Haley Joel Osment

Haley Joel Osment fascinates me as a case study in surviving early genius. An Academy Award nomination at eleven for The Sixth Sense could have been a curse, the kind of peak that swallows a career, yet Osment chose the unglamorous route: drama school at NYU, voice work, stage roles, character parts. There is real integrity in that pivot. Rather than chasing his child-star silhouette, he rebuilt himself as a versatile working actor who shows up prepared and disappears into ensembles. The famous line gets quoted forever, but what I see now is durability and humility, two qualities Hollywood rarely rewards loudly. I quietly root for him in everything.

Name (English)

Haley Joel Osment

Name (Japanese)

ハーレイ・ジョエル・オスメント

Reading

はーれい・じょえる・おすめんと

Born

April 10, 1988 (age 38)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Dragon

Origin

Los Angeles, California, United States

Height

2 cm

Occupation

actor / film actor / voice actor / television actor / stage actor

University

New York University Tisch School of the Arts

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://www.kidactors.com/haley/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/hjosment/
• Xhttps://x.com/HaleyJoelOsment
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88

Tags

• California
• actor
• film actor
• voice actor

Last updated

2026-06-11

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.