| Shia LaBeouf |

LaBeouf posing at the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen press conference in Paris, June 2009 |
| Born |
Shia Saide LaBeouf
June 11, 1986 (1986-06-11) (age 23)
Los Angeles, California,
United States |
| Occupation |
Actor, comedian, director, voice actor |
| Years active |
1998–present |
Shia Saide LaBeouf1 (pronounced /ˈʃaɪə ləˈbʌf/ SHY-ə lə-BUFF; born June 11, 1986) is an American actor, voice actor, and comedian. LaBeouf began his comedy career when he was 10 years old, and then launched his acting career in 1998 at the age of 12. He became known among younger audiences for his part in the Disney Channel series Even Stevens, also appearing in three Disney TV movies. In 2003, LaBeouf made his film debut in Holes, also appearing in the lead role in The Battle of Shaker Heights the same year.
In 2005, LaBeouf made his transition from teen roles in The Greatest Game Ever Played. In 2007, he starred as the leads in Disturbia and Transformers, and the following year he appeared in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as Indiana's son. In 2009, LaBeouf reprised his role as Sam Witwicky in the Transformers sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and appeared in New York, I Love You. LaBeouf's upcoming films include the lead roles in The Associate, and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. In May 2009, LaBeouf made his directorial debut by directing Cage's music video for the single "I Never Knew You".
Early life
LaBeouf was born in Los Angeles, California, the only child of Shayna (née Saide) and Jeffrey Craig LaBeouf. Shayna is a dancer and ballerina turned visual artist and clothing/jewelry designer; before she met LaBeouf's father, she ran a head shop in Brooklyn - according to LaBeouf, "Bob Dylan used to come in and smoke weed. All her furniture hung upside-down from the ceiling".2 LaBeouf's father is a Vietnam War veteran who "drifted" from job to job, working as a mime at a circus, a snow cone salesman, a rodeo clown, and a stand-up comedian, and touring with the Doobie Brothers as their opening act.34567 LaBeouf's New York-born mother is Jewish and his father is a Cajun (once described by LaBeouf as a "Ragin' Cajun"). LaBeouf was raised in the Jewish religion and had a Bar Mitzvah, though he was also baptized.891011 The name Shia is Hebrew for "gift from God" (שי-יה), and the surname LaBeouf is a corruption of "le bœuf", the French term for "the ox" or "the beef".12131415 LaBeouf has said that he comes from "five generations of performers" and was "acting when [he] came out of the womb."7 One of LaBeouf's great-grandmothers played piano in gangster Lucky Luciano’s casino.16 LaBeouf's maternal grandfather, a Polish-born Holocaust survivor who shared his first name,17 was a comedian who worked in the Borscht Belt of the Catskill Mountains and sidelined as a barber for the Mafia.16 LaBeouf's alcoholic paternal grandfather was a Green Beret in the military16 and LaBeouf's paternal grandmother was a Beatnik poet and lesbian who associated with Allen Ginsberg.31518
LaBeouf has described his parents as "hippies", his father as "tough as nails and a different breed of man", and his upbringing as similar to a "hippy lifestyle", stating that his parents were "pretty weird people, but they loved me and I loved them."719 LaBeouf's father used to grow cannabis, and the two smoked marijuana together when LaBeouf was ten.47 LaBeouf has also said that his father was "on drugs" during his childhood, being addicted to heroin and placed in drug rehabilitation for heroin addiction, while LaBeouf's mother was "trying to hold down the fort."4 Young Shia was subjected to verbal and mental abuse by his heroin-addicted father who once pointed a gun at his son during a Vietnam War flashback.7 His parents eventually divorced, and he had what he has described as a "good childhood", growing up poor with his mother (who worked selling fabrics and brooches) in Echo Park, Los Angeles, California.2021. LaBeouf's uncle was going to adopt him at one stage because his parents couldn't afford to have him anymore, "they had too much pride to go on welfare or food stamps."22
LaBeouf attended a predominantly Latino and African American school.2021 Theatrically, LaBeouf attended 32nd Street Visual and Performing Arts Magnet school in Los Angeles (LAUSD)7 and Alexander Hamilton High School, although he received most of his education from tutors.21 Following high-school, LaBeouf was accepted to Yale University but declined, later remarking that he is "getting the kind of education you don't get at school,"23 although he would like to attend college.7 In December 2009, LaBeouf tested for his CFA Level 1 exam.24 In a May 2009 PARADE magazine interview, LaBeouf states, "I just knew that money was a solution to whatever the hell was going on in my household. With money, I and my family would have had more options. So I went after a job that I thought I could make the most money for a 10-year-old or an 11-year-old boy."'25 In that same interview LaBeouf explained that part of what he remembers is that in 1988, when he was two, his dad began dressing him up as a clown and putting him to work shilling for the family's pushcart business.2 LaBeouf recalled, "It was a hustle. We’d walk around the neighborhood in full clown regalia [...] My embarrassment factor didn't exist. I had fun, because I knew that in the middle of a performance my parents couldn't fight. So, for sure, every day, there had to be some peaceful time for us, or we weren't going to make it through the week financially."25
Acting career
Early work, 1999-2006
LaBeouf has said that he initially became an actor because his family was broke, not because he wanted to pursue an acting career.26 LaBeouf commented, "My humor came from seeing my parents have sex, smoke weed, my mom being naked—just weird hippie stuff, twisted R-rated humor. I’d get up there in my OshKosh B’Gosh outfit and my bowl haircut. I was a little kid with a Lenny Bruce mouth. That was the act. But there’s no money in stand-up comedy, so I went into acting."2 LaBeouf began acting when he was 12 years old. His acting debut was on Caroline in the City in 1998, in the episode "Caroline and the Bar Mitzvah", and he made guest appearances on popular television shows such as The X-Files, Touched by an Angel, Jesse, and Suddenly Susan, all in 1999.
LaBeouf became well known among young audiences after playing Louis Stevens in the Disney Channel weekly program Even Stevens, a role for which he was cast three months after being signed by his agent. Even Stevens aired from 2000-2003 for three seasons and aired 65 episodes. Even Stevens ended with The Even Stevens Movie—a TV movie which premiered on Disney Channel on June 13, 2003. In 2003, LaBeouf was awarded a Daytime Emmy Award for the role of Louis7 and has said that he "grew up on that show" and that his childhood was "kind of lost", although his being cast in the show was the "best thing" that has happened to him.4 In 2001 LaBeouf had a supporting role in the Disney Channel TV movie Hounded, as Ronny Van Dussel, a rival of the main character. The following year he appeared in another Disney Channel TV movie Tru Confessions, where he played a mentally challenged kid with a sister who made a documentary about his disability.20 His father, at the time just released from rehab, served as his on-set parent and the two bonded.27 During this time period, LaBeouf also appeared in sketch shows on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.26
In 2003, he appeared in another Disney production, Holes, as Stanley "Caveman" Yelnats IV, opposite Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight and Tim Blake Nelson. While filming Holes, Voight gave LaBeouf a book on acting, and this made LaBeouf realize acting could be more than a job.3 The film was a moderate box office success. Steven Spielberg was also a fan of LaBeouf in Holes, saying he reminded him of a young Tom Hanks.6 The film Holes made over US$67 million worldwide and was well-received by critics, in which the film garnered 77% Certified Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.28 That same year, he was heavily featured in the HBO documentary show Project Greenlight, which chronicled the making of the independent film The Battle of Shaker Heights, his first PG-13 film.29 In the film, LaBeouf played the lead role of troubled teen Kelly Ernswiler, starring opposite Amy Smart. The Battle of Shaker Heights was theatrically released on August 22, 2003 as a limited release, and had a poor box office performance.29 LaBeouf also had a minor role in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle as Max Petroni, an orphan whom the Angels end up protecting.
LaBeouf in November 2006, promoting the movie
Bobby.
LaBeouf co-wrote and directed the short film Let's Love Hate with Lorenzo Eduardo. The short-film won second place at the 2004 Children's Jury Award and won the 2005 Children's Audience Award.30 In 2004, LaBeouf played Farber, a minor role in I, Robot31 and the following year appeared in the action-horror film Constantine starring opposite Keanu Reeves and Rachel Weisz as Chas Kramer, a supporting character.32 He also had the lead role in the Disney film The Greatest Game Ever Played, playing Francis Ouimet, a real-life golf player from a poor family who won the 1913 U.S. Open Championship,333 and voiced the character Asbel in the English dubbed version of the 1984 film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, a Japanese anime film directed by Hayao Miyazaki.34 LaBeouf appeared in the 2006 ensemble drama Bobby as Cooper, a campaign volunteer for Robert F. Kennedy.35 As part of the cast of Bobby, which also included Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore, LaBeouf won a Hollywood Film Award for "Ensemble Of The Year", and was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for "Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture".30 Also in 2006, LaBeouf played the younger version of Dito Montiel in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, the older version being played by Robert Downey, Jr. in a semi-autobiographical account of Montiel's upbringing in 1980s Astoria, Queens.36 Lisa Schwarzbaum, a writer for Entertainment Weekly, described LaBeouf as being "lavishly talented" in her review for the film.36
Breakthrough and commercial success, 2007-2008
In 2007, LaBeouf starred in Disturbia, a thriller released on April 13. He played a teenager under house arrest who suspects that his neighbor, played by David Morse, is a serial killer. The film was a hit and LaBeouf received positive reviews for the role, with The Buffalo News stating that LaBeouf "has grown into an appealing, bright young actor who is able to simultaneously pull off [the character's] anger, remorse and intelligence",37 Kurt Loder of MTV wrote that LaBeouf "gets his star ticket decisively punched",38 and the San Francisco Chronicle noted that LaBeouf is "fast becoming the best young actor in Hollywood".39 In comparing the film with Rear Window, The New York Daily News described LaBeouf's appeal as "more John Cusack than James Stewart".40 Also in 2007, LaBeouf voiced Cody Maverick in the animated mockumentary film Surf's Up, starring alongside Zooey Deschanel and Jeff Bridges.
That same year, LaBeouf played teenager Sam Witwicky, who becomes involved in the Autobot-Decepticon war on Earth, in Michael Bay's Transformers, released on July 3. Executive producer Steven Spielberg cast him in the role having been impressed by his performance in Holes.3 Michael Bay initially considered LaBeouf too old for the part of Sam, having only seen his performance in Constantine, but he was "bowled" over by LaBeouf's enthusiasm.41 LaBeouf performed his own stunts in the film.42 LaBeouf received critical acclaim for his role, with Empire's Ian Nathan praising LaBeouf as "a smart, natural comedian, [who] levels the bluntness of this toy story with an ironic bluster".43 For his role in Transformers, LaBeouf was nominated for an Empire Award and National Movie Award as well as being named 2007's "star of tomorrow" by the ShoWest convention.23 For his lead role in the film LaBeouf was reportedly paid $500,000.44 In February 2008 LaBeouf was awarded the BAFTA Orange Rising Star Award, which was voted for by the British general public.45
In April 2007, it was confirmed that LaBeouf was cast in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. LaBeouf was Steven Spielberg's first choice for the role, having been impressed by his performance in Holes.46 LaBeouf said that he signed on to the film without reading the script and did not know what character he would play.47 LaBeouf was cast as Mutt Williams, a greaser who is Indiana Jones' son. LaBeouf said that in order to prepare for his role in the film that he worked out seven days a week for three hours a day and described his diet as being "protein-heavy, carb-heavy"; LaBeouf gained over fifteen pounds of muscle from traning.48 LaBeouf said of the experience "I have definitely not trained like this for anything in my life. I'm preparing like I'm going into battle."48 During filming LaBeouf pulled his rotator cuff when filming a fight scene with Spalko, which was the first injury in his career.49 The injury got worse throughout filming and he pulled his groin.49 The film was LaBeouf's first and only film to be screened at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. The film was theatrically released in May 2008.50 LaBeouf's next and final 2008 film was Eagle Eye, a thriller directed by D. J. Caruso and released on September 26, 2008. Eagle Eye was LaBeouf's second collaboration with Caruso and third with Spielberg. LaBeouf starred alongside Michelle Monaghan and Billy Bob Thornton.51 Eagle Eye proved to be another commercially successful film for LaBeouf, making over $177 million worldwide. In December 2008, LaBeouf dropped out of the film Dark Fields due to a hand injury for which he had to undergo surgery, which would not be fully healed by the time production started.5253
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and other film projects, 2009 to present
LaBeouf in Paris in June 2009, promoting
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
LaBeouf reprised his role as Sam Witwicky in the 2009 sequel to Transformers, entitled Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.44 In May, 2008 LaBeouf began filming Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen; filming ended in late 2008.54 Due to LaBeouf's injury from his car accident, director Michael Bay and screen writer Roberto Orci had to rewrite the script to protect LaBeouf's hand throughout filming.5556 LaBeouf said production was only delayed by two days after his accident because Bay made up for it by filming second unit scenes, and he recovered from a few weeks earlier than expected, allowing him to return to the set.57 Near the end of filming, LaBeouf injured his eye when he hit a prop; the injury required seven stitches.58 LaBeouf resumed filming two hours later.58 For his lead role in the film, LaBeouf was reportedly paid around $5 million.44 The film was a commercial success, making over $800 million worldwide,59 but received negative critical reviews.60 Joe Neumaier, a writer for the New York Daily News, felt that the film showed that LaBeouf "finally" proved that he's a "viable leading man."61
In March 2008, LaBeouf began filming his role in the romantic comedy New York, I Love You. In the film, LaBeouf played Jacob, a minor role in the film, which is a collection of short stories about finding love in the five boroughs of New York and the sequel to Paris, je t'aime. Co-staring Natalie Portman and Orlando Bloom, the film premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival in September 2008, and was released in October 2009,62 to mixed reviews from critics.63 In June 2009, it was confirmed that LaBeouf signed onto to star as the lead role in the Oliver Stone directed film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps; the film is the sequel to the Academy Award-winning film Wall Street. In the film LaBeouf will play Jacob "Jake" Moore, a ambitious Wall Street trader who is in a relationship with Gordon Gekko's daughter Winnie.64 The film began principal photography in September65 and finished in November 2009.66 Co-starring Michael Douglas and Carey Mulligan, the film is set to theatrically released in September 2010.
Neil Gaiman said in an interview with MTV that he is planning to direct a film adaption of the comic book series Death: The High Cost of Living, and that the film is tentatively titled Death and Me, and showed interest in casting LaBeouf in the film, commenting, "Shia really wanted the part, and it’s not that he’s too big after Transformers or whether I could get him after he’s in the new Indiana Jones, but he’s growing up fast. Can he pass for 17 for that much longer? That might have been just about it after Transformers [...] He’s becoming an adult, but he’s one of Death’s biggest supporters, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he were in it."67 It has been confirmed that LaBeouf will reprise his role in the third Transformers film. The film is expected to begin filming in May 2010, and be released in July of the following year.68 In early December 2008, LaBeouf signed on to star as the lead role Kyle McAvoy in the film adaption of the novel The Associate by John Grisham.69 The film is currently in pre-production. Grisham, who had reportedly hand picked LaBeouf for the role, said of his casting, "I think he'll be wonderful! [...] He's a very talented actor, and he's hot. He's the hottest 22-year-old actor in America, and I think he'll do a wonderful job."70
Other work
Prior to his acting career, LaBeouf's comedian career originated when he would "create things, story lines and fictitious tales" during his childhood, and practiced stand-up comedy around his neighborhood as an "escape" from a hostile environment.20 He began performing stand-up and "talking dirty" at comedy clubs (including the The Ice House in Pasadena) at the age of ten (describing his appeal as having "disgustingly dirty" material and a "50-year-old mouth on the 10-year-old kid").2126 LaBeouf subsequently found an agent through the Yellow Pages, being taken on after doing his stand-up act for her and pretending to be his own manager, promoting himself in the third person.2071
On April 14, 2007, LaBeouf hosted Saturday Night Live with musical guest Avril Lavigne to promote his then upcoming film Disturbia. Throughout the show LaBeouf and Lavigne acted in skits.72 LaBeouf said of the experience of hosting Saturday Night Live for the first time that "This is hands down the biggest, most exciting thing I've ever been involved with in my life. I can only compare it to my Bar Mitzvah."73 On May 10, 2008, LaBeouf hosted Saturday Night Live for the second time with musical guest My Morning Jacket to promote his then upcoming film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, appearing in skits during the show.72
In February 2009, LaBeouf teamed up with rapper Chris "Cage" Palko to direct the music video for "I Never Knew You," the first single off of Cage's third album, Depart From Me.74 The music video was shot on location in downtown Los Angeles on February 21 and 22 and featured cameos by other Definitive Jux artists such as El-P, Aesop Rock, Chauncey, F. Sean Martin, Yak Ballz and Alex Pardee.74 According to the LA Weekly, this video marks the first in a series of collaborations between LaBeouf and Cage and will ultimately result in a film about the rapper's life starring LaBeouf. When asked what it was like directing the "I Never Knew You" video, LaBeouf said, "I'm 22 and I'm directing my favorite rapper's music video. This shit is better than riding unicorns."74 The video premiered on May 18, on MTV2 and MtvU.
Personal life
LaBeouf bought his own two-bedroom house at the age of 18,75 lives in Burbank, California, and remains close to both his parents;4 his mother now lives nearby in Tujunga, Los Angeles, California and his father in Montana.3720 LaBeouf is a cigarette smoker,3776 but in June 2009, stated that he had recently started to try to quit smoking.77 LaBeouf drives a Nissan Maxima,78 and has two bulldogs named Brando and Rex.75 LaBeouf has said that "sports are so big in my life"76 and that he is a "film junkie".79 He enjoys the music of The Shins, CKY, and the hip hop label Definitive Jux.26 LaBeouf has said that he is a fan of The Transformers television series and the 1986 film, The Transformers: The Movie.80
LaBeouf has said that he is "very serious" about his career and has made "a calculated effort to stay away from the party scene," believing that "if the industry takes you lightly because you're always partying, then they will take your work lightly as well."7 Interviewer Jamie Portman of The Vancouver Sun described LaBeouf as seeming to have a "love-hate relationship with the teenage culture that has spawned him."78 LaBeouf has said that although he does not devoutly practice Judaism, he has a "personal relationship with God that happens to work within the confines of Judaism".81 LaBeouf has said that he is not the "All-American Disney role model"6 and chose to appear in some of his film roles in order to "curse as much as possible"82 and "age [himself] publicly" after his Disney roles, specifying that Disney is "great and all" and a "nurturing place"26 but "dehabilitating for an actor", being "one constant string of same".5 He has also said that he enjoyed being a child actor and hated school.683 LaBeouf has said that Disturbia was the most important film to LaBeouf of his three 2007 films, because it was a "character-driven" role.20
LaBeouf has three known tattoos as of May 2009, which are: 1986-2004 on his inner right wrist, a dog paw tattoo on his upper left arm, and a hand with a shackle on it on his left upper side torso.848586 LaBeouf said of the reason to why he got the tattoo on his wrist was "I’ve been doing this for 10 years, a lot of people say, ‘Oh, I forgot my childhood or I miss my childhood." and continued with "so that’s just precautionary".84 LaBeouf also described the tattoo on his upper side torso as "It’s like an artist drawing his own prison" and continued with "Just life. That’s where I’m at".84 LaBeouf has cited actors Gary Oldman,87 Dustin Hoffman,26 Jodie Foster, Jon Voight, and John Turturro as inspirations,75 and has also cited director Francis Lawrence as an inspiration, with whom LaBeouf worked on the 2005 film Constantine.88
LaBeouf confirmed to People that from 2004-2007 he dated model China Brezner, who he met on the set of The Greatest Game Ever Played.89 He said of the reason of the break-up that "My focus became so work-related that I couldn't devote any time to a relationship", but that "We were inseparable, she was my best friend and my love", LaBeouf said of the break-up that "it was like rebuilding after a tornado."90 LaBeouf has said he tries to avoid relationships with co-stars saying that "It's really easy to fall for someone on-set, but in the end you know, it's a representative and it's not really them".48 As of August 2009, LaBeouf is in a relationship with British actress Carey Mulligan, his co-star in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. Mulligan and LaBeouf were introduced by the films director Oliver Stone prior to filming and began dating shortly after.91
Arrests
LaBeouf in July 2009, promoting
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Due to the injury LaBeouf sustained from his car accident the year before, his injury was written into the films plot.
On November 4, 2007, LaBeouf was arrested early in the morning for misdemeanor criminal trespassing in a Chicago Walgreens after refusing to leave when asked by a security guard.92 The criminal charges were dropped on December 12, 2007.93 In March 2008, an arrest warrant was issued for LaBeouf after he failed to turn up to a court appearance. The hearing was in relation to a ticket he received for unlawful smoking in Burbank, California in February 2008. When neither LaBeouf nor a lawyer turned up at the court at 8:30 a.m., a $1000 bench warrant was issued for his arrest,94 however the court commissioner in California recalled this warrant on March 19, 2008 after the actor’s attorney arrived a day late to plead not guilty on LaBeouf's behalf, and a pre-trial hearing was set for April 24, 2008.95 The charge was dismissed after the actor paid a $500 fine.96
At approximately 3am on July 27, 2008, LaBeouf was involved in a car crash at the intersection of N La Brea Avenue and Fountain Avenue in Los Angeles, with fellow actress Isabel Lucas. His Ford F1-50 was hit from the side by a vehicle running a red light.97 LaBeouf had been gripping the top the of the windowsill as he drove and so, upon impact, the truck rolled onto his exposed left hand, crushing it.98 In accordance with California law, authorities arrested LaBeouf at the scene for misdemeanor drunk driving and his driver's license was suspended for one year because he refused a breathalyzer examanization. 99100 His license was most likely collected by the police officer at the scene, also in accordance with the law. 101
LaBeouf had to undergo one of many hand surgeries immediately after the accident.102 (Isabel Lucas) and the driver and passenger in the other car suffered only minor injuries.100103104
Two days later, a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department spokesman announced that LaBeouf was not at fault in the accident, saying that the other driver had run a red light.99105 LaBeouf returned to the set of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen at this time and shooting resumed. Director Michael Bay had a light cast specially made for LaBeouf, so he could film around the injury. 106 Screenwriter Roberto Orci said on-set rewrites were done to protect his hand for the remainder of the shoot.107 108 in the movie, when Jetfire teleports the characters to Egypt, Sam falls and injures his hand.109 In September of that year, LaBeouf described the car accident as being "eye-opening and terrifying."110 He has lost the full use of his hand as at least one knuckle has been completely destroyed. 111
Filmography
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| Persondata |
| NAME |
LaBeouf, Shia Saide |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES |
LaBeouf, Shia |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION |
Actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH |
June 11, 1986 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH |
Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| DATE OF DEATH |
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| PLACE OF DEATH |
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