Haley Joel Osment

Haley Joel Osment
Osment in 2014
Born (1988-04-10) April 10, 1988 (age 36)
Alma materNew York University (BFA)
OccupationActor
Years active1992–present
RelativesEmily Osment (sister)

Haley Joel Osment (born April 10, 1988)[1] 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), which won him a Saturn Award and earned him nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He 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). He has voiced Sora in the Kingdom Hearts video game franchise since 2002, and voiced Vanitas in the same franchise from 2010 to 2020.

Osment made his Broadway debut in a short-lived revival of David Mamet's play American Buffalo (2008),[2] and executive produced the independent film The Misadventures of the Dunderheads (2012) which he also starred in. His further on-screen work includes appearing in 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). He has also 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).

  1. ^ Makwana, Krishna (April 10, 2014). "The Sixth Sense child star Haley Joel Osment 26th birthday: Wackiest rumours about him". india.com. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
  2. ^ "Revival of Mamet's American Buffalo Finds a Broadway Home". Playbill. Archived from the original on July 11, 2009. Retrieved February 12, 2022.