Gabriel LaBelle: 5 Things About The 20-Year-Old Actor Playing A Young Version Of Steven Spielberg In ‘The Fabelmans’

• Gabriel bushed retired thousands of actors to play Sammy Fabelman.
• Gabriel is from Canada.
• Gabriel’s dada is besides successful the acting business.

Gabriel LaBelle is 1 of Hollywood’s astir talented rising stars. The 20-year-old histrion stars in Steven Spielberg’s latest movie The Fabelmans arsenic a quality inspired by the iconic director. With this breakout role, Gabriel has solidified his spot successful Hollywood.

So, who is Gabriel LaBelle? From his household to his enactment with Spielberg, HollywoodLife has rounded up 5 cardinal things you request to cognize astir the standout actor.

Gabriel LaBelle arsenic Sammy Fabelman. (Storyteller Distribution Co.)

1. Gabriel stars arsenic Sammy Fabelman successful The Fabelmans.

Gabriel bushed retired 2,000 actors who submitted tapes for Sammy Fabelman, The Fabelmans casting manager Cindy Tolan told Vulture. Gabriel and Steven got to cognize each different done a bid of Zoom conversations earlier filming started. “I near it to him to determine however overmuch helium wanted to beryllium similar me,” Spielberg told the Los Angeles Times. “He has specified earthy easiness [and is] truthful astatine location successful his ain tegument and you ne'er drawback him acting — oregon successful this case, trying to impersonate me. Above all, I trusted him and didn’t privation to get successful the mode of what I knew helium could bring to the role.”

2. Gabriel’s archetypal relation was successful 2013.

His archetypal onscreen relation was successful the TV bid Motive successful 2013. He besides appeared in iZombie, Brand New Cherry Flavor, and the 2018 movie The Predator. Gabriel’s astir caller relation was successful the Showtime bid American Gigolo.

3. Gabriel is from Canada.

Gabriel grew up successful Vancouver. Despite increasing up successful antithetic generations, Gabriel recovered that helium could subordinate to Spielberg. “There are a batch of similarities I could understand,” the histrion told the Los Angeles Times. “We’re some Jewish; we’re some kids of divorce; we some emotion films. Throughout the film, Sammy is going done a batch of firsts that I’m not truthful acold up of. The position alteration of seeing your parents arsenic radical for the archetypal clip — that’s thing I was caller to arsenic well.”

4. Gabriel’s dada is besides an actor.

Gabriel’s dada is shaper and histrion Rob LaBelle. Rob notably played Wally Weaver successful the 2009 film Watchmen. He precocious appeared successful 2 episodes of the CBS bid So Help Me Todd.

Mateo Zoryan, Steven Spielberg, and Gabriel LaBelle astatine ‘The Fabelmans’ premiere. (Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock)

5. Gabriel is not connected societal media.

Gabriel is staying retired of the societal media fray. Gabriel does not look to person an authoritative Twitter oregon Instagram account. He could person backstage accounts, but helium does not person immoderate verified accounts connected either platform.