Sunny and Sadie Sandler Step Into the Spotlight With Their Own Netflix Films

Adam Sandler’s daughters are no longer just bit players in their dad’s comedies. This summer, 17-year-old Sunny Sandler and 20-year-old Sadie Sandler are stepping out on their own with separate Netflix projects, marking a new chapter for the next generation of one of comedy’s most recognizable families.

The two sisters walked the red carpet together on Aug. 10 at The Plaza Hotel in New York City for the premiere of Sunny’s film Don’t Say Good Luck, joined by their parents, Adam and Jackie Sandler.

It was a rare full-family public appearance, and a visible signal that the Sandler daughters are building careers independent of their father’s long shadow.

Sunny’s Breakout Role

Sunny stars as Sophie in Don’t Say Good Luck, a high school student who lands the lead in her school’s production of Waitress only to have her big moment complicated by distressing family news.

Yellowjackets star Melanie Lynskey plays her mother. The film hits Netflix on Aug. 14.

It’s not Sunny’s first turn as a lead. In 2023, she starred in You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, a coming-of-age film about two middle school friends whose falling out threatens to derail their joint bat mitzvah celebrations.

That movie was a family production in every sense: Adam and Jackie Sandler played her on-screen parents, Sadie played her older sister, and Adam’s company, Happy Madison Productions, produced the film. Happy Madison is also behind Don’t Say Good Luck.

Beyond her own projects, Sunny has appeared in Spaceman (2024) and Jay Kelly (2025), both of which starred her father, as well as the Happy Madison comedy Kinda Pregnant with Amy Schumer.

Sadie’s College Comedy

Sadie, meanwhile, has been navigating roommate drama on screen. She stars in the Netflix comedy Roommates, written by Saturday Night Live scribes Jimmy Fowlie and Ceara Jane O’Sullivan, which began streaming in April.

Sadie plays Devon, a friendless freshman who is thrilled when she clicks with cool, fun-loving Celeste (Chloe East) and asks her to be her roommate, only to discover that Celeste is a chaotic presence determined to make Devon’s college experience a nightmare.

From Background to Front and Center

The Sandler daughters have spent years popping up in small roles across their father’s filmography, with appearances in Grown Ups, Murder Mystery, and Hubie Halloween.

Last summer, they joined the ensemble of Happy Gilmore 2, Netflix’s long-awaited sequel to Adam’s 1996 comedy hit. Sunny played the daughter of her father’s titular character, while Sadie portrayed a young woman who helps him on his sobriety journey.

Both parents are producers on Don’t Say Good Luck, continuing a collaborative model that has defined the family’s on-screen work.

At the New York premiere, Jackie Sandler wore a classic black midi dress, Adam attended in blue track pants and a flamingo-adorned polo, Sunny arrived in an emerald floor-length gown, and Sadie chose a shiny black gown with a form-fitted bodice and sweetheart neckline.

Adam’s Thoughts on Their Careers

Adam Sandler has been open about his pride in his daughters’ chosen path. Speaking to E! News in December 2025 at the Gotham Awards, he said:

“They’re both really good kids and they love acting and they’re kind of into it, wanting to do it with their life. So just pulling for them, want them to have a good, happy life.”

He drew a clear line between his own standup roots and his daughters’ acting ambitions.

“They listen to me and then they’ve got their own path they wanna do,” he said. “I was a standup comedian and they don’t wanna get in that. They wanna just act.”

And the feeling of watching them succeed, he suggested, is unmatched.

“Once they do it well, nothing feels better as a parent,” Sandler said. “It must be like when you’re the parents of a baseball player and you’re at the game and they get a hit. You just go, ‘Thank God.’ It’s just so much relief.”

With two Netflix leading roles in a single summer and a producer credit in the family, the Sandler daughters have transitioned from background fixtures to billing-toppers. The question now is less whether they can carry a film, and more how far they want to take it.

Sources

• Yahoo