Corey Ian Haim (born December 23, 1971) is a Canadian actor, best known for a 1980s Hollywood career as a teen idol. Haim reached peak popularity in the late 1980s, appearing in The Lost Boys, License to Drive and Dream a Little Dream. His friendship and on-screen collaboration with actor Corey Feldman was widely publicized during the late 1980s and the pair were dubbed "the two Coreys".

Early life

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Haim was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to Bernie Haim, a Francophone Jewish-Canadian sales representative, and Judy, an Israeli-born computer operator. Haim was enlisted in acting lessons by his mother in an attempt to help him overcome his shyness. Corey Haim biographic notes IMDB. Retrieved January 8 2006. Haim, not particularly fascinated by acting, practiced other hobbies such as ice hockey, playing music on his keyboard and collecting comic books.

It was actually his older sister, Carol, who got him initially interested in the notion of acting. She brought him along when auditioning for a film role. At a young age, Haim would appear in several television commercials. When Corey was 11, his parents divorced after 18 years of marriage.

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