Sexy Male Celebrities - Shai Labeouf - Movies, Music, Books, Posters, Memorabilia, Biography, Pictures, Reviews & Gossip

Shia LaBeouf is a strong willed and decisive individual, and decided during his younger days, to try and catapult himself into an acting career. There are many tales about how he mustered his charisma to sell himself into an industry already saturated with "teen boys".

LaBeouf read for "Even Stevens" (2000), the Disney Channel television sitcom that shot Shia into the limelight, and individually informed each of the lads waiting to audition that he already had been approved for the role. Most teens left the reading thinking their efforts would be futile. This natural resolve, combined with raw talent and personality, no doubt helped spring LaBeouf directly to the front of Hollywood's hot young young star lists.

Born on June 11, 1986, in Los Angeles, LaBeouf grew up in the region of Echo Park, and was raised in a distinctly lively family of diverse ethnic backgrounds. His Cajun father, Jeffrey LaBeouf, was a war vet who worked a string of small jobs such as circus clown, a snow cone barker, and a stand-up comedian. Shia's Jewish mother, Shayna, worked as a cloths designer and jewelry and gem assembler.

Disturbed by his mom's economic woes after his parents divorced, Shia saw another boy about his age whose financial wealth from his role in "Dr. Quinn Medicine Women" afforded him a lavish lifestyle. LaBeouf soon comprehended the financial rewards for working on camera and, though he didn't have any formal thespian background, saw himself leaping into acting via comedy.

He used a phone book to enlist n manager, then polished comedy routine over the next couple of years, that had him delivering dark comedy monologues to grown-up audiences at a Pasadena comedy club, The Ice House, at the age of thirteen. His unruly behavior got LaBeouf thrown out of every public school he attended, mainly due to his infamously irreverent language, but he more than made up for this with his career aspirations. By the year 2000, he read lines and tried out for the television sitcom, "Even Stevens" on the Disney Network, and grabbed the role of Louis, the devious, yet sophisticated youngest brother in a middle-class family..

That sitcom revolved around the relationship between Louis Stevens (LaBeouf), a childish and crazy teenager, and his older sister, Ren (Christy Carlson Romano). The show swiftly found a loyal following of viewers primarily due to LaBeouf's character, on the Disney Channel, and lasted three seasons. LaBeouf's popularity spun-off the show into a television movie, "The Even Stevens Movie" in 2003. A similar phenomenon happened with Devon Werkeiser and his "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide" in 2007. A similar in concept series, Ned's also spun off a television movie starring Devon Werkeiser as Ned.

The years 2002 and 2003 were demanding for LaBeouf, certainly his coming out period. Along with "The Even Stevens Movie", the young man signed on to partake in season two of the notorious "Project Greenlight", the Matt Damon and Ben Affleck inspired national challenge for wannabe independent movie makers, with its attached HBO reality series promoted under the same moniker. Television viewers had the occasion to see LaBeouf, Elden Hensen, Kathleen Quinlan, Amy Smart, and other actors suffer the chaotic creation of Efram Potelle and Kyle Rankin's eccentric comedy production "The Battle of Shaker Heights", months before to that film's actual release date. When the completed product debuted in August 2003, it received overall nasty reviews, but a number of newspapers singled out LaBeouf's key performance as something extraordinary among a categorically defective film premise.

The same year, LaBeouf starred in the Andrew Davis directed Disney vision "Holes" (2003), as a young teen sent to an nutty Texas confinement center, and required to dig a string of five foot deep pits in the blazing heat for unexplained reasons. The flick scored with the viewers and media and became one of the blockbuster hits of 2003. The movies success no doubt shot LaBeouf into even higher heights, his thespian skill refined even more keen by his relations with Jon Voight (Coming Home). LaBeouf would later name Voight as a major personal influence.

In 2004, LaBeouf accepted another role as the lead in the Disney film, "The Greatest Game Ever Played" (2005), the story of golfer Francis Ouimet directed by Bill Paxton. The film plot split reviews sharply, but allowed a wonderful display of LaBeouf's talents. The next few years had LaBeouf accepting many of the most desired A-list roles in the movie business and Hollywood in general, from the end of the world vision "Constantine" (2005), to a devil killing hero fighting next to Keanu Reeves, then Dito Montiel's "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints", as a immature young man trying to find an easier way out of the slums than crime and detention centers.

In 2007, the actor lent his voice to a surfing penguin in the animated comedy "Surf's Up", and got ready for his portrayal of Sam Witwicky in one of the most intensely expected releases of the year, the Michael Bay directed "Transformers", based on the action figures that were intensely in demand during the mid 1980's, starring Megan Fox.

At the same time, fans could watch LaBeouf in director D.J. Caruso's adventure movie "Disturbia", the story of a deeply unhappy, hose bound teenager who partners with a local girl to show that their next door neighbor is a wanted serial murderer.

Shia finally had grown into his own and was ready for 2008 with a series of nig-budget, big-star film roles starting with "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" (2008), with Harrison Ford and Cate Blanchett, where famed archaeologist/adventurer Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones is called back into action when he becomes entangled in a Soviet plot to uncover the secret behind mysterious artifacts known as the Crystal Skulls. You can watch the Indiana Jones movie trailer, and ongoing news of the production at the StarLink Blog.

Shia was then hired and cast in the drama thriller "Eagle Eye" (2008), with Billy Bob Thornton, about a young slacker and a single mom get tangled up in a terrorist cell plotting a political assassination. Shia LaBeouf finished up 2008 with romantic drama "New York, I Love You" (2008). An anthology film joining several love stories set in one of the most loved cities of the world, New York with appearances by Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Hayden Christensen, Orlando Bloom, Kevin Bacon,

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