Shia Saide LaBeouf (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 2: Money Never Sleeps.
In May 2009, LaBeouf made his directorial debut by directing Cage's music video for the single "I Never Knew You".
Acting career
Early work
LaBeouf has said that he initially became an actor because his family was broke, not because he wanted to pursue an acting career. “My humor came from seeing my parents have sex, smoke weed, my mom being naked—just weird hippie stuff, twisted R-rated humor,” he says. “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.” 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.
2009–present: Upcoming films
In May, 2008 LaBeouf began filming the sequel to Transformers, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and finished filming on November 2, 2008. LaBeouf reprised his role as Sam Witwicky. 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. LaBeouf said production was only delayed by two days after his accident because Michael 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. Near the end of filming, LaBeouf injured his eye when he hit a prop; the injury required seven stitches. LaBeouf resumed filming two hours later. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen premiered on June 8, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan. After its UK release on June 19, 2009, the film was released in regular and IMAX theaters in the United States on June 24. For his lead role in the film, LaBeouf was reportedly paid around $5 million.
In March 2008, LaBeouf began filming the romantic comedy New York, I Love You, and finished filming in April 2008. 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. LaBeouf's co-stars included Natalie Portman, Blake Lively, and Orlando Bloom. The film premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival in September 2008 and was released in October 2009.
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. The project has been in development hell for several years; work on it was renewed in 2007, but was quickly derailed again due to the WGA strikes and production of the film was relaunched in late 2007.Gaiman said of LaBeouf having involvement in the film that "Shia really wanted the part," and "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.".
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. The film is currently in pre-production. It was reported that Grisham had hand picked LaBeouf for the role, saying that "I think he'll be wonderful!", and that "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."
In May 2009, Variety reported that LaBeouf was negotiations to join the cast of Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps.[76] On June 2, 2009, it was confirmed that LaBeouf signed onto to star as the lead role in Wall Street 2, the sequel to the Academy Award-winning film Wall Street. In the film Labeouf will play an "ambitious, young Wall Street trader who is engaged to Gekko's (Michael Douglas) daughter".The film is set to begin principal photography on August 10, 2009, and the film is tentative set to be released in February 2010.
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