Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2337
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Logan Lerman represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 25 years in, and Logan is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Logan Lerman appears in 21 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Logan. Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero is the clearest case: a film rated 7.9 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for romance, comedy, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with David Leitch, Josephine Decker, David Ayer and others, Logan Lerman helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero (2018) as Robert Conroy (voice) · The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) as Charlie · Fury (2014) as Norman Ellison
Career snapshot
Ranked #2337 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
21
2000–2025
Career length
25 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.9
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
Most frequent director
David Leitch
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With David Leitch
Most common genre
Drama
12 titles
Average runtime
1h 53m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.6
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
6.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. End of Sentence, The Vanishing of Sidney Hall, Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 10 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.7
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Gamer, My One and Only, Meet Bill.
Most productive era
2010s
10 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.65 films | 6.96 films | 6.11 film |
| Action | 6.52 films | 6.82 films | 7.41 film |
| Thriller | 6.12 films | 5.81 film | 6.63 films |
| Comedy | 6.54 films | 7.41 film | 6.82 films |
| Crime | 6.41 film | — | — |
| Romance | 6.32 films | 7.12 films | 6.31 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2000The Patriot
Where our catalogue meets this career, as William Martin.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2018Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
7.9 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2025Oh, Hi!
The current state of the argument, as Isaac.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
21 of 21 films
as Robert Conroy (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Norman Ellison
Directed by David Ayer
as Lou
Directed by Josh Boone
as Sidney Hall
Directed by Unknown
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Robert Conroy (voice)
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero (2018)
Performance score8.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Robert Conroy (voice) gives Logan Lerman a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Charlie
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Performance score8.3
The Perks of Being a Wallflower asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Charlie is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Norman Ellison
Fury (2014)
Performance score8.0
Fury asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Norman Ellison is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lou
Stuck in Love (2013)
Performance score7.5
Stuck in Love asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lou is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Robert Conroy (voice)
Start here. Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero is the clearest statement of what Logan Lerman does — accessible, 85 minutes, and rated 7.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Logan at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
A deliberate change of key after Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Stuck in Love (2013)
Keeps the drama register of The Perks of Being a Wallflower but asks for a colder reading of it.
Fury (2014)
Keeps the drama register of Stuck in Love but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2018)
Keeps the drama register of Fury but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Nancy Meyers
Director
1 film together
Notably What Women Want
Roland Emmerich
Director
1 film together
Notably The Patriot
Penny Marshall
Director
1 film together
Notably Riding in Cars with Boys
Joel Schumacher
Director
1 film together
Notably The Number 23
James Mangold
Director
1 film together
Notably 3:10 to Yuma
Melisa Wallack
Director
1 film together
Notably Meet Bill
Richard Loncraine
Director
1 film together
Notably My One and Only
Brian Taylor
Director
1 film together
Notably Gamer
Chris Columbus
Director
1 film together
Notably Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Paul W. S. Anderson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Three Musketeers
Stephen Chbosky
Director
1 film together
Notably The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Josh Boone
Director
1 film together
Notably Stuck in Love
Thor Freudenthal
Director
1 film together
Notably Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Darren Aronofsky
Director
1 film together
Notably Noah
David Ayer
Director
1 film together
Notably Fury
Josephine Decker
Director
1 film together
Notably Shirley
David Leitch
Director
1 film together
Notably Bullet Train
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Stephen Chbosky
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Perks of Being a WallflowerDavid Ayer
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FuryDavid Leitch
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bullet TrainJosh Boone
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Stuck in LoveJames Mangold
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
3:10 to YumaRoland Emmerich
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The PatriotPenny Marshall
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Riding in Cars with BoysRichard Loncraine
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My One and OnlyNancy Meyers
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
What Women WantJoel Schumacher
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Number 23Chris Columbus
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning ThiefJosephine Decker
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ShirleyMelisa Wallack
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Meet BillThor Freudenthal
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Percy Jackson: Sea of MonstersPaul W. S. Anderson
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Three MusketeersDarren Aronofsky
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NoahBrian Taylor
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GamerSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Fury
as Norman Ellison
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
as Robert Conroy (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
as Robert Conroy (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Riding in Cars with Boys
as Jason (Age 8)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
as Robert Conroy (voice)
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Logan Lerman has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
25 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
12 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
as Robert Conroy (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Bullet Train
as The Son
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Stuck in Love
as Lou
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Shirley
as Fred Nemser
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Bullet Train
as The Son
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Three Musketeers
as D’Artagnan
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
as Robert Conroy (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Fury
as Norman Ellison
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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