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Jackie Earle Haley More at IMDbPro »

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Was number 87 on VH1's "100 Greatest Kid Stars" (2005).

Was actually only 17 years old when he played 19-year-old Moocher in Breaking Away (1979); he was the only teenager of the group, as co-stars Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, and Daniel Stern were all in their twenties.

Met third wife, Amelia Cruz, in San Antonio.

Initially a late 1970s teen character star who played tough, angry, pimply misfit types, notably in The Bad News Bears (1976), and Breaking Away (1979).

Father Haven Earle Haley was a radio show host and actor.

Started in TV commercials at age 6.

Has earned rave reviews in 2006 in an unanticipated comeback with his roles in All the King's Men (2006) and Little Children (2006). Having not done a movie since 1993 and moonlighting here and there as a commercial director, limousine driver, furniture refinisher, security officer and pizza deliverer in Texas, Haley happened to be "just remembered" for his earlier films by director Steven Zaillian for his role in "King's Men" and the ball started rolling.

Children: Christopher (born 1986), Olivia (born 1998).

Little Children (2006) was the first movie he made within 13 years.

Co-starred opposite Kate Winslet in both of his 2006 return-to-acting film appearances - Little Children (2006) and All the King's Men (2006).

One of 115 people invited to join AMPAS in 2007.

Has a Black Belt.

Personal Quotes

I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it. Those roles that I played and the success that I had, that is not who I am. It's part of who I am, but it's not everything. So when it drifts away and you start to feel increasingly insecure, it's kind of a long battle out of that.

That transition from child to adult actor is so incredibly elusive. The roles that were coming to me as a young adult were not that great, but I was taking them anyway to pay the rent. And the more bad roles in bad movies I took, the less anybody wanted me for a good role in a good movie.

I'm an actor. Not at the exclusion of other things -- I'm also director or a limousine driver, if need be. But nothing is as thrilling to me as doing an actor's work.

I'd always avoided stuff like 'Where are they now?' or 'Whatever happened to?' Just 'No thanks, thanks for calling.' You tell me, have you ever seen a 'Whatever happened to' where they seemed anything but pathetic? I could do that or just disappear.

"After tossing and turning all night my wife came running in ... she was just screaming and crying and said, 'You got it!'" (His reaction to his Oscar-nomination for Little Children (2006))

When you are young, your identity is connected to your celebrity. When it starts to decline, your self-worth goes with it.

Where Are They Now

(October 2001) Executive vice-president for Shootz Production Co, a San Antonio company that makes commercials & corporate films.

(October 2001) Executive Vice President for Shootz Production Group in San Antonio, Texas.

(2003) Executive at Shootz Production Group in San Antonio, Texas.

(2007) Television producer / director and president of his production company, JEH Productions, Inc. in San Antonio, Texas USA

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