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The entire Sandler family is in his latest Netflix movie, “Happy Gilmore 2.”
In the sequel to Adam Sandler‘s beloved 1996 comedy, his daughters Sunny and Sadie, as well as his wife Jackie, have roles. Sunny plays Vienna, Gilmore’s daughter. Sadie plays a woman Gilmore befriends while attending an alcohol treatment program. Jackie plays Vienna’s dance instructor.
Sunny and Sadie have starred in their dad’s movies for most of their lives, they’ve only recently taken on meatier roles in them. Before “Happy Gilmore 2,” they starred in their dad’s 2023 Netflix dramedy, “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah.”
Here’s everything to know about Adam Sandler’s family.
Palmer Haasch contributed to previous versions of this post.
Adam Sandler and his wife Jackie have been married since 2003
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Jackie Sandler (née Titone) started her career modeling, eventually making her film debut in the 1999 Rob Schneider Film “Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo.”
She and Adam met on the set of the 1999 film “Big Daddy,” in which Sandler starred and Jackie played a waitress,. They were married in 2003, and in the years since, Jackie has made cameos in Adam’s other films like “You Don’t Mess with the Zohan,” “Grown Ups,” “Hubie Halloween,” and “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah.”
The pair regularly walk red carpets together, and are both friends with Jennifer Aniston, whom Adam met in 1990.
Sadie Sandler, 19, is their eldest daughter
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Adam and Jackie welcomed Sadie in May 2006, and Adam announced the news in a blog post.
“Kid is healthy!! Wife is healthy!!” Sandler wrote.
Sadie has appeared in a number of her father’s other films like “Hotel Transylvania” and its assorted sequels, “Hubie Halloween,” and “Murder Mystery.”
In “Happy Gilmore 2,” Sadie plays Charlotte, who is in Gilmore’s alcohol treatment program. Charlotte supports Gilmore throughout the movie.
Sunny Sandler, 16, is the couple’s youngest daughter
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Adam announced the birth of his and Jackie’s second daughter, Sunny, in November 2008, People reported.
Sunny has previously appeared in Sandler movies like “Jack and Jill,” “Grown Ups,” and “Pixels,” among others.
In addition to acting, Sunny also sings: she appeared alongside Adam and Sadie at the Rock4EB! Charity event in October 2019. In footage captured by The Hollywood Reporter’s Chris Gardner, the girls sang Taylor Swift’s “Lover” while their father played guitar. She’s also previously joined her father onstage to perform a song from “The Greatest Showman.”
Once, Sunny crashed one of Adam’s 2020 remote interviews on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” pegged to the release of his film “Uncut Gems.” In the clip, Adam recounted a story about Sunny finding a hair in his ear and helping him shave it before his television appearance. Eventually, Adam dismissed her to go do her homework.
In “Happy Gilmore 2,” Sunny plays Gilmore’s daughter, Vienna. She is an aspiring dancer, and Gilmore gets back into golf to raise money to send her to ballet school in Paris.
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