Jackie Earle Haley as Ronnie McGorvey and Phyllis Somerville as his mother May in Little Children (2006). Jack was born in Northridge, southern California, and has 63 acting credits from a 1972 episode of The Carol Burnett Show to two 2023 films. Little Children was his first acting credit since 1993.
His other notable credits include a voice on 11 episodes of Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972), episodes of The Partridge Family, Marcus Welby MD and The Waltons, The Day of the Locust, The Bad News Bears, The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training, The Bad News Bears Go to Japan, Breaking Away, The Love Boat (two episodes), All the Kings Men, Shutter Island, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Lincoln, The Tick (12 episodes), and Narcos: Mexico (2).