Jackie Earle Haley

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Jackie Earle Haley
Haley at the A Nightmare on Elm Street panel at WonderCon, 2010
Born	Jack Earle Haley (1961-07-14) July 14, 1961 (age 62) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1972–present
Spouse(s)	Sherry Vaughan (m. 1979; div. 1988) Jennifer Hargrave (m. 1985; div. ??) Amelia Cruz ​ ​ (m. 2004)​
Children	2

Jack Earle Haley (born July 14, 1961)^[1] is an American actor and director.^[2] His earliest roles included Moocher in Breaking Away (1979) and Kelly Leak in The Bad News Bears (1976), The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977) and The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978). After spending many years as a producer and director of television commercials, he revived his acting career with a supporting role in All the King's Men (2006). This was followed by his performance in Little Children (2006), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.^[3][4]

His subsequent notable roles include the superhero Rorschach in Watchmen (2009),^[5] horror icon Freddy Krueger in the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010),^[6] and Grewishka, a cyborg criminal in Alita: Battle Angel (2019).^[7][8] He played Odin Quincannon in the first season (2016) of Preacher and The Terror in the first season (2016–18) of The Tick.