Haley Joel Osment
Haley Joel Osment, American actor
In context
- When
- Sunday, April 10 198838 years ago
- Category
- BirthA notable person born on this day. Each links to a person page with their dates and story.
- Era
- 20th century · 1980s
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- Person
- Haley Joel Osment
Who they were
Personal life Osment plays the guitar and piano. [ 1 ] 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 , [ 2 ] and has participated in the annual Michael Douglas & Friends Celebrity Golf Tournament. [ 3 ] In 2006, Osment suffered a broken rib and fractured shoulder blade in an auto accident. [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
Haley Joel Osment 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),
Early life
Early life Haley Joel Osment was born on April 10, 1988 in Los Angeles, California . [ 1 ] He is the son of Theresa ( née  Seifert ), a teacher, and Michael Eugene Osment, [ 2 ] a theater and film actor, both natives of Birmingham, Alabama . Osment was raised Roman Catholic . [ 3 ] 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,
Path and career
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. [ 1 ] The commercial launched Osment's career, and later that year he starred in the ABC TV sitcom Thunder Alley , his first role in a television series. [ 2 ]
Why this date
Haley Joel Osment appears on our April 10 calendar for 1988 as a birth entry.
April 10 through the years
Other entries on the same calendar day, in order.
- 1988Haley Joel Osment
- 1991South Atlantic tropical cyclone
- 1992First Nagorno-Karabakh War
- 1998Good Friday Agreement
- 2009Josefa Iloilo
- 2009President of Fiji
- 2010Polish Air Force
- 20162016 Afghanistan earthquake
- 2016Puttingal temple fire
- 2019Event Horizon Telescope
- 20232023 Louisville bank shooting
Also in 1988
- September 9Vietnam Airlines Flight 831Vietnam Airlines Flight 831 crashes in Khu Khot, Thailand, while on approach to Don Muang International Airport, killing 76.
- March 14Johnson South Reef skirmishChina defeated Vietnam in a naval altercation while attempting to establish oceanographic observation posts on the Spratly Islands.
- September 12Hurricane GilbertHurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula two days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.
- September 13Hurricane GilbertHurricane Gilbert reached a minimum pressure of 888 mb (26.22 inHg) with sustained flight-level winds of 185 mph (295 km/h), making it th…
- September 188888 UprisingThe 8888 Uprising in Myanmar comes to an end.
- September 18Henri NamphyGeneral Henri Namphy, president of Haiti, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by General Prosper Avril.
- September 18Magna Charta UniversitatumThe Magna Charta Universitatum, asserting key principles essential to the free operation of universities, is signed in Bologna by the rec…
- August 10Civil Liberties Act of 1988The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 became law, authorizing reparations to surviving Japanese Americans interned during World War II.
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