Shia LaBeouf: 22 interesting facts

Actor Shia LaBeouf is one of the most ambitious and charismatic people in modern cinema. The young American Jew managed to achieve impressive results in cinema in such a short period of time - he is only 29 years old.

But most of all, everyone remembers the film “Transformers,” where Shia LaBeouf played one of the main roles. The actor’s filmography already includes several dozen famous and sensational films. We'll talk about this in the review.

Shia LaBeouf: biography

Shia LaBeouf was born in 1986, on June 11, in the American city of angels, Los Angeles, into a family of circus actors: Shia's father was a clown, and his mother was a dancer-gymnast. Clowning has haunted the boy since birth, just take his first and last name: LaBeouf is a surname derived from the French word meaning beef chop, and Shia is a Hebrew name that translates from Hebrew as “God’s gift.” The father of the young talent often took a drink of the bottle. Alcohol soon became an addiction that destroyed the family. No matter how hard the father tried to quit drinking, he even attended meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous, to which, by the way, he often took his son, but he never managed to quit drinking. At the age of 10, little Shia was left without a father.

Biography

On the 11th of June 1986, the future actor was born in Los Angeles, California.
Shia's family was extremely unusual, but according to the actor himself, he loves her very much. Shia owes his name to his grandfather, because it was he who came up with the idea of ​​naming the newborn in Hebrew. Moreover, the grandfather approached the choice of name with humor, and in the translation the actor’s name is “Thank God for the beef.” Shaya's parents were rather careless: his father constantly changed jobs and mainly worked as a clown in the circus, and his mother entertained visitors to a local eatery with her dances. In addition, my father was close friends with the “green serpent”; he regularly drank himself into unconsciousness and did inappropriate things. Once he endangered the life of his own son - in a drunken stupor he took out a pistol and put it to the boy’s head. Later he will try to explain his action by saying that war memories came flooding back to him.

The mother could not continue to live with her deadly husband and was determined. She sent her husband for compulsory treatment for addiction, and at that time filed for divorce and took her son. Later, the boy’s uncle helped her in raising Shaya.

Cinema as a way to survive

Shia and her mother lived in the poorest area of ​​Los Angeles. My mother worked as a jewelry seller, for which she received pennies; she could not count on her father’s help. Shia began working at a very early age: he advertised and sold corn flakes, and starred in short student films. His debut as a film actor took place in the late 90s, namely in 1999, in the world famous television series The X-Files, when the young thirteen-year-old LaBeouf played the role of a boy who urgently needed surgery. He liked acting in films more than participating in commercials. It was then that he decided to become an actor, continuing to take roles in TV series and movies by storm.

Shia LaBeouf: 22 interesting facts

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The press wondered for a long time whether Shia and his co-star in the film “Transformers” Megan Fox had an affair, and tired of constant gossip and rumors, the actor decided to dot all the i’s in the middle of last year. The actor admitted that he actually dated the then-unmarried Fox, who decided to briefly break up with Brian Austin Green.

“Listen, you spend six months on set with someone who makes a habit of pretending to be in love with you, and you pretend to be in love with him. I never understood the work/life divide in this situation. But the time I spent with Megan was our thing, and I think you see that chemistry on screen."

2.

Shia wears contact lenses both for beauty and because he has poor eyesight. The actor has three pairs of lenses: blue, green and regular.

3.

So far, Shaya has three tattoos on his body (the first on his wrist is the inscription “1986-2004”, the second on his left shoulder is a paw print, and the third on his left side is a handcuffed hand writing a letter), but he plans to get several more.

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Shia got his unusual name from his comedian grandfather. Many people still can’t pronounce it correctly...

5.

Shia considers himself a sporty person as he loves surfing and cycling.

6.

Shia is Jewish, but he celebrates Christmas as well as Hanukkah.

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The actor admits that he really loves Mexican cuisine and dreams of a girl who could cook delicious Mexican dishes.

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LaBeouf did not grow up in as prosperous a family as it might seem at first glance. Even as a young child, he had to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings only because his father, Jeffrey, suffered from alcohol and drug addictions. The father did not want to leave his son with his mother, so he took him with him.

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Shia's hobby is making independent short films with his friends.

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Shia calls Angelina Jolie's father, Jon Voight, with whom he played in more than one film, his second father and mentor in the acting profession.

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Shia is the only child in the family of a circus clown and a nightclub dancer.

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The actor has size 45 feet.

13.

LaBeouf's favorite pet is bulldog Brando.

14.

LaBeouf's Favorite Actor: Jack Black

15.

Favorite movie: “Dumb and Dumber.”

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Favorite color: red

17.

The actor’s name is translated from Hebrew as “Thank God for Beef.”

18.

He is friends with musician Kid Cudi.

19.

Shia is partial to Hollywood actresses. He dated not only Megan Fox, but also Carey Mulligan, with whom, unfortunately or fortunately, he broke up.

“I still love her. I think she's an amazing person and an incredible actress. We are still friends. But I wouldn’t want to take everything back, and neither would she - let everything go as it goes.”

20.

Shaya's father spent several years in prison for rape.

21.

He is currently dating stylist Caroline Fo.

22.

In one of the interviews, the Transformers star boasted that he beat up his co-star in the film The Drunkest County in the World, Tom Hardy. Shia said that he didn’t like Hardy’s jokes in his direction, as well as his manic passion for expensive cars, which is why he decided that the guy needed to be taught a lesson. LaBeouf added that he emerged victorious from the fight.

“Hardy no longer dared to make rude attacks against me.”

By the way, the film is coming out this year.

First big roles

Everyone has seen at least one movie in which Shia LaBeouf starred. The actor's filmography is a list that includes several dozen famous films. Since 2003, when he made his debut in the big movie “Treasure,” where Sigourney Weaver played the main role, the talented American Jew won the sympathy of the audience “by leaps and bounds.” The actor's real triumph took place a year later. Then seventeen-year-old LaBeouf played in the Disney film “Triumph” a young talented golfer who managed to defeat the eminent champions of a real gentleman’s game. The film was an unprecedented success, which had a positive effect on LaBeouf's fees. By the way, a year later, at the age of eighteen, the young man bought a house.

Famous partners

After several successful roles, a slightly different period began, which was mainly dominated by minor roles played by Shia LaBeouf. The actor’s filmography was replenished with episodic, but bright and memorable roles in the films “I, Robot” with Will Smith, “Constantine” with Keanu Reeves, “Charlie’s Angels 2” with a whole galaxy of famous actresses.

2007 brought the actor the main role in the film Paranoia, based on the Alfred Hitchcock film Rear Window. This role raised the actor’s popularity several more levels. From that moment on, one might say, a “new star” appeared - Shia LaBeouf. Films with his participation were increasingly popular.

However, he gained real sensation and worldwide fame thanks to his collaboration with Michael Bay on his “Transformers”. The box office hit instantly turned the young man into a world star: of course, the teenager can easily walk around with the beautiful Megan Fox, and even participate in the war between people and machines.

Awards and nominations

To date, he has 11 awards and another 38 nominations[23], remaining without victory, in the field of cinema.

The main awards and nominations are listed below.

Awards

• 2006 Sundance Film Festival - Special Jury Prize - Drama for How to Know Your Saints

Nominations

• MTV Movie Awards 2004 - Breakthrough of the Year for “Treasure”
• 2008 — Best Actor for “Transformers”
• 2008 - Best kiss for “Paranoia”
• 2009 — Best Actor for “On the Hook”

Shia LaBeouf: filmography is expanding

After Transformers, many famous directors began to invite him. Thus, the young star received a role in the popular adventure film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which also contributed to the increased demand for the actor in many films around the world. The sequel, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, released in 2009, only strengthened the position of the aspiring actor. Directors began to want Shia LaBeouf to play roles in their films. The films became even more successful.

Some time later, the main role in the film “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” followed. In this film, which tells about the crisis in America, Michael Douglas's partner was Shia LaBeouf, whose photo is presented in our review.

In 2011, the actor had to simultaneously play in the third “Transformers” and prepare for filming in the film “The Drunkest County in the World.” By the way, LaBeouf was the first person the film's director approved for the role. In 2012, the film participated in the Cannes Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Palme d'Or. This brought even more attention to an actor like Shia. The filmography is replenished with new roles. The actor continues to actively act in films, often participating in two films at the same time. But according to the actor himself, this does not tire him. In an interview with one of the famous magazines, he once said that if he had not become an actor, he would most likely have connected his life with the criminal world.

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Work is work, but personal life is no less important!

Interesting appearance, charisma, talent, intelligence and unprecedented success - all this is Shia LaBeouf. The actor’s personal life has become the subject of discussion. A lot of shocking facts also contribute to the increased attention. Perhaps his turbulent, scandalous childhood still influences the world star - Shia constantly finds himself in funny situations: arrests, accidents, alcohol, etc. For example, in 2008, LaBeouf was accused of driving while intoxicated and his driver's license was revoked. The fact is that Shia provoked an accident in which he himself suffered - he injured his hand. Perhaps thanks to the actor’s recklessness, his novels are always eccentric, in full view and only with world celebrities. Among LaBeouf's chosen ones are bright Hollywood stars: Carey Mulligin, Megan Fox. By the way, for quite a long time they tried to convict LaBeouf and Fox of an affair, however, apart from joint photos and infrequent meetings, the world was never able to provide evidence. Consider the famous date with Rihanna, which gave rise to rumors about another romance.

Longest relationship

One of those lucky enough to become Shia's girlfriend was Carolyn Fo. The actor was often seen with her, and not only on walks, but also at official events. But, unfortunately, the fairy tale ended. After which bachelor Shia Labeouf appeared again in front of joyful thousands of fans. The actor's personal life has again attracted attention.

Many reviewers believe that at this pace, he will soon become one of the most famous young actors in Hollywood. Perhaps the future of world cinema lies with actors like Shia LaBeouf. Photos of the wonderful performer of many leading roles adorn not only the posters of premiere films, but also the covers of the most popular men's magazines. After all, from the teenager that viewers once saw him for the first time, he has turned into a handsome and brutal man who attracts the attention of many women.

Shia LaBeouf's Rules of Life

I'm not handsome. But I act in films.

When I got my first big check, I was still driving an old 1986 Volvo. I paid five hundred dollars or so for it, but after I made my first money, I spent probably ten thousand on this car - for the stereo system, TV and other things. I think it was the craziest Volvo in the world, but I just didn't know what to do with the money.

Money has never meant anything to me. I grew up in a trash heap. I'm just a sewer rat that managed to get out.

My family tree is five generations of actors who could not achieve anything.

I grew up in a hippie family. My father was a wanderer trying to get his life back on track after Vietnam, and my mother ran an esoteric store in Brooklyn before she met my father. Mother was completely crazy at the time. The furniture didn't sit on the floor, but hung from the ceiling, and Bob Dylan liked to go in there to smoke a joint.

God blessed me by giving me a shitty childhood.

For a long time I knew almost nothing about my father. He was addicted to drugs, spent time in a hospital for Vietnam veterans, tried to sell drugs, and ended up addicted again.

Drugs have scared me since childhood. When you watch your father succumb to heroin addiction, you're unlikely to ever want to try drugs yourself.

My father loved to watch cowboy films with me. Every time someone on the screen said something poignant or eloquent, my father would press pause, rewind, and watch the moment again. "You heard?" - he asked. “Yes,” I said, and we watched the movie further. This was my childhood.

The only valuable thing my father gave me was pain.

Today there are few roads to coming of age - you can commit a crime, get a woman pregnant or go to war. It is believed that such things make a man out of a child. I grew up with this idea, but it seems to have happened simply because in America there is no rite of passage for a boy to become a man, other than getting his license. But if a person returns from the war, everyone says: “Now you are no longer a boy.” My father told me that when he returned from Vietnam, the whole family said, “Well, Jeff, you're the man.”

Being my parents' only child, I always dreamed of a family like the one in Home Alone.

I remember when I was three and my mother was giving me a bath, she suddenly said: “The day will come when you will definitely meet Steven Spielberg.” And then it happened. I remember Spielberg telling me, “Don’t pick your nose. Tom Cruise never picks his nose in public." And I thought, “I don’t want to be Tom Cruise.”

I don't think a Yale professor could teach me more than Steven Spielberg.

I hope that I never follow the path of Robert De Niro - the path where everything is clear and comfortable. I think this is what the death of an actor looks like. Look at Dustin Hoffman. He is still trying, struggling and tearing. Comfort is the end for him.

I think those who are beautiful are those who constantly reinvent themselves, who live not just one life, but several. They always play like fucking Peter Pan.

A good actor is, first of all, a mystery and a myth. I don't know much about Daniel Day-Lewis and I know almost nothing about Joaquin Phoenix. But they have created many myths about themselves, and this makes them great.

Talent for an actor is like luck for a gambler. It’s not that it doesn’t exist at all, but it seems to me that it’s rather an empty word that’s convenient to stick on like a label. I never believed in talent, because it is the same illusory thing as luck.

I think if you asked an 18-year-old whether he would rather be in Transformers or Von Trier, he would almost certainly choose Transformers. But if you asked a 26-year-old the same question, he would probably say Von Trier.

Haven't you noticed that most critics almost never agree with the audience? I think that says a lot about the critics.

I hate those interviews with Johnny Depp where he talks about not watching his own films. It would be difficult to find a more deceitful modesty.

Everyone must have at least one embarrassing story in their life. I wouldn't want to be the person who doesn't have that story.

In French, labouf is beef. But my last name is misspelled: LaBeouf instead of LaBoeuf. In the 1950s, my grandmother was a beatnik and a lesbian. She hated her family and so decided to change the spelling of her last name. This is how my mother and I got our wrong last names. Now I come to France and people say: “What? You have a mistake in your last name." By the way, "shaya" in French is such a bad D-word, so the literal translation of my name is shitty beef. Very star-like, huh?

In my entire life I have only been kicked out of four hotels.

I could never find a moment to sort out my free time.

I don't enjoy filming films. Ask a flying squirrel if it enjoys flying.

I get scared in those moments when I start to think that I am living a meaningless life.

My generation is much more submissive than all previous ones. For my parents' generation, rebellion was part of pop culture, but sadly that is no longer the case. Just look at what their music was like and what ours has become.

I understand why the divorce rate is constantly increasing in this country. Everyone now has fifty ghost friends on Twitter. Then, when love appears in the life of such a person, it cannot always replace those fifty. Therefore, it seems to me that it is better to buy yourself a fucking helmet and join the Hells Angels (one of the largest motorcycle clubs in the United States - Esquire) than to look for friends on Twitter.

Every time you make a mistake, an adventure begins.

The meaning of life, it seems to me, is to find your purpose and help others do the same.

Tom Hardy gave me the best advice. “You won’t lose anything,” he said, “if you learn something.”

Would I fuck myself? Undoubtedly.