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Corey Haim (born December 23, 1971) is a Canadian who became famous as an actor in Hollywood during the 1980s. His friendship and on-screen collaboration with Corey Feldman was widely publicized during the late 80's, and they were dubbed The Two Coreys.

Biography

One of his first appearances was in Lucas, alongside Charlie Sheen. His breakthrough role came in Joel Schumacher's 1987 hit film, The Lost Boys, where he and the other Corey battled teenage vampires. Then, in 1988, he made the movie License to Drive, where he undertook the main character and Feldman had a secondary role. For their next movie, 1989's Dream a Little Dream, they reversed roles, with Feldman on the lead and Haim as a secondary character. He and Feldman quickly became teen-idols.

In 1989, amid rumours and gossip of a serious a drug problem circulating, he released a self-promotional video documentary entitled "Corey Haim: Me, Myself, I Am". In the video he is shown taking part in wholesome family activites and discussing his career and ambitions. However, his incoherent ramblings on the video suggested he was heavily drugged during filming.

After the 1980s, his career began to fade. Dream a Little Dream was his last film with a major theatrical release, afterwhich it was strictly straight-to-video fare, which included Dream Machine, Blown Away, Snowboard Academy, Demolition High, Demolition University, and Busted. Many of these co-starred Corey Feldman, and often featured Nicole Eggert as the love interest. He dated several high profile actresses during the 1990s including Alyssa Milano, Nicole Eggert, Holly Fields and Victoria Beckham.

In 1993, Haim was charged for pulling a fake handgun out during a dispute with his business manager. The charges were later reduced from felony to misdemeanor. In 1996, he was sued by Lloyds of London for $375,000 after pulling out the film "Paradise Bar" because of drug problems, which he had failed to mention on the insurance form. He filed for bankruptcy in 1997. According to the bankruptcy report, he had $100,000 outstanding to the IRS, $100,000 in debts, and his assets included $100 dollars cash, $750 dollars worth of clothing, a red 1987 BMW (as seen in Corey Haim: Me, Myself, I Am), and a $31,000 dollar pension fund.

In 1999, he tried to sell one of his teeth and some of his hair on E-Bay. E-Bay stopped the auction, but not before bidding had got to $10. He was the subject of an E! True Hollywood story in 2001. In late 2001, he suffered a drug induced stroke. Having been in and out of rehabs over 10 times, he appears to have finally kicked his drug habit (2004).

He is the subject of the single "Whatever Happened to Corey Haim" by The Thrills, released in September 2004. In response to an investigation by the Sun newspaper during the singles release into what exactly had happened to Corey Haim, he responded "I'm clean, sober, humble and happy".

Presently, Corey is renting out a basement apartment in Toronto and works part-time at HMV record store. His has-been status has been parodied in MTV's animated series Spy Groove, where he has his face done like Agent#1 in the hopes of making a comeback.

Quotes:

"I'm clean, sober, humble and happy" from The Sun, 2004

"Well, as far as my fans out there, being, and like 'help Corey,' you know, 'where's our Corey,' you know and the whole misconception thing, from the people out there. Um, you know, they have every right to feel the way they do and things are great with me, as you see, I'm very, good shape now and on the ball. Things are happening."

from the video "Corey Haim: Me, Myself, I Am", 1989

"There's no point in making bad movies. That is not my desire" from a 1980s interview

• 1971 births
• Canadian actors