Shia Saide LaBeouf ( born June 11, 1986) is an American actor who became known among younger audiences for his part in the Disney Channel series Even Stevens and made his film debut in Holes (2003). In 2007, he starred as the leads in Disturbia and Transformers. His other films include Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. After being in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), he will next star in Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011). In 2004, he made his directorial debut with "Lets Love Hate" and later shot a music video for "I Never Knew You" by rapper Cage
Early Life :LaBeouf was born in Los Angeles, California, the only child of Shayna (née Saide) and Jeffrey Craig LaBeouf. His mother is a dancer and ballerina turned visual artist and clothing jewelry designer. His father is a Vietnam War veteran who had numerous jobs. LaBeouf's mother is Jewish and his father is a Cajun. LaBeouf was raised in his mother's Jewish religion and had a Bar Mitzvah, though he was also baptized.
1996–2006: Disney careerPrior to acting, LaBeouf would practice stand-up comedy around his neighborhood as an "escape" from a hostile environment At age ten, he began performing stand-up at comedy clubs, describing his appeal as having "disgustingly dirty" material and a "50-year-old mouth on the 10-year-old kid".] He subsequently found an agent through the Yellow Pages and was taken on, after pretending to be his own manager.LaBeouf has said that he initially became an actor because his family was broke, not because he wanted to pursue an acting career, having originally gotten the idea from a child actor whom he met that had things he wanted.LaBeouf became known among young audiences, after playing Louis Stevens on the Disney Channel weekly program Even Stevens in the early 2000s, a role that later earned him a Daytime Emmy Award. He has said, "[he] grew up on that show" and being cast was the "best thing" that happened to him. In the next several years, he appeared in the well-received film adaption, Holes (2003), in the starring role and made his directorial debut with the short film Let's Love Hate with Lorenzo Eduardo.He has played real-life people, including golfer Francis Ouimet and the younger version of Dito Montiel in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006).
Relationships
From 2004 to 2007, LaBeouf dated China Brezner, whom he met on the set of The Greatest Game Ever Played.They broke up because he became too busy with his work to put any time into the relationship, and he described the break-up as being like "rebuilding after a tornado."He dated British actress and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps co-star Carey Mulligan from August 2009 to October 2010; they were introduced by the film's director, Oliver Stone, prior to filming and began dating shortly after. (Wiki )
