Haley Joel Osment

Haley Joel Osment (born April 10, 1988) is an American actor.

Throughout the rest of the 1990s, Osment played regular or recurring roles in various TV series; including The Jeff Foxworthy Show and the final season of Murphy Brown, where he replaced Dyllan Christopher as Murphy's son, Avery.

In addition, he made numerous guest appearances on shows, including The Larry Sanders Show, Walker, Texas Ranger, Touched by an Angel, Chicago Hope, The Pretender, and Ally McBeal.

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 first feature film role was as Forrest Gump's son in the 1994 film Forrest Gump.

He also had a small part in another 1994 film, Mixed Nuts.

He appeared in the 1996 film Bogus, alongside Whoopi Goldberg and Gérard Depardieu and the 1998 television film The Lake, as well as I'll Remember April (1999), with future The Sixth Sense co-star Trevor Morgan.

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.

Osment first achieved stardom in 1999, when he appeared in The Sixth Sense, co-starring Bruce Willis.

For his portrayal of Cole Sear, a psychic child, Osment won the Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor.

He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, becoming the second-youngest performer ever to receive an Academy nomination for a supporting role, but lost the final Oscar vote to Michael Caine (with whom he would later work, appearing together in Secondhand Lions).

One of Osment's lines in The Sixth Sense, "I see dead people," became a popular catchphrase and is often repeated or parodied on television programs and in other media.

The phrase is #44 on the American Film Institute's list of 100 Movie Quotes.

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 made three minor appearances on the animated TV series Family Guy in 2000 and 2001.

In 2000 Osment had a leading role in Pay It Forward, which received mixed reviews.

The following year, he appeared in Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence, cementing his stature as one of the leading young actors in Hollywood.

This role earned him his second Saturn Award for Best Younger Actor, and further critical acclaim.

In reviewing the film, critic Roger Ebert claimed that: "Osment, who is onscreen in almost every scene, is one of the best actors now working".

In 2001, Osment starred in the Polish film, Edges of the Lord, as Romek.

The film was never released theatrically in the United States.

He has voiced Sora in the Kingdom Hearts video game franchise since 2002, and voiced Vanitas in the same franchise from 2010 to 2020.

Between 2002 and 2003, Osment lent his voice to films such as The Country Bears, The Hunchback of Notre Dame II and The Jungle Book 2, all from Walt Disney Pictures.

He returned to live action with the 2003 film, Secondhand Lions.

Osment lent his voice to the video game series Kingdom Hearts, providing the voice of Sora, the series' main character, and also Vanitas, a villain from the same series.

Osment also voiced the character of Takeshi Jin in the English version of the Immortal Grand Prix anime television series.

Osment made his Broadway debut in a short-lived revival of David Mamet's play American Buffalo (2008), and executive produced the independent film The Misadventures of the Dunderheads (2012) which he also starred in.

He graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2011.

Visiting a store at age four, Osment signed up with a talent scout.

Called back for an audition, he was asked to describe the biggest thing he had ever seen; his description of an IMAX theater screen helped win him a part in a Pizza Hut TV commercial.

The commercial launched his career, and later that year he starred in the ABC TV sitcom Thunder Alley, his first role in series television.

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).

Osment was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Theresa (Seifert), a teacher, and Michael Eugene Osment, a theater and film actor, both natives of Birmingham, Alabama.

Osment was raised Roman Catholic.

He has one sibling, actress Emily Osment, who is four years younger.

Osment's parents have described his childhood as a "good old-fashioned Southern upbringing".

His father said that when Osment was learning to speak, he deliberately avoided using baby talk when communicating with his son.

As a child, he wrestled and played basketball, football, and golf.

Osment was a student at Flintridge Preparatory School in La Cañada Flintridge, California.