ACTOR
Rob Schneider
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- #001
Rob Schneider got into a shouting match with film critic Patrick Goldstein over Goldstein's mocking views of his films, questioning his qualifications to comment since he had never won a journalism award. Fellow critic Roger Ebert joined the argument, noting that he himself had won the Pulitzer Prize for film criticism and therefore Schneider had no right to say "Your film sucks." Despite the conflict, when Ebert fell seriously ill, Schneider sent him a large bouquet of flowers with a note reading "Your least favorite actor, Rob Schneider." Ebert was so moved by the gesture that he said Schneider was a good man despite the quality of his films and that he hoped to see him in a good film he could praise.
- #002
Rob Schneider was the emergency guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992) after Charlie Sheen abruptly canceled on the day he was scheduled. Schneider, who was filming Men Behaving Badly (1996) on the adjacent stage, gladly accepted the request to fill in for Sheen on very short notice.
- #003
Rob Schneider welcomed his first daughter, Elle King (b. 1989). Her mother is his first wife, London King.
- #004
Rob Schneider and comedian Adam Sandler are close friends and appear in each other's films: The Hot Chick (2002), The Animal (2001), Little Nicky (2000) and Big Daddy (1999).
- #005
Rob Schneider's daughter Elle King appeared as a Girl Scout selling cookies in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999).
- #006
Rob Schneider's mother, Pilar Schneider, has a small role in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999), playing the elderly woman at the restaurant where Deuce goes on his blind date with Kate (Arija Bareikis).
- #007
Rob Schneider does impersonations of roughly 50 celebrities, along with odd voices.
- #008
On The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992), Rob Schneider appeared in drag as actress Lindsay Lohan when Lohan canceled.
- #009
Rob Schneider's mother, Pilar Schneider, played the head judge at the cheerleading conference in The Hot Chick (2002) and the role of Mrs. De La Rosa in The Animal (2001).
- #010
Rob Schneider owns a prized painting of Jack Lord of Hawaii Five-O (1968), whom he saw walking through the lobby during a family vacation in Oahu when he was 8 years old. He found the portrait in a vintage store in San Francisco.
- #011
Rob Schneider has been inspired by the work of Monty Python, Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder and Peter Sellers.
- #012
Saturday Night Live (1975) producer Lorne Michaels saw Rob Schneider in 1990 on HBO's 13th Annual Young Comedians Special (1989) and signed him to SNL as a writer.
- #013
Rob Schneider drives the same silver Porsche Carrera cabriolet he used in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999).
- #014
Rob Schneider honed his acting at San Francisco comedy clubs, where names such as Jay Leno, Jerry Seinfeld and Dana Carvey also performed.
- #015
Rob Schneider is good friends with actor Adam Sandler.
- #016
Rob Schneider is the youngest of five children.
- #017
Rob Schneider has a collection of Hawaiian shirts.
- #018
Rob Schneider's mother, Pilar Schneider, is a former elementary school teacher who once served on Pacifica's school board.
- #019
Rob Schneider is a San Francisco Giants fan.
- #020
Rob Schneider made his debut in 1987 with an appearance on Late Night with David Letterman (1982).
- #021
Rob Schneider's apartment is furnished with rattan furniture dating from the 1950s, a tiki lamp and a pair of Eskimo snowshoes.
- #022
Rob Schneider likes to wear 1970s clothing.
- #023
Rob Schneider has a two-bedroom apartment in Nob Hill in San Francisco.
- #024
Rob Schneider's grandson Lucky Levi Tooker was born in September 2021.
- #025
Rob Schneider's father, Marvin Schneider, was a real estate broker.
- #026
Rob Schneider has a passion for collecting things.
- #027
Rob Schneider welcomed his second daughter, Miranda Scarlett Schneider (born 16 November 2012). Her mother is his third wife, Patricia Maya Schneider.
- #028
Rob Schneider's first job was washing dishes at an ice cream parlor.
- #029
Rob Schneider welcomed his third daughter, Madeline Robbie Schneider (born 14 September 2016). Her mother is his third wife, Patricia Maya Schneider.
- #030
Rob Schneider became an outspoken critic of vaccines and made the debunked claim that vaccines cause autism.
- #031
Rob Schneider is a big fan of the San Francisco 49ers.
- #032
Rob Schneider endorsed Donald Trump's 2024 presidential candidacy.
- #033
After casting Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern for Home Alone (1990), Chris Columbus felt confident enough to cast actors with growing followings, such as Catherine O'Hara, whose work on SCTV (1976) he had seen, John Heard, and later Tim Curry and Schneider in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), because they were all open to the film.
- #034
Rob Schneider graduated from Terra Nova High School in Pacifica.
- #035
Rob Schneider has a sister named April Schneider, born in 1959.
- #036
Rob Schneider spends most of his evenings hanging out with friends working on scripts.
- #037
Rob Schneider is a friend of Dick Gregory.
- #038
Rob Schneider was born on exactly the same date as Dermot Mulroney (of "Young Guns" fame).
- #039
Rob Schneider provided commentary for a professional wrestling event.
- #040
In April 2005, Rob Schneider attended WWE's WrestleMania 21 (2005) event.
- #041
In the early 2000s, Rob Schneider fell out with actor and comedian David Spade. Adam Sandler cast both Schneider and Spade in The Benchwarmers (2006) specifically so they could work together and patch things up.
- #042
Rob Schneider shares his Halloween birthday with John Candy, Michael Landon, Piper Perabo, Dermot Mulroney, Justin Chatwin, Brian Doyle-Murray, Bill Greene and Peter Jackson.
- #043
Rob Schneider has no connection whatsoever to disgraced TV writer and producer Dan Schneider.
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