Sunny Sandler, Adam Sandler’s 14-year-old daughter, steals the show in the brand-new Netflix film “You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah.” We are not surprised though, after all she is her father’s daughter.
AllAbout Sunny Sandler
Sunny Sandler was born on 2 November, 2008 in New York City, United States of America. She is the daughter of Jackie Sandler and Adam Sandler. She has an older sister named Sadie Sandler. She is not only an amazing actress but a very talented singer too.
Adam Sandler only has two daughters with his wife, Jackie. The two met on a movie set in 1999 and got married in 2003. Jackie, who is also a well-known actress, converted to Judaism in 2000, before the couple got married. Sadie and Sunny have been raised Jewish.
Sadie and Sunny Sandler have always been close since childhood. Both of them have a thing for singing and have also sung together with their father on stage at charity events and comedy shows. Sunny Sandler’s god-father is Rob Schneider and her god-mother is the famous and charming Jennifer Aniston.
At the age of 12, she has acted in over 15 films, citing her father as one of her biggest inspirations. Sunny celebrated her coming-of-age ceremony in May 2022. Her star-studded party included A-listers like Jennifer Aniston, Charlie Puth, Taylor Lautner and more. The bat mitzvah had a candy theme and was held at the Hillcrest Country Club in Los Angeles.
Career Of Sunny Sandler
In her father’s 2010 film ‘Grown-Ups’, Sunny made her debut as Tardio’s daughter. She was only a young child at the time. In the 2013 sequel, she played the same part again. Sunny Sandler has additionally made appearances in several of Adam’s films, including ‘Sandy Wexler’, ‘Hustle’, and ‘Hubie Halloween’. Sadie Sandler also starred as ‘Gracie’ in the 2023 Netflix film ‘The Out-Laws’ in addition to ‘You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah’.
In the following years, she starred in films such as ‘Just Go With It’, ‘Jack and Jill’, ‘That’s My Boy’, ‘Grown Ups 2’, ‘Blended’, ‘Pixels’ and ‘The Do-‘.
Sunny debuted as a voice actress with the 2012 film ‘Hotel Transylvania’. She has also lent her voice to the film’s 2015, and 2018 sequels. In 2009, Sunny was nominated for the Teen Choice Award for Choice Celebrity Baby but lost it to Honor Marie Warren, the daughter of actress Jessica Alba and film producer Cash Warren.
Sunny played a character credited as the Wall Street Stepdaughter in the 2014 romantic comedy ‘Blended.’ It was the third film, after ‘The Wedding Singer’ and ‘50 First Dates’, in which Adam Sandler and actress Drew Barrymore worked together.
Sunny played a small role in the 2015 Netflix film, ‘The Ridiculous 6’. As with many of Sandler’s recent films, it garnered poor reviews from the critics but was received well by the viewers. Sunny then appeared in yet another Netflix film, ‘The Do-Over’ (2016), portraying Lou’s daughter Daisy. Her older sister, Sadie, played Lou’s other daughter, Sally.
Sunny notably performed “A Million Dreams” from The Greatest Showman during one of her dad’s comedy shows in 2019. That same year, she also joined her sister and dad onstage during a charity performance and sang Taylor Swift’s “Lover” for the crowd.
Sunny Sandler’s Leading Role In ‘You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah’
Sunny stars as Stacy Friedman in the 2023 Netflix movie You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah. The film features the entire Sandler family in key roles, including Adam, Jackie and Sadie. The movie is a modern coming-of-age story that follows Stacy after she has a falling out with her best friend, Lydia (Samantha Lorraine) leading up to their bat mitzvah. This marks Sunny’s first leading role, and she proves she’s got her dad’s comedic chops.
