Haley Joel Osment

At 36 years old, Haley Joel Osment has this physical status:

Haley Joel Osment (born April 10, 1988) is an American actor and voice actor.

After a series of roles in television and film during the 1990s and 2000s, including a minor part in Forrest Gump playing the title character's son (also named Forrest Gump), Osment rose to fame for his performance as a young unwilling medium in M. Night Shyamalan's thriller film The Sixth Sense, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

He subsequently appeared in leading roles in several high-profile Hollywood films, including Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Mimi Leder's Pay It Forward, and Secondhand Lions, alongside Michael Caine and Robert Duvall. He made his Broadway debut in 2008 in a short-lived revival of David Mamet's play American Buffalo, starring John Leguizamo and Cedric the Entertainer.

Osment is also known for his voice-roles of Sora and Vanitas in the Kingdom Hearts video games, as well as his later roles in comedies such as Sex Ed and The Spoils of Babylon.

Early life and education

Osment was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Theresa (née Seifert), a teacher, and Michael Eugene Osment, a theater and film actor, both natives of Birmingham, Alabama. Osment was raised Roman Catholic. He has one sibling, actress Emily Osment, who is four years younger. Osment's parents have described his childhood as a "good old-fashioned Southern upbringing". His father said that when Osment was learning to speak, he deliberately avoided using baby talk when communicating with his son.

Osment was a student at Flintridge Preparatory School in La Cañada Flintridge, California. As a child, he wrestled and played basketball, football, and golf.

He graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2011.

Personal life

Osment plays the guitar and piano.

He is an avid golfer who began playing at the age of seven. He played for the U.S. team in the All-Star Cup 2005, under team leader Mark O'Meara, and has participated in the annual Michael Douglas & Friends Celebrity Golf Tournament.

In 2006, Osment suffered a broken rib and fractured shoulder blade in an auto accident. He pleaded no contest to driving under the influence of alcohol and misdemeanor drug possession and was sentenced to three years' probation, 60 hours in an alcohol rehabilitation and education program, a fine of $1,500, and attendance at Alcoholics Anonymous.

As of 2007 he was living in New York City.

On February 4, 2018, Osment caused a disturbance at Las Vegas International Airport after Super Bowl LII at the airline gate of American Airlines. Annoyed about missing his flight, he threatened staff. Police were called, but he had already left by the time they arrived.

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Career

Osment was spotted by a talent scout while visiting a store at the age of four. Called back for an audition, he was asked to name the best thing he had ever seen; his description of an IMAX theater screen earned him a spot in a Pizza Hut television commercial. The commercial began his career, and he appeared in Thunder Alley, ABC's first appearance in series television. In the 1994 film of the same name, Forrest Gump's uncle, also named Forrest Gump, appeared in his first feature film role. He appeared in another 1994 film, Mixed Nuts, for which he appeared. Osment appeared in several television series during the 1990s, including The Jeff Foxworthy Show and Murphy Brown's final season, where he replaced Dyllan Christopher as Murphy's uncle, Avery.

In addition,, he appeared on television shows, including The Larry Sanders Show, Walker, Texas Ranger, Touched by an Angel, The Pretender, and Ally McBeal. He appeared in Bogus, alongside Whoopi Goldberg and Gérard Depardieu's 1998 made-for-TV film The Lake, as well as I'll Remember April (1999), with future The Sixth Sense co-star Trevor Morgan.

Osment first made a name for himself in 1999, when he co-starred Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense. Osment's portrayal of Cole Sear, a psychic child, received the Saturn Award for Best Acting by a Younger Actor. He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, becoming the second-youngest actor to be given an Academy nomination for a supporting role, but Michael Caine was voted out of the final Oscar competition (with whom he would later work together in Secondhand Lions). "I see dead people" became a common catchphrase in television and other media, and it has been often repeated or parodied in one of Osment's lines "I see dead people." On the American Film Institute's list of 100 Movie Quotes, the word ranks at #44. In 2000 and 2001, he made three minor (voice-only) guest appearances on the animated television series Family Guy.

Kevin Spacey, another upcoming co-star, appeared in Osment's new film, Pay It Forward (2000), was recognized at the 2000 Academy Awards ceremony. He appeared in Steven Spielberg's A.I. the following year. Artificial Intelligence has firmly established his place as one of Hollywood's top young actors. His second Saturn Award for Best Younger Actor was given to him as a result of his work, as well as further acclaim. "Osment, who appears on camera in virtually every scene, is one of the best actors now working," critic Roger Ebert said of the film. Osment appeared in the Polish film Edges of the Lord in 2001 as Romek. The film was never released in the United States theatrically. Osment lent his voice to films including The Country Bears, The Hunchback of Notre Dame II, and The Jungle Book 2, all from Walt Disney Pictures. He returned to live action with the 2003 film, Secondhand Lions.

Osment lent his voice to the video game game Kingdom Hearts, portraying Sora, the series's main character, and also Vanitas, a villain from the same series. In the English translation of the Immortal Grand Prix anime television series, Osment also described Takeshi Jin.

He appeared in Home of the Giants, as a high school reporter opposite Ryan Merriman and Danielle Panabaker. He later worked on Montana Amazon as both an actor and executive producer. Olympia Dukakis appeared in the film in November 2010 at the Orlando and Big Apple Film Festivals, winning Best Feature Film at the former.

In a revival of David Mamet's American Buffalo starring Bobby, a young heroin addict, co-starring John Leguizamo and Cedric the Entertainer, Osment made his Broadway debut at the Belasco Theatre in November 2008. The show opened to mixed feedback, with a provisional announcement made on November 20, 2008, that it would conclude after the first week.

In 2010, Osment played a key role in the MPCA's Sex Ed comedy film to portray a college graduate who wants to teach geometry but who turns up as a sex education tutor but was unexperienced himself. Osment appeared in Entertainment Weekly in January 2011 as the protagonist of Sassy Pants, a film about a homeschooler with an overbearing mother.

Variety revealed on June 27, 2011, that Osment would appear in Wake the Dead, a modern-day retelling of Frankenstein's tale, with production set to begin in the last quarter of 2011. No published status was available as of mid-2014.

He appeared in a string of episodes of Amazon's Alpha House in 2013. For IFC, he co-starred in the Will Ferrell and Adam McKay-produced comedy miniseries The Spoils of Babylon and The Spoils Before Dying. Kevin Smith has contributed to Osment's career revival by appearing in two films of his True North Trilogy, first as Teddy Craft in Tusk and then as a fictionalized version of Canadian journalist Adrien Arcand in Yoga Hosers.

Osment appeared in season 4 of HBO's Silicon Valley as a VR specialist and tech financier Keenan Feldspar. In the fourth episode of season 1, Osment appeared on BBC America's Top Gear America as one of the guests.

Osment appeared in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile in 2019, costarring Lily Collins, whose character Liz follows Ted Bundy's criminal trial. Osment also appeared in the Amazon series The Boys as the character Mesmer, and as Dr. Stu Camillo in the Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg produced Future Man, a humu.

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