Robert Michael "Rob" Schneider (born October 31, 1963) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and director. A stand-up comic and veteran of the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, he went on to a successful career in feature films, including starring roles in the comedy films Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, The Hot Chick, The Benchwarmers, and Grown Ups.

Biography

Schneider supports Mexican soccer team Tigres UANL.

In 1996, Schneider established the Rob Schneider Music Foundation. The foundation returned music education to Pacifica's elementary schools by paying the teachers' salaries and providing funds for instruments and other equipment. Prior to Schneider's efforts, the school system did not have music education programs for many years.

Schneider once co-owned the DNA Lounge, a San Francisco nightclub.

Schneider's mother has made cameo appearances in his films: she played a cheerleading contest judge in The Hot Chick, a restaurant patron in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, and a nosy neighbor in The Animal.

On April 23, 2011, Schneider married television producer Patricia Azarcoya Arce, in Beverly Hills, California. Their first child, Miranda Scarlett Schneider, was born in 2012.

In 2013, Schneider announced that he would no longer support the Democratic Party, citing California's heavy regulations and calling the state's economy "a disaster". He became a member of the Republican Party and endorsed assemblyman Tim Donnelly for governor.

Schneider is an outspoken critic of vaccination practices, even going so far as to liken California Bill AB 2109, which would require the informed consent of parents before opting for a philosophical exemption to vaccinations, to the Nuremberg Laws of Nazi Germany. In September, 2014, State Farm Insurance pulled a television commercial featuring Schneider after a social media campaign urged the company to end its affiliation with him.

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