He has said that " grew up on that show" and being cast was the "best thing" that happened to him. In the early 2000s, LaBeouf became known among young audiences after playing Louis Stevens on the Disney Channel weekly program Even Stevens, a role that later earned him a Daytime Emmy Award. LaBeouf has said that he initially became an actor because his family was broke, not because he wanted to pursue an acting career, having originally gotten the idea from a child actor he met who had things he wanted. At age 10, he began performing stand-up at comedy clubs, describing his appeal as having "disgustingly dirty" material and a "50-year-old mouth on the 10-year-old kid." He subsequently found an agent through the Yellow Pages and was taken on after pretending to be his own manager. Prior to acting, LaBeouf practiced comedy around his neighborhood as an "escape" from a hostile environment. Career 1996–2006: Career beginnings and Even Stevens In an interview, LaBeouf said that, looking back on his childhood, he feels grateful and considers some of those memories as scars. He attended 32nd Street Visual and Performing Arts Magnet in Los Angeles ( LAUSD) and Alexander Hamilton High School, although he received most of his education from tutors. LaBeouf remains close to and financially supports both of his parents. LaBeouf's uncle was going to adopt him at one stage because his parents could not afford to have him anymore and "they had too much pride to go on welfare or food stamps." As a way of dealing with his parents' divorce, he would perform for his family, mimicking his father. His parents eventually divorced, mainly owing to financial problems, and LaBeouf had what he has described as a "good childhood", growing up poor in Echo Park with his mother, who worked selling fabrics and brooches. LaBeouf has stated that during his childhood, his father was "on drugs" and was placed in drug rehabilitation for heroin addiction, while LaBeouf's mother was "trying to hold down the fort." LaBeouf has also said he was subjected to verbal and mental abuse by his father, who once pointed a gun at his son during a Vietnam War flashback.
LaBeouf has described his parents as " hippies", his father as "tough as nails and a different breed of man", and his upbringing as similar to a "hippy lifestyle", stating that his parents were "pretty weird people, but they loved me and I loved them." During his childhood, he accompanied his father to meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous. In Hebrew, his first name Shia spells 'gift of God'. One of the camps he attended was Christian. LaBeouf has described himself as Jewish, and has stated that he was raised around "both sides" he had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony, and was also baptized. LaBeouf's mother is Jewish, and his father, who is of Cajun French descent, is Christian.
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His mother is a visual artist, jewelry designer, and former dancer, while his father is a Vietnam War veteran and former professional clown. He is the only child of Shayna Saide and Jeffrey LaBeouf. LaBeouf was born on June 11, 1986, in Los Angeles, California.
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He played Louis Stevens in the Disney Channel series Even Stevens, a role for which he received a Young Artist Award nomination in 2001 and won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2003. ə l ə ˈ b ʌ f/ ( listen) born June 11, 1986) is an American actor, performance artist, and filmmaker.