Logan Lerman Biography

Born on January 19, 1992, to Jewish parents Lisa Goldman and Larry Lerman in Beverly Hills, California, Logan Wade Lerman is the youngest child in the family. He has a sister Lindsey and a brother named Lucas who is also an actor. Logan’s mother works as his manager and his father is a businessperson and an orthotist. His family also owns a prosthetics company which his great-grandfather Jacob Lerman founded in 1915. The company is named Lerman& Son.

He is a Jewish. He attended Hebrew School and has had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony in a conservative Jewish synagogue. He is of German, Polish, Mexican and Russian heritage and of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. His paternal grandfather Max Lerman was a Polish Jewish born in Berlin, Germany. His paternal grandmother, Mina Shwartz was a Russian Jewish born in Mexico City, Mexico. His maternal grandfather was Polish Jewish immigrant while his grandmother was born in Los Angeles in a Jewish family.

Logan Lerman is distantly related to twin singers Ewan and Jaron Lowenstein.

As a child, he attended Beverly Hills High School. He had applied and got accepted in the New York University in 2010, to study creative writing, but he postponed his attendance.

Logan Lerman always had a penchant for acting and describes himself as a film buff. By the time he was two and half years old, he had already expressed his desire to become an actor after watching a Jackie Chan movie.

Logan Lerman played the younger version of Ashton Kutcher’s character Evan Treborn in the 2004 Sci-Fi thriller ‘The Butterfly Effect.’

He then went on to play the role of D’ Artagnan in the 2011 remake of The Three Musketeers based on Alexander Dumas’ work. In 2012-13, he appeared in ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’ and was seen reprising his role as Percy Jackson in ‘Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters.’

In 2014, he appeared in the Biblical film ‘Noah’ which grossed over $100million at the North American Box Office. He was also seen in ‘Fury,’ the critically acclaimed action drama set in the backdrop of World War-II and played one of the soldiers with Brad Pit, Shia LaBeouf and others.

Logan’s first major film was ‘A Painted House’ where he played the protagonist. He played Luke Chandler around whom the whole story revolves. He was just eleven years old then. However, his acting was breathtaking and he was considered as an actor to watch for in the future.

He worked with renowned actors like Emma Watson and Ezra Miller in the 2012 coming of age drama movie ‘The Perks of being a Wall flower’ based on the novel by Stephen Chbosky.

Private Norman Machine Ellison was another great role played by Logan in the 2014 American war movie. He was cast along with Brad Pitt. He received a fair amount of recognition for his role and it was also well appreciated by the critics.

He had formed a band ‘Indigo’ in 2006, with Dean Collins singing the vocals, musician Daniel Pashman playing drums and Logan playing the keyboard and guitar.

He has a desire to become a director and has said that acting has helped him understand the nuances of direction and he will someday become a director.

He has been inspired by filmmakers like Stanley Kuubrick, Paul Thomas Anderson, and David Fincher.

In 2021, Logan Lerman started dating a New York-based artist Analuisa Corrigan. He was also romantically linked to Alexandra Daddario.