Shia LaBeouf

Ohlalalala. what a handsome boy. I think he is our next superstar. So cute it takes your breath away.

LaBeouf was born in Los Angeles, California, the only child of Shayna, a dancer and ballerina turned visual artist and clothing/jewelry designer, and Jeffrey Craig LaBeouf, a Vietnam War veteran who "drifted" from job to job, working as a mime at a circus and as a rodeo clown. Shia LaBeouf's New York-born mother is Jewish and his father is a Cajun. LaBeouf was raised in the Jewish religion and had a Bar Mitzvah. Shia's is Hebrew for "gift from God".

LaBeouf attended 32nd Street Visual and Performing Arts Magnet school in Los Angeles and Alexander Hamilton High School, although he received most of his education from tutors.

He became well known among young audiences after playing Louis Stevens in the Disney Channel weekly program Even Stevens. LaBeouf also appeared in the Disney Channel hit True Confessions, where he played a mentally challenged kid with a sister who made a documentary about his disability.He was awarded a Daytime Emmy Award for that role.

During this time period, LaBeouf also appeared in sketch shows on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. In 2003, he appeared in another Disney production, Holes, as Stanley "Caveman" Yelnats IV, opposite Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight and Tim Blake Nelson. While filming Holes, Voight gave LaBeouf a book on acting, and this made LaBeouf realize acting could be more than a job.The film was a moderate box office success. Steven Spielberg was also a fan of LaBeouf in Holes, saying he reminded him of a young Tom Hanks.

a few years later (and with many amazing movies behind him):in February 2008 he was awarded the BAFTA Orange Rising Star Award, which was voted for by the British general public.Impressed by his performance in Transformers(played teenager Sam Witwicky, who becomes involved in the Autobot-Decepticon war on Earth), in April 2007 Spielberg cast LaBeouf in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which began filming that year and had its premier May 22, 2008. His next film is Eagle Eye, a thriller directed by D. J. Caruso scheduled for an October 2008 release.He has also signed on for two Transformers sequels.

the images here are courtesy of GQ.

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