1994
Forrest Gump
An early film role as Forrest Junior.
FLM.REDHALEY JOEL
OSMENT
เฮลีย์ โจเอล ออสเมนต์
Growing up on screen
From Forrest Gump to The Sixth Sense and beyond.
Los Angeles, California, USA
An early start and a continuing career
Haley Joel Osment was born in Los Angeles, California, on 10 April 1988. One of his earliest film roles was Forrest Junior, the son of Tom Hanks’s character in Forrest Gump.
He became widely known as Cole Sear in The Sixth Sense. The role earned him an Academy Award nomination for supporting actor and placed his performance at the center of the film’s relationship between a frightened child and his psychologist.
In A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Osment played David, a childlike android seeking a place in a family. He continued acting as an adult in film, television and voice roles, working across drama and comedy.
The film links below are drawn from the FLM.RED catalogue and do not represent his complete filmography.
Selected performances
1999
The Sixth Sense
His performance as Cole earns an Oscar nomination.
2001
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
He plays David in Steven Spielberg’s science-fiction drama.
Performance readings are FLM.RED editorial interpretation.
Films in FLM.RED
Titles in this collection; not a complete filmography.
Sources & image notes
Portrait illustration: FLM.RED.