Shia Saide LaBeouf born June 11 1986 is an American actor performance artist and filmmaker He played Louis Stevens in the Disney Channel series Even Stevens a role for which he received Young Artist Award nominations in 2001 and 2002 and won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2003 He made his film debut in The Christmas Path 1998 In 2004 he made his directorial debut with the short film Lets Love Hate and later directed a short film titled Maniac 2011 starring American rappers Cage and Kid Cudi In 2007 LaBeouf starred in the commercially successful films Disturbia and Surfs Up The same year he was cast in Michael Bays science fiction film Transformers as Sam Witwicky the main protagonist of the series Transformers was a box office success and one of the highestgrossing films of 2007 LaBeouf later appeared in its sequels Transformers Revenge of the Fallen 2009 and Transformers Dark of the Moon 2011 both also box office successes In 2008 he played Henry Mutt Williams Jones III in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull His other credits include the films Holes 2003 Constantine 2005 Wall Street Money Never Sleeps 2010 Lawless 2012 The Company You Keep 2012 Nymphomaniac 2013 Charlie Countryman 2013 Fury 2014 American Honey 2016 Borg vs McEnroe 2017 Honey Boy 2019 The Peanut Butter Falcon 2019 and Pieces of a Woman 2020 Since 2014 LaBeouf has pursued a variety of public performance art projects with LaBeouf Rönkkö Turner