Shia LaBeouf
"I come from five generations of performers... I was acting when I came out of the womb," Shia LaBeouf told the Orange County Register in 2007. He grew up very poor in Los Angeles' Echo Park neighborhood. His father made him a part of the family clown act when he was only two years old. Shia was dressed up and brought along as his dad pushed a hot dog cart in their neighborhood. When Shia was 10, he met a child actor and, envious of the kid's success, decided that he had to get his family out of poverty.
Shia started doing standup comedy that year, performing an incongruously foul-mouthed routine in a Pasadena club. Hungry for more exposure, he called up a talent agent he found in the Yellow Pages and did his act over the phone. He was only 11, but the agent, Teresa Dalhquist, liked what she heard and signed him. She still represents him today.
Within a year, Shia was appearing in guest spots on TV shows like "Suddenly Susan," "Freaks and Geeks" and "The X-Files." Then in 2000, he was cast in a lead role in the Disney Channel series "Even Stevens." The show ran for three seasons and spawned a TV movie, and he won a Daytime Emmy for his work in 2003.
Steven Spielberg saw the 17-year-old Shia in his first theatrical movie, the surprise hit "Holes," and later said Shia reminded him of a young Tom Hanks. The new "Transformers" film is the fifth movie Shia has made with Spielberg, but he tells Parade Magazine that he feels things haven't changed much from being a 2-year-old in a clown costume: "I'm still doing the same hustle now. The only change is that, instead of my dad selling hot dogs from the cart, it's Steven Spielberg selling the hot dogs."
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