Logan Lerman
Lerman was born in Beverly Hills, California. His mother, Lisa (née Goldman), works as his manager, and his father, Larry Lerman, is a businessman and orthotist.[1][2] He has two siblings, Lindsey and Lucas, both older.[3][4] Logan and his family are Jewish.[5][6][7] Most of his relatives work in the medical profession.[8] His family owns and operates the orthotics and prosthetics company Lerman & Son, which is managed by his paternal grandparents, Mina (Schwartz) and Max Lerman, and had been founded by his great-grandfather, Jacob Lerman, in 1915.[2][9] Logan's family had left Europe in the 1930s, because of the Nazi regime, and settled in California in the 1940s.[2][10][11]
Lerman is a self-described "film geek", having stated that he is "shaped by movies",[12][13] and that he is a "creative person".[13] He has expressed an interest in being involved in "everything that goes into making a film", including wanting to write, produce, and direct.[14][15] His favorite directors include Paul Thomas Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, David Fincher, and Peter Bogdanovich,[15] and he has cited American Beauty, Defending Your Life, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as being among his favorite films.[13] Lerman has described himself as "reserved and quiet", "a homebody",[16] and "not a big fan of sports".[17] He graduated from Beverly Hills High School.[14] In 2010, he applied to study creative writing at New York University, but has postponed his attendance.[15][18]
