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My Take
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.
Overview
Haley Joel Osment (born April 10, 1988) is an American actor. 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 breakthrough came with the psychological thriller film The Sixth Sense (1999), for which he won a Saturn Award and was nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- 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
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 2 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / film actor / voice actor / television actor / stage actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- New York University Tisch School of the Arts
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- 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
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.