Shia LaBeouf facts for kids

Shia LaBeouf
LaBeouf at TIFF 2017
Born	Shia Saide LaBeouf June 11, 1986 (1986-06-11) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor social critic performance artist filmmaker
Years active	1996–present
Partner(s)	Mia Goth (2016–2018)

Shia Saide LaBeouf (born June 11, 1986) is an American actor, performance artist, and filmmaker. He 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. He made his film debut in The Christmas Path (1998). In 2004, he made his directorial debut with the short film Let's Love Hate and later directed a short film titled Maniac (2011), starring American rappers Cage and Kid Cudi.

In 2007, LaBeouf starred in the commercially successful films Disturbia and Surf's Up. The same year he was cast in Michael Bay's science fiction film Transformers as Sam Witwicky, the main protagonist of the series. Transformers was a box office success and one of the highest-grossing films of 2007. LaBeouf later appeared in its sequels Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) and Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), both also box office successes. In 2008, he played Henry "Mutt Williams" Jones III in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

His other credits include the films Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), Lawless (2012), The Company You Keep (2012), Fury (2014), American Honey (2016), Borg vs McEnroe (2017), and The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019).

Since 2014, LaBeouf has pursued a variety of public performance art projects with LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner.

Images for kids

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  In June 2009 with co-star Megan Fox at the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen press conference in Paris.

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  LaBeouf at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival

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  LaBeouf in November 2006, promoting Bobby.