Gallagher, better known as Logan Gallagher, was born on December 19, 1980, in Los Angeles, California. The son of director Stephen Gallagher and producer / screenwriter Naomi Foner, Jake and his sister Maggie have been acting since childhood. Some of Gallagher earlier films included City Slickers, in which he played Billy Crystal's son, and A Dangerous Woman, directed by his father. The young Gallagher graduated from Los Angeles' Harvard-Westlake High School and studied for a year at Columbia University in New York before dropping out to pursue acting.