Halley Joel Osment

Halley Joel Osment is an American actor , born the April 10th 1988 with Los Angeles, California. It is famous for its roles in the films Sixth direction and AD INTERIM Artificial intelligence .

Biography

Wire of Michael Eugene Osment, ignored actor, and of Theresa Seifert, teacher, Halley Joel Osment is originating in Los Angeles. It has a sister, Emily Osment also actress. It was student in Flintridge Preparatory School, in Canada, in California. It currently follows courses in Tisch School off the Arts of the University of New York.

Career

It begins its career at the 4 years age in a publicity for Pizza Hut, which enables him to connect roles in many televised series like a street of the thunder , Murphy Brown or Ally McBeal . In 1994, he interprets the role of the son of Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump , for which he obtains the Youth in Film Award . He crosses then Gerard Depardieu and Whoopi Goldberg in Bogus , in 1996.

In 1997, he interprets a child reached of the AIDS in two episodes of the series Walker, Texas Ranger . Always on television, he plays, in 1998, in the last two episodes of season 2 of the Caméléon , where he meets Jake Lloyd.

He acquires a broader notoriety in 1999 thanks to the film Sixth direction , of Mr. Night Shyamalan, at the sides of Bruce Willis. He incarnates there Cole Sear, child disturbed who sees going and coming from the died people, sometimes aggressive, which apostrophizes it. This role is worth to him a Saturn Award and a nomination with the Oscars in the category “better role secondary”. The film is a resounding success.

The career of Halley Joel Osment takes his take-off then and, in 2000, it incarnates Trevor in a better world , at the side of Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt. In 2001, he plays a child robot, David, in AD INTERIM Artificial intelligence of Steven Spielberg, role for which he receives second Saturn Award. The same year, it off turns in Edges the Lord , a film américano-Polish, where it plays the part of a Jewish child during the Second world war. The film will remain new in the American rooms.

Its career slows down between 2003 and 2006, years during which it is satisfied to double films ( the Book of Jungle 2 ) and video games ( Kingdom Hearts ). In 2007, it should off make its return to the cinema in Home the Giants .

Catalog of films

External bonds

  • Official site

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