<Tr> <Th> Years active </Th> <Td> 1992--present </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Relatives </Th> <Td> Emily Osment (sister) </Td> </Tr> <P> Haley Joel Osment (born April 10, 1988) is an American actor . After a series of roles in television and film during the 1990s, including a small part in Forrest Gump playing the title character's son (also named Forrest Gump), Osment rose to fame for his performance as a young unwilling medium in M. Night Shyamalan's thriller film The Sixth Sense, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor . He subsequently appeared in leading roles in several high - profile Hollywood films, including Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence and Mimi Leder's Pay It Forward . </P> <P> He made his Broadway debut in 2008 in a short - lived revival of David Mamet's play American Buffalo, starring John Leguizamo and Cedric the Entertainer . Osment is also known for his voice - roles of Sora and Vanitas in the Kingdom Hearts video games, as well as his more recent roles in comedies such as Sex Ed and The Spoils of Babylon . </P>

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