Logan Lerman

Logan Lerman has said he has been a "film geek" since a young age, naming David Fincher, Paul Thomas Anderson and Stanley Kubrick among his favourite filmmakers.

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In 2000 he appeared alongside Mel Gibson twice: once in The Patriot (2000) as his character's son, and once in What Women Want (2000) as the younger version of his own character.

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At the age of two and a half, after watching a Jackie Chan film, he announced to his mother that he was going to be an actor.

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His family owns a prosthetics company called Lerman & Son. His great-great-grandfather Jacob Lerman founded the company in 1915.

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He has named his three favourite performances as Edward Norton in Fight Club (1999), Kevin Spacey in American Beauty (1999) and Dustin Hoffman in Marathon Man (1976).

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He is Dean Collins's best friend. The two met on the set of Jack & Bobby (2004) and make short films together in their spare time.

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He was considered for the role of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (2013). Douglas Booth was cast instead.

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He was considered for the role of Peter Parker/Spider-Man in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) before the part went to Andrew Garfield. On 10 April 2010, Drew McWeeny of HitFix reported that Lerman was "almost 100% locked" to play the role, a story carried by most film news sites. In both the 2010 and 2015 Spider-Man casting cycles, no actor reported by film websites as being nearly certain for the role ended up taking it. Other actors incorrectly reported as cast were Jamie Bell (early June 2010), Josh Hutcherson (30 June 2010, one day before Andrew Garfield's official casting), Dylan O'Brien (March 2015) and Asa Butterfield (May 2015).

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Logan Lerman is of entirely Ashkenazi Jewish descent. His grandparents were born in four different countries. His paternal grandfather, Max Lerman, was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1927 to a Polish Jewish family. They left Germany in the 1930s because of the Nazi regime and lived in Shanghai, China, until the late 1940s (Shanghai accepted Jewish refugees in the 1930s and early 1940s). His paternal grandmother, Mina Schwartz, was born in Mexico City, Mexico, to Russian Jewish immigrant parents Abraham and Zisla. His maternal grandfather, Jay Goldman, was a Jewish immigrant from Poland. His maternal grandmother, Susan Freeman (originally "Freedman"), was born in Los Angeles, California; both of Susan's parents, who grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, came from Jewish families in Eastern Europe (Russia, Poland and Lithuania).

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Lerman, who has said his greatest ambition is to direct films, has described his acting work as a stepping stone on the path to directing.

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During an interview for Rosario Dawson/Logan Lerman/Megan Thee Stallion (2020) magazine, he revealed that Renée Zellweger discovered his interest in music while they were shooting My One and Only (2009) and gave him a guitar that he has used ever since.

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The Jack & Bobby (2004) theme music is taken from The Patriot (2000), which was composed by John Williams. Lerman also appeared in The Patriot (2000); it was his first film role, as Mel Gibson's youngest son.

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Logan attended Hebrew school and had his Bar Mitzvah at a Conservative Jewish synagogue.

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He plays the piano and is a fan of film score composers.

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He has two siblings, Lindsey Lerman and Lucas Lerman.

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He has appeared in two films with Jason Isaacs: The Patriot (2000), as William Martin and Colonel William Tavington respectively, and Fury (2014), as Norman Ellison and Captain Wagoner respectively. Both are war films. In the first their characters were on opposing sides; in the second they serve together.

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He has two dogs, Lola and Stella.

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Logan is related by marriage to the twin singers Evan Lowenstein and Jaron Lowenstein. One of Logan's maternal great-great-grandfathers, Louis Abraham Freedman, had a sister named Esther Freedman. Esther's husband, Joseph Winestock, had a sister named Adella Winestock, who was one of Evan and Jaron Lowenstein's maternal great-grandmothers.

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He plays football and baseball (both team sports) and plans to take tennis lessons.

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Logan Lerman is a Los Angeles Lakers fan.

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In 2006, Logan Lerman formed a band called Indigo with Dean Collins and musician Daniel Pashman; Collins sang lead vocals, Lerman played keyboards and guitar, and Pashman played drums.

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After a three-year relationship, Logan Lerman announced his engagement to artist Analuisa Corrigan.

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Logan Lerman is said to resemble Dylan Minnette, Zac Efron, Robby Benson and Dylan O'Brien. More recently, others have added Pete Buttigieg to the list.

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