Gabriel LaBelle (born September 2002) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his leading role as young aspiring filmmaker Sammy Fabelman in Steven Spielberg's semi-autobiographical film The Fabelmans (2022), for which he received acclaim and won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer.
LaBelle has also appeared in the action film The Predator (2018) and in the Showtime drama series American Gigolo (2022). In 2024, he starred as producer Lorne Michaels in the biographical film Saturday Night, for which he received a nomination for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.
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Early life and education
LaBelle was born in Vancouver, and is the son of hair stylist Megan LaBelle and producer and character actor Rob LaBelle and younger brother to Angus Labelle. He was raised Jewish.
LaBelle began interest in acting at the age of 8 at a summer camp, playing roles in its musical productions of Footloose, Shrek the Musical and Aladdin. LaBelle made his on-screen acting debut in 2013 on an episode of the Canadian TV series Motive in a guest role, thanks to his father landing his son an agent and being a producer on the show. In 2017, he starred in the indie horror film Dead Shack, which premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival and Fantasia Film Festival.