sourceRobert Michael Schneider (born October 31, 1963 in San Francisco, California) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and director. A stand-up comic and veteran of the NBC sketch-comedy series Saturday Night Live, Schneider went on to a career in feature films, including starring roles in the comedies Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo and The Hot Chick.He's 42!
Schneider started his stand-up comedy career shortly after high school. The Pacifica, California native played Bay Area nightclubs such as the Holy City Zoo and the Other Cafe, and was a regular guest on local radio programs. After opening a show by comedian Dennis Miller in 1987, Schneider won a slot on HBO's 13th Annual Young Comedians special, which was hosted by Miller. Schneider's appearance on the HBO special led to a position as a writer for NBC's long-running sketch-comedy series Saturday Night Live. He was hired at SNL in 1989, and swiftly graduated from writer and featured player to full cast member. From 1990-1994 at SNL, he played such roles as "Tiny Elvis" and "Orgasm Guy." But his best known recurring character was "Rich" -- an office worker whose desk was stuck beside the photocopier, and who addressed each of his fellow employees with an endless stream of annoying nicknames.Schneider grew up in Pacifica, California, a small city south of San Francisco. He is the son of Jewish-American real-estate broker Marvin Schneider and Pilar Monroe, a former kindergarten teacher and ex-school board president; his maternal grandfather was an American soldier and his maternal grandmother was Filipino.[5] Schneider's mother has made cameo appearances in her son's films, playing a cheerleading contest judge in The Hot Chick, a restaurant patron in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, and a nosy neighbor in The Animal. A graduate of Terra Nova High School in 1981, Schneider started the "Rob Schneider Music Foundation" in 1996. The foundation brought back music education to Pacifica's elementary schools, by paying the teachers' salaries and providing funds for instruments and other equipment. Prior to the establishment of Schneider's foundation, twenty years had passed without music education in those schools. Schneider is a single father with a daughter. He currently owns homes in San Francisco and in Southern California. On June 29, 2006, Schneider collapsed from heat exhaustion and food poisoning on the set of his directorial debut Big Stan, but he returned to work the following day.A Bit of Trivia:
- Schneider is a practicing environmentalist. He served as host for the Environmental Media Awards, and he drives a Toyota Prius hybrid automobile.
- He appeared with Jim Henson's Muppets in the 1999 film Muppets from Space.
- Schneider is a devoted fan of the San Francisco Giants baseball team.
- He owns a West Highland white terrier named Oscar who has appeared in short films with Adam Sandler's bulldog.
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