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Jared Joseph Leto (born December 26, 1971) is an American actor and musician. He is known for acting in movies such as Fight Club; Girl, Interrupted; Panic Room; American Psycho; Alexander; Requiem for a Dream; Lord of War, Prefontaine, Mr. Nobody and Suicide Squad in which he starred as The Joker.
Jared Leto | |
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_-_Jared_Leto_(8).jpg) Leto in 2009 | |
| Born | Jared Joseph Leto December 26, 1971 |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, musician, director |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Musical career | |
| Genres | Alternative rock, post-grunge, progressive rock, hard rock, alternative metal, progressive metal |
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| Labels | |
| Website | jaredleto |
He started a rock band called Thirty Seconds to Mars in 1998 with his brother Shannon Leto. Leto was the lead singer. The band has released four albums.
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Leto was born on December 26, 1971, in Bossier City, Louisiana, to Constance Leto (née Metrejon).[1][2] His mother has Cajun ancestry.[3] Leto is his stepfather's surname. His parents divorced when he was a child, and he and his older brother, Shannon, lived with their mother and their maternal grandparents, Ruby (Russell) and William Lee Metrejon.[1] After he remarried, his father died by suicide when Jared was eight.[4] Leto moved frequently with his family from Louisiana to different cities around the country.[5] "My mom's father was in the Air Force," Leto has explained, "so moving around a lot was a normal way of life."[6] Leto has two younger half-brothers from his father's second marriage.[1]
Constance joined the hippie movement and encouraged her sons to get involved in the arts.[3] Leto said he "was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater," adding that "Just having the art communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth."[7] Leto started playing music with his brother at an early age; his first musical instrument was a broken-down piano.[8]
After dropping out briefly in the 10th grade, Leto decided to return and focus on his education at the private Emerson Preparatory School in Washington, D.C.[9] He was interested in large-scale visual art and enrolled at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.[5][10] After developing an interest in filmmaking, he transferred to the School of Visual Arts in New York City.[5] While he was a student there, he wrote and starred in his own short film, Crying Joy.[10] He also attended the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, now a part of George Washington University.[11]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | How to Make an American Quilt | Beck | |
| 1996 | The Last of the High Kings | Frankie Griffin | Also known as Summer Fling |
| 1997 | Prefontaine | Steve Prefontaine | |
| 1997 | Switchback | Lane Dixon | |
| 1998 | Basil | Basil | |
| 1998 | Urban Legend | Paul Gardener | |
| 1998 | The Thin Red Line | Second Lieutenant Whyte | |
| 1999 | Black and White | Casey | |
| 1999 | Fight Club | Angel Face | |
| 1999 | Girl, Interrupted | Tobias "Toby" Jacobs | |
| 2000 | American Psycho | Paul Allen | |
| 2000 | Requiem for a Dream | Harry Goldfarb | |
| 2000 | Sunset Strip | Glen Walker | |
| 2002 | Highway | Jack Hayes | |
| 2002 | Panic Room | Junior | |
| 2002 | Phone Booth | Bobby | Uncredited cameo |
| 2003 | Sol Goode | Rock Star Wannabe | Uncredited |
| 2004 | Alexander | Hephaestion | |
| 2005 | Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow | Himself | Documentary movie |
| 2005 | Lord of War | Vitaly Orlov | |
| 2006 | Lonely Hearts | Raymond Fernandez | |
| 2007 | Chapter 27 | Mark David Chapman | |
| 2009 | Mr. Nobody | Nemo Nobody | |
| 2011 | TT3D: Closer to the Edge | Narrator | Voice |
| 2012 | Artifact | Himself | Also director |
| 2013 | Dallas Buyers Club | Rayon | |
| 2016 | Suicide Squad | The Joker | |
| 2017 | Blade Runner 2049 | Niander Wallace | |
| 2018 | The Outsider | Nick Lowell | |
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | "The Kill" | Music video |
| 2006 | "From Yesterday" | Music video |
| 2008 | "A Beautiful Lie" | Music video |
| 2009 | "Kings and Queens" | Music video |
| 2010 | "Closer to the Edge" | Music video |
| 2010 | "Hurricane" | Music video |
| 2012 | Artifact | Documentary |
| 2013 | "Up in the Air" | Music video |
| 2013 | "City of Angels" | Music video |
| 2015 | Beyond the Horizon | TV Documentary |
| 2016 | Great Wide Open | Documentary |
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Sol Goode | Co-producer |
| 2007 | Chapter 27 | Executive Producer |
| 2012 | Artifact | Documentary |
| 2016 | Holy Hell | Executive Producer |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992– 1993 |
Camp Wilder | Dexter | 2 episodes |
| 1993 | Almost Home | Rick Aiken | Episode: "The Fox and the Hound" |
| 1994– 1995 |
My So-Called Life | Jordan Catalano | 19 episodes |
| 1994 | Rebel Highway | Michael | Episode: "Cool and the Crazy" |
| 1994 | Cool and the Crazy | Michael | TV film |
| 1998 | Wild Life Adventures | Himself | Episode: "Alaska's Bush Pilots" |
| 2003 | Player$ | Himself | Episode: "Posehn, Papa and Mars" |
| 2003 | Hollywood High | Himself | Documentary film |
| 2006 | The Armenian Genocide | Narrator | Documentary movie |
| 2014– 2015 |
Into the Wild | Himself | Documentary; 16 episodes; also director |
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