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===2006 Alcohol- and drug-related car accident===
===2006 Alcohol- and drug-related car accident===
On [[July 20]], [[2006]], Osment was injured in a one-car accident.<ref name="starpulse">{{cite web | title=StarPulse | work=Police Suspect Alcohol Was a Factor in Haley Joel Osment's Crash | url=http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/07/21/police_suspect_alcohol_was_a_factor_in_h | accessmonthday=July 21 | accessyear=2006}}</ref><ref name="post">{{cite web | title=The Post Chronicle | work=Haley Joel Osment Injured In Car Accident | url=http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_21229604.shtml | accessmonthday=July 21 | accessyear=2006}}</ref><ref name="cnn">{{cite web | title=CNN.com | work=Osment in good condition after crash | url=http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/07/21/people.osment.ap/ | accessmonthday=July 21 | accessyear=2006}}</ref> His blood-alcohol content was measured at 0.16 percent, twice the legal limit in California.<ref name="thewest1020">{{cite web | title=The West.com.au | work=Osment gets probation for drink driving | url=http://www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.aspx?StoryName=326604 | accessmonthday=October 20 | accessyear=2006}}</ref> On [[August 18]], he was charged with four [[misdemeanor]]s including [[driving under the influence]] of alcohol and possession of [[cannabis (drug)|marijuana]] while driving. He pleaded [[Nolo contendere|no contest]] on [[October 19]] and 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">{{cite web | title=DesertNews.com | work=Osment pleads no contest to misdemeanor charges | url=http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650200193,00.html | accessmonthday=October 20 | accessyear=2006}}</ref>
On [[July 20]], [[2006]], Osment was injured in a one-car accident.<ref name="starpulse">{{cite web | title=StarPulse | work=Police Suspect Alcohol Was a Factor in Haley Joel Osment's Crash | url=http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/07/21/police_suspect_alcohol_was_a_factor_in_h | accessmonthday=July 21 | accessyear=2006}}</ref><ref name="post">{{cite web | title=The Post Chronicle | work=Haley Joel Osment Injured In Car Accident | url=http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_21229604.shtml | accessmonthday=July 21 | accessyear=2006}}</ref><ref name="cnn">{{cite web | title=CNN.com | work=Osment in good condition after crash | url=http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/07/21/people.osment.ap/ | accessmonthday=July 21 | accessyear=2006}}</ref> His blood-alcohol content was measured at 0.16 percent, twice the legal limit in California.<ref name="thewest1020">{{cite web | title=The West.com.au | work=Osment gets probation for drink driving | url=http://www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.aspx?StoryName=326604 | accessmonthday=October 20 | accessyear=2006}}</ref> On [[August 18]], he was charged with four [[misdemeanor]]s including [[driving under the influence]] of alcohol and possession of [[cannabis (drug)|marijuana]] while driving. He pleaded [[Nolo contendere|no contest]] on [[October 19]] and 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. Many pundits were surprised he was driving a modest 1990s model Saturn automobile. <ref name="desertnews1020">{{cite web | title=DesertNews.com | work=Osment pleads no contest to misdemeanor charges | url=http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650200193,00.html | accessmonthday=October 20 | accessyear=2006}}</ref>


==Filmography==
==Filmography==

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Haley Joel Osment
Years active1994 - present
AwardsSaturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor
1999 The Sixth Sense
2001 Artificial Intelligence: A.I.
Websitewww.haleyjoelosment.net

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. He is also notable for providing the voice of Sora, the protagonist in the Kingdom Hearts series, one of the most high-profile video game series to make heavy use of voice acting.

Biography

Personal life

Osment was born in Los Angeles, California (where his family still resides), the son of Theresa (née Seifert), a teacher, and Michael Eugene Osment, a theater and film actor, both natives of Alabama.[1][2][3] His younger sister is actress Emily Osment of Hannah Montana and Spy Kids fame. Osment was raised Catholic.[4] He was a student at Flintridge Preparatory School in La Cañada, California, and currently attends New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

Career

Osment began acting at the age of four, when he tried out for a Pizza Hut commercial in a shopping mall. The commercial launched his career, and he landed his first television role later that year. As a young child his first film role was as Forrest Gump's son, also named Forrest Gump, in the 1994 film of the same name as well as making a small appearance in Mixed Nuts. He had roles in numerous TV series, including Thunder Alley, The Jeff Foxworthy Show and most notably the final season of Murphy Brown, in which he replaced Dylan Christopher as Murphy's son Avery. He also made numerous guest appearances in various TV series including The Larry Sanders Show, Walker, Texas Ranger (as a child dying from AIDS), Touched by an Angel, Chicago Hope, The Pretender, and as a child dying from leukemia 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 The 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 (alongside whom he would later star 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. He also made three minor guest appearances on Family Guy in 2000.

During the earliest stages of production, Osment was considered for the role of Harry Potter in the eponymous films by director Stephen Spielberg. He rejected the offer, saying it should stay as book,[5][6][7] and the role went to Daniel Radcliffe.

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Osment in The Sixth Sense, 1999

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 Artificial Intelligence: A.I., cementing his stature as one of the leading young actors in Hollywood. This role earned him his second Saturn Award. Also in 2001, Osment starred in the 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, The Hunchback of Notre Dame II and The Jungle Book 2, and returned to live action with the 2003 film, Secondhand Lions.

More recently, Osment was the voice of Sora, the main protagonist of The Walt Disney Company and Square-Enix's Kingdom Hearts video game series, which has been extremely financially successful as well as generally well-received critically. He was also the voice of Takeshi Jinno, 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.

On July 20, 2006, Osment was injured in a one-car accident.[8][9][10] His blood-alcohol content was measured at 0.16 percent, twice the legal limit in California.[11] On August 18, he was charged with four misdemeanors including driving under the influence of alcohol and possession of marijuana while driving. He pleaded no contest on October 19 and 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. Many pundits were surprised he was driving a modest 1990s model Saturn automobile. [12]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1994 Forrest Gump Forrest Gump Jr.
Mixed Nuts Little Boy
1996 Bogus Albert Franklin
For Better or Worse Danny
1998 Ransom of Red Chief (TV movie) Andy Dorset
1999 The Sixth Sense Cole Sear Oscar nomination - Best Supporting Actor
I'll Remember April Peewee Clayton
2000 Pay It Forward Trevor McKinney
Discover Spot Spot the Dog Voice
2001 A.I. David
Edges of the Lord Romek
2002 The Hunchback of Notre Dame II Zephyr Voice
The Country Bears Beary Barrington Voice
Kingdom Hearts Sora Video Game; Voice
2003 Secondhand Lions Walter Caldwell
The Jungle Book 2 Mowgli Voice
2004 Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories Sora Video game (archive); Voice
2005 Kingdom Hearts II Video game; Voice
2006 Immortal Grand Prix Takeshi Jin Voice
2007 Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix+ Sora Video game (archive); Voice
Home of the Giants Robert "Gar" Gartland Completed
2008 Truth & Treason Helmuth Hubener Pre-Production

References

  1. ^ Copeland, Libby (2001-07-02). "Acting Older Than His Age; Haley Joel Osment, Already Big at the Box Office, Is Poised for Another Growth Spurt". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2007-12-10. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  2. ^ http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071024/SPECIAL16/710240456/-1/LOCAL17
  3. ^ http://www.filmreference.com/film/11/Haley-Joel-Osment.html
  4. ^ Duke, Paul F. (2000-04-25). "Osment, Dafoe honing 'Edges'". Variety.com. Retrieved 2007-12-10. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  5. ^ 27 June 2001, AOL Casts The First Stone
  6. ^ Smith, Sean. J.K. Rowling: A Biography
  7. ^ BBC entry]
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