Shia LaBeouf

Shia Saide LaBeouf "SHY-uh luh-BUFF"; born June 11, 1986) is an American actor and comedian.
After growing up in California, LaBeouf became known with a starring role in the Disney Channel series Even Stevens. He made the transition to film roles with Holes, a box office success, and supporting roles in Constantine and I, Robot.
Following LaBeouf's lead role in The Greatest Game Ever Played, film producer and director Steven Spielberg cast him in starring roles in the 2007 films Disturbia and Transformers. LaBeouf also worked with Spielberg in 2008's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Eagle Eye. Several media publications have speculated that LaBeouf, whose screen persona was described by Time magazine as that of the "scrappy kid next door",would become a major film star throughout 2008. LaBeouf was born in Los Angeles, California, the only child of Shayna 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. Shia 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.The name Shia is Hebrew for "gift from God",and the surname LaBeouf is a corruption of "le bœuf", 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. 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."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.y lines and fictitious tales" during his childhood, and practiced stand-up comedy around his neighborhood as an "escape" from a hostile environment 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"). 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



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5 most recent films

Wettest County - 3.0 stars
Transformers 3 - The Dark of the Moon - 3.5 stars
Transformers - Dark Of The Moon - 3D Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Transformers - Dark Of The Moon - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Wall Street - Money Never Sleeps - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Nausicaa Valley Of The Wind - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Nausicaa Valley Of The Wind - 4.0 stars
Transformers - The Movie - HD - 4.0 stars
Transformers - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Transformers - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Wettest County - 3.0 stars
The Even Stevens Movie - 3.0 stars
The Battle of Shaker Heights - 3.0 stars
Wall Street - Money Never Sleeps - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Wall Street - Money Never Sleeps - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Tyrese Gibson - 15 times - show films
John Turturro - 15 times - show films
Josh Duhamel - 15 times - show films
Megan Fox - 12 times - show films
Julie White - 8 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Michael Bay - 14 times - show films
D.J. Caruso - 6 times - show films
Francis Lawrence - 4 times - show films
Emilio Estevez - 2 times - show films
Dito Montiel - 2 times - show films