Corey Ian Haim (December 23, 1971 – March 10, 2010)[1] was a Canadian actor, known for a 1980s Hollywood career as a teen idol . He starred in a number of films such as Lucas , Murphy's Romance , License to Drive and Dream a Little Dream . His best-known role was alongside Corey Feldman in The Lost Boys , which made Haim a household name.[2] [3] [4] The duo became 1980s icons[5] [6] and went on to star in seven further movies together,[7] later starring in the A&E reality show The Two Coreys .[8] Haim's early success led to money and fame, and he began using drugs by fifteen.[9] For three years in the late 1980s, Haim was the most famous teenager in the world.[10] He had difficulties breaking away from his experience as a teen actor , and was troubled by drug addiction throughout his later career.[11] [12] The circumstances surrounding Haim's death were far removed from the innocence and purity typified by his popular characters.[13]
Early life
Haim was born in Toronto , Ontario , the son of Judy, an Israeli -born data processor, and Bernie Haim, who worked in sales . When Haim was eleven, his parents divorced after eighteen years of marriage. He had an older sister, Carol, and a younger half-brother, Daniel Lee, from his father's second marriage. Haim was raised Jewish .
Growing up in Willowdale , Haim would jump over his backyard fence into the secondary school grounds. He was enrolled in drama lessons in improv and mime by his mother to help him overcome his shyness, and accidentally fell into the industry after accompanying Carol to her auditions. Not particularly interested in acting, Haim participated in other activities, such as ice hockey , playing music on his keyboard and collecting comic books . His skills on the ice led to him being scouted for the AA Thunderbirds hockey team.
Haim's time at North York's Zion Heights Junior High lasted until Grade 8, by which point he had begun to make a name for himself as child actor.
Career
1980s
Haim broke into acting at the age of ten, playing the role of Larry in the Canadian family-oriented comedy television series The Edison Twins , which ran from 1982 until 1986.
He made his feature film debut in 1984 's thriller Firstborn , starring alongside Sarah Jessica Parker and Robert Downey Jr as a boy whose family comes under threat from his mother's violent boyfriend, played by Peter Weller . The film was shot in Canada. Haim's first day of shooting was with Weller, and he went up to compliment the older actor on his performance. Weller collared Haim, throwing him up against a wall to warn him not to speak to him after a take, and it took three assistants to separate them. Haim later admitted that he was terrified by the experience. Parker remembered Haim staying over many times with her and her then boyfriend Downey Jr, who taught him how to apply hair mousse, saying: "He was naturally gifted and a real charmer – I adored him."
Haim recalled:
I was ten (sic), and I'll never forget we went to like a crew party and my mom and dad were like dancing with other people and it was rocky; and I just started crying, whatever, and I remember Sarah pulling me outside with Robert. And Robert said, you're comin' to live with me. And the next thing I remember I was in their car and we were walking, we went back to their place, and in their bedroom upstairs in this New York loft, they just cleaned everything out and put a blue lightbulb in there for me and a mattress and everything, and I lived there for a month and a half two months, with him and Sarah.
In 1985, Haim appeared in minor roles in Secret Admirer and Murphy's Romance , alongside Sally Field , of whom he was reportedly in awe. He went on to secure the leading role in Silver Bullet , Stephen King 's feature adaptation of his own lycanthropic novella, playing a paraplegic teen living in Tarker's Hill, Maine , who warns his uncle, played by Gary Busey , that their town is being terrorized by a werewolf .
Haim began to gain industry recognition, earning his first Young Artist Award as an Exceptional Young Actor starring in a Television Special or Movie of the Week for the NBC movie A Time to Live, in which he played Liza Minnelli 's dying son. While rehearsing on a Montreal street, Minnelli taught Haim how to walk like someone with muscular dystrophy , despite stares from passers-by. Following the shoot, Haim dated a twenty-three year old woman, which strengthened his resolve to play boyfriends rather than sons. At the time, Haim's father was acting as his manager, and turned down River Phoenix 's role in The Mosquito Coast on his behalf. Producer Stanley Jaffe approached him to remark on Haim's gifts, and recommended that he get an agent in Los Angeles .
Haim's breakout role came in 1986, when he starred alongside Kerri Green , Charlie Sheen , and Winona Ryder as the titular character in Lucas , a coming-of-age story about first love and teen angst which centers on an intelligent misfit who struggles for acceptance after falling for a cheerleader. Haim turned fourteen on the set in Chicago , and fell in love with Green, who played his romantic interest in the film. Not realizing she was eighteen, he asked her out in an elevator. Haim's unrequited love for Green helped inspire his performance, with the real-life dynamics between them mirrored on-screen. Nevertheless, director David Seltzer noticed that unlike some of his peers, Haim seemed at ease with his burgeoning heart-throb status: "He took it in stride. Not in a negative way, but he was something of a magnet and he knew it." Haim had read for River Phoenix's role in Stand By Me while eating lunch in director Rob Reiner 's backyard, and got the part the same day that he was offered Lucas. He later said he would not have changed his decision.
Haim was nominated for an Exceptional Performance by a Young Actor in a Feature Film – Comedy or Drama at the Young Artist Awards for his performance as Lucas, and film critic Roger Ebert gave him a glowing review: "He creates one of the most three-dimensional, complicated, interesting characters of any age in any recent movie. If he can continue to act this well, he will never become a half-forgotten child star, but will continue to grow into an important actor. He is that good." Haim later remembered, "It was a trip, getting all that attention". Following Lucas, Haim moved to Los Angeles, and starred in the short-lived 1987 television series Roomies alongside Burt Young .
In 1987, Haim had a featured role as Sam Emerson, the younger of two brothers, a comic-reading teen turned vampire hunter in Joel Schumacher 's The Lost Boys . Though he had seen Lucas, Schumacher was not initially sold on casting Haim. The director was convinced by their first meeting. Shot between the Warner Brothers lot and the Santa Cruz Boardwalk , the young cast included Jason Patric , Kiefer Sutherland and Jami Gertz , and the set was lively. Haim jammed with his co-stars between takes, and enjoyed the large props room. Precluded from the nightly parties held by the older actors, Haim bonded with Corey Feldman as they stayed in the hotel watching movies and visited the local arcade. He later characterized his experience on the shoot as "one of the greatest personal times in my life". It was to become Haim's defining performance.
The Lost Boys was well-received by most critics, made over $32M at the US box office, and is regarded as an 80s classic. The performance earned Haim another Young Artist Award nomination, as Best Young Male Superstar in a Motion Picture.
In addition to making Haim a bona fide teen star, the film began his recurring on-screen partnership with Feldman, who became his best friend off-screen. The two young actors had previously become aware of one another when Haim auditioned for the role of Mouth in The Goonies , which Feldman secured. "The Two Coreys" ascended to become the highest paid teen stars of the 80s. Haim visibly embraced the privileges of his new-
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