Editing Adam Sandler (section)

== Early life ==
Sandler was born in [[Brooklyn]], New York, on September 9, 1966,<ref name=filmref /> to Judith "Judy" ([[née]] Levine), a nursery school teacher, and Stanley Sandler, an electrical engineer.<ref name="filmref">{{cite web| url = http://www.filmreference.com/film/70/Adam-Sandler.html |title=Adam Sandler Biography (1966?-)|publisher= FilmReference.com|access-date=December 24, 2014 | quote=Full name, Adam Richard Sandler; born September 9, 1966 (some sources cite 1964)...}}</ref> He has three older siblings, Scott, Elizabeth, and Valerie.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Adam Sandler's 3 Siblings: All About Scott, Elizabeth and Valerie |url=https://people.com/all-about-adam-sandler-siblings-7966304 |access-date=2025-02-11 |website=People.com |language=en}}</ref> His family is [[Jewish]] and descends from [[History of the Jews in Russia|Russian Jewish]] immigrants on both sides.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://jewishjournal.com/opinion/rob_eshman/180474/|title=Adam Sandler: "I'm very pro-Israel"|last=Eshman|first=Rob|date=December 15, 2015|work=[[The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles|Jewish Journal]]|access-date=May 20, 2018|quote="I'm proud of being a Jew and that's what I am," Sandler said.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/3709985/Adam-Sandler-this-ones-for-the-kids.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/3709985/Adam-Sandler-this-ones-for-the-kids.html |archive-date=January 10, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Adam Sandler: this one's for the kids|last=Hiscock|first=John|date=December 11, 2008|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|access-date=July 30, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bh.org.il/blog-items/stars-of-david-10-jewish-hollywood-icons/|title=Let There Be Laughter – Jewish Humor Around the World|website=Beit Hatfutsot|date=February 6, 2017|access-date=October 10, 2019|archive-date=June 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200613223454/https://www.bh.org.il/blog-items/stars-of-david-10-jewish-hollywood-icons/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Sandler grew up in [[Manchester, New Hampshire]], after his family moved there when he was six years old.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unionleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/99999999/NEWHAMPSHIRE09/110429372/-1/newhampshire09|title=Adam Sandler|work=UnionLeader.com|access-date=March 8, 2022|archive-date=July 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180730080941/http://www.unionleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F99999999%2FNEWHAMPSHIRE09%2F110429372%2F-1%2Fnewhampshire09|url-status=dead}}</ref> He attended [[Manchester Central High School]]. As a teen, Sandler was in [[BBYO]], a Jewish youth group. He graduated from [[New York University]]'s [[Tisch School of the Arts]] in 1988 with a bachelor's degree in acting.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.nyu.edu/alumni.magazine/issue10/10_culture_snl.html | title= Live From New York, It's... | publisher=[[New York University]] | work=NYU Alumni Magazine | date=Spring 2008 | access-date=June 30, 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100530061407/http://www.nyu.edu/alumni.magazine/issue10/10_culture_snl.html| archive-date= May 30, 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref>