Logan Lerman facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Logan Lerman
Lerman in 2016
Born	Logan Wade Lerman (1992-01-19) January 19, 1992 (age 33) Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Alma mater	Beverly Hills High School
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2000–present
Partner(s)	Ana Corrigan (2019–present; engaged)

Logan Wade Lerman (born January 19, 1992) is an American actor. He started acting in commercials in the mid-1990s. Later, he starred in the TV show Jack & Bobby (2004–2005) and movies like The Butterfly Effect (2004) and Hoot (2006). Logan became very well known for playing the main character in the Percy Jackson film series. He also played d'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers (2011). He appeared in popular coming-of-age movies such as The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), Indignation (2016), and The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2017). Logan also had big roles in the 2014 films Noah and Fury. In 2020, he returned to TV with the series Hunters.

Logan Lerman's Early Life and Family

Logan Lerman was born in Beverly Hills, California. His mother, Lisa, works as his manager. His father, Larry Lerman, is a businessman who makes and fits special braces and artificial body parts (an orthotist). Logan has an older sister and an older brother.

Logan is Jewish. He had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony, which is an important Jewish coming-of-age celebration. His grandparents were born in four different countries. His paternal grandfather was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1927. His family left Germany in the 1930s because of the Nazi regime and lived in Shanghai until World War II ended. His paternal grandmother was born in Mexico City. Logan's maternal grandfather was a Polish Jewish immigrant. His maternal grandmother was born in Los Angeles, also to a Jewish immigrant family.

Logan has said that he is a bit different from his family because he is an actor. Most of his relatives work in the medical field. His family owns a company that makes orthotics and prosthetics. This company was started by his great-grandfather in 1915. Logan went to Beverly Hills High School. In 2010, he planned to study creative writing at New York University, but he decided to wait before attending.

Logan Lerman's Acting Journey

Starting His Acting Career

Logan loved movies from a young age. He started acting "just for fun" and as a way "to get out of school." He began trying out for roles in the late 1990s and first appeared in commercials. His first movie role was in 2000's The Patriot. He played William Martin, one of the main character's children. In the same year, he was in What Women Want. In 2001's Riding in Cars with Boys, he played the son of the main character. Logan has mentioned that when he was a child actor, he didn't fully understand what was happening around him.

Lerman at the premiere of Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief in February 2010

In 2003, Logan played nine-year-old Luke Chandler in a TV movie called A Painted House. This movie was based on the early life of author John Grisham. Critics said Logan was a "promising newcomer." He was nominated for a Young Artist Award for this role and even won, sharing the award with another young actor. Next, he appeared in the 2004 thriller The Butterfly Effect, playing a seven-year-old version of the character Evan Treborn. Reviewers noted him as "definitely a child actor to watch."

Logan stopped acting for about a year when he was ten. He then made a clear choice to become an actor when he was twelve. He had become very interested in how movies are made. In 2004, he got a role in the TV series Jack & Bobby. He played Robert "Bobby" McCallister, a very smart 12-year-old who was meant to become President of the United States as an adult. The show ran for one season. Logan was nominated for another Young Artist Award for his performance and won again. He said that after this show, he started taking his career more seriously.

Logan had his first main role in a movie in Hoot. He played Roy Eberhardt, a character who moves to Florida and tries to save endangered burrowing owls. Logan said the movie's message is that "you can be any age and make a difference." Hoot was filmed in 2005 and released in 2006. Logan won his third Young Artist Award for this role.

Lerman on the set of Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters in May 2012

In 2007, Logan was in the thriller The Number 23, playing the son of a man obsessed with numbers. That same year, he was in the western movie 3:10 to Yuma. He played William Evans, a teenager who looks up to a criminal. Logan received good reviews for his acting and was nominated for another Young Artist Award.

In 2008, Logan co-starred in the comedy Meet Bill. He played a teenager who learns from the character Bill. In 2009, he appeared in the science fiction movie Gamer. He played Simon, a teenage gamer who controls a character in a video game played with real people. Also in 2009, Logan had a main role in the comedy My One and Only. He played a teenage writer who travels across the country with his mother and brother.

From Percy Jackson to Today

In 2009, Logan was chosen to play the main character, Percy Jackson, in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. The movie was filmed in 2009 and came out in February 2010. Logan said he didn't know about the book series before getting the script. When he was a teenager, Logan and his family saw acting as just a "hobby." But after Percy Jackson came out in 2010, his parents became more comfortable with acting as a full-time career. In August 2010, Logan appeared in a video for the Stand Up to Cancer charity, encouraging people to help fight cancer.

Lerman in July 2013

Logan's next big role was d'Artagnan in the 3D movie version of The Three Musketeers, which was released in October 2011. Logan got the role without having to try out. He chose the role because The Three Musketeers was one of the only books his paternal grandfather took with him when he had to leave his home in the 1930s. Logan trained in sword fighting for three months. He described d'Artagnan as "the most different character to me that I've ever played."

Logan starred in the movie The Perks of Being a Wallflower, based on a popular novel. He played the main role, Charlie. Filming happened in 2011, and the movie was released in September 2012. Logan called the film a "life epic." The movie and Logan's performance received positive reviews. Critics said Logan showed great range and could "really, truly act." For his acting, Logan was nominated for several awards and won a Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actor: Drama.

Logan played Lou in the independent movie Stuck in Love, which had a limited release in 2013. Logan was originally signed to appear in three Percy Jackson movies. The second film, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, came out in August 2013. However, no more movies in the series have been made since then.

Logan played Ham, the son of the prophet Noah, in the movie Noah. This film was directed by Darren Aronofsky. Filming took place in 2012, and Noah was released in March 2014 to good reviews. Logan then starred in David Ayer's World War II movie, Fury. In the film, Logan's character is an American soldier fighting Nazi forces. Filming started in September 2013, and the movie was released in October 2014. Reviews for Fury were positive. Critics said Logan "manages to hold his own" next to co-star Brad Pitt.

Lerman at the world premiere of Fury in October 2014

Logan played the main character, Marcus Messner, in Indignation. This movie was based on a novel by Philip Roth. His character is a student who faces challenges while growing up at a college in the 1950s. Filming began in June 2015. Indignation was shown at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and released in theaters in July 2016. Both the movie and Logan's performance received good reviews. Logan also worked as one of the movie's executive producers, which means he helped manage the film's production. This was his first time getting such a credit.

Logan played Sidney Hall in Shawn Christensen's drama The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2017). He was also an executive producer for this film. It started production in New York City in April 2016 and premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

Logan voiced Robert Conroy, a real soldier who worked with the World War I hero war dog Sergeant Stubby, in the animated film Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero. This movie was released on April 13, 2018.

In 2018, Logan signed on to star as Jonah Heidelbaum in the Amazon Video series Hunters. The show is about a group of people who hunt Nazis in the 1970s. The show premiered in February 2020. Logan also starred in two drama films released in mid-2020: End of Sentence, where he plays a former prisoner traveling with his father to Ireland; and Shirley, about author Shirley Jackson. In Shirley, he plays half of a young couple staying in Jackson's unusual home.

Logan has continued to have a starring role in the Amazon Prime series Hunters since 2020. He also had a role in the biographical drama Shirley (2020). In March 2021, Logan and Jonathan Schwartz were announced as executive producers for an upcoming film called Rothko.

Logan co-produced the drama Press Play (2022) with his producing partner Jonathan Schwartz. In the same year, he had a supporting role in the action-thriller Bullet Train. In June 2023, Logan and Schwartz were announced as producers for the thriller Skincare.

Other Creative Work

Logan is good friends with actor Dean Collins, who played his best friend on Jack & Bobby. They stayed close after the show ended and worked together again on Hoot. In their free time, they made funny short films together. They wrote, directed, and filmed these videos, often getting help from family and friends. They uploaded these shorts to YouTube under the name "monkeynuts1069."

In 2006, Collins and Lerman started a band called Indigo with musician Daniel Pashman. Collins sang, Logan played keyboard and guitar, and Pashman played the drums. In 2011, Logan said that Indigo was "not a serious band right now." He also mentioned that music is his biggest passion after film. He plays the piano and loves movie music. Logan also enjoys writing and creating ideas for stories.

BlackBook magazine wrote that Logan "aspires to be the head of a [film] studio one day," meaning he hopes to lead a movie studio in the future.

Logan Lerman's Personal Interests

Logan calls himself a "film geek." He has said that movies have "shaped" him and that he is a "creative person." He is interested in "everything that goes into making a film," including writing, producing, and directing. Some of his favorite directors are Paul Thomas Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, David Fincher, and Peter Bogdanovich. He has also named American Beauty, Defending Your Life, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as some of his favorite movies.

Logan has described himself as "reserved and quiet" and a "homebody." He also says he is "not a big fan of sports."

In November 2023, Logan announced that he got engaged to his longtime girlfriend, Ana Corrigan.

Logan Lerman's Filmography

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