Haley Joel Osment
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| Born | April 10, 1988 Los Angeles, California |
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| Years active | 1994 ─ present | ||||||
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Haley Joel Osment (born April 10, 1988) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. After a series of roles in television and film during the early 1990s, Osment came to fame with his starring role in the 1999 thriller, The Sixth Sense. He subsequently had leading roles in several high-profile Hollywood films, including Pay It Forward and A.I.. He is also notable for providing the voice of Sora, the protagonist in the Kingdom Hearts series of video games.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Personal life
Osment was born in Los Angeles, California (where his family still resides), the son of Theresa (née Seifert), a teacher, and Michael Eugene Osment, a theater and film actor, both natives of Alabama.[1][2][3] His younger sister is actress Emily Osment of Hannah Montana and Spy Kids fame. Osment was raised Catholic.[4] He was a student at Flintridge Preparatory School in La Cañada, California, and currently attends New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
[edit] Career
Osment began acting at the age of four, when he tried out for a Pizza Hut commercial in a shopping mall. The commercial launched his career, and he landed his first television role later that year. As a young child his first film role was as Forrest Gump's son, also named Forrest Gump, in the 1994 film of the same name as well as making a small appearance in Mixed Nuts. He had roles in numerous TV series, including Thunder Alley, The Jeff Foxworthy Show and most notably the final season of Murphy Brown, in which he replaced Dylan Christopher as Murphy's son Avery. He also made numerous guest appearances in various TV series including The Larry Sanders Show, Walker, Texas Ranger (as a child dying from AIDS), Touched by an Angel, Chicago Hope, The Pretender, and as a child dying from leukemia in the emotional episode "Angels and Blimps" of the late-1990s show Ally McBeal.
Osment starred in Bogus alongside Whoopi Goldberg and Gérard Depardieu, and appeared in the 1998 made-for-TV movie The Lake with Yasmine Bleeth, as well as I'll Remember April with future The Sixth Sense co-star Trevor Morgan. He first achieved stardom in 1999 when he appeared in the blockbuster The Sixth Sense, co-starring Bruce Willis. For this role, he won the Saturn Award for best young actor. He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor but lost to Michael Caine (alongside whom he would later star in Secondhand Lions). One of Osment's lines in The Sixth Sense, "I see dead people" is often repeated or parodied on television programs and in other media. He also made three minor guest appearances on Family Guy in 2000.
The 2000 Academy Awards ceremony honored another future co-star, Best Actor Kevin Spacey, who, along with Helen Hunt, appeared in Osment's next film, Pay It Forward. The following year, he appeared in Steven Spielberg's Artificial Intelligence: A.I., cementing his stature as one of the leading young actors in Hollywood. This role earned him his second Saturn Award. Also in 2001, Osment starred in the Polish film, Edges of the Lord, as Romek. The movie was never released theatrically in the United States. He has since provided voices for The Country Bears, The Hunchback of Notre Dame II and The Jungle Book 2, and returned to live action with the 2003 film, Secondhand Lions.
More recently, Osment was the voice of Sora, the main protagonist of The Walt Disney Company and Square-Enix's Kingdom Hearts video game series, which has been extremely financially successful as well as generally well-received critically. He was also the voice of Takeshi Jinno, the main character of the Immortal Grand Prix anime TV series. Osment next appeared in Home of the Giants, playing a high school journalist opposite Ryan Merriman and Danielle Panabaker. He is currently working in Montana Amazon as both actor and executive producer. The film also co-stars Olympia Dukakis and is expected to be released in 2009.
[edit] 2006 Alcohol- and drug-related car accident
Osment received injuries, including a broken shoulder when his car struck a mailbox and overturned near his home on July 20, 2006.[5] On October 19, 2006 Osment pleaded no contest to one count each of misdemeanor driving under the influence of alcohol, and possession of marijuana while driving. He was sentenced to three years probation, 60 hours in an alcohol rehabilitation and education program, a fine of $1500, and a minimum requirement of 26 Alcoholics Anonymous meetings over a six-month period.[6][7]
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1994 | Forrest Gump | Forrest Gump, Jr. | |
| Mixed Nuts | Little Boy | ||
| 1996 | Bogus | Albert Franklin | |
| For Better or Worse | Danny | ||
| 1998 | Ransom of Red Chief | Andy Dorset | (TV movie) |
| 1999 | The Sixth Sense | Cole Sear | Academy Award nomination - Best Supporting Actor |
| I'll Remember April | Peewee Clayton | ||
| 2000 | Pay It Forward | Trevor McKinney | |
| Discover Spot | Spot the Dog | Voice | |
| 2001 | A.I. | David | |
| Edges of the Lord | Romek | ||
| 2002 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame II | Zephyr | Voice |
| The Country Bears | Beary Barrington | Voice | |
| Kingdom Hearts | Sora | Video Game; Voice | |
| 2003 | Secondhand Lions | Walter | |
| The Jungle Book 2 | Mowgli | Voice | |
| 2004 | Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories | Sora | Video game (archive); Voice |
| 2005 | Immortal Grand Prix | Takeshi Jinno | TV series; Voice |
| 2006 | Kingdom Hearts II | Sora | Video game; Voice |
| 2007 | Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix+ | Sora | Video game (archive); Voice |
| Home of the Giants | Robert "Gar" Gartland | Completed | |
| 2008 | Truth & Treason | Helmuth Hübener | Pre-Production |
| 2009 | Montana Amazon | Womple | Production |
[edit] References
- ^ Copeland, Libby. "Acting Older Than His Age; Haley Joel Osment, Already Big at the Box Office, Is Poised for Another Growth Spurt", The Washington Post, 2001-07-02. Retrieved on 2007-12-10.
- ^ http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071024/SPECIAL16/710240456/-1/LOCAL17
- ^ Haley Joel Osment Biography (1988-)
- ^ Duke, Paul F.. "Osment, Dafoe honing 'Edges'", Variety.com, 2000-04-25. Retrieved on 2007-12-10.
- ^ StarPulse. Police Suspect Alcohol Was a Factor in Haley Joel Osment's Crash. Retrieved on July 21, 2006.
- ^ DesertNews.com. Osment pleads no contest to misdemeanor charges. Retrieved on October 20, 2006.
- ^ No Contest for Haley Joel, from E! News
