Jackie Earle Haley Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Jackie Earle Haley (born Jack Earle Haley; July 14, 1961) is an American film actor. An Academy Award nominee, he is perhaps best known for his roles as Moocher in Breaking Away, Kelly Leak in The Bad News Bears, pedophile Ronnie McGorvey in Little Children, the vigilante Rorschach in Watchmen, and horror icon Freddy Krueger in the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street and its upcoming sequel A Nightmare On Elm Street: Fallen. He also starred as Guerrero in Fox's drama Human Target. He also starred as the voice actor for Ruvik in The Evil Within.
Full Name
Jackie Earle Haley
Net Worth
$1.3 Million
Date Of Birth
July 14, 1961
Place Of Birth
Northridge, California, USA
Height
1.66 m
Occupation
Actor
Profession
Actor
Nationality
American
Spouse
Amelia Cruz
Children
Christopher Haley, Olivia Haley
Parents
Haven Earle Haley
Siblings
Tru Haley
Nicknames
Jackie Earle Haley, Haley, Jackie Earle
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Awards
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor, Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor, Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor, Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actor, Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Act...
Nominations
Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role, Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actor: Horror/Thriller, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor
Movies
Watchmen, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Little Children, The Bad News Bears, Dark Shadows, RoboCop, Shutter Island, Breaking Away, The Birth of a Nation, London Has Fallen, All the King's Men, Criminal Activities, Semi-Pro, Losin' It, The Bad News Bears Go to Japan, Lincoln, The Dark Tower, Dollman, Th...
TV Shows
Human Target, Gravedale High, Breaking Away, Valley of the Dinosaurs, Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, Preacher, Oh, No! Not THEM!
Star Sign
Cancer
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[on his life after quitting acting] When I made the decision it was time to leave acting, it seemed directing was the way to go. But it probably took me a good eight years, or 10, until I could get to where I was finally making a living at it. In the interim, I was just working -- driving a limousine and delivering pizzas. I was a security officer for a while. I was a furniture refinisher for a while -- hated it. I just didn't have the arms for it. I also hooked up with this videographer and started to crew for him. I would run sound, I learned how to grip. I even learned how to be a cameraman, all the time trying to get my own corporate video thing going. Over time, I started to infiltrate the corporate world. At one point, I became vice president of marketing for a company in Las Vegas. From there, I ended up moving to San Antonio and getting into all sorts of branding commercials.
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[Getting back into acting after so many years away] I was starting to reach this pretty cool place in life where I was emotionally the most accepting of where life had taken me, and financially, finally, not behind the eight ball -- far from rich, but at least not late on stuff. I met this beautiful lady who is an awesome life partner, and we're on our honeymoon in France, and life is good. And out of the clear blue, Steve Zaillian [the director] calls and he wants me to audition for this part in All the King's Men (2006). When I got back from the honeymoon, I got a shooter and an actor and a sound guy and we did this audition tape and sent it off to Steve. It had been a long time since I did this. But there was this feeling inside. Over the years, people had called about a movie here, a TV show there, and it never really panned out. There was something about this; it felt different and, I don't know why, but it kind of felt like, "Hmm, this could actually happen." The way this whole thing went down, it almost seems like kismet, karma, divine whatever. It felt like this was supposed to happen.
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[on his Oscar nomination] There are no words to describe how amazing, how surreal, how unbelievable this is. It's kind of like being 5 years old and you come down to the Christmas tree and just the most incredible gifts ever are under there. And the elation and the excitement of those gifts being there and the elation and excitement of getting to play with them for a while. For me, and where I've been and what I've experienced, it's all the more sweet. There is a sense of validation. There were periods of time where I started to think, "It's been a while, should I try to get back into movies?". But it was so daunting and seemed so overwhelming, like to even get out and really even try to stir it up seemed like such an uphill battle that I never did anything. It just seemed impossible. So now, this is kind of the most amazing scenario in my life.
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When you are young, your identity is connected to your celebrity. When it starts to decline, your self-worth goes with it.
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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))
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Television producer/director and president of his production company, JEH Productions, Inc. in San Antonio, Texas (2007).
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Executive vice president for Shootz Production Group in San Antonio, Texas. [October 2001]
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Haley starred in a failed pilot of "Oh, No! Not THEM!", an American remake of the British comedy "The Young Ones".
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In 1984, his friend Johnny Depp accompanied him to the auditions for A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). Instead of being chosen for a role, it was Depp who was spotted by director Wes Craven, who asked him if he would like to read for a role. However, Haley would go on to play Freddy Krueger in the remake 26 years later (A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)).
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Has a Black Belt.
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Is one of 115 people invited to join AMPAS in 2007.
Has two children: Chris Haley (born 1986) and Olivia Haley (born 1998).
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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 All the King's Men and the ball started rolling.
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Started in TV commercials at age 6.
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His father Haven Earle Haley was a radio show host and actor.
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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).
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Met his third wife, Amelia Cruz, in San Antonio, Texas.
