<Tr> <Th> Years active </Th> <Td> 1996--present </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Partner (s) </Th> <Td> Mia Goth (2012--present) </Td> </Tr> <P> Shia Saide LaBeouf (/ ˈʃaɪ. ə ləˈbʌf / (listen); born June 11, 1986) is an American actor, performance artist, and filmmaker . He became known among younger audiences as Louis Stevens in the Disney Channel series Even Stevens, a role for which LaBeouf received a Young Artist Award nomination in 2001 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 Let's Love Hate and later directed a short film titled Maniac (2011), starring American rappers Cage and Kid Cudi . </P> <P> In 2007, LaBeouf starred in the commercially successful films Disturbia and Surf's Up . The same year he was cast in Michael Bay's science fiction film Transformers as Sam Witwicky, the main protagonist of the series . Despite mixed reviews, Transformers was a box office success and one of the highest - grossing 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, the fourth film in the Indiana Jones franchise . His other films include Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), Lawless (2012), The Company You Keep (2012), Nymphomaniac (2013) and Fury (2014). Since 2014, LaBeouf has pursued a variety of public performance art projects with LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner . </P>

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