Logan Lerman ( Beverly Hills , January 19 , 1992 ). Actor American and one of the top talents today in independent and conventional films, is a talented actor who assumes roles immensely challenging and dynamic gives life to characters on the screen. He starred in the Percy Jackson film saga . He played D’Artagnan in the film The Three Musketeers (2011), as well as starred in the drama The advantages of being an outcast , a title with which he was known in Spain and in his original title The perks of being a wallflower .
Summary
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- 1 Biographical synthesis
- 1 Beginning of his career
- 2 Film career
- 3 Films from 2014 to 2018
- 2 Sources
Biographical synthesis
Coming from a Jewish family, son of Lisa Goldman, who worked as a manager, and Larry Lerman, orthopedic doctor and businessman. He has two brothers, Lindsey and Lucas, both older. His family operates the Lerman & Son orthotics and prosthetics company, which was founded by his great-grandfather, Jacob Lerman.
Beginning of his career
His beginnings were on television doing several commercials in the mid-1990s , and then he landed a starring role on the network’s series The WB Jack & Bobby. His debut is in the year 2000 on the big screen, and he does it playing the character of William, the youngest son of Mel Gibson in the war drama The Patriot by Roland Emmerich , and in the film What Women Want .
He got his first leading role in a movie with Hoot , an adventure film dedicated to a children’s audience where he played Roy, a young man who moves from the state of Florida to the state of Montana and tries to save a nest of owlets . Lerman said Hoot’s message is that “you can be any age and still make a difference.” For his performance, he won his third Young Artist Award.
Film career
He starred in John Grisham’s adaptation of A Painted House (2003), a television movie that won him the first of his three Young Artists Awards.
It was established very early with an appearance in Riding in Cars with Boy opposite Drew Barrymore, as well as roles in films such as Butterfly Effect (2004) or Hoot (2006).
The following year, he played the son of Walter Sparrow ( Jim Carrey ) in the dark thriller The Number 23 (2007), and co-starred with Russell Crowe and Christian Bale in the remake of James’ western 3:10 to Yuma (2007). Mangold .
His next two roles were an insulting private school student in the comedy Bill (2007) and actor George Hamilton in the period drama My one and only (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 reckless teenager who controls Butler’s character in a real-life video game.
In 2011, he played D’Artagnan in the film The Three Musketeers , as well as starring in the drama The perks of being a wallflower . He played Cam in the epic genre film Noah and Private Norman “Machine” Ellison in the war Fury ; both tapes were released in 2014.
He considers himself a fanatic of cinema , and according to him it is “made up of movies.” Creative person has expressed interest in participating in “everything related to making a film”, since he aspires to be a screenwriter, producer and director. Lerman once stated that his favorite filmmakers are Paul Thomas Anderson , Stanley Kubrick , David Fincher, and Peter Bogdanovich , and he cited American Beauty , Defending Your Life, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as his favorite feature films. He has described himself as “reserved and quiet”, “not a big fan of sports”.
He attended Beverly Hills High School, and in 2010 he signed up to study creative writing at New York University .
Films from 2014 to 2018
His first role in 2014 was in Darren Aronofsky’s acclaimed biblical epic film Noah (2014), playing one of the sons of the title character, Cam . The film, starring Russell Crowe , Jennifer Connelly , Anthony Hopkins , Douglas Booth and Emma Watson , grossed more than $ 100 million at the United States box office.
Logan later starred alongside Brad Pitt , Shia LaBeouf , Jon Bernthal, and Michael Peña in the WWII (1939-1945) action drama Fury (2014 ) . In the film, he played one of several American soldiers who participated in a tank battle against German forces during the last weeks of the Nazi regime.
He became the lead in Indignation (2016), the 1950s drama from writer -director James Schamus. Logan received rave reviews for his performance as Marcus Messner, an idealistic Jewish atheist from Newark who travels to Ohio to study at a conservative Midwestern Lutheran university. The film is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Philip Roth and premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.
He will voice real-life soldier Robert Conroy in Stubby: An American Hero (2018), about the famous war dog of World War I (1914-1918) , and the role of Sean Fogle in the Irish- set drama Fin of the sentence (2018), with John Hawkes as the father of his character.