Biography
Early life
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, 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 (as a child dying from AIDS), Murphy Brown, and most notably The Jeff Foxworthy Show.
Film career
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 Square Enix'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 and subject of a number of puns in the Blizzard game Warcraft 3 (i.e one undead creature says "I eat dead people"). He attributes his success as an actor to his father, Eugene and his mother, Theresa.
Private life
Haley Joel Osment currently resides in Los Angeles, California with his parents and sister, Emily (four years his junior), who is also an actress. He is a student at Flintridge Preparatory School in La Canada, California.
Filmography
Film
Home of the Giants (2006) (post-production)
Secondhand Lions (2003)
The Country Bears (2002)
A.I. (2001)
Edges of the Lord (2000)
Pay It Forward (2000)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
I'll Remember April (1999)
The Lake (1998)
Bogus (1996)
For Better or Worse (1996)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Mixed Nuts (1994)
Television
Cab To Canada (1998)
The Lake (1998)
Last Stand at Saber River (1997)
Ransom of Red Chief (1996)
The Jeff Foxworthy Show (1995)
Deadly Lessons: The Story of Laurie Kellogg (1994)
Voice acting
Kingdom Hearts II (2006) (video game): Sora
Immortal Grand Prix (2005): Jin Takeshi
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (2004) (video game): Sora
The Jungle Book 2 (2003): Mowgli
The Country Bears (2002): Beary Barrington
Kingdom Hearts (2002) (video game): Sora
The Hunchback of Notre Dame II (2002): Zephyr
Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big (2000)
Disney's Discover Spot Videos (2000): Spot
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (2000)
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997): Chip(speaking voice)
Hey Arnold! (1996-2004)
Haley has also done minor voices on at least three Family Guy episodes.
