Adam Sandler delighted fans with the recent release of Happy Gilmore 2, but he wasn’t the only Sandler entertaining viewers.
The American actor’s two daughters with his wife, Jackie, Sadie, 19, and Sunny, 16, were also stars of the new Netflix comedy film, which followed the golfer’s life after his Tour Championship win.
However, it’s far from the their first time on a film set, because the two have starred in many of their father’s much-loved productions.
It’s not just recent roles either. The pair have collaborated with their father from a very young age, with Sadie appearing in the 2008 film Don’t Mess with the Zohan at two years old.
Throughout their childhood, the duo has gone on to star in tens of their father’s films, including Grown Ups, Hotel Transylvania, and Jack and Jill.
In the second Happy Gilmore film, Adam’s children took centre stage, with Sadie playing Charlotte, a woman Happy meets in a group therapy session, and his youngest playing his on-screen daughter, Charlotte Gilmore.
However, Sunny and Sadie didn’t always secure such high-flying roles, and they have previously made such small cameos that even the die-hard Sandler fans might struggle to spot them.
Here, Femail delves into the very starry careers of Sunny and Sadie at just 16 and 19 years old.
Adam Sandler isn’t the only star in his family, and his daughters, Sadie and Sunny Sandler, are becoming breakout stars in their own right, thanks to their father casting them in many of his most famous productions (pictured: Sunny in You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah)
19-year-old Sadie hasn’t experienced a typical childhood, and she made her first film debut as a toddler in her father’s 2008 movie, Don’t Mess with the Zohan, where she played the Girl Riding On Goat.
Then, she starred as the Sweetest Medieval Girl of All Time in 2008’s Bedtime Stories and was Tardio’s daughter in Grown Ups.
In 2011’s smash hit comedy Just Go with It, with Jennifer Aniston, Sadie played a girl on the rope bridge.
That same year, she starred as the little girl on the ship in the comedy film Jack and Jill.
In 2012, she undertook the role of the lemonade stand kid in That’s My Boy and voiced young Mavis in Hotel Transylvania, which included Selena Gomez as the teen Mavis.
One year later, she played Sadie Tardio in Grown Ups 2, and the year after, she was a little league announcer in Blended.
In 2015, she starred in three major film productions: Pixels, Hotel Transylvania 2 and The Ridiculous 6.
After that, she was in The Do-Over, Sandy Wexler, The Week Of, and Hotel Transylvania 3 over the next few years.
Sunny Sandler (seen in You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah) has worked with her father since she was a toddler
Sunny took on the role of her her father’s on-screen daughter, Charlotte Gilmore, in Happy Gilmore 2 (pictured)
The 19-year-old starred as Charlotte in her father’s recent Netflix hit – Happy Gilmore 2 (pictured)
In 2019, she worked alongside her father and Jennifer Aniston in Murder Mystery as Summer.
After that, the budding actress worked as part of the cast for The Wrong Missy and Hubie Halloween.
In a recent film, You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, she took on a bigger role as Ronnie Friedman before voicing a character in the 2023 film Leo and starring in Happy Gilmore 2.
Meanwhile, her younger sister Sunny has also taken on a slew of impressive acting roles from a young age.
Adam and Jackie Sandler welcomed Sunny into the world on November 2, 2008 – five months after Sadie made her big screen debut.
Two years later, Sunny made her debut in the 2010 blockbuster Grown Ups as Tardio’s daughter and has since added over a dozen film credits.
In 2011, Sunny appeared alongside her older sister in Just Go with It as part of the family who appeared on the rope bridge, and in Jack and Jill as a little girl.
A few years later, the 16-year-old starred in That’s My Boy, Grown Ups 2, Blended and lent her voice to Hotel Transylvania.
The young stars have appeared in their father’s show from a young age (seen centre and right in The Wrong Missy
Pictured: (L-R) Sadie Sandler, Jackie Sandler, Adam Sandler and Sunny Sandler at the premiere of Netflix’s Leo in Los Angeles in 2023
Pictured: (L to R ) Sunny Sandler as Stacy Friedman, Samantha Lorraine as Lydia Rodriguez Katz, Sadie Sandler as Ronnie Friedman, Zaara Kuttemperoor as Zaara, Idina Menzel as Bree Friedman and Adam Sandler as Danny Friedman in You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah
In addition to You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah (pictured), Sunny has starred in a string of other successful Hollywood films
2015 saw Sunny work across three films, Pixels, Hotel Transylvania 2, and The Ridiculous 6.
She later appeared in The Do-Over as Lola, in The Week of as Eva, and in Hotel Transylvania 3.
In 2019 and 2020, Sunny joined her father and sister on Murder Mystery and The Wrong Missy.
She then starred in Hubie Halloween as Cooky, in Hustle as a young girl, before taking on a leading role in Netflix’s You’re So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah and Happy Gilmore 2.
The Happy Gilmore sequel, directed by Kyle Newacheck, also starred original cast members Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen, and Ben Stiller.
Other notable names in the film included Goldie Hawn, Ben Stiller, Kevin Nealon, Ken Jennings, and Benny Safdie.
Eminem, Cam’ron and Post Malone are among the notable musicians who are in the cast, according to the streaming service.
The sports comedy also features dozens of cameos from prominent celebrities across multiple fields, such as NFL standout and Taylor Swift’s boyfriend, Travis Kelce, and former NFL standout and Kim Kardashian’s ex, Reggie Bush.
The world of golf is also well-represented, with a number of prominent golf players in the film.
They include Paige Spiranac, John Daly, Bryson DeChambeau, Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler, among others.
Professional wrestling fans will also be pleased to see cameos from stars such as Nikki Bella, Maxwell Jacob Friedman and Becky Lynch.
Elsewhere, Adam Sandler fans are also only just finding out that he has starred alongside his wife Jackie Sandler in over 20 of his films.
The Uncut Gems actor, 58, has made a conscious effort to appear alongside his other half over the past two decades, with many cinemagoers keeping an eye out for her cameos, which they’ve likened to Easter eggs.
Jackie, 50, has appeared in several of Adam’s movies, including 50 First Dates (2004), where she played a dentist, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007), in which she was a teacher, and Grown Ups (2010), where she played Richie Minervini’s on-screen wife.
Despite frequently having to watch Adam kiss other women on set, the producer insists his wife doesn’t get jealous of his on-screen romances.
‘The only awkward part is hearing my wife on the side going, “Harder! Harder! Kiss her harder! Deeper,” he told the Associated Press in 2019, while promoting his hit Netflix film, Murder Mystery, which he starred in alongside Jennifer Aniston.