Though many of Adam Sandler’s greatest movies have seen the former Saturday Night Live star act as a giant man-boy – Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Happy Gilmore 2, Mr. Deeds, the Grown-Ups series, The Water Boy, That’s My Boy, Murder Mystery 2, etc. – the comedian and actor is a responsible father of two. Adam and his wife, Jackie Sandler, have been married since 2003, and in that time, they’ve welcomed two daughters into the world: Sadie and Sunny Sandler, who have appeared with their dad in a few of his films.
As if it was taken from a Hollywood rom-com, Adam is a father because of his film, Big Daddy. He and Jackie met on the set of the 1999 comedy and hit it off immediately. Four years after that first encounter, the two tied the knot at Dick Clark’s oceanfront Malibu home. A few years after saying “I do,” Adam became a big daddy in real life.
Adam called his daughters “two of the true best things” in his life when he accepted the 2023 Mark Twain Prize. “They are the love of our lives. The most pride and joy that Jackie and I could ever feel. The life changers,” he said in his speech. “When they speak, we either laugh, tear up, or stare at them in amazement. I’m only wishing time will stand still cause being with you two and mommy is the best life can get.” Here’s what you need to know about Adam Sandler’s daughters.
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Adam and his entire family star in the Netflix movie You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah. In 2025, Sadie and Sunny appeared with their dad in Happy Gilmore 2. Get to know the Sandler kids here.
Sadie Sandler is the oldest of Adam and Jackie’s daughters. Sadie was born on May 6, 2006. “You know what was funny?” Adam told Access in 2006, shortly after he became a dad. “When my kid was born, I was so nervous. I didn’t know what I felt. Five minutes later, maybe 10 minutes later, it was me and the kid and a nurse. We walked down alone to just check the vital signs and all that stuff, and I had a chemical reaction in my body, where I loved the kid so much, and I was so nervous for her, and that’s when I lost my mind for the kid.” Adam also said that he was doing his best to help out Jackie during the first few weeks of parenthood.
“My kids give me the most joy,” he told HuffPost in 2014. “But there are life adjustments. I don’t go out to meet anyone after 9:30 at night. I eat dinner at 6 or 7. If someone makes me stay out until 10:30 at night, I’m angry the entire next day because I’m exhausted.” Whatever Hollywood lifestyle Adam had, it went out the door in 2006 — and hasn’t come back. But he wouldn’t have it any other way.
In 2019, Adam appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and revealed he started to feel anxiety that Sadie, 12 years old at the time, was starting to date. “You know, I drive around with [her and] her friends, and I hear them talking about boys now,” he said. “It’s amazing, the feelings I had about the same boys five years ago. When they would mention the kid’s name, I’d be like, ‘I love that kid.’ Now, I get very jumpy.” Adam admitted that he now feared boys with “little tiny mustaches” and bodies that “aren’t making much sense.”
