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Jared Leto
Jared Leto
	Leto in 2009
Born	Jared Joseph Leto; December 26, 1971 (age 53); Bossier City, Louisiana, USA
Occupation(s)	Actor, musician, director
Years active	1992–present
	Musical career
Genres	Alternative rock, post-grunge, progressive rock, hard rock, alternative metal, progressive metal
Instruments	Vocals; guitars; bass guitar; piano; keyboards;
Labels	Universal; Virgin; EMI; Immortal;
Website	jaredleto.com

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.

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.

Early life

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]

Filmography

Actor
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

Director
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

Producer
Year	Title	Notes
2001	Sol Goode	Co-producer
2007	Chapter 27	Executive Producer
2012	Artifact	Documentary
2016	Holy Hell	Executive Producer

Television
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