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Haley Joel Osment

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American actor

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Haley Joel Osment is an American actor known for his work in film and television. He gained prominence as a child actor and has continued his acting career into adulthood.

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Film & TV

Los Angeles, California, USA

Haley Joel Osment (born April 10, 1988) is an American actor. After a series of roles in television and film during the 1990s, including a small part in Forrest Gump playing the title character’s son, Osment rose to fame with his performance as Cole Sear in M. Night Shyamalan’s thriller film The Sixth Sense that earned him a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He subsequently…

Known for

  • Love - Love — Andy2026
  • Happy Gilmore 2 — Billy Jenkins2025
  • Long Lonesome Highway: The Story of Michael Parks — Self2025
  • Main Man — Erwin / Abe2025
  • Blink Twice — Tom2024
  • Drugstore June — Davey2024
  • The Yellow — Roy2024
  • After Midnight — Self2024
  • Batman: Caped Crusader — Anton (voice)2024
  • It's Florida, Man. — Travis2024

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Instance of
human
Given name
Joel
Family name
Osment
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Los Angeles
Occupation
stage actor
Languages spoken
English language
Official website
www.kidactors.com/haley
Image
Haley Joel Osment TIFF 2014.jpg
Height
1.68
Residence
New York City
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Haley Joel Osment
date of birth
1988-04-10
start of work period
1992-00-00
social media followers
41547
writing language
English language
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Haley Joel Osment (born April 10, 1988) is an American actor. Beginning his career as a child actor, Osment's role in the comedy-drama film Forrest Gump (1994) won him a Young Artist Award. His breakthrough came with the psychological thriller film The Sixth Sense (1999), for which he won a Saturn Award and was nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Osment achieved further success with the drama film Pay It Forward (2000), the science fiction film A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), which won him a second Saturn Award, the comedy film Secondhand Lions (2003), which won him a Critics Choice Award, and the animated film The Jungle Book 2 (2003).

Osment is known as the voice of Sora and Vanitas in the Kingdom Hearts series. He made his Broadway debut in a short-lived revival of David Mamet's play American Buffalo (2008). Osment starred in independent film Montana Amazon (2012), also serving as executive producer. His further on-screen work includes the body horror film Tusk (2014), the comedy films Sex Ed (2014), Entourage (2015), Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town (2017), and Clara's Ghost (2018), and the drama films Almost Friends (2016), Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019), and Somebody I Used to Know (2023). In animation, Osment has voiced Kash D. Langford on the Netflix series Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous (2021), Leonard "Buzzsaw" Burne on the DreamWorks Animation Television series DreamWorks Dragons: The Nine Realms (2021–2023), Casey Jones in the animated film Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie (2022), and Collector in the animated film LEGO Marvel Avengers: Code Red (2023).

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