Jared Leto
American actor, singer, musician and songwriter (born 1971) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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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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Early life
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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]
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Filmography
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