Jackie Earle Haley (born Jack E. Haley; July 14, 1961) is an Academy Award-nominated American film actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Kelly Leak in The Bad News Bears , pedophile Ronnie McGorvey in Little Children and most recently as vigilante Rorschach in Zack Snyder's Watchmen. He has signed on to portray horror icon Freddy Krueger in the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, which is due to be released on April 30, 2010.
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Jackie Earle Haley (born Jack E. Haley; July 14, 1961) is an Academy Award-nominated American film actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Kelly Leak in The Bad News Bears , pedophile Ronnie McGorvey in Little Children and most recently as vigilante Rorschach in Zack Snyder's Watchmen. He has signed on to portray horror icon Freddy Krueger in the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, which is due to be released on April 30, 2010.
Haley has appeared in numerous films, including Damnation Alley, John Schlesinger's The Day of the Locust, and Losin' It, as well as guest roles on TV. A well known child actor, he starred as Kelly Leak in the comedy The Bad News Bears. He also starred in The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training and The Bad News Bears Go to Japan.
He played "Moocher" in Peter Yates' acclaimed 1979 film Breaking Away and later in the short lived TV series of the same name. Throughout the 1970s, he often played a tough, angry, pimply, long-haired misfit. He has made...
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