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- Name: HALEY JOEL OSMENT
- English name: HALEY JOEL OSMENT
- Native name: ---
- Alias: ['HJO']
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Description: Haley joel osment is an american actor who has proven himself as one of the best young actors of his generation. he is the first millennial male to have received an academy award nomination for acting.osment was born in los angeles, california, to theresa (seifert), a teacher, and actoreugene osment. his sister is actressemily osment. his ancestry includes irish, along with german and english/scottish. haley 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 young child, his first film role was asforrest gump(1994)'s son, also named forrest gump, in the 1994 film of the same name as well as making a small appearance inmixed nuts(1994). he had roles in numerous tv series, includingthunder alley(1994),the jeff foxworthy show(1995), and, most notably, the final season ofmurphy brown(1988), in which he replaceddyllan christopheras murphy's son avery. osment also made numerous guest appearances in various tv series, includingthe larry sanders show(1992),walker, texas ranger(1993) (as a child dying from aids),touched by an angel(1994),chicago hope(1994),the pretender(1996), and as a child dying from leukemia in the emotional episode 'angels and blimps' (1999) of the seriesally mcbeal(1997). osment starred inbogus(1996) withwhoopi goldbergandgérard depardieu, and appeared in the 1998 made-for-tv moviethe lake(1998) withyasmine bleeth, as well asi'll remember april(2000) with futurethe sixth sense(1999) co-startrevor morgan.he first achieved stardom in 1999 when he appeared in the blockbusterthe sixth sense(1999), co-starringbruce willis. for this role, osment won the saturn award for best young actor. he was also nominated for the academy award for best supporting actor, but lost tomichael caine, with whom he would later star insecondhand lions(2003). osment (voice) also made three minor guest appearances onfamily guy(1999) in 2000. one of osment's lines inthe sixth sense(1999), "i see dead people," is often repeated or parodied on television programs and in other media. the 2000 academy awards ceremony honored another of osment's future co-stars, bestactorkevin spacey, who, along withhelen hunt, appeared in osment's next film,pay it forward(2000). the following year, osment appeared insteven spielberg'sa.i. artificial intelligence(2001), cementing his stature as one of the leading young actors in hollywood. this role earned him his second saturn award. also in 2001, osment starred in a polish film,edges of the lord(2001), as romek. the movie was never released theatrically in the united states. osment has since provided voices forthe country bears(2002) andthe jungle book 2(2003). more recently, osment was the voice of sora, the main protagonist of the walt disney company and square-enix'skingdom hearts(2002) video-game series, which was extremely financially successful as well and generally well-received critically. he was also the voice of takeshi jinno in the "time to shine" episode of theigpx: immortal grand prix(2005) anime tv series.osment also worked inhome of the giants(2007), playing a high school journalist oppositeryan merrimananddanielle panabaker. he also played helmuth hübener in the film truth & treason (????). on july 20, 2006, osment was injured in a one-car accident. his blood-alcohol content was measured at 0.16%, twice the legal limit in california. on august 18, he was charged with four misdemeanors, including driving under the influence of alcohol and possession of marijuana while driving. he pleaded no contest on october 19 and was sentenced to three years' probation, 60 hours in an alcohol-rehabilitation and education program, a fine of $1,500, and a minimum requirement of 26 alcoholics anonymous meetings over a six-month period.in 2006, osment took a hiatus from hollywood and studied acting at the experimental theatre wing at nyu's tisch school of the arts, graduating with honors and a bachelor's degree of fine arts in 2011. he also appeared on broadway in a 2008 production ofdavid mamet's american buffalo, and injohn logan's red at the philadelphia theater company in 2011.osment returned to the screen in 2012 withcontinuum(2013), co-starring withgillian anderson,rufus sewell, andvictor garber,sassy pants(2012) withanna gunnanddiedrich bader, then appeared in two seasons of amazon studios' comedy seriesalpha house(2013), written by pulitzer prize winnergarry trudeauand starringjohn goodman. his many additional credits include comedy bang! bang!,kevin smith's horror comediestusk(2014) andyoga hosers(2016),entourage(2015) (warner bros.' silver screen extension of the award-winning hbo dramedy), the award-winning independent comedysex ed(2014), the hit fx serieswhat we do in the shadows(2019), the hulu science fiction comedyfuture man(2017), and the true crime thriller and 2019 sundance film festival selectionextremely wicked, shockingly evil and vile(2019) starringzac efronas ted bundy, and featuringlily collins,kaya scodelario,jim parsons, andjohn malkovich.
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