyn, New York, the third of four kids. His dad, Stanley, was an engineer, while his mother, Judy, was a homemaker, looking after Scott (now a lawyer), Elizabeth (a dentist), Adam and Valerie (a restauranteur). While Adam was still young, they moved north, to Manchester, New Hampshire.
Sandler did not excel as a student. His interests lay elsewhere. He loved wrestling, and basketball - he played on Manchester Central High School's junior varsity team. At age 11, he got up to sing at Elizabeth's wedding, performing Ringo Starr's You're Sixteen to huge applause. The music would continue into his teens, when he formed a covers band. Rock was their thing. And, of course, there was another interest - comedy. Mel Brooks was an early influence.
As the child of a Jewish family, though, education was deemed vitally important, and Adam enrolled at New York University, to study Fine Arts, and Drama in particular. He took his first step towards becoming a stand-up comedian when he spontaneously took the stage at Boston comedy club. During his final year in college, he snagged a recurring role as the Huxtable family's friend Smitty on the hugely successful "The Cosby Show" (1984). He was a performer for the MTV game show Remote Control, on which he made appearances as the characters “Trivia Delinquent” or “Stud Boy”. While working at a comedy club in L.A., he was "discovered" by Dennis Miller, who recommended him to "Saturday Night Live" (1975) producer Lorne Michaels. Sandler was hired as a writer for SNL in 1990 and became a featured player the following year, 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 film career.
Sandler went on to the movies; his first starring role was in 1989, in the film Going Overboard. He also starred other financially successful comedies such as Airheads(1994), Billy Madison (1995), Bulletproof (1996), Happy Gilmore (1996), The Wedding Singer (1998) and The Big Daddy (1999) where he met his then wife Jacqueline Samantha Titone. He was initially cast in the bachelor-party-themed comedy/thriller Very Bad Things (1998), but had to back out due to his involvement in The Waterboy (1998), one of his first hits. Among other of his films are Mr. Deeds (2002), Eight Crazy Nights (2002), Punch-Drunk Love (2002) for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe, 50 First Dates (2004), Spanglish (2004), The Longest Yard (2005), Click (2006), Reign Over Me (2007), I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007), You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008), Bedtime Stories (2008), Funny People (2009), Grown Ups (2010,and the recent Just Go With It (2011). He also writes and produces many of his own films and has composed songs for several of them, including The Wedding Singer (1998). Most notably, there was the actor Allen Covert, the director Frank Coraci and Adam's roomie, Tim Herlihy, with whom he'd co-write all his biggest hits. Sandler’s name was certainly getting around and become a guarantee and, as such, he was being paid more even than the likes of Harrison Ford.