Shia LaBeouf

You may now be in the phase where it’s not easy to link a name to a face. On the one hand, her face, increasingly common in recent releases, and on the other, her name, Shia LaBeouf, quite difficult to pronounce, but it sounds more and more familiar. It is to be expected that this will change, not only because of what she has done, but because of what is to come. Looking to the future, Shia LaBeouf confesses that when she started she “was poor and didn’t know anything about acting techniques. All she knew was money and how to get it. My initial motivation was greed.” LaBeouf was born in a poor neighborhood of Los Angeles on June 11, 1986. An only child, his parents divorced and he was left in the care of his mother. When he was little he used to put on small performances in his neighborhood, until he saw a friend in a television series. He was 7 years old then and he decided that he would be an actor. He talked to his mother and together they got down to business. The next day they were already looking for an agent, and soon they were trying their luck in different auditions. At the age of 12 he began his career in film and television. His TV took up most of his time, between series and TV movies. During those years he participated in titles such asSuddenly Susan , X -Files or ER . Over the years, with the assurance of his chosen future, LaBeouf went through the Magnet School of Performing Arts at the University of Southern California.

Five years after his debut as an actor, Disney counted on him to star in The Curse of the Holes (2003). Given his fondness for music, the young LaBeouf jumped at the opportunity to compose “Dig It”, one of the songs on the soundtrack. In his acting side, he had the opportunity to work with Sigourney Weaver and Jon Voight .. Then her life changed. Filled with fantasy and hidden treasures, this Walden Media production drama film opened the doors to a new world. The young actor discovered “the craft behind an interpretation.” As he explains, “Voight became my mentor and opened my eyes to acting technique and how magical it can be.” With another perception about his work, LaBeouf was chosen to star in the family series Even Stevens , of some success in the United States.

His career continued at an almost frantic pace, and the same year the series ended, he appeared as a supporting role in Two Dumb and Dumber (When Harry Met Lloyd) (2003), a prequel comedy directed by the Farrellys. These secondary roles followed one another in Charlie’s Angels. Al límite (2003), an action film where he coincided with Cameron Díaz , Demi Moore , Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu , I, Robot (2004), a science fiction story with Will Smith as the protagonist, or Constantine (2005), a futuristic criminal title with Keanu Reevesto the head. He knew how to intersperse these secondary roles with some protagonist, as happened in The Battle of Shaker Heights (2003), a drama about a young student who lives between the real world and an imaginary world created by himself; or in Game of Honor (2005), a sports drama based on real events with golf as the setting. His concerns led him to get behind the camera in 2004. LaBeouf and his friend Lorenzo Eduardo, with whom he owns a film production company and a hip-hop recording studio, directed the short film Let’s Love Hate . .

Currently he has become a regular on screens thanks to titles like Bobby (2006), a drama that takes place on the day Robert Kennedy was assassinated. This ensemble film enabled him to work alongside a large number of renowned actors such as Anthony Hopkins , Helen Hunt , William H. Macy , Sharon Stone or Martin Sheen . LaBeouf played a somewhat wayward young man committed to the Kennedy cause. The crazy things that he lived with his companion in fatigues became one of the funniest parts of the film. It has pending release Memoirs of Queens , a drama about life in that New York neighborhood. He andRobert Downey Jr. give life to the adolescent and adult version respectively of the main character. His work, shared with the rest of the cast, earned him the best actor award at the Gijón International Film Festival. A group work that was also recognized at the Sundance Festival. He is also about to release the thriller Disturbia , where he is a young “voyeur” who ends up involved in what appears to be the murder of a neighbor.

The various genres that populate his filmography reveal the actor’s fear of being typecast. If it is true that variety is the taste, the future of LaBeouf looks very good. Wait for the premiere of Locos por el surf , an animated film about surfing penguins, where he has lent his voice to the protagonist. However, the highlight lies in Transformers , awarded by MTV before it was released, and in the fourth installment of the adventures of Indiana Jones . If the film version of the robotic dolls that Michael Bay has shot is expected tobe the blockbuster this summer, what to say about the, longed for by many, new installment of the adventurous archaeologist, where LaBeouf will be the son of the hero. If in the first he has coincided again with his beloved Jon Voight, in the second he will work under the orders of Steven Spielberg . It seems that it is only a matter of time before his unpronounceable name becomes part of the most everyday vocabulary, and that yes, without ever forgetting his face.