Haley Joel Osment

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Haley Joel Osment
Osment in The Sixth Sense <tr><td style="text-align:left;">Birth name</td><td>Haley Joel Osment</td></tr>
Born	April 10 1988 Los Angeles, California
Official site	Official Haley Joel Osment Website
Notable roles	Cole Sear in The Sixth Sense Sora in Kingdom Hearts & Kingdom Hearts II

Haley Joel Osment (born April 10 1988) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. After a series of roles in television and film during the early 1990s, Osment came to fame with his starring role in the 1999 thriller, The Sixth Sense. He subsequently had leading roles in several high-profile Hollywood films, including Pay It Forward and A.I., with his most recent being 2003's Secondhand Lions. Osment also starred in the 1996 movie Bogus with Whoopi Goldberg.

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[edit] Personal life

Osment was born in Los Angeles, California to Michael Eugene Osment and Theresa Seifert; he has a sister, Emily Osment, who is also an actress. Osment's family resides in Los Angeles. He was a student at Flintridge Preparatory School in La Canada, California and now attends New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

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Osment began acting at the age of four, when he tried out for a Pizza Hut commercial. The commercial launched his career, and he landed his first television role later that year. As a young 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), Thunder Alley, The Jeff Foxworthy Show, The Pretender, and most notably Murphy Brown as Murphy's out-of-wedlock child, which then-Vice President Dan Quayle cited as a "poverty of values" (May 19, 1992). He also played a dying child in the emotional episode "Angels and Blimps" of the late-1990s show Ally McBeal.

Osment starred in Bogus alongside Whoopi Goldberg and Gérard Depardieu, and appeared in the 1998 made-for-TV movie The Lake with Yasmine Bleeth, as well as I'll Remember April with future Sixth Sense co-star Trevor Morgan. He 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). One of Osment's lines in The Sixth Sense, "I see dead people" is often repeated or parodied on television programs and in other media. For example, one creature in the Blizzard game Warcraft 3 says, "I eat dead people".

The 2000 Academy Awards ceremony honored another future co-star, Best Actor Kevin Spacey, who, along with Helen Hunt, appeared in Osment's next film, Pay It Forward. The following year, he 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. Also in 2001, Osment starred in a Polish film, Edges of the Lord, as Romek. The movie was never released theatrically in the United States. He has since provided voices for The Country Bears and Jungle Book 2, and returned to live action with the 2003 film Secondhand Lions. More recently, Osment became the voice of Sora, the main protagonist of The Walt Disney Company and Square-Enix's Kingdom Hearts series of video games. He is also the voice of Takeshi Jin, the main character of the Immortal Grand Prix anime TV series.

Osment's next film will be Home of the Giants, playing a high school journalist opposite Ryan Merriman and Danielle Panabaker.

Osment has confirmed in an interview that he will star in 2 new films in 2007.

[edit] DUI/Marijuana possession trial

At approximately 2:10 a.m. on July 20, 2006,<ref name="starpulse">StarPulse. Police Suspect Alcohol Was a Factor in Haley Joel Osment's Crash. Retrieved on July 21, 2006.</ref> Osment was driving alone from a Muse concert in his 1996 Saturn station wagon and allegedly lost control of the vehicle;<ref name="post">The Post Chronicle. Haley Joel Osment Injured In Car Accident. Retrieved on July 21, 2006.</ref> as a result, the car crashed into a mailbox on a brick base and flipped over. Osment was conscious and communicating immediately after the crash. He fractured a rib, as well as his right shoulder blade, and suffered cuts and abrasions.<ref name="starpulse" /> His doctor noted that Osment was "in good condition" and would remain hospitalized for at least two days after the accident.<ref name="cnn">CNN.com. Osment in good condition after crash. Retrieved on July 21, 2006.</ref> A blood sample was taken and registered at .16 percent.<ref name="thewest1020">The West.com.au. Osment gets probation for drink driving. Retrieved on October 20, 2006.</ref>

On August 17, 2006, Osment was charged with four misdemeanor counts: Driving under the influence of alcohol, driving with a .08 blood alcohol level or higher, enhancement of driving with a .15 or higher, and possession of marijuana while driving.

On October 19, 2006, Osment's lawyer pleaded no contest to one count each of misdemeanor driving under the influence and misdemeanor marijuana possession. The two other charges, another misdemeanor DUI and a vehicle code infraction, were dropped by prosecutors. Osment 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.<ref name="desertnews1020">DesertNews.com. Osment pleads no contest to misdemeanor charges. Retrieved on October 20, 2006.</ref>

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[edit] External links

• Haley Joel Osment at the Internet Movie Database
• Haley Joel Osment websitecs:Haley Joel Osment

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