Logan Lerman

At 32 years old, Logan Lerman has this physical status:

Logan Wade Lerman (born January 19, 1992) is an American actor best known for his role in the fantasy-adventure Percy Jackson films.

He appeared in commercials in the mid-1990s before being cast in the series Jack & Bobby (2004–2005) and Hoot (2006).

Lerman's career has widened since his appearances in The western 3:10 to Yuma, the comedy Meet Bill, and My One and Only, 2009's Gamer.

He appeared in The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), Indignation (2016), and The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2017), and appeared in the 2014 films Noah and Fury. He appeared in the Three Musketeers.

Family background and early life

Lerman was born in Beverly Hills, California. Lisa (née Goldman) is his mother, and Larry Lerman, his father, is a businessman and orthotist. He has an older sister and an older brother.

Lerman is Jewish and attended a Bar Mitzvah service. His grandparents were born in four different countries. Max Lerman, his paternal grandfather, was born in Berlin in 1927 to a Polish Jewish family; they left Germany in the 1930s because of the Nazi era's persecution, and stayed in Shanghai until the end of World War II. Mina (Schwartz), his paternal grandmother, was born in Mexico City to Russian Jewish parents. His maternal grandfather was a Polish Jewish immigrant, and his maternal grandmother was born in Los Angeles, as well as to a Jewish immigrant family. He is a cousin of twin singers Evan and Jaron Lowenstein, who were married on his mother's side.

Although Lerman claims he is a "black sheep" in his household because he is an actor, the majority of his relatives work in the medical field. His family owns and operates an orthotics and prosthetics firm, which was established by his great-grandfather in 1915. He attended Beverly Hills High School. He registered to study creative writing at New York University in 2010, but decided against attending.

Personal life

Lerman, a self-described "film geek," has claimed that he is "shaped by movies" and that he is a "creative person." He has expressed an interest in being involved in "everything that goes into making a film," which includes planning, producing, and directing. Paul Thomas Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, David Fincher, and Peter Bogdanovich are among his favorite films, and he has cited American Beauty, Defending Your Life, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind among his favorites.

"Reserved and quiet," Lerman has said, "a homebody" and "not a huge sports fan."

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Acting career

Since a youth, Lerman had a love for movies but soon began acting "just for fun" and "to do something to get out of school." He began auditioning in the late 1990s and made his first appearance in commercials. In 2000's The Patriot, he made his film debut, portraying William Martin, one of the lead characters' children. He appeared in What Women Want earlier this year. He played the son of the main character in Riding in Cars with Boys in 2001. Although appearing in his first roles as a child, Lerman has stated that he had no "conscious or alert notice of what I was doing or what was happening" and "didn't have a positive experience."

In 2003, Lerman played nine-year-old Luke Chandler in the CBS made-for-television film A Painted House, based on author John Grisham's early life and set in Black Oak, Arkansas, Arkansas in the early 1950s. In 2002, A Painted House was shot in Lepanto and Clarksdale, Mississippi. A Boston Globe story portrayed Lerman as a "promising newcomer," with the Telegraph-Herald commenting on his appearance, saying the actor had been "quietly and effectively played." He was nominated for the Young Artist Award for Outstanding Performance by a Leading Young Actor in a television series and tied for first place with Calum Worthy. Evan Treborn, a seven-year-old character, appeared in the 2004 thriller film The Butterfly Effect, portraying a seven-year-old version of the character Evan Treborn. Lerman was "definitely a child actor to watch," according to the reviewer, who was digitallyOBSESSED.

When he was ten, Lerman had been acting for a "year or so" in the early 2000s. He made a "conscious decision" to enter acting as a career when he was twelve, after being interested in the film making process. In 2004, he was cast in Jack & Bobby, as Robert "Bobby" McCallister, a 12-year-old Missouri teen who was supposed to become President of the United States as an adult. During the 2004–2005 season, the show appeared on The WB Television Network, garnering some good critiques but low ratings, but not much more, and was eventually cancelled. For his appearance, Lerman was nominated for another Young Artist Award, tying for second place with Jack DeSena for the honor. After appearing on the program, Lerman has said he "started serious" about his future. Lerman's appearance had a "blend of vulnerability and awe," according to the Boston Herald's reviewer, who had read "Lerman lends Bobby a bedraggled hope."

Lerman appeared in a motion picture for the first time, playing Roy Eberhardt in the children's adventure Hoot; his character moves to Florida from Montana in the hopes of saving endangered burrowing owls. According to Lerman, the film's message was "you can be any age and make a difference." Hoot began filming in South Florida in July 2005 and received his third Young Artist Award, this time for Best Performance in a Feature Film (2007). Although Lerman's role was "an anomaly in a sea of insipidity," the Washington Post's reviewer disliked Lerman's performance.

In 2007, Lerman appeared in the thriller The Number 23, in which he portrayed Walter Sparrow's son, a man who is obsessed with numerology. In the first version of the story, he appeared in the critically acclaimed western remake 3:10 to Yuma, playing William Evans, a teen who seems to be avoiding his father while shagging his father. Lerman received raves for his work, and he was nominated for the Young Artist Award again – Best Performance in a Feature Film (2008). It was his second year in a row that he had been nominated in that category, but this time he did not win. Today, USA Today said he was one of the film's "greatest supporting players," while Rolling Stone gave Lerman a "shout-out" and Newsday reported that he provides a "credibly precise note."

Lerman appeared in Meet Bill as a teen mentored by Bill in 2008. Meet Bill was shot in 2006, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2007, and released on April 4, 2008. Although the film was uneven, Hollywood.com stated that Lerman "displays a supreme trust." Simon, a teenage gamer who controls one of the characters in a video game, appeared in Gamer in 2009 as a young writer who accompanies his mother and brother on a cross-country tour before finally arriving in Hollywood. Lerman's appeal was described as appealing by Bloomberg's reporter, with Los Angeles Times' Betsy Sharkey stating that the character "captures the ease with which an angry teenager would use a growing vocabulary to wound a parent."

In spring 2009, Lerman appeared in Percy Jackson's Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. The film was shot in 2009 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and it was released in February 2010. When he first received the script, Lerman claimed that he was unfamiliar with the book series. Lerman and his family were still "hobby" before college; his parents were only getting more comfortable with acting as a profession in 2010, the year Percy Jackson's first appearance. Lerman appeared in "Change the Odds," a public service announcement video for the Stand Up to Cancer charity, in August 2010.

Lerman's next film role was d'Artagnan, in director Paul W. Anderson's 3D film version of The Three Musketeers, which was released in the United States on October 21, 2011. Since there was no need to audition, the actor was able to play. He took the role because The Three Musketeers was one of his paternal grandfather's books when he "had to leave his house... as a young child" in the 1930s. The Lerman trained in sword fighting for three months and wore hair extensions to portray d'Artagnan, whom he has described as "the most different person to me" ever played. "Lerman already has done good work... but here is a blank slate," Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune wrote.

Charlie Lerman appeared in a film adaptation of Stephen Chbosky's book The Perks of Being a Wallflower, playing the lead role; production took place in 2011, and the film was released in September 2012. Lerman has referred to the film as a "life epic," and he claims to have been "torturing [himself] for a few months in order to get inside Charlie's head. The film received rave reviews, as did Lerman's appearance. Leonard Maltin said that Lerman and his co-stars are "soulful" and "lift this film above the norm for coming-of-age tales, while Christopher Lemire of the Associated Press said that Lerman "bust[s] out, shows[s] some depth, and shows] that he can really act." Lerman was nominated for several honors, including Best Young Actor/Actress by the Broadcast Film Critics Association, and he was nominated for the Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actor: Drama.

Lou in the independent drama film Stuck in Love; the film was limited to the United States in 2013. Lerman was first confirmed to appear in three Percy Jackson films. In August 2013, Sea of Monsters, the second film in the series, was released.

In the Biblical epic Noah, directed by Darren Aronofsky, Lerman played Ham, the son of prophet Noah. In 2012, filming in New York and Iceland began, and Noah was released on March 28, 2014 to rave reviews. Lerman appeared in David Ayer's World War II-set film Fury; Lerman's role in the film is an American soldier fighting Nazi forces. Filming began in September 2013, and the film was released in October 2014. Fury's critiques were encouraging; Matt Stieb of the San Antonio Current wrote that Lerman "manages to own" opposite co-star Brad Pitt, and Lerman's appearance was referred to as a "great turn" by Oliver Lyttelton of Indiewire.

Marcus Messner, the lead, in Indignation, a follow-up to Philip Roth's 2008 book of the same name directed by James Schamus; his protagonist, Marcus Messner, is a student who faces antisemitism and sexual persecution as a youth in a 1950s Ohio college. In June 2015, filming began. Indignation premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival in 2016 and was theatrically released in July 2016. Both the film's performance and Lerman's performance were highly praised, with Tim Grierson of ScreenDaily writing that Lerman's work "is burgeoning arrogance and skepticism," and "German's role "reveals a lot of emotion, maturity, and symence, as well as revealing glimpses of the film's cynicism." Lerman also appeared as one of the film's executive producers, earning his first appearance in the film.

In Shawn Christensen's film drama The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2017), Lerman played Sidney Hall. He was also an executive producer for the film, which premiered in New York City in April 2016 and opened on January 25, 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

In Sgt, Lerman introduced Robert Conroy, a true-life soldier who served with World War II hero war dog Sergeant Stubby. Stubby: An American Hero, an animated film that was announced on April 13, 2018.

In 2018, Lerman joined Jonah Heidelbaum as the lead in the Amazon Video series Hunters, about a group of Nazi hunters in the 1970s. In February 2020, the show premiered. Lerman appeared in two drama films that were released in mid-2020: End of Sentence, in which he plays an ex-convict who travels with his father to Ireland; and Shirley Jackson, about author Shirley Jackson, in which he plays one half of a young couple staying at Jackson's turbulent home.

From January 2011, Lerman was represented by Creative Artists Agency until September 2017, when he signed with William Morris Endeavor. Lerman co-produced the drama Press Play (2022), alongside his production partner Jonathan Schwartz. He also played a supporting role in the action-thriller Bullet Train earlier this year. Lerman and Jonathan Schwartz were announced executive producers for the forthcoming Sam Taylor-Johnson film Rothko in March 2021.

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