Logan Lerman
Template:Short description Template:Pp-move Template:Pp-blp Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox person Logan Wade Lerman (born January 19, 1992)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> is an American actor. 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 playing the title character in the Percy Jackson film series (2010–2013) and d'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers (2011), as well as for starring in the coming-of-age drama The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012). He had major roles in the films Noah (2014), Fury (2014) and Indignation (2016), and returned to television with the thriller series Hunters (2020–2023).
Early life and backgroundEdit
Lerman was born in Beverly Hills, California.<ref name="cwd1">Template:Cite news</ref> His mother, Lisa (née Goldman), works as his manager, and his father, Larry Lerman, is a businessman and orthotist.<ref name="peoplemagazine">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="bravomagazine">Template:Cite magazine</ref> He has an older sister and an older brother.<ref name="officialsite">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="daman1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="glamour2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Lerman is Jewish,<ref name="vart1"/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="rantm">Template:Cite news partially translated into English at Template:Usurped</ref><ref name="newz2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref name="newz1">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="npfefferman2016">Template:Cite news</ref> His paternal grandmother, Mina (née Schwartz), was born in Mexico City, to Russian Jewish parents.<ref name="npfefferman2016"/><ref name="mexref1">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="mexref2">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His maternal grandfather was a Polish Jewish immigrant, and his maternal grandmother was born in Los Angeles, also to a Jewish immigrant family.<ref name="newz1"/> On his mother's side he is a relative, by marriage, of twin singers Evan and Jaron Lowenstein.<ref name="imdbref1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>His maternal grandmother's father was president of the B'nai B'rith lodge in Los Feliz, California; Template:Cite news</ref>
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.<ref name="teenvogue">Template:Cite journal</ref> His family owns and operates an orthotics and prosthetics company which was founded by his great-grandfather in 1915.<ref name="bravomagazine"/><ref name="lerman&son">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He attended Beverly Hills High School.<ref name="yte">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="sbernhard">Stated on Logan Lerman | Indignation, radio program Sandyland, with Sandra Bernhard, on Radio Andy, Ch. 102, Sirius XM Holdings, July 27, 2016</ref> In 2010, he applied to study creative writing at New York University, but postponed his attendance.<ref name="blackbookmagazine"/>
Acting careerEdit
Early workEdit
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".<ref name="rte1">Template:Cite news</ref> He began auditioning for roles in the late 1990s, and first appeared in commercials.<ref name="usatoday">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="aeeht">Template:Cite news</ref> 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"<ref name="rte1"/> and "didn't have a good experience".<ref name="daman1"/>
In 2003, Lerman played nine-year-old Luke Chandler in the CBS made-for-television film A Painted House, based on the early life of author John Grisham and set in Black Oak, Arkansas in the early 1950s. A Painted House was filmed in Lepanto and Clarksdale, Mississippi, in 2002.<ref name="emkroweeht">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="taillieht">Template:Cite news</ref> A review in the Boston Globe described Lerman as a "promising newcomer",<ref name="otebo">Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref> with the Telegraph-Herald commenting on the character having been "quietly and effectively played".<ref name="dlahpaeht">Template:Cite news</ref> For the role, he was nominated for the Young Artist Award for Best Performance by a Leading Young Actor in a television production, and tied with Calum Worthy for the win.<ref name="youngartist4">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He next appeared in the 2004 thriller film The Butterfly Effect, portraying a seven-year-old version of character Evan Treborn.<ref name="dallasobs">Template:Cite news</ref> digitallyOBSESSED's reviewer described Lerman as "definitely a child actor to watch".<ref name="dell">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Lerman had quit acting for a "year or so" in the early 2000s, when he was ten.<ref name="daman1"/> He made a "conscious decision" to embrace acting as a profession when he was twelve, having developed an interest in the filmmaking process.<ref name="rte1"/> In 2004, he was cast in the television series Jack & Bobby, playing one of the title roles, Robert "Bobby" McCallister, a 12-year-old "extremely bright social misfit"<ref name="tomla">Template:Cite news</ref> in Missouri who was destined to become President of the United States as an adult. The show ran on The WB Television Network during the 2004–2005 season, receiving some positive reviews but low ratings,<ref name="edet">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="lanyli">Template:Cite news</ref> and was subsequently canceled. Lerman was nominated for another Young Artist Award for his performance, tying with Jack DeSena for the win.<ref name="teenhol1">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="youngartist3">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Lerman has stated that he "started taking things seriously" about his career after appearing on the show.<ref name="ref091">Template:Cite news</ref> The Boston HeraldTemplate:'s reviewer mentioned that Lerman's performance had a "blend of vulnerability and strength",<ref name="dlanot2">Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref> while Entertainment WeeklyTemplate:'s reviewer had noted that "Lerman lends Bobby a bedraggled optimism".<ref name="lte">Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Continuing his film work, Lerman had his first starring role in a motion picture, playing Roy Eberhardt in the children's adventure Hoot; his character moves to Florida from Montana and attempts to save endangered burrowing owls. Lerman stated that the film's message is "that you can be any age and make a difference".<ref name="teenhol1"/> Hoot began filming in July 2005 in South Florida, opened on May 5, 2006, and won him a third Young Artist Award, this time for Best Performance in a Feature Film – Leading Young Actor (2007).<ref name="youngartist2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Washington PostTemplate:'s reviewer commented that "Lerman shows some life as Roy", though his role was "an anomaly in a sea of insipidity",<ref name="tooteht">Template:Cite news</ref> while the San Francisco ChronicleTemplate:'s reviewer disliked Lerman's performance.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In 2007, Lerman appeared in the thriller The Number 23, in which he played the son of Walter Sparrow, a man who becomes obsessed with numerology. That year, he also appeared in the critically acclaimed western remake 3:10 to Yuma, playing William Evans, a teenager who looks up to criminal Ben Wade while shunning his father; Lerman's character did not exist in the original version of the story. Lerman received positive reviews for his work,<ref name="oioiital">Template:Cite news</ref> and was again nominated for the Young Artist Award – Best Performance in a Feature Film – Leading Young Actor (2008). It was the second consecutive year he received a nomination in that category, although this time he did not win.<ref name="youngartist">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="tvguide">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> USA Today stated that he was among the film's "best supporting players",<ref name="adotasu">Template:Cite news</ref> while Rolling Stone gave Lerman a "shout-out"<ref name="ogi">Template:Cite magazine</ref> and Newsday stated that he delivers a "credibly explicit note".<ref name="newsd2">Template:Cite news</ref>
In 2008, Lerman co-starred in the comedy Meet Bill, as a teenager mentored by Bill. Meet Bill was filmed in 2006, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2007, and received a theatrical release on April 4, 2008. Hollywood.com stated that, though the film was uneven, Lerman "displays a supreme confidence".<ref name="mocdoo">Template:Cite news</ref> In 2009, he appeared in the science fiction film Gamer, as Simon, a teenage gamer who controls one of the characters in a video game played with live human subjects<ref name="mot">Template:Cite news</ref> Also that year, Lerman had a leading role in the comedy My One and Only, playing a teenage character based on actor George Hamilton – depicted as an aspiring writer who, after his parents split, accompanies his mother and brother on a cross-country trip, eventually arriving in Hollywood.<ref name="spcn" /><ref name="egab">Template:Cite news</ref> Bloomberg's reviewer described Lerman as appealing,<ref name="gre">Template:Cite news</ref> with the Los Angeles TimesTemplate:' Betsy Sharkey stating that the character "captures the ease with which an angry teen will use a growing vocabulary to wound a parent".<ref name="semitsel">Template:Cite news</ref>
Percy Jackson to presentEdit
In spring 2009, Lerman was cast in the lead role as Percy Jackson in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The movie was filmed in 2009 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and was released in February 2010. Lerman has stated that he was not familiar with the book series when he received the script.<ref name="aulgr"/> During his teenage years, Lerman and his family had viewed his acting work as just a "hobby" before college; his parents had only become more comfortable with acting as a career in 2010, the year of Percy JacksonTemplate:'s release.<ref name="daman1"/> In August 2010, Lerman appeared in "Change the Odds", a public service announcement video for the Stand Up to Cancer charity.<ref name="eriw">Template:Cite news</ref>
Lerman's next role was d'Artagnan, in director Paul W. S. Anderson's 3D film version of The Three Musketeers, which was released in the U.S. on October 21, 2011.<ref name="threemus">Template:Cite news</ref> Lerman was cast in the role without having to audition.<ref name="mtvbun">Template:Cite news</ref> He took the role because The Three Musketeers was one of the only books his paternal grandfather had taken with him when he "had to leave his home... as a young kid", in the 1930s.<ref name="oystref1">Template:Cite magazine</ref> Lerman trained in sword fighting for three months and wore hair extensions to portray d'Artagnan, whom he has described as "the most different character to me that I've ever played".<ref name="rte1"/><ref name="amethg">Template:Cite news</ref> The film received negative reviews, with Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune writing that "Lerman already has done solid work... but he's a blank slate here".<ref name="michphil1">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="rotten1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Lerman starred in a film adaptation of Stephen Chbosky's novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower, playing the lead role, Charlie; filming took place in 2011, and the movie was released in September 2012.<ref name="ape">Template:Cite news</ref> Lerman has described the film as a "life epic", and stated that he had been "torturing [himself] for... a few months in order to get inside Charlie's head".<ref name="rte1"/> The movie received positive reviews, as did Lerman's performance. Leonard Maltin wrote that Lerman and his co-stars are "soulful", and "lift this film above the norm for coming-of-age stories",<ref name="rtperk">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> while Christy Lemire of the Associated Press wrote that, by the film's end, Lerman "bust[s] out, show[s] some range and reveal[s] he can really, truly act".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> For his performance, Lerman was nominated for several awards, including Best Young Actor/Actress by the Broadcast Film Critics Association, and won a Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actor: Drama.<ref name="broadc1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Lerman played Lou in the independent drama film Stuck in Love; the film received a limited U.S. release in 2013.<ref name="enswra1">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="enswra2">Template:Cite news</ref> Lerman had initially been signed to appear in three Percy Jackson films.<ref name="aulgr"/><ref name="popstarref">Template:Cite news</ref> The second film in the series, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, was released in August 2013,<ref name="dahor1">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="onlocv11">Template:Cite news</ref> although no further films in the series have since been produced.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Lerman played Ham, the son of prophet Noah, in the Biblical epic Noah, directed by Darren Aronofsky.<ref name="lend1">Template:Cite news</ref> Filming took place in 2012, in New York and Iceland, and Noah was released on March 28, 2014, to positive reviews.<ref name="bvarjun">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="wastjm">Template:Cite news</ref> Lerman next starred in David Ayer's World War II-set film, Fury; in the film, Lerman's character is an American soldier fighting Nazi forces.<ref name="cstref1">Template:Cite news</ref> Filming began in September 2013, and the movie received an October 2014 release.<ref name="furyref1">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="furyref2">Template:Cite magazine</ref> Reviews for Fury were positive;<ref name="furyrev1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Matt Stieb of the San Antonio Current wrote that Lerman "manages to hold his own" opposite co-star Brad Pitt,<ref name="furyrev3">Template:Cite news</ref> and Lerman's performance was described as a "great turn" by Oliver Lyttelton of Indiewire.<ref name="furyrev4">Template:Cite news</ref>
Lerman played the lead, Marcus Messner, in Indignation, an adaptation of Philip Roth's 2008 novel of the same name, directed by James Schamus; his character is a student who faces antisemitism and sexual repression while coming of age at a 1950s Ohio college.<ref name="indigref1">Template:Cite news</ref> Filming began in June 2015. Indignation premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, and was theatrically released in July 2016. It received positive reviews for both the film itself and Lerman's performance, with Tim Grierson of ScreenDaily writing that Lerman's work "seethes with his character's burgeoning arrogance and cynicism", and David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter stating that Lerman gives "a performance of tremendous focus, maturity and depth of feeling, with exciting flashes of the umbrage that gives the film its title".<ref name="screend1">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="hwodrep1">Template:Cite news</ref> Lerman also served as one of the film's executive producers, receiving his first such credit.<ref name="screend1" /><ref name=holrepref1>Template:Cite news</ref>
Lerman played the Sidney Hall in Shawn Christensen's feature drama The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2017).<ref name="SidneyHall">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was also an executive producer for the film, which began production in New York City in April 2016,<ref name="SidneyHallEP">Template:Cite magazine</ref> and premiered on January 25, at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.<ref name="Sundance2017">Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Lerman voiced Robert Conroy, a real-life soldier who worked with World War I hero war dog Sergeant Stubby, in Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero, an animated film which was released on April 13, 2018.<ref name="colledenq">Template:Cite news</ref>
In 2018, Lerman signed to star as lead Jonah Heidelbaum in the Amazon Video series Hunters, about a group of Nazi hunters in the 1970s. The show premiered in February 2020.<ref name="thehunt1">Template:Cite magazine</ref> Lerman also starred 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;<ref name="endofs1">Template:Cite magazine</ref> and Shirley, about author Shirley Jackson, in which he plays one half of a young couple staying in Jackson's unstable household.
Lerman was represented by Creative Artists Agency from January 2011 until September 2017, when he signed with William Morris Endeavor.<ref name="dooei">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Lerman has had a starring role in the Amazon Prime series Hunters since 2020.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He had a role in the biographical drama Shirley (2020).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Lerman co-produced the drama Press Play (2022), alongside his producing partner Jonathan Schwartz.<ref name="pressplay">Template:Cite magazine</ref> Also that year, he had a supporting role in the action-thriller Bullet Train.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In June 2023, Lerman and Schwartz were announced as producers alongside Andrea Iervolino & Monika Bacardi on the Hollywood thriller Skincare, directed by Austin Peters.<ref name="skincare">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Other workEdit
Lerman is a friend of actor Dean Collins,<ref name="tvguide07">Template:Cite news</ref> 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".<ref name="teenvoguereference2">Template:Cite journal</ref>
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.<ref name="bravomagazine"/> In 2011, Lerman stated that Indigo is "not a serious band right now",<ref name="status1">Template:Cite news Template:Dead link</ref> and that music is his biggest passion after film.<ref name="daman1"/> He plays the piano<ref name="ref091"/> and is a fan of movie music compositions.<ref name="rte1"/> Lerman also writes and creates loglines for stories.<ref name="daman1"/>
BlackBook magazine wrote that Lerman "aspires to be the head of a [film] studio one day".<ref name="blackb1">Template:Cite news</ref>
Personal lifeEdit
Lerman is a self-described "film geek", and has said that he is "shaped by movies",<ref name="aulgr">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="spcn" /> and that he is a "creative person".<ref name="spcn">Template:Cite news</ref> He has expressed an interest in being involved in "everything that goes into making a film", including wanting to write, produce, and direct.<ref name="yte" /><ref name="blackbookmagazine">Template:Cite news</ref> His favorite directors include Paul Thomas Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, David Fincher and Peter Bogdanovich,<ref name="blackbookmagazine"/> and he has cited American Beauty, Defending Your Life and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as being among his favorite films.<ref name="spcn" />
Lerman has described himself as "reserved and quiet", "a homebody",<ref name="rte1"/> and "not a big fan of sports".<ref name="glamour">Template:Cite news</ref>
In November 2023, Lerman announced his engagement to his longtime girlfriend Ana Corrigan.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
FilmographyEdit
FilmEdit
TelevisionEdit
| Year | Title | Role | Notes and awards | |
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| 2003 | The Flannerys | Television film | ||
| A Painted House | Luke Chandler | Television film Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Movie, Miniseries or Special – Leading Young Actor Template:Small<ref name="youngartist4"/> | ||
| 10-8: Officers on Duty | Bobby Justo | Episode: "Badlands" | ||
| 2004–2005 | Jack & Bobby | Bobby McCallister | Main role Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Series (Comedy or Drama) – Leading Young Actor Template:Small<ref name="youngartist3"/> | |
| 2020–2023 | Hunters | Jonah Heidelbaum | Main role | |
| 2024 | We Were The Lucky Ones | Addy<ref>'We Were The Lucky Ones' Trailer: Joey King & Logan Lerman Flee The Nazis In Hulu Limited Series</ref> | Main role Nominated – Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Movie/Miniseries<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |
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