Logan Lerman
(25 years old)
19 January 1992
Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
5' 9" (1,75 m)
Also in 2000, he appeared with the same actor (Gibson), this time as the younger version of his character Nick Marshall, in ¿En qué piensan las mujeres? (2000). After a small role in 2001's Los chicos de mi vida (2001), he starred in John Grisham's A Painted House (2003).
Logan played the younger version of Ashton Kutcher's character, Evan, in El efecto mariposa (2004). After making his small screen debut in a guest-starring role in 10-8: Officers on Duty (2003), he stared as Bobby (Robert) McCallister in the WB Network's series Jack & Bobby (2004), where he portrayed a teenager who will be a future president of the United States. After the show's cancellation in 2005, Logan returned to film, starring in the family adventure Pequeños salvajes (2006). The next year, he played the son of Walter Sparrow (Jim Carrey) in the dark thriller El número 23 (2007), and co-starred with Russell Crowe and Christian Bale in the well-reviewed Western remake El tren de las 3:10 (2007). His next two roles were playing a foul-mouthed private school student in the comedy Mi vida es una ruina (2007) and a younger version of actor George Hamilton in the period drama Más vale sola que mal acompañada (2009). Both were independent films that received limited releases. Also in 2009, Logan appeared with Gerard Butler in the R-rated action thriller Gamer (2009), as a teenager who controls Butler's character in a real-life video game.
In 2010, Logan played the title character in the fantasy adventure Percy Jackson y el ladrón del rayo (2010), giving him notice among a wider audience. Subsequently, he starred as D'Artagnan in a remake of Los tres mosqueteros (2011), headlined Las ventajas de ser un marginado (2012), a film adaptation of the 1999 book of the same name, had a supporting role in the independent film Un invierno en la playa (2012), and returned to star in Percy Jackson y el mar de los monstruos (2013). His first 2014 role was in the epic Biblical film Noé (2014), playing one of the title character's sons, Ham; the film grossed over $100 million at the North American box office. Logan next starred with Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Bernthal, and Michael Peña in the World War II-set action drama Corazones de acero (2014); in the film, he played one of several American soldiers engaged in tank combat against the German forces, during the last weeks of the Nazi regime.
Logan will next star as the lead, Marcus Messner, in the 1950s-set drama Indignation(2016), writer-director James Schamus's adaptation of Philip Roth's novel.
When Logan is not working, he likes to play soccer and baseball. He is an LA Lakers fan.
Logan played the younger version of Ashton Kutcher's character, Evan, in El efecto mariposa (2004). After making his small screen debut in a guest-starring role in 10-8: Officers on Duty (2003), he stared as Bobby (Robert) McCallister in the WB Network's series Jack & Bobby (2004), where he portrayed a teenager who will be a future president of the United States. After the show's cancellation in 2005, Logan returned to film, starring in the family adventure Pequeños salvajes (2006). The next year, he played the son of Walter Sparrow (Jim Carrey) in the dark thriller El número 23 (2007), and co-starred with Russell Crowe and Christian Bale in the well-reviewed Western remake El tren de las 3:10 (2007). His next two roles were playing a foul-mouthed private school student in the comedy Mi vida es una ruina (2007) and a younger version of actor George Hamilton in the period drama Más vale sola que mal acompañada (2009). Both were independent films that received limited releases. Also in 2009, Logan appeared with Gerard Butler in the R-rated action thriller Gamer (2009), as a teenager who controls Butler's character in a real-life video game.
In 2010, Logan played the title character in the fantasy adventure Percy Jackson y el ladrón del rayo (2010), giving him notice among a wider audience. Subsequently, he starred as D'Artagnan in a remake of Los tres mosqueteros (2011), headlined Las ventajas de ser un marginado (2012), a film adaptation of the 1999 book of the same name, had a supporting role in the independent film Un invierno en la playa (2012), and returned to star in Percy Jackson y el mar de los monstruos (2013). His first 2014 role was in the epic Biblical film Noé (2014), playing one of the title character's sons, Ham; the film grossed over $100 million at the North American box office. Logan next starred with Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Bernthal, and Michael Peña in the World War II-set action drama Corazones de acero (2014); in the film, he played one of several American soldiers engaged in tank combat against the German forces, during the last weeks of the Nazi regime.
Logan will next star as the lead, Marcus Messner, in the 1950s-set drama Indignation(2016), writer-director James Schamus's adaptation of Philip Roth's novel.
When Logan is not working, he likes to play soccer and baseball. He is an LA Lakers fan.
Logan was born in Beverly Hills, to a Jewish family. His parents are Lisa (Goldman), who works as his manager, and Larry Lerman, an orthotist and businessman. He has two siblings, Lindsey and Lucas, both older. His relatives operate the orthotics and prosthetics company Lerman & Son, which was founded by his great-grandfather, Jacob Lerman. - IMDb Mini Biography By: m leiblfinger
Trade Mark
Blue eyes
Trivia
He announced to his mother at the age of 2 1/2 that he was going to be an actor, after watching a Jackie Chan movie.
Logan is an LA Lakers fan.
Appeared with Mel Gibson twice in 2000, once as his character's son in El patriota (2000) and once as the younger version of his own character in ¿En qué piensan las mujeres?(2000).
Plays soccer and baseball (both team sports) and plans to take tennis lessons.
The Jack & Bobby (2004) theme music is from El patriota (2000), composed by John Williams. Lerman also starred in El patriota (2000); it was his first movie role as Mel Gibson's youngest son.
Is best friends with Dean Collins. The two met on set of Jack & Bobby (2004) and make short films in their free time.
Has two siblings, Lindsey Lerman and Lucas Lerman.
His mother, Lisa (Goldman), works as his manager, and his father, Larry Lerman, is an orthotist and businessman.
His family owns a prosthetics company named Lerman & Son. His great-grandfather, Jacob Lerman, founded the company in 1915.
Logan attended Beverly Hills High School, from which he graduated in 2010. His yearbook quote was "Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you." The line appeared in the opening moments of the 2009 Coen Brothers film Un tipo serio (2009). The film credited the line to Rashi (1040-1105), a medieval Talmudist.
He has stated that his three favorite performances are Edward Norton in El club de la lucha (1999), Kevin Spacey in American Beauty (1999), and Dustin Hoffman in Marathon Man (1976).
Owns two dogs, named Lola and Stella.
Logan attended Hebrew School and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.
Logan is of entirely Ashkenazi Jewish descent. Logan's grandparents were born in 4 different countries. Logan's paternal grandfather, Max Lerman, was born in 1927, in Berlin, Germany, to a Jewish family from Poland. They left Germany in the 1930s, because of the Nazi regime, and lived in Shanghai, China, until the late 1940s (in the 1930s and early 1940s, Shanghai took in Jewish refugees). Logan's paternal grandmother, Mina Schwartz, was born in Mexico City, Mexico, to Russian Jewish immigrant parents, Abraham and Zisla. Logan's maternal grandfather, Jay Goldman, was a Jewish immigrant from Poland. Logan's maternal grandmother, Susan Freeman (originally "Freedman"), was born in Los Angeles, California; Susan's parents, who were raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, were both from Jewish families from Eastern Europe (Russia, Poland, and Lithuania).
Logan has stated that he has been a "film geek" since a young age, with his favorite filmmakers including David Fincher, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Stanley Kubrick.
Logan is a relative, by marriage, of twin singers Evan Lowenstein and Jaron Lowenstein. One of Logan's maternal great-grandfathers, born Louis Abraham Freedman, had a sister named Esther Freedman. Esther's husband, Joseph Winestock, had a sister, Adella Winestock, who was one of Evan and Jaron Lowenstein's maternal great-grandmothers.
One of three actors who has played the son of another actor, then gone on to play a younger version of that same actor's character. The others are Bruno Kirby, who played the son of Richard S. Castellano's character in 'The Super (1973) (TV)', and then the young Clemenza (played by Castellano as an adult) in El padrino: Parte II (1974); and River Phoenix, who played Harrison Ford's character's son in La costa de los mosquitos(1986), and the young Indy (played by Ford as an adult) in Indiana Jones y la última cruzada (1989).
Was considered for the role of Romeo in Romeo y Julieta (2013). Douglas Booth was cast instead.
Was considered for Peter Parker/Spider-Man in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), before the role went to Andrew Garfield. On April 10, 2010, Drew McWeeny of HitFix reported that Logan was "almost 100% locked" in to play the role, a story carried by most film news sites. In both the 2010 and 2015 casting cycles for Spider-Man, no actor reported by film websites as being all-but-confirmed for the role has ever ended up actually cast as Spider-Man. The other actors erroneously reported to have been cast are Jamie Bell (in early June 2010), Josh Hutcherson (on June 30, 2010, one day before the official casting of Andrew Garfield), Dylan O'Brien (in March 2015), and Asa Butterfield (in May 2015).
Personal Quotes
Logan is an LA Lakers fan.
Appeared with Mel Gibson twice in 2000, once as his character's son in El patriota (2000) and once as the younger version of his own character in ¿En qué piensan las mujeres?(2000).
Plays soccer and baseball (both team sports) and plans to take tennis lessons.
The Jack & Bobby (2004) theme music is from El patriota (2000), composed by John Williams. Lerman also starred in El patriota (2000); it was his first movie role as Mel Gibson's youngest son.
Is best friends with Dean Collins. The two met on set of Jack & Bobby (2004) and make short films in their free time.
Has two siblings, Lindsey Lerman and Lucas Lerman.
His mother, Lisa (Goldman), works as his manager, and his father, Larry Lerman, is an orthotist and businessman.
His family owns a prosthetics company named Lerman & Son. His great-grandfather, Jacob Lerman, founded the company in 1915.
Logan attended Beverly Hills High School, from which he graduated in 2010. His yearbook quote was "Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you." The line appeared in the opening moments of the 2009 Coen Brothers film Un tipo serio (2009). The film credited the line to Rashi (1040-1105), a medieval Talmudist.
He has stated that his three favorite performances are Edward Norton in El club de la lucha (1999), Kevin Spacey in American Beauty (1999), and Dustin Hoffman in Marathon Man (1976).
Owns two dogs, named Lola and Stella.
Logan attended Hebrew School and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.
Logan is of entirely Ashkenazi Jewish descent. Logan's grandparents were born in 4 different countries. Logan's paternal grandfather, Max Lerman, was born in 1927, in Berlin, Germany, to a Jewish family from Poland. They left Germany in the 1930s, because of the Nazi regime, and lived in Shanghai, China, until the late 1940s (in the 1930s and early 1940s, Shanghai took in Jewish refugees). Logan's paternal grandmother, Mina Schwartz, was born in Mexico City, Mexico, to Russian Jewish immigrant parents, Abraham and Zisla. Logan's maternal grandfather, Jay Goldman, was a Jewish immigrant from Poland. Logan's maternal grandmother, Susan Freeman (originally "Freedman"), was born in Los Angeles, California; Susan's parents, who were raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, were both from Jewish families from Eastern Europe (Russia, Poland, and Lithuania).
Logan has stated that he has been a "film geek" since a young age, with his favorite filmmakers including David Fincher, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Stanley Kubrick.
Logan is a relative, by marriage, of twin singers Evan Lowenstein and Jaron Lowenstein. One of Logan's maternal great-grandfathers, born Louis Abraham Freedman, had a sister named Esther Freedman. Esther's husband, Joseph Winestock, had a sister, Adella Winestock, who was one of Evan and Jaron Lowenstein's maternal great-grandmothers.
One of three actors who has played the son of another actor, then gone on to play a younger version of that same actor's character. The others are Bruno Kirby, who played the son of Richard S. Castellano's character in 'The Super (1973) (TV)', and then the young Clemenza (played by Castellano as an adult) in El padrino: Parte II (1974); and River Phoenix, who played Harrison Ford's character's son in La costa de los mosquitos(1986), and the young Indy (played by Ford as an adult) in Indiana Jones y la última cruzada (1989).
Was considered for the role of Romeo in Romeo y Julieta (2013). Douglas Booth was cast instead.
Was considered for Peter Parker/Spider-Man in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), before the role went to Andrew Garfield. On April 10, 2010, Drew McWeeny of HitFix reported that Logan was "almost 100% locked" in to play the role, a story carried by most film news sites. In both the 2010 and 2015 casting cycles for Spider-Man, no actor reported by film websites as being all-but-confirmed for the role has ever ended up actually cast as Spider-Man. The other actors erroneously reported to have been cast are Jamie Bell (in early June 2010), Josh Hutcherson (on June 30, 2010, one day before the official casting of Andrew Garfield), Dylan O'Brien (in March 2015), and Asa Butterfield (in May 2015).
Personal Quotes
[about his character in Jack & Bobby (2004)] "The kind of boy few people really understand. He's a bit of a misfit."
I'd much rather play sports with my free time. I also like watching classic movies and watching certain TV shows, like Los Simpson (1989). I'm a big basketball fan too. That would be my sport of choice.
[Portraying a geek is] "Fun. I'm not the kind of guy kids picked on in school, but I've seen it happen. I've never really given much thought to being cool. I don't really think about it one way or the other."
I'm not the kind of guy who got into this to be famous.
The best thing about this is being able to learn from, and act with, your heroes.
I just don't want to repeat the same thing over and over again, so I'm always looking for something that's going to be challenging and make me nervous every time I start a project.
I'm from Los Angeles and acting was accessible. There's always a place to wait in line for an audition and I kind of begged my parents to take me. My mom nurtured my career and helped me climb the ladder. I have had a passion for movies from a young age. I first got interested in acting when I was probably four or five.
Some people don't have an open mind, and when I was traveling to different places I think I found it hard to enjoy things. You know, I come from a great city where there are lots of things happening, and if you end up in a small town where you don't have all those things you can feel the difference. Somewhere along the way, though, I think I learned to appreciate the difference.
They say every year you put off university is like three years if you want to go back. But, for now, this seems like the right path.
I play music. I love learning a new instrument and creating songs; it also goes hand in hand with filmmaking, like creating a feeling and emotion in music to complement a scene. Songwriting, guitar, piano, bass, ukulele, a little bit of violin, a little bit of everything - primarily guitar and piano. It's just a hobby for now, maybe it would turn into a profession someday... who knows.
I've always been able to just go off for a couple of months, shoot a film, go back to school and have my regular life. My family thought it was really important to have that level of normalcy. You kind of need to keep that in order to even tap into a character, let alone be a functioning human being.
[on his similarities to his character in The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)] I guess with his awkwardness and trying to figure things out in that time period and how to socialize and fit in. I guess I wasn't as naive as him, but I definitely had the morals that he had... A lot of situations in the script have actually happened to me in real life, so I just connected with it.
[in speaking humorously with MTV] I'll give you guys a ring as my dating agency... I gotta get off JDate and gotta start moving to MTV for my dating services.
I'd much rather play sports with my free time. I also like watching classic movies and watching certain TV shows, like Los Simpson (1989). I'm a big basketball fan too. That would be my sport of choice.
[Portraying a geek is] "Fun. I'm not the kind of guy kids picked on in school, but I've seen it happen. I've never really given much thought to being cool. I don't really think about it one way or the other."
I'm not the kind of guy who got into this to be famous.
The best thing about this is being able to learn from, and act with, your heroes.
I just don't want to repeat the same thing over and over again, so I'm always looking for something that's going to be challenging and make me nervous every time I start a project.
I'm from Los Angeles and acting was accessible. There's always a place to wait in line for an audition and I kind of begged my parents to take me. My mom nurtured my career and helped me climb the ladder. I have had a passion for movies from a young age. I first got interested in acting when I was probably four or five.
Some people don't have an open mind, and when I was traveling to different places I think I found it hard to enjoy things. You know, I come from a great city where there are lots of things happening, and if you end up in a small town where you don't have all those things you can feel the difference. Somewhere along the way, though, I think I learned to appreciate the difference.
They say every year you put off university is like three years if you want to go back. But, for now, this seems like the right path.
I play music. I love learning a new instrument and creating songs; it also goes hand in hand with filmmaking, like creating a feeling and emotion in music to complement a scene. Songwriting, guitar, piano, bass, ukulele, a little bit of violin, a little bit of everything - primarily guitar and piano. It's just a hobby for now, maybe it would turn into a profession someday... who knows.
I've always been able to just go off for a couple of months, shoot a film, go back to school and have my regular life. My family thought it was really important to have that level of normalcy. You kind of need to keep that in order to even tap into a character, let alone be a functioning human being.
[on his similarities to his character in The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)] I guess with his awkwardness and trying to figure things out in that time period and how to socialize and fit in. I guess I wasn't as naive as him, but I definitely had the morals that he had... A lot of situations in the script have actually happened to me in real life, so I just connected with it.
[in speaking humorously with MTV] I'll give you guys a ring as my dating agency... I gotta get off JDate and gotta start moving to MTV for my dating services.
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