Jackie Earle Haley

Jackie Earle Haley is one of those actors who pulled off one of the great Hollywood comeback stories without making a big deal out of it. I grew up knowing him as Kelly Leak in The Bad News Bears — that cool, motorcycle-riding bad boy who somehow made an entire generation of kids want to be the rebel on the team. Then he basically vanished from the spotlight for decades, quietly directing TV commercials, and you'd have been forgiven for assuming that chapter was closed. Then 2006 rolls around, and suddenly he's back, earning an Oscar nomination for Little Children, and then in 2009 he delivers Rorschach in Watchmen — raspy voice, that ink-blot mask, the barely contained violence — and you realize this guy never lost it, he just went away for a while. That arc from 1970s child star to genuinely unsettling character actor is rare, and he wears it without any pretension.

Name (English)

Jackie Earle Haley

Name (Japanese)

ジャッキー・アール・ヘイリー

Reading

じゃっきー・あーる・へいりー

Born

July 14, 1961 (age 65)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Ox

Origin

Northridge, California, United States

Occupation

actor / film actor / television actor / film director / screenwriter

High school

Canoga Park High School

• Official sitehttp://jackieearlehaley.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jackieearle/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie%20Earle%20Haley
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%83%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q314841

Tags

• California
• actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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