Shia Labaff is a promising and charismatic Hollywood actor who in a short period of time managed to appear in several dozen films and the Transformers blockbuster. And in 2008, from the Association of Film Critics, he was awarded the Rising Star Award.
Shia Saeed Lababh was born in 1986 in a family of circus artists. They lived in one of the poorest areas of Los Angeles. When the future actor turned 10 years old, his parents divorced due to the addiction of his father, Jeffrey Labough, to alcohol and drugs. In school, Shia wrote humorous stories that were successful with friends and peers. The teenager was fond of music, along with his friend Lorenzo Eduardo, he created a hip-hop group. But at age 12 he begins to act in films and realizes that this is his vocation. Although even now Labaff is not limited only to cinemas, he is engaged in painting and paints in the avant-garde direction.
First movie roles
The actor’s first roles are children's, on his account work in famous paintings: “Carolina in New York”, “Breakfast with Einstein”, “Touch of an Angel”.
He starred in Season 7 of the X-Files series, and a year later he was given the lead role in the sitcom “Light Up with the Stevens.” In this picture, Shia was busy from 2000 to 2003. And after that, he immediately gets the main role in the drama "The Battle of the Soldier Kelly." This was followed by the role of Lewis in the comedy "Dumb and Dumber: When Harry Met Lloyd" and Max Pitroni in the movie "Charlie's Angels: Just Ahead."
After that, Shia receives secondary, but memorable roles in the film "Treasure", the action movie "I, Robot" and the thriller "Constantine: Lord of Darkness."
The main roles in blockbusters and world fame
In 2007, the film Lababe replenished with the film "Paranoia." The actor plays a young guy imprisoned and watching his neighbors, one of them turns out to be a killer. It is this film that brings the actor worldwide popularity and new serious work. First, he plays in the sequel “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”, and then in “Transformers” and the thriller “On the Hook”. After this, Shia Lababe became one of the most sought-after actors in Hollywood.
The actor works with real legends: Robert Redford in the movie Dirty Games and Michael Douglas in the drama Wall Street: Money Does Not Sleep. There are other pictures in the filmography: "Dangerous Illusion", "Rage", "Nymphomaniac", "American Cutie", "Borg / Manicure", "War", "Falcon from Peanut Paste".
In 2018, Shia tried himself in a new field - he wrote the script for the film "Sugar".
