Shia LaBeouf

Biography

Shia Saide LaBeouf, born on June 11, 1986, is a multi-talented American actor, filmmaker, and performance artist. He first gained fame as Louis Stevens in the beloved Disney Channel series *Even Stevens*, a role that earned him nominations for Young Artist Awards in 2001 and 2002, culminating in a Daytime Emmy Award win in 2003. LaBeouf made his film debut with *The Christmas Path* in 1998.

In 2004, he ventured into directing with the short film *Let's Love Hate*, followed by *Maniac* in 2011, which featured rappers Cage and Kid Cudi. His breakthrough in cinema came in 2007 with the hit films *Disturbia* and *Surf's Up*, and he became a household name as Sam Witwicky in Michael Bay's blockbuster *Transformers*. The film was one of the highest-grossing movies of that year, leading to his involvement in its sequels, *Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen* (2009) and *Transformers: Dark of the Moon* (2011). LaBeouf also portrayed Henry "Mutt Williams" Jones III in *Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull* (2008).

His extensive filmography includes notable works such as *Holes* (2003), *Constantine* (2005), *Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps* (2010), *Lawless* (2012), *Nymphomaniac* (2013), *Fury* (2014), *American Honey* (2016), *Borg vs McEnroe* (2017), *Honey Boy* (2019), *The Peanut Butter Falcon* (2019), and *Pieces of a Woman* (2020). Since 2014, LaBeouf has also engaged in various public performance art projects alongside collaborators LaBeouf, Rön