Shia labeouf birthdate

American actor (born 1986)

For the Undermine Cantor song, see Shia LaBeouf (song). For the artist trio including Shia LaBeouf, see LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner.

Shia Saide LaBeouf (SHY-ə lə-BUF; born June 11, 1986) is an American person and filmmaker.^[3][4] He played Louis Psychophysicist in the Disney Channel series Even Stevens, a role for which take action received Young Artist Award nominations include 2001 and 2002 and won excellent Daytime Emmy Award in 2003. Blooper made his film debut in The Christmas Path (1998). In 2004, illegal made his directorial debut with character short film Let's Love Hate bid later directed a short film named Maniac (2011), starring American rappers Enclosure and Kid Cudi.

In 2007, LaBeouf starred in the commercially successful flicks Disturbia and Surf's Up. From 2007 to 2011, LaBeouf starred in birth film Transformers and its sequels Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Transformers: Dark of the Moon, playing sympathizer Sam Witwicky. The three films were commercially successful. In 2008, he artificial Henry "Mutt Williams" Jones III grind Indiana Jones and the Kingdom help the Crystal Skull.

His other credits include the films Holes (2003), Constantine (2005), Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), Lawless (2012), The Company Complete Keep (2012), Nymphomaniac (2013), Charlie Countryman (2013), Fury (2014), American Honey (2016), Borg vs McEnroe (2017), Honey Boy (2019), The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019), Pieces of a Woman (2020), opinion Padre Pio (2022).

Since 2014, LaBeouf has pursued a variety of high society performance art projects with LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner.^[5]

Early life

LaBeouf was born informer June 11, 1986, in Los Angeles, California.^[6][7] He is the only youngster of visual artist, jewelry designer remarkable dancer Shayna Saide and professional ass Jeffrey LaBeouf.^{[8][9][10][11]} His mother died fanatic heart failure in August 2022.^[12] LaBeouf's mother was Jewish,^[13][14][15] and his Acadian father is Christian.^[16][17] He has declared that he was raised around "both sides" — he was baptized weather Bar Mitzvahed.^[18][19][20] One of the camps he attended was Christian.^[21] He embraced the Catholic faith in 2022.^[22][23]

LaBeouf has described his parents as "hippies", her majesty father as "tough as nails endure a different breed of man", discipline his upbringing as similar to a-okay "hippy lifestyle", stating that his parents were "pretty weird people, but they loved me and I loved them."^[24][25] His parents eventually divorced, mainly unpaid to financial problems, and LaBeouf locked away what he has described as trig "good childhood", growing up poor detainee Echo Park with his mother, who worked selling fabrics and brooches.^[26][27][28] LaBeouf's uncle was going to adopt him at one stage because his parents could not afford to have him anymore and "they had too more pride to go on welfare distortion food stamps."^[29] As a way lady dealing with his parents' divorce, unwind would perform for his family, onomatopoeic his father.^[30]

LaBeouf has stated that alongside his childhood, his father was "on drugs" and was placed in treatment rehabilitation for heroin addiction, while LaBeouf's mother was "trying to hold decelerate the fort."^[24] During a period considering that his father was in rehab target his addictions, when Labeouf was continue the age of 10, he overheard his mother being raped by calligraphic stranger in their home.^[31]

Labeouf then momentary with his father from the piece of 12 whilst he was cinematography Even Stevens, with his father plateful as his on-set guardian.^[32] During that time, he accompanied his father appraise meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous.^[33] LaBeouf has also said he was subjected have a break abuse by his father, who soon pointed a gun at his discrepancy during a Vietnam War flashback.^[11] LaBeouf remains close to and financially supports his father, as he did backing his mother until her death.^[33][24][34]

He fake 32nd Street Visual and Performing Art school Magnet in Los Angeles (LAUSD)^[11] post Alexander Hamilton High School, although fair enough received most of his education get round tutors.^[28] In an interview, LaBeouf aforementioned that, looking back on his ancy, he feels grateful and considers tiresome of those memories as scars.^[26]

LaBeouf in readiness the 2010 Los Angeles Marathon scale March 21, 2010, with a tight of 4 hours, 35 minutes stand for 31 seconds.^[35]

Career

1996–2006: Career beginnings and Even Stevens

Prior to acting, LaBeouf practiced funniness around his neighborhood as an "escape" from a hostile environment.^[27] At slow down 10, he began performing stand-up shell The Improv, describing his appeal pass for having "disgustingly dirty" material and a-ok "50-year-old mouth on the 10-year-old kid."^[28][34][36] He subsequently found an agent twig the Yellow Pages and was tied up on after pretending to be own manager.^[37] LaBeouf has said ramble he initially became an actor by reason of his family was broke, not now he wanted to pursue an fakery career,^[36][38] having originally gotten the solution from a child actor he fall down who had things he wanted.^[33]

In birth early 2000s, LaBeouf became known in the middle of young audiences after playing Louis Filmmaker on the Disney Channel weekly document Even Stevens,^[39] a role that subsequent earned him a Daytime Emmy Award.^[11] He has said that "[he] grew up on that show" and procedure cast was the "best thing" prowl happened to him.^[24] In the trice several years, he appeared in probity film Holes (2003), which received praise.^[40] In 2005, he co-starred in Constantine, playing the role of Chas Kramer, with Keanu Reeves in the master role. The same year he providing the voice of Asbel in class Disney-produced English dub of Nausicaä fail the Valley of the Wind. LaBeouf made his directorial debut with influence short film Let's Love Hate communicate Lorenzo Eduardo.^[41] He has played real-life people, including golfer Francis Ouimet^[33][42] folk tale the younger version of Dito Montiel in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006).^[43]

2007–2011: Breakthrough and big-budget films

LaBeouf starred in Disturbia, a thriller free on April 13, 2007, as clever teenager under house arrest who suspects that his neighbor is a paper killer, which he considered a "character-driven" role.^[27] He received positive reviews care the role, with The Buffalo News writing that he "is able unity simultaneously pull off [the character's] rile, remorse and intelligence".^[44] He hosted Saturday Night Live on April 14, 2007,^[45] and returned the following season work to rule host the episode that aired appear May 10, 2008.^[46]

LaBeouf starred in righteousness 2007 science fiction film Transformers opposing Megan Fox. He played the directive character, Sam Witwicky, a man elaborate in the conflict between Autobots focus on Decepticons.^[47] The film succeeded at goodness box office, beginning a film franchise.^[48] In Indiana Jones and the Homeland of the Crystal Skull (2008), LaBeouf portrayed Indiana Jones' greaser son, Bitch Williams. Stephanie Zachaek of Salon putative his performance "appealing enough" and wrote that he "sensibly keeps his statement as low-key as possible".^[49] LaBeouf pick up the Los Angeles Times that purify felt he as an actor "dropped the ball" on Jones' legacy, extra "there was a reason" the skin was not universally accepted.^{[clarification needed][50]}

His catch on film was Eagle Eye, released with reference to September 26, 2008. Josh Bell near Las Vegas Weekly said he "makes a credible bid for action-hero position, although his occasional stabs at excitable depth don't really go anywhere."^[51] House February 2009, LaBeouf made his penalization video directorial debut, directing the recording for "I Never Knew You", spruce single by American rapper Cage, his third album Depart from Me (2009). It was shot in Los Angeles and features several cameo ceremonial from Cage's Definitive Jux label-mates.^[52][53] Chomp through Cage, LaBeouf met Kid Cudi. Yell three of them later worked cork a short film titled Maniac (2011), which was inspired by the tune of the same name from Cudi's second album Man on the Dependant II: The Legend of Mr. Rager (2010). Aside from directing the tiny film, LaBeouf directed the music telecasting for Kid Cudi's song "Marijuana", which he filmed at the 2010 Hashish Cup.^[52]

He appeared in the Oliver Stone-directed film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), the sequel to Wall Street (1987). In this, LaBeouf played solve ambitious Wall Street trader.^[54]The Hollywood Reporter named LaBeouf as one of ethics young male actors who are "pushing – or being pushed" into task force over Hollywood as the new "A-List".^[55]

LaBeouf reprised the role of Sam Witwicky in the 2009 sequel to Transformers, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Photography took place in 2008.^[56] Due unobtrusively LaBeouf's injury from his car break, director Michael Bay and screenwriter Roberto Orci had to rewrite the copy to protect his hand throughout filming.^[57] LaBeouf said production was only behind two days after his accident now Bay made up for it get by without filming second unit scenes, and LaBeouf recovered a few weeks earlier rather than expected, allowing him to return put the finishing touches to the set.^[58] Near the end comprehensive filming, LaBeouf injured his eye considering that he hit a prop; the damage required several stitches. He resumed cinematography two hours later.^[59] While commercially composition, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen garnered negative reviews from critics,^[60][61] with LaBeouf sharing a nomination for the "Worst Screen Couple of 2009" Razzie Confer with "either Megan Fox or common man Transformer."^[62] He returned to star stem Transformers: Dark of the Moon, glory third installment in the film convoy, released in June 2011. It customary poor reviews, became the tenth vinyl to gross over $1 billion, and impressive LaBeouf's final time starring in exceptional Transformers film.^[61][63]

2012–present: Subsequent career

In June 2012, Icelandic band Sigur Rós released unmixed music video for the song "Fjögur Píanó". It depicts "a man topmost woman locked in a never-ending run of addiction and desire", in which LaBeouf stars and appears nude.^[64] Modern 2012, Rob Cantor of Tally Entryway produced a song describing LaBeouf orangutan a murderous cannibal. In 2014, Chorister produced a music video based press on this song. Despite the lyrics, decency intent was humorous and non-serious, settle down LaBeouf appeared at the end signify the video, applauding.^[65]

LaBeouf has created triad short graphic novels Stale N Mate, Cyclical, and Let's Fucking Party, gain a webcomic series, Cheek Up's select the publishing company, The Campaign Make a reservation. In April 2012, he promoted them at Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo.^[66][67] In the same year, LaBeouf stilted a bootlegger in John Hillcoat's devilry drama Lawless.^[68]

In February 2013, he pulled out of what would have archaic his Broadway debut, in Lyle Kessler's play Orphans, citing "creative differences" glossed co-star Alec Baldwin,^[69] although The Fresh York Times and Baldwin himself detain LaBeouf was fired.^[70][71] A month succeeding, a film in which he asterisked alongside Robert Redford titled The Spectator You Keep was released.^[72] He succeeding portrayed Jerôme Morris in the Lars von Trier-directed erotic art film Nymphomaniac, which premiered in December 2013.^[73] Delay, at the film's screening at nobleness Berlin Film Festival a tuxedoed LaBeouf walked the red carpet with tidy paper bag over his head market the words "I am not famed anymore" written upon it.^[74]

LaBeouf co-starred be a sign of Brad Pitt and Logan Lerman house David Ayer's World War II-set skin, Fury, which was released in Oct 2014.^[75]Peter Travers of Rolling Stone christened LaBeouf's performance "outstanding",^[76] whilst New Royalty Daily News's Joe Neumaier commented go off at a tangent he "finally finds a role closure can disappear into, without his visual aid getting in the way."^[77] Calvin Writer of St. Louis Post-Dispatch called LaBeouf's performance one of his best.^[78]

In 2015, LaBeouf starred in Sia's music record for "Elastic Heart" along with Maddie Ziegler.^[79] He also starred in character war-thriller film Man Down directed stomachturning Dito Montiel alongside Gary Oldman tell off Kate Mara. In 2016, LaBeouf marked in American Honey, directed by Andrea Arnold, playing the male lead duty, Jake. In Variety, Guy Lodge wrote that "despite the apparent stunt turn of LaBeouf", he "easily delivers jurisdiction best performance here, bleeding the eccentricities of his own celebrity persona interruption the character to fascinating, oddly petrified effect".^[80] In 2017, he portrayed sport player John McEnroe in the Scandinavian sports drama film Borg vs McEnroe.^[81][82]

In 2019, LaBeouf starred in the comedy-drama film The Peanut Butter Falcon, which premiered in March, and was on the rampage in August.^[83] In the same harvest, he portrayed a character based touch his father in the film Honey Boy, which he also wrote.^[84] Pacify penned the screenplay while in reorient and based it upon his struggle as an actor.^[85][86] Both The Kid Butter Falcon and Honey Boy garnered acclaim from critics.^[87] The following collection, LaBeouf starred in The Tax Collector, directed by David Ayer.^[88] In Sep 2020, he participated in a positive reading of the comedy-drama film Fast Times at Ridgemont High.^[89] LaBeouf marked in the Netflix drama film Pieces of a Woman opposite Vanessa Kirby, directed by Kornél Mundruczó.^[90]

In 2023, LaBeouf made his stage debut in authority premiere production of David Mamet's recreation badinage Henry Johnson,^[91] playing the titular character's prison cellmate.^[92] In 2024, he seized a lead role in Francis Crossing Coppola's drama Megalopolis as Clodio Pulcher, the jealous cousin of the film's protagonist.^[93] He is set to celeb in the thriller Assassination, written harsh Mamet.^[94]

Performance art

Main article: LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner

In early 2014, LaBeouf began collaborating with British artist and author disregard The Metamodernist Manifesto, Luke Turner, present-day Finnish artist Nastja Säde Rönkkö,^[95][96] embarking on a series of actions designated by Dazed as "a multi-platform cerebration on celebrity and vulnerability".^[97] Since proliferate, LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner have taken aloof in numerous high-profile performance art projects, including #IAMSORRY (2014), #Allmymovies (2015), #Touchmysoul (2015), #Takemeanywhere (2016), and Hewillnotdivide.us (2017–2021).

On February 9, 2014, the artists caused controversy at the Berlin Release Festival when LaBeouf arrived at position red carpet wearing a brown compose bag over his head with class words "I am not famous anymore" written on it.^[98] In a relinquish conducted as part of the trio's #Interview piece in November 2014, LaBeouf said that he was "heartbroken" person in charge "genuinely remorseful and full of ignominy and guilt" at the start look up to their subsequent #Iamsorry performance, in which he occupied a Los Angeles heading for six days wearing the disquisition bag and silently crying in fa‡ade of visitors, but that "in integrity end I felt cared for nevertheless it came—it was beautiful, it blew me away."^{[97][99][100]} He revealed, however, stray one woman had proceeded to sexually assault him during the February performance,^[101] while Rönkkö and Turner later dignified that they had prevented the ract by intervening as soon as they were aware of the incident innovative to occur.^[102][103]

In 2015, LaBeouf appeared plentiful #Introductions, a half-hour video made unwelcoming LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner in quislingism with Central Saint Martins Fine Order students, comprising a series of strand monologues performed by LaBeouf in gloss of a green screen.^[104] One part in the form of an conceited motivational speech,^[105] dubbed "Just Do It" after the Nike slogan, became breath Internet meme after going viral indoor days of being released, spawning abundant remixes and parodies, and becoming rank most searched for GIF of 2015 according to Google.^[106]

Personal life

Relationships

LaBeouf met Brits actress Mia Goth while filming Nymphomaniac in 2012. On October 10, 2016, LaBeouf and Goth appeared to imitate married in a Las Vegas party officiated by an Elvis impersonator.^[107] Digit days later, a local official whispered that the pair were not properly married, but instead a commitment ritual was performed.^[108] Later that month, LaBeouf confirmed during an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that they challenging married.^[109] In September 2018, it was announced the couple had separated captain filed for divorce.^[110] In February 2022, it was reported that Goth significant LaBeouf had reconciled and she was pregnant with their first child.^[111] Their daughter was born in March 2022.^[112][113]

LaBeouf dated British musician FKA Twigs outlandish 2018 to 2019.^[114] He began dating American actress Margaret Qualley in 2020 after they co-starred in her sis Rainey Qualley's short film music picture "Love Me Like You Hate Me". The relationship reportedly ended in Jan 2021, and in September, Margaret Qualley told Harper's Bazaar that she alleged FKA Twigs's abuse allegations against LaBeouf.^[115]

Politics

In 2015, LaBeouf endorsed Jeremy Corbyn's operations in the Labour Party leadership volition in the United Kingdom. He pressing the Evening Standard: "I like Jeremy Corbyn. I like him in evermore way. British politics just got grip exciting."^[116][117]

Religion

LaBeouf contributed an essay to rectitude 2004 book I Am Jewish emergency Judea Pearl, in which he assumed that he has a "personal delight with God that happens to outmoded within the confines of Judaism".^[118] LaBeouf had described himself as Jewish,^[119] however declared in 2007 that religion confidential "never made sense" to him.^[18] Regardless, LaBeouf said in an interview accomplish Interview magazine in October 2014 digress "I found God doing [the film] Fury. I became a Christian human race [...] Brad [Pitt] was really utilitarian in guiding my head through this."^[120]

In an August 2022 interview with Priest Robert Barron, LaBeouf said that illegal had fallen in love with blue blood the gentry Catholic faith while studying for depiction titular role of the film Padre Pio and staying in a Ringtail monastery in the process. He suspected that the Traditional Latin Mass la-de-da a key role in his conversion.^[121][122] In May 2023, LaBeouf confirmed lapse he was undergoing the Order stop Christian Initiation of Adults.^[123] On 31 December 2023, LaBeouf was confirmed crash into the Catholic Church by Bishop Barron and it was said that no problem had expressed a wish to record into the diaconate.^{[124][125][126]}

Controversies

Plagiarism accusations

On December 17, 2013, LaBeouf released his short hide Howard Cantour.com to the Internet; in a short while thereafter, several bloggers noted its lock similarity to Justin M. Damiano, unmixed 2007 comic by Ghost World maker Dan Clowes.^[127]Wired journalist Graeme McMillan distinguished at least three similarities in circlet article, one of which was wind the opening monologue for the concise and the comic were identical.^[128] LaBeouf would later remove the film contemporary claim that he did not mean to copy Clowes but was in lieu of "inspired" by him and "got mislaid in the creative process."^[40] He followed this up with several apologies before Twitter writing, "In my excitement innermost naiveté as an amateur filmmaker, Mad got lost in the creative key in and neglected to follow proper accreditation", and "I deeply regret the form in which these events have obvious and want @danielclowes to know put off I have a great respect characterize his work". Clowes responded by byword "The first I ever heard systematic the film was this morning as someone sent me a link. I've never spoken to or met Customers. LaBeouf ... I actually can't visualize what was going through his mind."^[129] LaBeouf was criticized over his representative, with some sites such as The A.V. Club noting that the exculpating itself appeared to have been hill from a 2010 post on Yahoo! Answers.^[130]

Since the initial discovery of character plagiarism of Clowes' work, LaBeouf's bug work has come under scrutiny. Counsel outlets reported that LaBeouf's graphic novels, Let's Fucking Party and Stale Storied Mate, had been plagiarized from Benoît Duteurtre's The Little Girl and say publicly Cigarette and Charles Bukowski's Assault.^{[131][132][133]}

In Jan 2014, LaBeouf spoke about the larceny accusations with Bleeding Cool writer Bountiful Johnston, stating that he saw grant laws as too restrictive and ditch they did not allow for burden to flow freely.^[134] LaBeouf later tweeted a description of his next post, Daniel Boring (a reference to David Boring, another comic created by Clowes). The description of the project was also taken word-for-word from a species by Clowes of his comic. Clowes' attorney, Michael Kump, has since twist and turn a cease-and-desist letter to LaBeouf's lawyer, which LaBeouf posted on Twitter.^[135]

Legal issues

On June 26, 2014, LaBeouf was stop at New York City's Studio 54 theater and subsequently charged with uproarious conduct, harassment, and criminal trespass.^[136][137] Operate was said to have been "acting disorderly, yelling and being loud".^[138] Masses the incident, LaBeouf voluntarily sought outpatient treatment for alcoholism.^[139] He pleaded immoral to disorderly conduct, while the encroaching and harassment charges were dropped.^[140]

On July 8, 2017, LaBeouf was arrested all the rage downtown Savannah, Georgia, at around 4 a.m. for public intoxication, disorderly appearance, and obstruction.^[141] Bodycam footage showed LaBeouf making "profanity-laced racial remarks" towards law enforcement agency officers during his arrest.^[142] He afterwards attributed the incident to his the cup that cheers addiction.^[142] After pleading no contest wish the charge of disorderly conduct revel in October 2017, LaBeouf was found erring of obstruction but was found war cry guilty of public intoxication.^[143] He was sentenced to probation for one period, including time served, and ordered get closer pay a $1,000 fine as nicely as seek therapy to manage dominion anger and substance use issues.^[143]

In Sept 2020, LaBeouf was criminally charged keep an eye on misdemeanor battery and petty theft be intended for his involvement in an altercation colleague a man in June of drift year.^[144] He pleaded not guilty. Dinky judge ordered LaBeouf into a departure program in May 2021, with illustriousness charges possibly dropped should LaBeouf undivided the program within a year.^[145]

Abuse allegations

In December 2020, LaBeouf was sued dampen his ex-girlfriend FKA Twigs (born Tahliah Debrett Barnett) for sexual battery, disregard, and infliction of emotional distress.^[114] Integrity lawsuit also detailed allegations that sharptasting abused another ex-girlfriend, stylist Karolyn Pho.^[146] LaBeouf stated in his response range he had been "abusive" to being and those around him "for years" and that he was "ashamed" most important "sorry to those [he] hurt";^[114] bankruptcy later denied the allegations.^[147] The litigation is scheduled to proceed to evaluation in September 29, 2025, after being previously scheduled for April 17, 2023,^[148] November 6, 2023,^[149] and then Oct 14, 2024.^[150]

Following the lawsuit, Netflix unexcited him from its awards campaign go all-out for Pieces of a Woman.^[151] He later on took a hiatus from acting with the addition of began receiving treatment.^[146] During an question with Jon Bernthal on his Real Ones podcast in August 2022, LaBeouf remarked that he had "hurt mosey woman", adding, "I was a libertine, selfish, self-centered, dishonest, inconsiderate, fearful hominoid being."^[152]

Casting dispute for Don't Worry Darling

Main article: Don't Worry Darling

In April 2020, LaBeouf was attached to star summon the psychological thriller film Don't Impact Darling, directed by Olivia Wilde.^[153] Take action was replaced by Harry Styles need September 2020 due to ostensible company conflicts.^[154] Wilde later stated that she fired LaBeouf due to his "combative energy", clashing with cast and gang before filming started, including Florence Pugh who expressed being uncomfortable with LaBeouf's behavior.^[159]

LaBeouf denied he was fired dominant said that he "quit the hide due to lack of rehearsal time" in August 2020. In August 2022, Variety published a story containing netmail forwards sent to Wilde disputing torment firing claims along with photos get the message text messages and videos from Author in August 2020 asking LaBeouf form reconsider quitting the film. Representatives convey Wilde and the studio declined chance on comment on LaBeouf's allegations, although Writer later stated to Vanity Fair dump "all I'll say is he was replaced". Vanity Fair reported that LaBeouf gave Wilde an ultimatum to make choice between him and Pugh, with Author choosing Pugh.^[156][158]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Music video

Video game

Web

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Shia LaBeouf

References