| Celebrated Name: | Jackie Earle Haley |
| Real Name/Full Name: | Jack Earle Haley |
| Gender: | Male |
| Age: | 62 years old |
| Birth Date: | 14 July 1961 |
| Birth Place: | Northridge, Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Nationality: | American |
| Height: | 1.69 m |
| Weight: | 65 kg |
| Sexual Orientation: | Straight |
| Marital Status: | Married |
| Wife/Spouse (Name): | Amelia Cruz (m. 2004) |
| Children/Kids (Son and Daughter): | Yes (Christopher Haley, Olivia Haley) |
| Dating/Girlfriend (Name): | N/A |
| Is Jackie Earle Haley Gay?: | No |
| Profession: | Actor |
| Salary: | $1 million |
| Net Worth in 2024: | $4 million |
| Last Updated: | April 2024 |
Jackie Earle Haley is a veteran American actor who is famous for playing parts in numerous movies in the 1970s. He was stereotyped into playing characters that had characteristics like anger, aggression, scrappiness, restlessness and often appeared as a disheveled person with pimples on his face.
He is known excessively and primarily for his bod boy character that he played in the ‘Bad News Bears’ movie franchise, which also marked his debut.
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Early Life & Biography
In Northridge, California, in the United States of America, Jack Earle Haley was born to his parents, Iris D Douglas and Haven Earle ‘Bud’ Haley, who was an actor and radio jockey or disc jockey and host.
His father being an actor and radio show host, Haley grew up surrounded by actors and in an entertainment environment, therefore, leading to his love for acting; he notably appeared in several commercials in his life.
Age, Height, Weight and Body Measurements
Being born on 14 July 1961, Jackie Earle Haley is 62 years old as of today’s date 18th April 2024. His height is 1.69 m tall, and weight is 65 kg.
Personal Life: wife, girlfriend, dating, divorce, kids
Jackie Earle Haley has been married thrice in his life. His first wife was named Sherry Vaughan, whom he married in 1970. He then married Jennifer Haley, with whom he shares two children, Christopher Haley and Olivia Haley, born in 1986 and 1998, respectively. In 2004, he tied third know to his present wife Amelia Cruz, with whom he resides at San Antonio.
Career
Haley started off his television career by appearing in one episode of ‘The Patridge Family,’ a musical sitcom broadcasted on ABC. Haley then consistently appeared in 5 other shows, namely Planet of the Apes, Shazam!, The Waltons, Valley of the Dinosaurs, and Marcus Welby, M.D between the years 1973-75 before he landed his most considerable stint as a child actor with his bad-boy character in ‘The Bad News Bears’ starring Walter Matthau and Tatum O’Neal.
The movie was a hit, and the viewers loved his character named Kelly Leak, a Harley Davidson motorcycle driving, cigarettes smoking local juvenile delinquent who was a gifted athlete in his neighborhood. He reprised this twice in the after years. After he made his appearance in the series and movie ‘The Love Boat’ and ’Breaking Away,’ Jackie took a break from his acting career for four years.
He returned to the entertainment business with ‘Losing It’ starring Tom Cruise and Shelly Long in 1983. By 1990, Haley had let go of his teen bad-boy persona and decided to take roles that were more mature in nature, following which he appeared in a number of series And movies like Dollman, Oh, No! Not THEM! Nemesis and Gravedale High and more.
However, in 1993, Haley took a hiatus from acting that lasted more than a decade. He appeared only in 2006 in All the King’s Men and then a cameo in Semi-Pro in 2008.
After this, he appeared in various hits, most notably The Watchmen in 2009 and Shutter Island in 2010 starring Leonardo DiCaprio, which won critical acclaim. Other than these, he made a significant appearance of his career in Little Children, directed by Odd Field, and starred with big names like Kate Winslet, Jennifer Conelly, and Patrick Wilson.
Also, in the 2010 remake of Freddy Krueger’s movie A Nightmare on Elm Street, he had reportedly auditioned in the original version.
Awards & Achievements
His awards include namely the Chicago Film Critics Association Award that he won for Best Supporting Actor, The New York Film Critics Circle Award again for Best Supporting Actor, and the Online Film Critics Society Awards in 2006. As for his nominations, he received an Oscar nomination yet again for Best Supporting Actor in 2007, which he lost to Little Miss Sunshine’s Alan Arkin.
Net Worth & Salary of Jackie Earle Haley in 2024
As of April 2024, Haley has an estimated net worth of $4 million, while he earns approximately $1 million a year. It is also notable that Jackie also has a black belt in both Kenpo and Taekwondo.
In his career and life as an actor, Jackie Earle Haley has appeared in at least 30 movies other than the bunch of TV shows he has acted in. Also, Jackie is speculated to have auditioned for A Nightmare on Elm Street, where his friend Johnny Depp was preferred over him.
Jackie Earle Haley is an actor and a successful producer and director of television commercials. He built his other career in entertainment as a producer and director in the years he took breaks while transitioning from a child actor to that of a more mature character choosing actor.