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Haley Joel Osment (born April 10 , 1988 in Los Angeles, California ) is an Academy Award -nominated American Child Actor , perhaps best known for his role in the 1999 film '' The Sixth Sense ''. BIOGRAPHY Early life Born to Eugene Osment and Theresa Seifert, he began acting at the age of four, when he tried out for a Pizza Hut commercial in a shopping mall. The commercial launched his career, and he landed his first television role later that year. As a younger child he played Forrest Gump 's son, also named Forrest Gump, in the 1994 film of the same name. He had roles in numerous TV series, including '' Walker, Texas Ranger '' (as a child dying from AIDS), '' Murphy Brown '', and most notably '' The Jeff Foxworthy Show ''. Osment has a younger sister, Emily Jordan Osment, born March 10, 1992. Film career Osment first achieved stardom in '', cementing his stature as one of the leading young actors in Hollywood . This role got him his second Saturn Award. He has since appeared in several films, including '' Pay It Forward '' and '' Secondhand Lions ''. Osment also provided the voice for Sora , the main protagonist of The Walt Disney Company and Square-Enix 's ''Kingdom Hearts'' Series of video games. He starred in '' Bogus '' alongside Whoopi Goldberg and Gérard Depardieu . Haley portrayed Dylan Hydecker in the 1998 Made-for-TV Movie '' The Lake '' with Yasmine Bleeth . One of Osment's lines in ''The Sixth Sense'', "I see dead people," is often repeated on television programs and subject of a number of puns in the Blizzard game Warcraft 3 (i.e one undead creature says "I eat dead people"). He attributes his success as an actor to his father, Eugene and his mother, Theresa. Personal life Osment currently resides in Los Angeles , California with his parents and sister, Emily (four years his junior), who is also an Actress . He is a student at Flintridge Preparatory School in La Canada, California. FILMOGRAPHY Film
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Haley has also done minor voices on at least three '' Family Guy '' episodes. EXTERNAL LINKS
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