Jackie Earle Haley
- Birthday
- Jul 14, 1961
- Birthplace
- Northridge, California, USA
Bio: The career of Jackie Earle Haley should be inspirational for any former child star or out-of-work actor. In his preteen years, Haley earned his living as a TV commercial actor and voice-over artist (he voiced the son on Hanna-Barbera's animated All in the Family clone Wait Till Your Father Gets Home). At 13, Haley was cast as the juvenile delinquent with home-run… More Bio: The career of Jackie Earle Haley should be inspirational for any former child star or out-of-work actor. In his preteen years, Haley earned his living as a TV commercial actor and voice-over artist (he voiced the son on Hanna-Barbera's animated All in the Family clone Wait Till Your Father Gets Home). At 13, Haley was cast as the juvenile delinquent with home-run power in Michael Ritchie's superb little-league comedy The Bad News Bears, earning a cult following for his portrayal of the swaggering, cool loner. He repeated the iconic role in two sequels, one of the few members of the original cast to do so. Peter Yates cast Haley, alongside future celebrities Dennis Quaid and Daniel Stern, as a member of the bike-racing team in the Oscar-winning Breaking Away (1979). Earle disappeared from screens after some fitful television work through the '80s, but stayed busy behind the camera as a writer and an accomplished director of commercials. After more than a decade off the big screen, Haley made a spectacular return in 2006, first as the menacing bodyguard/driver Sugar Boy in All the King's Men, and then with an Oscar-nominated turn as a suburban pedophile in Todd Field's Little Children. He had a small part in the 2008 Will Ferrell comedy Semi-Pro, and the next year he was cast as Rorschach, arguably the most psychotic member of The Watchmen. In 2010 he appeared in a memorable one-scene cameo in Shutter Island and took the iconic part of Freddy Kruger in the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street. Two years later he was cast by Tim Burton in his big-screen version of Dark Shadows and by Steven Spielberg in the director's long-planned biopic Lincoln. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
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Filmography
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RoboCop (2013)
- Actor
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Lincoln (2012)
- Alexander Stephens
- 89%
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Dark Shadows (2012)
- Willie Loomis
- 38%
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Louis (2010)
- Judge Leander Perry
- 40%
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
- Freddy Krueger
- 15%
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Jackie Earle Haley Videos
Shutter Island
3 minutes 31 seconds
Watchmen
3 minutes 32 seconds
A Nightmare On Elm Street
2 minutes 3 seconds
Semi-pro
2 minutes 22 seconds
Fragments
2 minutes 30 seconds
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