Logan Lerman Movies and Career Information

Logan Wade Lerman (born January 19, 1992) is an American actor, best known for playing the title character in the 2010 fantasy-adventure Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. Lerman began appearing in commercials in the mid 1990s, moving to work in feature films and television in the early 2000s, when he starred in the series Jack & Bobby (2004–2005) and the movies The Butterfly Effect (2004) and Hoot (2006). He gained further recognition for his roles in the western 3:10 to Yuma, the thriller The Number 23, and the comedy Meet Bill, as well as his work in the 2009 films Gamer and My One and Only. Lerman was born in Beverly Hills, California. His mother, Lisa (née Goldman), works as his manager, and his father, Larry Lerman, is a businessman. He has two siblings, Lindsey and Lucas, and attended Beverly Hills High School. Lerman is Jewish and grew up in a "stable family background". His family runs the orthotics and prosthetics company Lerman & Son, which was founded by his great-grandfather, Jacob Lerman, in 1915; most of his relatives work in the medical profession. Lerman is a self-described "film geek", having stated that he is "shaped by movies". He has expressed