Shia LaBeouf

Shia Saide LaBeouf is an American actor who became known among younger audiences for his part in the Disney Channel series Even Stevens. He was born on June 11, 1986 in Los Angeles, Californi¬¬a and the only child of Shayna and Jeffrey Craig LaBeouf. LaBeouf's mother a Jewish was a former ballet dancer from New York who once studied with Martha Graham and his French-Cajun father was a clown from San Francisco who spent time in France studying commedia dell’arte. As a child, he and his parents would dress up like clowns and sell hot dogs in the park across the street from their apartment. LaBeouf was raised by his mother after parents got divorced.
In 2003, LaBeouf won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in a Children’s Series for his work on the show Eve Stevens. That same year, he made his first appearance in the big screen with the film adaptation of Louis Sachar novel Holes. Around the same time, LaBeouf had the lead role in the coming-of-age drama, The Battle of Shaker Heights. He also appeared in some scenes in Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle. Continuing his career in film, LaBeouf landed several supporting roles. He appeared in the sci-fi action drama I, Robot with Will Smith in 2004. The next year, he played Chas, a sidekick to Keanu Reeves’s demon hunter in Constantine and had a leading role in the historic sports drama The Greatest Game Ever Played. Following that year, LaBeouf played a younger version of Dito in film A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints.
In 2007, he starred as the leads in Disturbia and Transformers. He was also named “Star of Tomorrow” at the ShoWest convention, an annual event for the National Association of Theatre Owners the same year. His other films include Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), and Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011). In 2004, he made his directorial debut with "Let's Love Hate" and later shot a music video for "I Never Knew You" by rapper Cage.