Haley Joel Osment Biography

Haley Joel Osment (born April 10, 1988 in Los Angeles, California) is a well known child actor.

Born to Eugene Osment and Theresa Seifert, he 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 younger child he played Forrest Gump's son, also named Forrest Gump, in the 1994 film of the same name. He had roles in numerous TV series, including Walker, Texas Ranger, Murphy Brown, and most notably The Jeff Foxworthy Show.
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Osment 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 (whom he would later star alongside in Secondhand Lions). Osment then appeared in Steven Spielberg's AI: Artificial Intelligence, cementing his stature as one of the leading young actors in Hollywood. This role got him his second Saturn Award. He has since appeared in several films, including Pay It Forward and Secondhand Lions. Osment also provided the voice for Sora, the main protagonist of The Walt Disney Company and Squaresoft's Kingdom Hearts series of video games. He starred in Bogus alongside Whoopi Goldberg and Gérard Depardieu.

Haley portrayed Dylan Hydecker in the 1998 made-for-TV movie The Lake with Yasmine Bleeth.

One of Osment's lines in The Sixth Sense, "I see dead people," is often repeated on television programs. He attributes his success as an actor to his father (Eugene) and his mother (Theresa).

Haley Joel Osment currently resides in Los Angeles, California with his parents and sister, Emily (four years his junior), who is also an accredited actress. He is a student at Flintridge Preparatory School in La Canada, California.

Osment's favourite bands are R.E.M., Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and Coldplay. Haley also likes lizards and has two of them as pets.

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