Shia Labeouf

Shia Saide LaBeouf (born June 11, 1986) is a Daytime Emmy Award-winning American actor and comedian. After growing up in California, he became known with a starring role in the Disney Channel series Even Stevens. He made the transition to film roles with Holes, a box office success, and has since appeared in several Hollywood films, including Constantine, I, Robot, and The Greatest Game Ever Played.

In 2007, LaBeouf starred in Disturbia, Transformers, and provided voicework in Surf's Up, and is due to appear in 2008's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Several media publications have speculated that LaBeouf, whose screen persona was described by Time magazine as that of the "scrappy kid next door", might become a major film star throughout 2008

LaBeouf bought his own house at the age of eighteen, lives in Burbank, California and remains close to both his parents;^[ his mother now lives nearby in Tujunga, Los Angeles, California and his father in Montana. LaBeouf is a smoker, drives a Nissan Maxima, and has two bulldogs named Brando and Rex. He has said that "sports is so big in my life" and that he is a "film junkie".He enjoys the music of The Shins, CKY, and the hip-hop label Definitive Jux.

LaBeouf has cited actors Dustin Hoffman, Jodie Foster, Jon Voight and John Turturro as inspirations, and has said that he is "very serious" about his career and has made "a calculated effort to stay away from the party scene", believing that "if the industry takes you lightly because you're always partying, then they will take your work lightly as well". Interviewer Jamie Portman of The Vancouver Sun described LaBeouf as seeming to have a "love-hate relationship with the teenage culture that has spawned him".

LaBeouf has said that although he does not devoutly practice Judaism, he has a "personal relationship with God that happens to work within the confines of Judaism".   On November 4, 2007, LaBeouf was arrested for misdemeanor criminal trespassing in a Chicago Walgreens after refusing to leave when asked by a security guard. LaBeouf was due in court on November 28, 2007. The criminal charges were dropped on December 12.