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Sam Lerner
Lerner at the 2007 Annie Awards
Born	(1992-09-27) September 27, 1992 (age 32)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1997–present
Partner	Olivia Sui (2018–present)
Father	Ken Lerner
Relatives	Michael Lerner (paternal uncle)

Sam Lerner (born September 27, 1992) is an American actor, who is most known for his role as Geoff Schwartz on The Goldbergs, Charles "Chowder" Peterson in Monster House and as Quinn Goldberg in Project Almanac.

Early life

Lerner is the son of reporter Patti (née Klein) and Ken Lerner, an actor who portrayed his onscreen father in The Goldbergs. His uncle was actor Michael Lerner, and their family is Jewish.

Career

Lerner appeared in the feature film Envy, as the son of Ben Stiller and Rachel Weisz's characters. In addition, he portrayed Sam Robards's characters in the pilot by ABC, My Life With Men, and the son of John Leguizamo and Claire Forlani's characters in an untitled Brett Ratner-directed pilot for CBS.

Lerner voiced Chowder in the film Monster House (2006). He was nominated for the 2006 Annie Award for Best Voice Acting in an Animated Feature for his role, but lost the award to Ian McKellen for Flushed Away.

He has appeared on the television shows Malcolm in the Middle, The King of Queens, Two and a Half Men, Oliver Beene, and Sonny With a Chance, and had a recurring voice role on the Cartoon Network show Whatever Happened to Robot Jones?. He also voiced Zak Saturday in the Cartoon Network series The Secret Saturdays.

From 2013 until 2023, Lerner portrayed Geoff Schwartz in the ABC series The Goldbergs.

On October 16, 2017, Lerner was cast as Ronnie in the Blumhouse supernatural thriller film Truth or Dare. The film was released in theaters on April 13, 2018.

Filmography

Television

Video games

References

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3. ^ "Actor biography: Sam Lerner". ABC.com. American Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved May 14, 2023. On the big screen, he was cast as Ben Stiller's son in "Envy," opposite an all-star cast...
4. Variety Staff (December 23, 1992). "Births". variety.com.
5. "Michael Lerner Biography". Yahoo! Movies. 2011. Archived from the original on May 22, 2011.
6. "34th Annual Annie Award Nominees and Winners (2006)". Annie Awards. Retrieved January 21, 2010.
7. Hipes, Patrick; N'Duka, Amanda (October 16, 2017). "'Veep's Reid Scott Joins Sony's 'Venom'; Blumhouse's 'Truth Or Dare' Adds Sam Lerner". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved January 11, 2018.
8. D'Alessandro, Anthony (January 11, 2017). "'Blumhouse's Truth Or Dare' Moves Up Two Weeks To Friday The 13th – Update". Deadline. Retrieved January 13, 2018.
9. ^ "Sam Lerner (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved September 8, 2024. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
10. "Project Almanac: Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. January 28, 2015. Retrieved September 8, 2024.
11. Gleiberman, Owen (April 11, 2018). "Film Review: Truth or Dare". Variety. Retrieved September 8, 2024.

External links

• Sam Lerner at IMDb 

• 1992 births
• 21st-century American Jews
• 21st-century American male actors
• American male child actors
• American male film actors
• American male television actors
• American male voice actors
• American people of Romanian-Jewish descent
• Jewish American male actors
• Living people
• Male actors from Los Angeles