His parents, Michael eugene Y Theresa Osment, are respectively a not very famous actor and a sixth grade teacher.
They still reside in Los Angeles, where Osment grew up and attended preparatory school Flintridge in La Cañada.
His younger sister, Emily osment, is also an actress and already starred in some roles in movies like “Spy kids“and currently the series”Hannah Montana“.
He loves the works of JRR Tolkien and also those of Edgar Alan Poe, whom he has as two great references of universal literature.
Osment began his career at the age of 5 when his parents made him audition for a commercial for the famous brand Pizza hut in 1993.
From that moment on, its appearance on various screens of all types of media was practically assured.
In 1994 he made his first appearance in a film on the big screen alongside great actors such as Tom Hanks Y Sally field in the highly acclaimed “Forrest Gump“.
In this movie he played the totally adorable son of Forrest ( Tom Hanks), bearing his same name and being orphaned by the death of his mother’s AIDS.
Subsequently, the vast majority of his work was done in famous television series in the ’90s such as “Touched by an Angel“,”Ally mcbeal“,”Chicago Hope“Or”The Pretender”.
In many of them, thanks to his great acting ability, he performed extremely complex roles, such as children dying of AIDS or leukemia.
At the same time he gained a lot of experience sharing the set with actors like Chuck Norris, Calista flockhart, Lucy liu or James marsden among others.
In 1996 he achieved his first leading role in the film “Bogus”, Which he shared with two heavyweights from films such as Whoopi goldberg Y Gerard depardieu.
In 1999 he performed one of his most remembered and memorable roles with Bruce Willis in the trhiller “The sixth Sense”. For this role he was nominated for Oscar and won the award Saturn to the Best Young Actor.
In 2000 he made a few appearances as voices dubbing in the well-known animated comic strip of the FOX “Family guy”.
Also for that same year he starred alongside Kevin Spacey Y Helen hunt a dramatic story with a really beautiful message in “Pay it Forward”.
In it a young Las Vegas student (Osment) meets a dreamy and kind teacher (Kevin Spacey) who assigns you the task of thinking of an idea that can change the world.
Trevor (Osment) develops the idea of doing three people a favor by trying to follow the chain and turn the wish into one big move.
For this role he also received the nomination for Oscar and the following year, in 2001, he began filming a revolutionary movie by Steven Spielberg.
The movie in question was “AI: Artificial Intelligence”, Where he played the role of a little cybernetic boy abandoned by his family.
The race of Osment, with these three films she was fully recognized and obtained her second Saturn Award for the leading role in “AI“.
Later he lent his voice for some characters in “The Country Bears“and also the sequel to”The Jungle Book“.
In the 2003 He returned to the big screen with two renowned actors such as being Robert Duvall Y Michael Caine in the movie “Secondhand lions“.
Later his work was based on lending their voices to different characters, both from anime series and the well-known game of Square-Enix Y Walt disney “Kingdom hearts”.
In 2006 he suffered several problems with alcohol and marijuana possession, but a little rehab and a court fine put him back on the right track.
In 2007 he premiered “Home of Giants”And in it he acted with Ryan merriman Y Danielle panabaker.