Haley Joel Osment (born April 10, 1988) is an American actor. Beginning his career as a child actor, Osment's role in the comedy-drama film Forrest Gump (1994) won him a Young Artist Award. His breakthrough came with the psychological thriller film The Sixth Sense (1999), for which he won a Saturn Award and was nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Osment achieved further success with the drama film Pay It Forward (2000), the science fiction film A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), which won him a second Saturn Award, the comedy film Secondhand Lions (2003), which won him a Critics Choice Award, and the animated film The Jungle Book 2 (2003).
Osment is known as the voice of Sora and Vanitas in the Kingdom Hearts series. He made his Broadway debut in a short-lived revival of David Mamet's play American Buffalo (2008). Osment starred in independent film Montana Amazon (2012), also serving as executive producer. His further on-screen work includes the body horror film Tusk (2014), the comedy films Sex Ed (2014), Entourage (2015), Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town (2017), and Clara's Ghost (2018), and the drama films Almost Friends (2016), Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019), and Somebody I Used to Know (2023). In animation, Osment has voiced Kash D. Langford on the Netflix series Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous (2021), Leonard "Buzzsaw" Burne on the DreamWorks Animation Television series DreamWorks Dragons: The Nine Realms (2021–2023), Casey Jones in the animated film Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie (2022), and Collector in the animated film LEGO Marvel Avengers: Code Red (2023).
Early life
Haley Joel Osment was born on April 10, 1988, in Los Angeles, California. He is the son of Theresa (), a teacher, and Michael Eugene Osment, a theater and film actor, both natives of Birmingham, Alabama. Osment was raised Roman Catholic. He has a younger sister, Emily, who is also an actress. Osment's parents have described his childhood as a "good old-fashioned Southern upbringing". His father said that when Osment was learning to speak, he deliberately avoided using baby talk when communicating with his son. As a child, Osment wrestled and played basketball, football, and golf.
Osment was a student at Flintridge Preparatory School in La Cañada Flintridge, California. He graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2011.
Career
Child actor
While visiting a store at age four, Osment signed up with a talent scout. After being called back for an audition, he was asked to describe the biggest thing he had ever seen; Osment's description of an IMAX theater screen helped win him a part in a Pizza Hut TV commercial. Osment's first feature film role was as Forrest Gump's son in the 1994 film Forrest Gump, also having a minor role in another 1994 film, Mixed Nuts. Touched by an Angel,
In 2000, Osment had a leading role as Trevor McKinney in Pay It Forward; In 2001, Osment starred as Romek in the Polish film Edges of the Lord. He returned to live action with the 2003 film Secondhand Lions.
In 2002, Osment starred in Kingdom Hearts, the first installment of the video game series Kingdom Hearts, providing the voice of protagonist Sora and later Vanitas. In 2003, Osment voiced Takeshi Jin in the English version of the Immortal Grand Prix anime television series. The show opened to mixed reviews, and a provisional statement was made on November 20, 2008, that it would close after the first week.
Osment subsequently worked on Montana Amazon as both an actor and executive producer. He appeared in an adult role in Sassy Pants (2012).
In 2013, Osment appeared in Amazon's Alpha House, He then appeared in the comedy films Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town (2017), He is an avid golfer who began playing at the age of seven, playing for the U.S. team in the All-Star Cup 2005 under team leader Mark O'Meara, and has participated in the annual Michael Douglas & Friends Celebrity Golf Tournament.
In 2006, Osment suffered a broken rib and fractured shoulder blade in an auto accident.
In 2007, Osment began attending New York University.
In April 2025, Osment was arrested at a ski resort in Mammoth Lakes, California, for public intoxication and possession of a controlled substance, later confirmed to be cocaine. While under arrest, he was captured on police body cameras using slurs against Jewish people towards his arresting officer, for which he later apologized. Osment was released after booking. In June 2025, he appeared in court for these acts and was sentenced to attend three Alcoholics Anonymous meetings a week for six months, as well as have twice-weekly sessions with his therapist during the same period.
Filmography
Film
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class = "unsortable" | Notes
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1994
| Forrest Gump
| Forrest Gump, Jr.
|
|-
| Mixed Nuts
| Little Boy
|
|-
| 1995
| For Better or Worse
| Danny
|
|-
| 1996
| Bogus
| Albert Franklin
|
|-
| 1997
| Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
| Chip (voice)
| Direct-to-video
|-
|rowspan="2" | 1999 || The Sixth Sense || Cole Sear ||
|-
| I'll Remember April
| Peewee Clayton
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |2000 || Pay It Forward || Trevor McKinney ||
|-
| Spot the Dog
| Spot the Dog (voice)
| Direct-to-video
|-
| rowspan="2" | 2001 || A.I. Artificial Intelligence || David ||
|-
| Edges of the Lord
| Romek
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | 2002
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame II
| Zephyr (voice)
| Direct-to-video
|-
| 2013
| I'll Follow You Down
| Erol
| Released as Continuum outside North America
|-
| rowspan="2" | 2014
| Tusk
| Teddy Craft
|
|-
| Sex Ed
| Ed Cole
|
|-
| rowspan="4" | 2015
| Wrestling Isn't Wrestling
| Theater Audience Member
| Short film
|-
| The World Made Straight
| Shank
|
|-
| Entourage
| Travis McCredle
|
|-
| Me Him Her
| Haley
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | 2016
| Yoga Hosers
| Adrien Arcand
|
|-
| Almost Friends
| Ben
|
|-
| rowspan="3" | 2017
| Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town
| Walt
|
|-
| Sleepwalker
| Warren
|
|-
| CarGo
| Danny (voice)
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | 2019
| Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
| Jerry Thompson
|
|-
| The Devil Has a Name
| Alex Gardner
|
|-
| rowspan="3" | 2020
| Bad Therapy
| Reed
|
|-
| Death of a Telemarketer
| Jim/Dean
|
|-
| Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics
| Gabe
|
|-
| 2022
| Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie
| Casey Jones, Foot Soldiers (voice)
|
|-
| Lego Marvel Avengers: Code Red
| Collector (voice)
| Disney+ special
|-
| Blink Twice
| Tom
|
|-
| 2025
| Happy Gilmore 2
| Billy Jenkins
|
|}
Television
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class = "unsortable" | Notes
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1994
| The Larry Sanders Show
| Little Boy
| Episode: "The Fourteenth Floor"
|-
| Lies of the Heart: The Story of Laurie Kellogg
| Kyle
| Television film
|-
| 1994–1995
| Thunder Alley
| Harry Turner
| Starring role
|-
| 1995–1997
| The Jeff Foxworthy Show
| Matt Foxworthy
| Starring role
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1997
| Walker, Texas Ranger
| Lucas Simms
| 2 episodes
|-
| Last Stand at Saber River
| Davis Cable
| Television film
|-
| 1997–1998
| Murphy Brown
| Avery Brown #2
| 6 episodes
|-
| rowspan="6" | 1998
| Chicago Hope
| Nathan Cacaci
| Episode: "Memento Mori"
|-
| Touched by an Angel
| John Henry
| Episode: "Flights of Angels"
|-
| The Pretender
| Davey Simpkins
| 2 episodes
|-
| The Lake
| Dylan Hydecker
| Television film
|-
| The Ransom of Red Chief
| Andy Dorset
| Television film
|-
| Cab to Canada
| Bobby
| Television film
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1999
| Ally McBeal
| Eric Stall
| Episode: "Angels and Blimps"
|-
| Hey Arnold!
| Curly Gammelthorpe (voice)
| Episode: "Deconstructing Arnold"
|-
| 2013–2014
| Alpha House
| Shelby Mellman
| 12 episodes
|-
| 2013, 2022
| American Dad!
| Stan's Informant, Clubber (voice)
| 3 episodes
|-
| 2014
| The Spoils of Babylon
| Winston Morehouse
| 3 episodes
|-
| rowspan="2" | 2015
| The Spoils Before Dying
| Alistair St. Barnaby-Bixby-Jones
| 5 episodes
|-
| Drunk History
| Kid Blink
| Episode: "Journalism"
|-
| 2015–2016
| Comedy Bang! Bang!
| Slow Joey
| 10 episodes
|-
| 2016
| The Eric Andre Show
| Guest
| Episode: "Dennis Rodman; Haley Joel Osment"
|-
| rowspan="3" | 2017
| Oasis
| Sy
| Amazon Video pilot episode
|-
| Silicon Valley
| Keenan Feldspar
| 3 episodes
|-
| Top Gear America
| Himself
| Episode: "Drive Your Life"
|-
| rowspan="2" | 2017–2019
| Teachers
| Damien
| 4 episodes
|-
| Future Man
| Dr. Stu Camillo
| 14 episodes
|-
| rowspan="3" | 2018
| Swedish Dicks
| Dave
| Episode: "Floyd Cal Who"
|-
| The X-Files
| Davey James / Young John James
| Episode: "Kitten"
|-
| Rob Riggle's Ski Master Academy
| Gaston Lebone
| Episode: "R.I.G.G.L.E. Day"
|-
| 2019
| The Boys
| Mesmer
| 2 episodes
|-
| 2019–2021
| The Kominsky Method
| Robby
| 7 episodes
|-
| rowspan="3" | 2020
| Robot Chicken
| Kevin Jonas, Tim Murphy (voice)
| Episode: "Petless M in: Cars Are Couches On The Road"
|-
| Star Trek: Lower Decks
| O'Connor (voice)
| Episode: "Moist Vessel"
|-
| The George Lucas Talk Show
| Himself
| Episode: "Yoda Hosers"
|-
| 2020–2023
| What We Do In the Shadows
| Topher Delmonico
| 2 episodes
|-
| rowspan="2" | 2021
| Goliath
| Dylan Zax
| Recurring role
|-
| Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens
| Amos
| Episode: "Home"
|-
| 2021–2022
| Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous
| Kash D. Langford (voice)
| Seasons 4–5
|-
|Dead End: Paranormal Park
| Danny (voice)
| Episode: "Going Up"
|-
| The Mysterious Benedict Society
| One Two
| Episode: "A Two-Way Street"
|-
| 2022–2023
| DreamWorks Dragons: The Nine Realms
| Buzzsaw (voice)
| Seasons 2–6
|-
| Megamind Rules!
| Dan Donner / Hu-Mouse (voice)
| 5 episodes
|-
|rowspan=3| 2025
| Spidey and His Amazing Friends
| Hydro-Man (voice)
| Recurring role
|-
| Poker Face
| Kirby Kowalczyk
| 2 episodes
|-
| Wednesday
| Chet (serial killer)
| Season 2; guest role
|}
Video games
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
! Year
! Title
! Voice role
! class="unsortable"| Notes
! class="unsortable"| Source
|-
| || Kingdom Hearts ||rowspan=4|Sora || ||
|-
| || Kingdom Hearts III || Sora, Vanitas || Also in Re:Mind (2020) DLC||
|}
Theater
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable"| Theater
! class="unsortable"| Source
|-
| || American Buffalo || Bobby || Belasco Theatre ||
|-
|}
Awards
{| class=wikitable
|-
! scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Award
! scope="col" | Category
! scope="col" | Nominated work
! scope="col" | Result
! Ref.
|-
| 1994 ||rowspan="4" | Young Artist Award || Best Performance by an Actor Under Ten in a Motion Picture || Forrest Gump || || rowspan="8" style="text-align: center;"| -->
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