Father to two girls, Adam Sandler is well known for inviting his family members into his projects, such as Bedtime Stories and Jack & Jill. With the most recent stint where the Sandler family was cast in major roles, the Sandler daughters have gained much attention from the realm of entertainment worldwide. The two daughters of Jackie Sandler and Adam Sandler, Sadie, and Sunny Sandler, appear as Ronnie and Stacy Friedman on Netflix's You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah.
The doting father was awarded the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on March 19, 2023. However, during his receipt of the Film Tribute Award at the 2022 Gotham Awards, he let his daughters write the acceptance speech for him.
While the Sandler siblings are on their way to being cast in mainstream movies, let us take a look at the life and career of Sadie and Sunny Sandler so far.
Adam Sandler's daughters Sadie and Sunny Sandler and their appearances on-screen - Details explored
The American comedian and actor Adam Sandler has never shied away from bringing his family on the silver screen as features and cameos, starting with his actor wife, Jacqueline "Jackie" Sandler, who has taken on over 40 acting roles. Sandler was married to Jacqueline Sandler in 2003, and the two became parents to Sadie Madison Sandler (17) on May 6, 2006. The younger daughter, Sunny Madeline Sandler (15), followed on Nov. 2, 2008.
The affinity towards her father began at an early age when Sandler joked about Sadie picking her father over her mother at The Tonight Show. He said:
"We're very tight with this child – everything we do is about the kid, and the kid now all of the sudden worships me. It was my wife the whole time and then the last month or two, it's all Sandler. It's like anything I do, the kid wants to do".
The girls have so far appeared in a number of projects in which Sandler was the producer. Sandler's production house, Happy Madison Productions, has successfully managed to cast Jackie Sandler and her daughters alongside Adam Sandler's friends, Kevin James and Rob Schneider, in varying degrees.
Adam said on the Drew Barrymore Show, hinting at his daughters' possible career path:
"I hear sometimes in the house, 'I wanna be in a movie' and I say, 'You are, you were in this, this and this' and they go, 'Not yours.' I go, 'Oh, Daddy's not good enough!' They wanna do their own thing one day."
Sadie Sandler made her first appearance on the big screen with the 2008 Dennis Dugan movie You Don't Mess with the Zohan. Sadie appeared in Bedtime Stories (2008) as the Sweetest Medieval Girl of All Time alongside her mother, who played Lady Jacqueline. Sadie has also voiced Winnie and Young Mavis in Hotel Transylvania (2012).
While their mother, Jackie, appeared in most of the films with the sisters since the beginning, the Sandler girls have so far played roles in the following movies.
- That's My Boy (2012)
- The Do-Over (2016)
- Grown-Ups (2010)
- Grown-Ups 2 (2013)
- Jack & Jill (2011)
- Blended (2014)
- Pixels (2015)
- Hubie Halloween (2020)
- The Wrong Missy (2020)
- You Don't Mess With The Zohan (2008)
- Murder Mystery (2019)
- Sandy Wexler (2017)
Adam Sandler's youngest, Sunny, played Brooke in the 2002 movie on the New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton - Home Team. The two sisters recently made their major appearance on Netflix's coming-of-age comedy-drama You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, which was released on August 25, 2023.