PERSON: Shia LaBeuof

Actor

Shia Saide LaBeouf was born June 11, 1986 in Los Angeles, California, to Shayna (Saide) and Jeffrey LaBeouf, and is an only child. His mother is from an Ashkenazi Jewish family, while his father is of Cajun (French) descent. His parents are divorced. He started his career by doing stand-up comedy around places in his neighborhood, such as coffee clubs. One day, he saw a friend of his acting on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993), and wanted to become an actor. Shia and his mother talked it over, and the next day, he started looking for an agent. He searched in the yellow pages, called one up, and did a stand-up routine in front of him. They liked him and signed him, and then he started auditioning. He is well known for playing Louis Stevens in the popular Disney Channel series Even Stevens (1999) and has won a Daytime Emmy Award for his performance. His best known role is as Sam Witwicky, the main protagonist of the blockbuster Transformers (2007) and its sequels Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) and Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011). -- IMDB