David Mamet's "American Buffalo," brings in Haley Joel Osment as the third member of the show's junk shop trio which already includes John Lequizamo and Cedric the Entertainer. Osment will be making his Broadway debut in the production.
The 20-year-old Osment, who was an Academy Award nominee for "The Sixth Sense," joins John Leguizamo and Cedric the Entertainer in the revival that begins preview performances Friday, October 31 at Broadway's Belasco Theatre and is scheduled to officially open Nov. 17.
Osment, who began his television and film career at age five, won his first honor, the Youth in Film Award, for his role as Forrest, Jr. in the Oscar-winning feature film, Forrest Gump.
In his last film, Home of the Giants, Haley played a budding writer whose friendship is tested against the backdrop of classic Indiana basketball. He has squared off with Robert Duvall and Michael Caine in New Line Cinema's Secondhand Lions. He gave an award-winning performance in legendary director Steven Spielberg's, A.I. He co-starred with Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt in the adaptation of Catherine Ryan Hyde's novel Pay it Forward, and squeezed in a trip to Poland to shoot Edges of the Lord, where he portrayed a Jewish boy sent away by his parents to hide with a Catholic family during the Nazi occupation. Osment most recently shot Montana Amazon.
Other feature film credits include Nora Ephron's Mixed Nuts, Jason Alexander's directorial debut For Better or Worse, and Norman Jewison's Bogus, co-starring Whoopi Goldberg and Gerard Depardieu.
In the voice-over arena, Osment is heard as Chip in Walt Disney's animated release Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas, as Zephyr in The Hunchback of Notre Dame Deux, as Beary in The Country Bears, and as Mowgli in Disney's The Jungle Book 2.
