Corey Haim was born in Toronto, Ontario, to Judy Haim, an Israeli-born data processor, and Bernie Haim, a Canadian-born clothing sales representative. He has a sister, Carol, and a half-brother, Daniel. His family is Jewish.
Haim broke into the film industry in 1984, playing a young child caught up in a family war in the movie Firstborn (1984). The following year, he starred in the TV movie Coeur en sursis (1985), for which he received a Young Artist Award, and Peur bleue (1985). Lucas (1986), in which he starred alongside Charlie Sheen, showed his acting abilities, but was not a big hit.
In 1987, he had a breakthrough when he played one of the major roles in Joel Schumacher's Génération perdue (1987). He later starred in the films Plein pot (1988) and De l'autre coté du rêve (1989), but his output during the nineties onwards was disappointing. He died suddenly on March 10, 2010.
