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HALEY JOEL OSMENT BIOGRAPHY |
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For audiences around the world whose ears ring
with the haunting and fateful revelation of a child tortured by
terrifying visions of the afterlife, Haley Joel Osment may
forever be linked to his role in what would rank among the most
popular supernatural thrillers ever made, The Sixth Sense
(1999). An Oscar nominee at the age of 11, Haley Joel Osment
quickly became one of the most recognized and versatile young
actors working in film, proving to audiences that his talents
exceeded typecasting by constantly tackling new and challenging
roles and characterizations.
Born in Los Angeles, CA, on April 10, 1988, Haley Joel Osment
set his acting career into motion, as many actors do, by
appearing in commercials and taking small roles on television.
Accompanied by his father to an audition for a Pizza Hut
commercial and initially discouraged by the overwhelming amount
of children vying for the role, Haley Joel Osment eventually
stuck out the wait at his father's request and landed the role
that would launch his career. Soon making Haley Joel Osment's
feature debut as the youthful counterpart of the titular
character in the phenomenally successful Forrest Gump in 1994,
Haley Joel Osment alternated between television (Murphy Brown
and The Jeff Foxworthy Show) and film (Mixed Nuts and Bogus)
while frequently appearing in such made-for-TV movies as The
Ransom of Red Chief before making his breakthrough in director
M. Night Shayamalan's The Sixth Sense.
Following the success of The Sixth Sense with the well-intended
but fatally flawed feel-good failure Pay It Forward, Haley Joel
Osment escaped relatively unscathed as critics recognized the
young actor's exceptional performance in what was otherwise a
flop with critics and audiences alike. Imagination was the key
to Haley Joel Osment's next project: director Steven Spielberg's
long-anticipated, much-hyped A.I. An elaborately futuristic tale
of an android that aspires to experience human emotion, A.I. was
the first and only collaboration of two of the most influential
filmmakers of the 20th century, the late Stanley Kubrick (who
conceived the story based on Brian Aldiss' short story Supertoys
Last All Summer Long) and Spielberg. In addition to appearing
onscreen, Haley Joel Osment lent his voice to a number of
animated films in 2000 and 2001, including the Disney sequels
The Hunchback of Notre Dame II and The Jungle Book II. After
once again providing voice work for the comedy musical The
Country Bears, Haley Joel Osment returned to the screen body
intact with Secondhand Lions in 2003. Cast as an intorverted
youngster whose irresponsible mother sends him off to spend his
summer with his eccentric uncles in Texas, Haley Joel Osment's
onscreen abilities were key in making his character's
transformation from withdrawn child to responsible young man
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