Haley Joel Osment is an American actor who has proven himself as one of the best young actors of his generation. He is the first millennial male to have received an Academy Award nomination for acting.
Osment was born in Los Angeles, California, to Theresa (Seifert), a teacher, and actor
Eugene Osment
. His sister is actress
Emily Osment
. His ancestry includes Irish, along with German and English/Scottish. Haley 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
포레스트 검프 (1994)
's son, also named Forrest Gump, in the 1994 film of the same name as well as making a small appearance in
Mixed Nuts (1994)
. He had roles in numerous TV series, including
Thunder Alley (1994)
,
The Jeff Foxworthy Show (1995)
, and, most notably, the final season of
Murphy Brown (1988)
, in which he replaced
Dyllan Christopher
as Murphy's son Avery. Osment also made numerous guest appearances in various TV series, including
The Larry Sanders Show (1992)
,
시티 레인져 (1993)
(as a child dying from AIDS),
터치드 바이 言 엔젤 (1994)
,
시카고 메디컬 (1994)
,
The Pretender (1996)
, and as a child dying from leukemia in the emotional episode 'Angels and Blimps' (1999) of the series
Ally McBeal (1997)
. Osment starred in
Bogus (1996)
with
Whoopi Goldberg
and
Gerard Depardieu
, and appeared in the 1998 made-for-TV movie
The Lake (1998)
with
Yasmine Bleeth
, as well as
I'll Remember April (1999)
with future
식스 센스 (1999)
co-star
Trevor Morgan
.
He first achieved stardom in 1999 when he appeared in the blockbuster
식스 센스 (1999)
, co-starring
Bruce Willis
. For this role, Osment 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
, with whom he would later star in
Secondhand Lions (2003)
. Osment (voice) also made three minor guest appearances on
Family Guy (1999)
in 2000. One of Osment's lines in
식스 센스 (1999)
, "I see dead people," is often repeated or parodied on television programs and in other media. The 2000 Academy Awards ceremony honored another of Osment's future co-stars, BestActor
Kevin Spacey
, who, along with
Helen Hunt
, appeared in Osment's next film,
Pay It Forward (2000)
. The following year, Osment appeared in
Steven Spielberg
's
A.I. (2001)
, 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 a Polish film,
Edges of the Lord (2001)
, as Romek. The movie was never released theatrically in the United States. Osment has since provided voices for
The Country Bears (2002)
and
The Jungle Book 2 (2003)
. More recently, Osment was the voice of Sora, the main protagonist of the Walt Disney Company and Square-Enix's
Kingdom Hearts (2002)
video-game series, which was extremely financially successful as well and generally well-received critically. He was also the voice of Takeshi Jinno in the "Time to Shine" episode of the
IGPX: Immortal Grand Prix (2005)
anime TV series.
Osment also worked in
Home of the Giants (2007)
, playing a high school journalist opposite
Ryan Merriman
and
Danielle Panabaker
. He also played Helmuth Hubener in the film Truth & Treason (????). On July 20, 2006, Osment was injured in a one-car accident. His blood-alcohol content was measured at 0.16%, twice the legal limit in California. On August 18, he was charged with four misdemeanors, including driving under the influence of alcohol and possession of marijuana while driving. He pleaded no contest on October 19 and was sentenced to three years' probation, 60 hours in an alcohol-rehabilitation and education program, a fine of $1,500, and a minimum requirement of 26 Alcoholics Anonymous meetings over a six-month period.
In 2006, Osment took a hiatus from Hollywood and studied acting at the Experimental Theatre Wing at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, graduating with Honors and a Bachelor's Degree of Fine Arts in 2011. He also appeared on Broadway in a 2008 production of
David Mamet
's American Buffalo, and in
John Logan
's Red at the Philadelphia Theater Company in 2011.
Osment returned to the screen in 2012 with
I'll Follow You Down (2013)
, co-starring with
Gillian Anderson
,
Rufus Sewell
, and
Victor Garber
,
Sassy Pants (2012)
with
Anna Gunn
and
Diedrich Bader
, then appeared in two seasons of Amazon Studios' comedy series
Alpha House (2013)
, written by Pulitzer Prize winner
Garry Trudeau
and starring
John Goodman
. His many additional credits include Comedy Bang! Bang!,
Kevin Smith
's horror comedies
Tusk (2014)
and
Yoga Hosers (2016)
,
Entourage (2015)
(Warner Bros.' silver screen extension of the award-winning HBO dramedy), the award-winning independent comedy
Sex Ed (2014)
, the hit FX series
What We Do in the Shadows (2019)
, the Hulu science fiction comedy
Future Man (2017)
, and the true crime thriller and 2019 Sundance Film Festival Selection
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
starring
Zac Efron
as Ted Bundy, and featuring
Lily Collins
,
Kaya Scodelario
,
Jim Parsons
, and
John Malkovich
.