Everything about Shia Labeouf totally explained
Shia Saide LaBeouf (
"SHY-uh luh-BUFF"; born
June 11,
1986) is a
Daytime Emmy Award- Shia will also star as Mutt Jones -- Indiana Jones III -- in the next two sequels to the Indiana Jones series.
Early life
Family
LaBeouf was born in
Los Angeles, California, the only child of Shayna (
née Saide), a dancer and
ballerina turned visual artist and clothing/jewelry designer, and Jeffrey Craig LaBeouf, a
Vietnam War veteran who "drifted" from job to job, working as a
mime at a circus and as a
rodeo clown. The name Shia is
Hebrew for "gift from God", and the surname LaBeouf is a variation of "le boeuf", the
French term for "the ox" or "the beef". LaBeouf has said that he comes from "five generations of performers" and was "acting when [he] came out of the womb." LaBeouf's maternal grandfather, who shared his first name, was a
comedian who worked in the
Borscht Belt of the
Catskill Mountains, and his paternal grandmother was a
Beatnik poet and
lesbian who associated with
Allen Ginsberg.
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." LaBeouf's father used to grow
cannabis, and the two smoked
marijuana together when LaBeouf was ten.
Education
LaBeouf attended a predominantly
Latino and
African-American school. Theatrically, LaBeouf attended 32nd Street Visual and Performing Arts Magnet school in Los Angeles (LAUSD) Following high-school, LaBeouf was accepted to
Yale University but declined, later remarking that he's "getting the kind of education you don't get at school,"
Actor
LaBeouf has said that he initially became an actor because his family was broke, not because he wanted to pursue an acting career. LaBeouf was awarded a
Daytime Emmy Award for the role of Louis During this time period, LaBeouf also appeared in sketch shows on
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. 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. He had a small role in
I, Robot (2004) and appeared in the action-
horror film Constantine (2005), opposite
Keanu Reeves and
Rachel Weisz, and 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. and "age [himself] publicly" after his Disney roles, specifying that Disney is "great and all" and a "nurturing place"
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 [thecharacter's] anger, remorse and intelligence",
Kurt Loder of
MTV writing that LaBeouf "gets his star ticket decisively punched", and the
San Francisco Chronicle noting that LaBeouf is "fast becoming the best young actor in Hollywood". In comparing the film with
Rear Window, The
New York Daily News described LaBeouf's appeal as "more
John Cusack than
Jimmy Stewart". Also in 2007, LaBeouf provided a voice role as
Cody Maverick in the animated film
Surf's Up and played teenager Sam Witwicky, who becomes involved in the
Autobot-
Decepticon war on
Earth, in
Michael Bay's
Transformers, released on
July 3. LaBeouf has said that he's a fan of
The Transformers television series and the 1986, and
executive producer Steven Spielberg cast him in the role having been impressed by his performance in
Holes. He was named 2007's "star of tomorrow" by the ShoWest convention of the National Association of Theater Owners, and in February 2008 he was awarded the
BAFTA Orange Rising Star Award, which was voted for by the British general public. Impressed by his performance in
Transformers, LaBeouf has stated that he'd subsequently like to appear in a smaller-scale role. He has also signed on for two
Transformers sequels.
Personal life
LaBeouf bought his own two-bedroom house at the age of 18, drives a
Nissan Maxima, He has said that "sports is so big in my life" and that he's a "film junkie". He enjoys the music of
The Shins,
CKY, and the
hip-hop label
Definitive Jux.
LaBeouf has said that although he doesn't devoutly practice
Judaism, he's a "personal relationship with God that happens to work within the confines of Judaism". The criminal charges were dropped on
December 12.
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, 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. The charge was dismissed after the actor paid a $500 fine.
On
May 5,
2008, it was reported that LaBeouf is now dating model
Lauren Hastings.
Filmography
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