Birthdate: September 20, 2002 (23 Years Old)
Birthplace: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Gabriel LaBelle is an actor cast by
Steven Spielberg (and beating out over 2000 other young actors) to play a fictionalized version of his young self, named Sammy Fabelman, in his mainly autobiographical drama,
The Fabelmans (2022), starring
Michelle Williams,
Paul Dano,
Seth Rogen, and Judd Hirsch, and winner of the
Toronto Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award.
LaBelle had his on-screen debut in an episode of the Canadian series
Motive (2013), with his father Rob serving as producer. LaBelle’s first feature roles were in the
Warner Bros. kids’ movie,
Max 2: White House Hero (2017), and writer-director Peter Ricq’s Canadian indie horror-comedy,
Dead Shack (2017), premiering at the Vancouver and Fantasia Film Festivals. LaBelle won the TIFF Rising Star Award at the 2022 Toronto Film Festival for
The Fabelmans.
LaBelle starred in writer-director Adam Rehmeier’s comedy-romance,
The Snack Shack (date to be announced), with David Costabile and Mika Abdalla. LaBelle then portrayed
Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels in the lead role in director/co-writer/producer Jason Reitman’s ensemble comedy-drama for Columbia Pictures-Reitman/Kenan Productions,
Saturday Night (2024), co-starring Rachel Sennott, Cory Michael Smith, Ella Hunt, Dylan O’Brien, Emily Fairn, Lamorne Morris, Finn Wolfhard, Nicholas Braun, Willem Dafoe, Matthew Rhys and J.K. Simmons, premiering at the Telluride Film Festival and released by
Sony Pictures Releasing.