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Haley Joel
Osment's young, yet expansive career, continues to find new height's
following his starring role in director Steven Spielberg's A.I.,
traveling to Poland to shoot Edges of the Lord, playing a Jewish
boy sent into the countryside to hide with a Catholic family during
Nazi occupation; and co-starring with Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt
in the adaptation of Catherine Ryan Hyde's novel "Pay It
Forward." All of this completed within the same year.
Osment made
an unforgettable impression on movie-goers with his devastating
portrayal of the haunted Cole Sear in the record breaking and
internationally acclaimed film The Sixth Sense, in which he co-starred
with Bruce Willis and Toni Colette for director M. Night Shymalan.
For his performance, Osment was nominated for an Academy Award
at age 11. He also received numerous film critics' awards as well
as nominations for a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
An award-winning
actor who began his television and film career at age 5, Osment
won his first honor, the Youth in Film Award, for his role as
Forrest, Jr. in the Oscar-winning feature film, Forrest Gump.
The young
actor's feature film credits also include Nora Ephron's Mixed
Nuts, Jason Alexander's directorial debut For Better or Worse,
and Norman Jewison's Bogus, in which he starred opposite Oscar
winner Whoopi Goldberg and Gerard Depardieu.
In the voice-over
arena, Osment is heard as Chip in Walt Disney's animated release
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas, as Zephyr in The
Hunchback of Notre Dame Deux, and as Beary in The Country Bears.
His latest animation honor was voicing Mowgli in Disney's The
Jungle Book 2.
He made his
acting debut starring opposite multi-Emmy winner Edward Asner
in the television series "Thunder Alley." He went on
to co-star as Matt Foxworthy on "The Jeff Foxworthy Show,"
and then appeared as Avery Brown on the long-running series "Murphy
Brown."
Osment's guest
starring television credits include: the two part special of "The
Pretender," playing a kidnapped prodigy whose genius is exploited
through mind control; "Chicago Hope," where he found
himself stuck in an elevator with a corpse; a true life story
of Lou Gehrig's Disease on "Touched By An Angel;" and
a two-part special of "Walker Texas Ranger," playing
Lucas, a parentless boy dying of AIDS. Osment also captured audiences
on a heartfelt episode of "Ally McBeal" where he played
a dying boy who wanted to sue God.
In television
films, Osment's credits include the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation
of "The Ransom of Red Chief," in which he starred opposite
Christopher Lloyd, NBC's science fiction thriller "The Lake,"
and the World War II feature "I'll Remember April."
His honors
include three Young Star Awards for his appearances in TNT's "Last
Stand at Saber River" with Tom Selleck, the Hallmark presentation
of the CBS drama "Cab to Canada," with Maureen O'Hara,
and The Sixth Sense. He is a two-time recipient of the Saturn
Award and recipient of the ShoWest Award.
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