Jackie Earle Haley was born on July 14, 1961, in Northridge, California, USA. He is an Academy Award-nominated American actor.

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.

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.

Credits by Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

Filmography

• Watchman (2009)
• Bolden! (2008)
• Semi-Pro (2008)
• Winged Creatures (2008)
• All the King's Men (2006)
• Little Children (2006)
• Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story (1993)
• Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence (1993)
• Nemesis (1993)
• "Renegade" (1 episode, 1992)
• Dollman (1991)
• "Get a Life" (1 episode, 1991)
• "Gravedale High" (1990)
• "Murder, She Wrote" (1 episode, 1986)
• "MacGyver" (1 episode, 1985)
• The Zoo Gang (1985)
• "Whiz Kids" (1 episode, 1983)
• Losin' It (1983)
• Miss Lonelyhearts (1983)
• Every Stray Dog and Kid (1981)
• "Planet of the Apes" (2 episodes, 1974-1981)
• "Breaking Away" (1 episode, 1980)
• "Insight" (1 episode, 1980)
• "The Love Boat" (2 episodes, 1979)
• Breaking Away (1979)
• The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978)
• Damnation Alley (1977)
• The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977)
• The Bad News Bears (1976)
• "The Waltons" (1 episode, 1975)
• The Day of the Locust (1975)
• "Shazam!" (1 episode, 1974)
• "Valley of the Dinosaurs" (1974)
• "Marcus Welby, M.D." (1 episode, 1973)
• "The Partridge Family" (1 episode, 1973)
• Un homme est mort (1972)
• "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home" (11 episodes, 1972)

Awards

• San Francisco Film Critics Circle Best Supporting Actor "Little Children" 2007
• New York Film Critics Circle Best Supporting Actor "Little Children" 2006