Logan Lerman
Logan Wade Lerman (born January 19, 1992)[1] is an American actor. He played the title role in the fantasy-adventure Percy Jackson films. He appeared in commercials in the mid-1990s, before starring in the series Jack & Bobby (2004–2005) and the movies The Butterfly Effect (2004) and Hoot (2006). Lerman gained further recognition for his roles in the western 3:10 to Yuma, the thriller The Number 23, the comedy Meet Bill, and 2009's Gamer and My One and Only. He subsequently played d'Artagnan in 2011's The Three Musketeers, starred in the coming-of-age dramas The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), Indignation (2016) and The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2017), and had major roles in the 2014 films Noah and Fury. In 2020, he returned to television with the series Hunters.
Logan Lerman
Actor
2000–present
Ana Corrigan (2019–present; engaged)
Family background and early life
Lerman was born in Beverly Hills, California.[2] His mother, Lisa (née Goldman), works as his manager, and his father, Larry Lerman, is a businessman and orthotist.[3][4] He has an older sister and an older brother.[5][6][7]
Lerman is Jewish,[8][9][10] and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.[11][12][13] His grandparents were born in four different countries. His paternal grandfather, Max Lerman, was born in Berlin, in 1927, to a Polish Jewish family; they left Germany in the 1930s because of the Nazi regime, and lived in Shanghai until the end of World War II.[14][15] His paternal grandmother, Mina (née Schwartz), was born in Mexico City, to Russian Jewish parents.[15][16][17][18] His maternal grandfather was a Polish Jewish immigrant, and his maternal grandmother was born in Los Angeles, also to a Jewish immigrant family.[14] On his mother's side he is a relative, by marriage, of twin singers Evan and Jaron Lowenstein.[19][20]
Lerman has stated that he is a "black sheep" in his household because he is an actor, while most of his relatives work in the medical profession.[21] His family owns and operates an orthotics and prosthetics company which was founded by his great-grandfather in 1915.[4][22] He attended Beverly Hills High School.[23][24] In 2010, he applied to study creative writing at New York University, but postponed his attendance.[25]
Acting career
Early work
Lerman had a passion for movies from a young age, though he started acting "just for fun" and "to do something to get out of school".[26] He began auditioning for roles in the late 1990s, and first appeared in commercials.[27][28] He made his film debut in 2000's The Patriot, playing William Martin, one of the lead character's children. The same year, he appeared in What Women Want. In 2001's Riding in Cars with Boys, he played the son of the main character. Lerman has stated that while appearing in his earliest roles as a child, he did not have "any conscious awareness of what I was doing or what was going on"[26] and "didn't have a good experience".[6]
Other work
Lerman is a friend of actor Dean Collins,[106] who played his best friend on Jack & Bobby; they remained close after the series' cancellation, and worked together again on Hoot, where Collins had a supporting role. In their spare time, the two collaborated on comedic short films. As well as acting, they wrote, directed, and shot the videos, often enlisting the help of family and friends. The shorts were uploaded to YouTube under the joint account name of "monkeynuts1069".[107]
In 2006, Collins and Lerman formed a band, Indigo, along with musician Daniel Pashman; Collins sang lead vocals, Lerman played keyboard and guitar, and Pashman played the drums.[4] In 2011, Lerman stated that Indigo is "not a serious band right now",[108] and that music is his biggest passion after film.[6] He plays the piano[41] and is a fan of movie music compositions.[26] Lerman also writes and creates loglines for stories.[6]
BlackBook magazine wrote that Lerman "aspires to be the head of a [film] studio one day".[109]
Personal life
Lerman is a self-described "film geek", and has said that he is "shaped by movies",[60][55] and that he is a "creative person".[55] He has expressed an interest in being involved in "everything that goes into making a film", including wanting to write, produce, and direct.[23][25] His favorite directors include Paul Thomas Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, David Fincher and Peter Bogdanovich,[25] and he has cited American Beauty, Defending Your Life and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as being among his favorite films.[55]
Lerman has described himself as "reserved and quiet", "a homebody",[26] and "not a big fan of sports".[110]
In November 2023, Lerman announced his engagement to his longtime girlfriend Ana Corrigan.[111]