Jared Joseph Leto, better known as Jared Leto, is a musician, actor, filmmaker and movie producer. His most remarkable success has been as a singer of the alternative rock band 30 Seconds to Mars and as an Academy Award winner as supporting actor in the film Dallas Buyers Club. However, until he got to that success, Jared Leto’s life has had some chapters that are also important to highlight.
With a current net worth of $40 million, Jared Leto was born on December 26, 1976 in Bossier City, Louisiana. When he was a boy, his parents got divorced and he went to live with his mother (Constance Leto), his brother (Shannon Leto), and his grandfather. His father died when he was still a kid, and his mother married again.
Both he and his brother were always given an education based on art from their mother. That is the reason he and Shannon made a rock band. Jared started to learn how to play the piano, and his next instrument would be the guitar that he bought when he was 12 after he earned his first salary as a dishwasher.
As a singer, Jared Leto always has recognized being influenced by rock music, especially by rock bands such as Nirvana, Pink Floyd and Muse.
Jared studied arts at Philadelphia University. He made his specialization in painting, and although at the beginning he wanted to be a painter, he gave a twist to his career towards the field of performing arts. That is how he went to New York to specialize in cinema at New York City’s High School of Visual Arts.
His band, 30 Seconds to Mars, has sold more than 10 million copies of albums around the world. And as an actor, he performed different roles, but the most important one came from the film Dallas Buyers Club in which he won the Academy award as best supporting actor when he interpreted a transgender woman who had AIDS.
