Shia LaBeouf shows his medal as he crosses the finish line of the 25th L.A. Marathon on March 21, 2010, in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Valerie Macon)
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2011
Berlin, Germany
Shia LaBeouf attends the "Transformers 3" European premiere on June 25, 2011, in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Sean Gallup)
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2012
6360 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028, UK
Shia LaBeouf arrives at the Premiere of the Weinstein Company's "Lawless" at ArcLight Cinemas on August 22, 2012, in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison)
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2014
Los Angeles, California, USA
Shia LaBeouf is seen on July 19, 2014, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Bauer-Griffin)
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2014
New York City, NY, USA
Shia LaBeouf sighting on July 24, 2014, in New York City. (Photo by Josiah Kamau)
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2014
Los Angeles, California, USA
Shia Labeouf and Mia Goth are seen on September 06, 2014, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Bauer-Griffin)
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2014
555 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
Shia LaBeouf poses for photographers on the red carpet during the "The Fury" Washington D.C. premiere at The Newseum on October 15, 2014, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kris Connor)
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2015
New York City, NY, USA
Shia LaBeouf is seen in Tribeca on March 21, 2015, in New York City. (Photo by Alo Ceballos)
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2016
Los Angeles, California, USA
Shia LaBeouf is seen on January 08, 2016, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Bauer-Griffin
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2017
Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 1, 10785 Berlin, Germany
Shia LaBeouf attends the 'Nymphomaniac Volume I (long version)' premiere during 64th Berlinale International Film Festival at Berlinale Palast on February 9, 2014, in Berlin, Germany)
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2018
1 World Way, Los Angeles, CA 90045, USA
Shia LaBeouf is seen at Los Angeles International Airport on February 28, 2018, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Niceguy/Bauer-Griffin)
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2018
Paris, France
Shia LaBeouf and FKA Twigs are spotted on the Seine river on September 30, 2018, in Paris, France. (Photo by Melodie Jeng)
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2019
1750 Kearns Blvd, Park City, UT 84060, USA
Shia LaBeouf attends the "Honey Boy" Premiere during the 2019 Sundance Film Festival at Eccles Center Theatre on January 25, 2019, in Park City, Utah. (Photo by George Pimentel)
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2019
6360 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028, USA
Shia LaBeouf attends the LA Special Screening of Roadside Attractions' "The Peanut Butter Falcon" at ArcLight Hollywood on August 01, 2019, in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Axelle)
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Los Angeles, California, USA
Shia LaBeouf is seen on March 02, 2015, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Bauer-Griffin)
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333 W 23rd St, New York, NY 10011, USA
Shia LaBeouf attends a screening of 'LoveTrue' during the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival at SVA Theatre 2 on April 16, 2015, in New York City. (Photo by Noam Galai)
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350 King St W, Toronto, ON M5V 3X5, Canada
Shia LaBeouf of 'Man Down' poses for a portrait at the 2015 Toronto Film Festival at the TIFF Bell Lightbox on September 15, 2015, in Toronto, Ontario. (Photo by Jeff Vespa)
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1550 Court Pl, Denver, CO 80202, USA
Shia LaBeouf (L) and Zack Gottsegen at the Global Down Syndrome 10th anniversary BBBY fashion show at Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel on October 20, 2018, in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by Tom Cooper)
Achievements
Membership
Awards
Daytime Emmy Award
2003
1260 6th Ave, New York, NY 10020, USA
Shia LaBeouf during 30th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
Teen Choice Award
2007
100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, CA 91608, USA
Shia LaBeouf in the press room the 2007 Teen Choice Awards at Gibson Amphitheater on August 26, 2007, in Universal City, California. (Photo by Steve Granitz
BAFTA Award
2009
Bow St, Covent Garden, London WC2E 9DD, UK
Shia LaBeouf poses at the winner's board at The Orange British Academy Film Awards held at the Royal Opera House on February 8, 2009, in London, England. (Photo by Jon Furniss)
100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, CA 91608, USA
Shia LaBeouf in the press room the 2007 Teen Choice Awards at Gibson Amphitheater on August 26, 2007, in Universal City, California. (Photo by Steve Granitz
Shia LaBeouf poses at the winner's board at The Orange British Academy Film Awards held at the Royal Opera House on February 8, 2009, in London, England. (Photo by Jon Furniss)
Shia LaBeouf shows his medal as he crosses the finish line of the 25th L.A. Marathon on March 21, 2010, in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Valerie Macon)
Shia LaBeouf arrives at the Premiere of the Weinstein Company's "Lawless" at ArcLight Cinemas on August 22, 2012, in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison)
555 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
Shia LaBeouf poses for photographers on the red carpet during the "The Fury" Washington D.C. premiere at The Newseum on October 15, 2014, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kris Connor)
Shia LaBeouf attends the 'Nymphomaniac Volume I (long version)' premiere during 64th Berlinale International Film Festival at Berlinale Palast on February 9, 2014, in Berlin, Germany)
Shia LaBeouf attends the "Honey Boy" Premiere during the 2019 Sundance Film Festival at Eccles Center Theatre on January 25, 2019, in Park City, Utah. (Photo by George Pimentel)
Shia LaBeouf attends the LA Special Screening of Roadside Attractions' "The Peanut Butter Falcon" at ArcLight Hollywood on August 01, 2019, in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Axelle)
Shia LaBeouf attends a screening of 'LoveTrue' during the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival at SVA Theatre 2 on April 16, 2015, in New York City. (Photo by Noam Galai)
Shia LaBeouf of 'Man Down' poses for a portrait at the 2015 Toronto Film Festival at the TIFF Bell Lightbox on September 15, 2015, in Toronto, Ontario. (Photo by Jeff Vespa)
Shia LaBeouf (L) and Zack Gottsegen at the Global Down Syndrome 10th anniversary BBBY fashion show at Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel on October 20, 2018, in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by Tom Cooper)
Connections
colleague: Bradley Cooper
2009
2535 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89109, USA
Actor Bradley Cooper arrives at Cosmopolitan's 2009 Fun Fearless Awards at the SLS Hotel on March 2, 2009, in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Kristian Dowling)
colleague: Laurence Fishburne III
2014
9876 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, United Sattes
Laurence Fishburne poses for a portrait during ABC's 2014 TCA summer press tour at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on July 15, 2014 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Christopher Polk/ABC/ABC via Getty Images)
(Featuring a young Shia LaBeouf, this family adventure fol...)
Featuring a young Shia LaBeouf, this family adventure follows two ex-cons who attempt to frame the detective who sent them to jail. However, a group of kids called the "Cobras" foils their plan by beating them at their own game.
(For troubled high school senior Kelly Ernswiler (Shia Lab...)
For troubled high school senior Kelly Ernswiler (Shia Labeouf) life is war - or at least an incredible simulation! With all the difficulties in his real life, Kelly has found just one true escape: losing himself in fantasy reenactments of World War II's epic battles.
(The two mentally challenged teenagers dream an impossible...)
The two mentally challenged teenagers dream an impossible dream: to get out of the "special needs", the adventures was so dynamic duo, as the two possibly dumbest boys become lifelong friends.
(Dogged by bad luck stemming from an ancient family curse,...)
Dogged by bad luck stemming from an ancient family curse, young Stanley Yelnats is sent to Camp Green Lake, a very weird place that's not green and doesn't have a lake. Once there, he's thrown headlong into the adventure of his life when he and his colorful campmates.
(Based on the ground-breaking DC/Vertigo comic book "Hellb...)
Based on the ground-breaking DC/Vertigo comic book "Hellblazer, " Keanu Reeves plays John Constantine, a modern-day mystic on a personal quest to send demons hiding on Earth back to Hell.
("Bobby" re-imagines one of the most explosively tragic ni...)
"Bobby" re-imagines one of the most explosively tragic nights in American history. By following the stories of 22 fictional characters in the Ambassador Hotel on the fateful eve that Presidential hopeful Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot, writer/director Emilio Estevez and an accomplished ensemble cast forge an intimate mosaic of an America careening towards a moment of shattering change - as different characters navigate prejudice, injustice, chaos and their own complicated personal lives, while seeking the last glimmering signs of hope in Kennedy's idealism.
(A brilliant cast brings to life this coming-of-age drama ...)
A brilliant cast brings to life this coming-of-age drama about a young man (Shia LaBeouf) growing up in Astoria, New York in the 1980s. As his friends end up dead, addicted or in prison, he comes to believe he has been saved from their fates by various so-called saints.
(After his father's accidental death, Kale (Shia LaBeouf) ...)
After his father's accidental death, Kale (Shia LaBeouf) remains withdrawn and troubled. When he lashes out at a well-intentioned but insensitive teacher, he finds himself under a court-ordered house arrest.
(Come join Cody (Shia LaBeouf), a Rockhopper penguin, as h...)
Come join Cody (Shia LaBeouf), a Rockhopper penguin, as he journeys from his home in Shiverpool, Antarctica, to take part in the Big Z Memorial Surf-Off on the beach of Pen Gu Island. During his adventure, he meets some new friends, including surf nut Chicken Joe (Jon Heder) and the spirited lifeguard Lani (Zooey Deschanel).
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
(Steven Spielberg and George Lucas bring you the greatest ...)
Steven Spielberg and George Lucas bring you the greatest adventurer of all time in "a nonstop thrill ride" that's packed with "sensational, awe-inspiring spectacles". Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull finds Indy trying to outrace a brilliant and beautiful agent for the mystical, all-powerful Crystal Skull of Akator.
(Shia LaBeouf (Transformers) and Michelle Monaghan (Missio...)
Shia LaBeouf (Transformers) and Michelle Monaghan (Mission: Impossible III) star as strangers ripped from their ordinary lives when they are "activated" as part or a high-tech assassination plot. Through blistering chases and shocking twists they try to escape - but where do you go when the enemy is everywhere?
(In the city that never sleeps, love is always on the mind...)
In the city that never sleeps, love is always on the mind. Those passions come to life in New York, I Love You - a collaboration of storytelling from some of today's most imaginative filmmakers and featuring an all-star cast.
(The battle for Earth continues in this action-packed bloc...)
The battle for Earth continues in this action-packed blockbuster from director Michael Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg. When college-bound Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) learns the truth about the ancient origins of the Transformers, he must join Optimus Prime and Bumblebee in their epic battle against the Decepticons, who have returned with a plan to destroy our world.
(A mysterious event from Earth's past threatens to ignite ...)
A mysterious event from Earth's past threatens to ignite a war so big that the Transformers alone will not be able to save the planet. Sam Witwicky and the Autobots must fight against the darkness to defend our world from the Decepticons.
(Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, and Jessica Chastain star in thi...)
Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, and Jessica Chastain star in this adaptation of "The Wettest County in the World." A bootlegging gang make a run for the American Dream during Prohibition.
(Grant's (Robert Redford) world is turned upside down, whe...)
Grant's (Robert Redford) world is turned upside down, when a brash young reporter Ben Shepard (Shia LaBeouf) exposes his true identity as a former 1970s antiwar radical fugitive wanted for murder.
(While abroad, Charlie Countryman falls for Gabi, an exoti...)
While abroad, Charlie Countryman falls for Gabi, an exotic beauty who belongs to her violent, charismatic ex. As the darkness of her past envelops him, Charlie resolves to win her heart or die trying.
(April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the E...)
April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy (Brad Pitt) commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines.
(Shia LaBeouf stars as a U.S. Marine war veteran who retur...)
Shia LaBeouf stars as a U.S. Marine war veteran who returns home from Afghanistan to find a completely different world, and searches desperately for his estranged wife and son.
(An adolescent girl from a troubled home, runs away with a...)
An adolescent girl from a troubled home, runs away with a traveling sales crew who drive across the American Midwest selling subscriptions door to door.
(Borg vs McEnroe tells the story of the epic rivalry betwe...)
Borg vs McEnroe tells the story of the epic rivalry between brash American tennis legend John McEnroe (LaBeouf), and his greatest adversary, the reigning world champion Björn Borg (Gudnason), which came to a head during the 1980 Wimbledon Championships.
Shia LaBeouf is an American actor, filmmaker, and artist. For three years, from 2000 until 2003, most people knew him as the mop-headed, wise-cracking younger brother Louis on the top-rated Disney Channel series Even Stevens.
Background
Ethnicity:
LaBeouf's father has Cajun (French) ancestry while his mother is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. Shia's maternal grandfather, Szaja Yeshayhu "Sam" Saide, was a Polish Jewish emigrant, who was born in Bialystok, and moved to the United States in 1930. Shia's maternal grandmother, Mary Ann Rosen, was born in New York City, to Russian Jewish parents.
Shia LaBeouf was born on June 11, 1986, in Los Angeles, California, the United States. LaBeouf grew up in the neighborhood of Echo Park and was raised in a decidedly colorful family of mixed ethnicity. His Cajun father, Jeffrey LaBeouf, was a Vietnam vet who held a series of odd jobs as a circus clown, a snow-cone salesman, and a stand-up comic. Shia's Jewish mother, Shayna, worked as a clothier and jewelry craftswoman. His first name is derived from Szaja, the Polish version of the Hebrew Yeshayahu (Isaiah), meaning "God is salvation."
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." During his childhood, he accompanied his father to meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous. LaBeouf has also said he was subjected to verbal and mental abuse by his father, who once pointed a gun at his son during a Vietnam War flashback. LaBeouf has stated that his father was "on drugs" during his childhood, and was placed in drug rehabilitation for heroin addiction, while LaBeouf's mother was "trying to hold down the fort."
His parents split due to financial issues when he was a young boy so he was raised with moderate means. 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 much pride to go on welfare or food stamps." Upset about his mother's financial struggles after his parents split, Shia saw a friend when he was watching an episode of the CBS-TV series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. "We used to go surfing a lot, and I just saw him one day on TV, and I was like, 'What! I can do that.'" Shia began by doing stand-up comedy in coffee clubs at the age of nine. His parents helped him with his routine, and then his mother took him to get an agent.
LaBeouf remains close to and financially supports both of his parents. In an interview, LaBeouf said that looking back on his childhood, he feels grateful and considers some of those memories scars.
Education
LaBeouf studied at Alexander Hamilton High School and the 32nd Street Visual and Performing Arts Magnet, with his education largely supported and backed by his tutors themselves.
By his own admission, LaBeouf was booted out of every school he attended (for his notoriously profane mouth and for other reasons), but he more than compensated for this with his professional drive.
He always wanted to seek admission to Yale University but never attended it even after being accepted for admission.
Shia began by doing stand-up comedy in coffee clubs at the age of nine. His parents helped him with his routine, and then his mother took him to get an agent. He continued doing stand-up comedy but began landing larger gigs such as the Los Angeles comedy club The Icehouse and an appearance on The Tonight Show starring Jay Leno.
Unlike most entertainers just starting out, LaBeouf did not have to endure hundreds of disappointing rejections. In fact, on one of his very first auditions he snagged a leading role on a new comedy series on the Disney Channel called Even Stevens, which centered around an upper-middle-class family living in Sacramento, California.
That sitcom concerned the relationship between Louis Stevens (LaBeouf), a silly and goofy teen, and his older sister, Ren (Christy Carlson Romano). The program quickly found an audience on Disney and lasted for several seasons; its popularity spawned a small-screen feature, The Even Stevens Movie, in 2003. The time span of 2002 to 2003 was a busy one for LaBeouf - arguably his breakthrough period. In addition to The Even Stevens Movie, the actor signed on to participate in season two of the controversial Project Greenlight, the Damon and Affleck-created national contest for aspiring indie filmmakers, with its attached HBO reality series of the same name. Thus, at-home viewers had the opportunity to watch LaBeouf, Elden Hensen, Kathleen Quinlan, Amy Smart, and other actors endure the tumultuous production of Efram Potelle and Kyle Rankin's quirky comedy-drama The Battle of Shaker Heights, months prior to that film's release. When the finished film debuted in August of 2003, it did so to generally terrible reviews, but a number of journalists (Roger Ebert among them) singled out LaBeouf's lead performance as something special amid a decidedly flawed film.
That same year, LaBeouf starred in the Andrew Davis-directed Disney fantasy Holes, as a youngster sent to an oddball Texas detention center and forced to dig a series of 5-foot-deep pits in the desert sun for mysterious reasons; it scored with the public and press and became one of the sleeper hits of 2003. And indeed, its success doubtless spurred LaBeouf on to even greater heights, his dramatic ability honed even more sharply by his interaction with co-star Jon Voight (Coming Home), whom LaBeouf would later list as a key professional influence. In late 2004, LaBeouf signed on for the lead in another Disney film, The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005) - a biopic of golfer Francis Ouimet directed by Bill Paxton; the film itself divided critics rather sharply but provided an outstanding showcase for LaBeouf's talents.
The next several years found LaBeouf signing on for several of the most sought-after A-list roles in Hollywood - from director Francis Lawrence's apocalyptic fantasy Constantine (2005), as a demon-slayer fighting alongside Keanu Reeves; to Dito Montiel's A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, as a young man struggling to find a different road out of the ghetto than crime and prison. In 2007, the actor voiced a surfing penguin in the CG-animated comedy Surf's Up and geared up for his role as Sam Witwicky in one of the most hotly anticipated releases of the year, the Michael Bay-directed Transformers - based on the action figures that were rabidly popular in the mid-'80s. At the same time, audiences could catch LaBeouf in Salton Sea-director D.J. Caruso's thriller Disturbia - the tale of a deeply depressed, homebound teen who teams up with a local girl to prove that their next-door neighbor is a much sought-after serial killer.
LaBeouf would continue to ride his popularity surge in the realm of latter-day sequels, playing Harrison Ford's sidekick in 2008's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and young financial exec Jake Moore in 2010's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. Neither film was well-received by audiences or critics, but LaBeouf still had the Transformer's franchise in his pocket, and he'd continue with it for 2009's Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and 2011's Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
n August 2012, Shia announced that he no longer had any interest in doing big blockbuster movies and would only focus on indie films. On that note, he can be seen starring in the 2012 indie films Lawless alongside Tom Hardy and Gary Oldman and The Company You Keep with Robert Redford. Most recently, he starred in the films Nymphomaniac: Volumes I and II (2014), Fury (2014), Man Down (2016), and American Honey (2016). In 2017, he portrayed the legendary tennis player John McEnroe, in the Swedish sports drama Borg vs McEnroe.
In early 2014, LaBeouf began collaborating with British artist and author of The Metamodernist Manifesto, Luke Turner, and Finnish artist Nastja Säde Rönkkö, embarking on a series of actions described by Dazed as "a multi-platform meditation on celebrity and vulnerability". Since then, LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner have engaged in numerous high-profile performance art projects, including #IAMSORRY (2014), #ALLMYMOVIES (2015), #TOUCHMYSOUL (2015), #TAKEMEANYWHERE (2016), and HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US (2017-ongoing).
On February 9, 2014, the artists caused controversy at the Berlin Film Festival when LaBeouf arrived at the red carpet wearing a brown paper bag over his head with the words "I AM NOT FAMOUS ANYMORE" written on it. In a conversation conducted as part of the trio's #INTERVIEW piece in November 2014, LaBeouf said that he was "heartbroken" and "genuinely remorseful and full of shame and guilt" at the start of their subsequent #IAMSORRY performance, in which he occupied a Los Angeles gallery for six days wearing the paper bag and silently crying in front of visitors, but that "in the end I felt cared for however, it came - it was beautiful, it blew me away." He revealed, however, that one woman had proceeded to sexually assault him during the February performance, while Rönkkö and Turner later clarified that they had prevented the assault by intervening as soon as they were aware of the incident starting to occur.
In 2015, LaBeouf appeared in #INTRODUCTIONS, a half-hour video made by LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner in collaboration with Central Saint Martins Fine Art students, comprising a series of short monologues performed by LaBeouf in front of a green screen. One segment in the form of an exaggerated motivational speech, dubbed "Just Do It" after the Nike slogan, became an Internet meme after going viral within days of being released, spawning numerous remixes and parodies, and becoming the most searched for GIF of 2015 according to Google.
LaBeouf became known among younger audiences as Louis Stevens in the Disney Channel series Even Stevens, a role for which LaBeouf received a Young Artist Award nomination in 2001 and won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2003. In 2008, he won a BAFTA Orange Rising Star Award.
LaBeouf's mother is Jewish, and his father, who is of Cajun French descent, is Christian. LaBeouf has described himself as Jewish, and has stated that he was raised around "both sides"; he had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony, and was also baptized in the Angelus church. One of the camps he attended was Christian.
In 2004, LaBeouf contributed an essay to the book I Am Jewish, by Judea Pearl, in which LaBeouf stated that he has a "personal relationship with God that happens to work within the confines of Judaism". He has described himself as Jewish but declared in 2007 that religion had "never made sense" to him. However, in an interview published in Interview magazine in October 2014, LaBeouf stated "I found God doing Fury. I became a Christian man, and not in a fucking bullshit way - in a very real way. I could have just said the prayers that were on the page. But it was a real thing that really saved me".
Regardless of his religious beliefs, Shia chooses to celebrate both Christmas and Hanukkah.
Politics
In 2015, LaBeouf endorsed Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party leadership election. He told London Evening Standard at Soho House Toronto: "I like Jeremy Corbyn. I like him in every way. British politics just got very exciting."
Views
Shia LaBeouf has done charity work with or supported the following charities: Declare Yourself, Hillsong, U.S. Vets, Riders for Helth, and many others. He has raised $10,000 for breast cancer research by wearing pink leggings.
Quotations:
"Talent is funny, I've always looked at talent like, "What the hell does talent really mean?". Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. It's not really anything, it's just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation but the talent is sort of like luck. I wouldn't want to think of myself as talented, it doesn't seem like there's any validity in that. I like to think of myself as an ordinary man with extraordinary determination. That's it."
"My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer; less fun and less money. It's ridiculous. In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore. You can see it in something as simple as where their music was at and where ours is now. If you look at our Billboard Top 100, a lot of those songs on there are from Christian country artists. A lot of rappers, too, are very Christian. The fact that religion is even still talked about is kind of wild to me. I think my generation understands it, but they are too selfish to let it matter."
"Actors live dependent on being validated by other people's opinions. I don't understand what it is I do that people want. I don't know what an actor does. I have no credentials. I don't know what I'm doing. To my mind, talent doesn't really exist. Talent is like a card player's luck. It is motivation, ambition, and luck. It's just a drive to be the best. I think acting is a con game."
Personality
LaBeouf has said that he was drawn to performance art because of his method-acting heroes like Daniel-Day Lewis and Sean Penn. As he said, “I loved the myths I heard about how their performances were created. And I thought, ‘Oh man, it would be great if you could see the process, you’d enjoy the performance a bit more.’”
LaBeouf once publically watched 20 of his movies in a row (from most recent to oldest) in a movie theatre. It was a three-day-long endeavor, and fans were invited to join him along the journey; those who weren’t able to make it could live stream the event.
In 2008, he was booked for driving under the influence after getting into an accident which caused him to have extensive hand surgery which caused delays of Transformers 2. His driver’s license was suspended for a year in January 2009, as a consequence of refusing blood-alcohol-level testing after his car accident in 2008. Following the incident, LaBeouf voluntarily began seeking outpatient treatment for alcoholism, becoming involved in a 12-step program.
On July 8, 2017, around 4 a.m. LaBeouf was arrested in Savannah, Georgia, for public drunkenness, disorderly conduct, and obstruction. In October 2017 LaBeouf was found not guilty on one charge of public intoxication and pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct, for which he was fined $1,000, and will spend 12 months on probation minus time served. He was also required to attend anger management counseling. He has been diagnosed with PTSD.
Physical Characteristics:
LaBeouf has a height of 5 ft 9¼ in or 176 cm, and a weight of 72 kg or 158 pounds. He also has dark brown hair and hazel eyes.
While filming a fight scene in Disturbia, LaBeouf suffered an injury, and still has a scar on his ribs to this day.
Interests
playing the drums
Politicians
Jeremy Corbyn
Writers
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Artists
Nastja Säde Rönkkö, Luke Turner
Sport & Clubs
golf, surfing, basketball
Athletes
Joe Torre
Music & Bands
50 cent, Eminem, Led Zeppelin, Jack Johnson, Ben Folds, System of a Down, D12
Connections
LaBeouf met his co-star and later girlfriend, English actress Mia Goth while filming Nymphomaniac in 2012. On October 10, 2016, LaBeouf and Goth appeared to get married in a Las Vegas ceremony officiated by an Elvis impersonator. Two days later, a local official said that the pair was not legally married, but instead, a commitment ceremony was performed. Later that month, LaBeouf confirmed their nuptials on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. In September 2018, it was announced the couple had separated and filed for divorce.