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Name : Shia Shaide LaBeouf
Date of birth : 11 June 1986
Place of birth : Los Angeles, California, USA
SHIA LABEOUF was born June 11, 1986, in Los Angeles, California, to Jeffrey LaBeouf and Shayna Saide, and is an only child. As a preteen, he decided to get involved in show business when he was watching an episode of the CBS-TV series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and saw a friend. "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. He continued doing stand-up comedy, but began landing larger gigs such as the L.A. comedy club The Icehouse and an appearance on The Tonight Show starring Jay Leno.
In 2000, he auditioned for the part of Louise Stevens in the Disney Channel hit show, Even Stevens. He landed the part, thus, Louis Stevens was born. Hailing from an upper-middle-class family in Sacramento, Louis was not a popular kid, using his smart mouth to get in and out of trouble. He warred constantly with his older sister Ren (Christy Carlson Romano), flirted with schoolmate Tawny Dean, cheated at track, wheeled and dealed and generally learned a lesson each week - a navigational tool for the audience. The very first episode would point to what was to come, Louis exchanging a rare trading card for a date with Ren then having to persuade Ren to fulfil the agreement. His irrepressible prankster Louis was a huge hit, eventually winning LaBeouf a Daytime Emmy, and made the show the first tweenie breakthrough - closely followed by Lizzie McGuire and That's So Raven. The show lasted for 3 seasons and was so popular that it found a home on the small screen with the The Even Stevens Movie, in 2003.
That same year, LaBeouf had his first taste of big screen success with the film adaptation of Louis Sachar novel Holes. He played Stanley Yelnats, a teenage boy who gets wrongly convicted of theft and sent to a juvenile work camp. Jon Voight, Sigourney Weaver, and Tim Blake Nelson played the authorities at the oddly named facility Camp Green Lake since there was no lake and no greenery. For some mysterious reason, the youthful offenders were forced to dig holes in the surrounding desert. The film proved popular with critics as well as young audiences. LaBouf's role s Louise Stevens earned him a Daytime Emmy award for Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series.
Around the same time, LaBeouf had the lead role in the coming-of-age drama, The Battle of Shaker Heights (2003). He also had a small part in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003). Continuing his career in film, LaBeouf landed several supporting roles. He appeared in the sci-fi action drama I, Robot (2004) with Will Smith. The next year, he played Chas, a sidekick to Keanu Reeves's demon hunter in Constantine (2005).
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