Haley Joel Osment is an American actor who became famous for his starring role in the film "The Sixth Sense", which brought him nominations for the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, MTV Movie & TV Awards, Saturn. No less famous paintings with the participation of Hayley were: "Pay another" and "Artificial Intelligence."
Hayley's career began at the age of five. The boy's family went to the furniture salon, and his parents left him to play in the children's room. The appearance of the child attracted one of the visitors to the store, who worked in advertising. Two months later, Haley began to appear in commercials for "Pizza Hut", which was shown constantly on all channels. Hailey soon became famous throughout the country and for many years came to hate pizza, which he had to eat in large quantities during filming several times a day.
early years
Hayley was born in the United States in the spring of 1988. His father was an actor and producer, and his mother worked as a foreign language teacher. Osment has a younger sister who also belongs to the art world, makes music, pursues a career as a singer and tries herself in cinema.
First roles
After Haley appeared on television in an advertisement for Pizza Hut, the famous director R. Zemeckis became interested in him and invited the boy to star in Forrest Gump, where he got a small role as Gump's child. At the time, Haley was eight years old.
Soon, Haley began to receive offers from television, where for several years he starred in episodes of numerous TV series, including: "Cool Walker", "The X-Files", "Alley of Thunder", "Deceiving Heart: The Story of Lorrie Kellogg." I must say that at the same time as filming, Hayley continued to study well at school, play music and sports.
Big movie career
In 1996, Haley Joel gets her first leading role in a big movie. It was the film "Bogus", which told the story of a boy Albert, whose mother died and his aunt began to take care of his upbringing, not coping well with parental responsibilities. Albert has an imaginary friend Bogus, who becomes one of the main characters in the adventure picture. Together with Haley, the film stars: Whouppy Goldberg and Gerard Depardieu.
Before getting on the set of The Sixth Sense, Haley was casting for the lead role in Star Wars, but the director decided to hire another actor, which upset Osment very much.
Soon he received an offer to play the main role in the thriller "The Sixth Sense". After reading the script, the parents were horrified, but after much persuasion they agreed to give permission to shoot. So Haley becomes the main character of the mystical tape and is filmed with the famous Bruce Willis. Later, Haley said that more than once during the filming he began to really get scared of those ghosts that he should have seen in the script. And after the film appeared at the box office, he said that children should not be shown this film, and he really didn’t want his younger sister to see it.
The film "The Sixth Sense" and especially the play of the little actor made an indelible impression on the audience and film critics. So at the age of eleven, Osment became one of the youngest Oscar nominees.
A year later, the film "Pay Another" was released. Osment again gets the main role and copes with the task brilliantly. His partners on the set were H. Hunt and C. Spacey. In 2001, Haley again amazes the audience with his performance in the film "Artificial Intelligence", directed by S. Spielberg.
A year later, Haley, in addition to filming new projects, begins to dub cartoons, including: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Jungle Book and the heroes of the video game Kingdom Hearts.
Personal life
Hayley continues to act in films, although in recent years he has not been offered serious roles. He is fascinated by creativity, music and sports. Osment is especially fond of golf, which he began to play in elementary school, and now has repeatedly played at prestigious tournaments.
Nothing is known about the actor's personal life and his relationship with the opposite sex.
