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Jared Leto

Jared Leto
Jared Leto was born on December 26th 1971 in Bossier City. He is an musician for a rock band called "30 Seconds To Mars" and he is also an actor in a few movies.

During Jared's childhood, his family moved a lot to places such as Haiti and Virginia. His mother, Constance, was a photographer. His older brother is Shannon and he also has two step brothers from his fathers second marriage.

In 1989 Jared went to "Philadelphia's University Of Arts"and was training to become an artist but he was briefly transferred to "New York City's School Of Visual Arts". While he was there he adapted an interest in acting after being in one of the commercials from "Levi's Jeans".

When Jared finished university in 1992 he decided to move to Los Angeles to get a career in the music industry. While he was there, he also did some part time acting roles. A couple of years later he was featured in the TV show "My So Called Life" but the show ended in 1995. He went on to be in movies such as "Fight Club" and "Thin Red Line" and "Requiem for a Dream" directed by Darren Aronofski.

After appeAring in some movies Jared per sued his music career where he was the vocalist, songwriter and backup guitArist in the band 30 Seconds to Mars. The members of the band include Jared's brother Shannon (Percussion) and Tomo Milicevic (Lead Guitar).



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Jared Leto - what members say


  • Urban Legend
  • Urban Legend review by DJM666 from Walsall, England
    Rated - 3.0 stars An entertaining film 16 February 2006
    ... killer is) towards the end. The movie also has a good young cast (Alicia Witt, Jared Leto, Rebecca Gayheart, Tara Reid, Joshua Jackson, Michael Rosenbaum, and Danielle H...   Read customer review
  • Requiem for a Dream
  • Requiem for a Dream review by from CHELTENHAM
    Rated - 3.0 stars 27 November 2003
    ...wn before you press PLAY - but it's worth it. The cast is superb, particularly Jared Leto as drug addict Harry, Jennifer Connelly as his girlfriend Marion, and Ellen Bur...   Read customer review
  • Highway
  • Highway review by from Andover, Hampshire England
    Rated - 3.0 stars Hotshots head for Seattle! 5 May 2009
    ...his is a very good rites of passage movie, showing how two friends, Jack Hayes (Jared Leto) and Pilot Kelson (Jake Gyllenhaal) mature whilst escaping from the thugs sent ...   Read customer review

Jared Leto - filmography


  • Mr. Nobody on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Jared Leto,  Diane Kruger,  Rhys Ifans
    Director: Jaco Van Dormael
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    In the year 2092, a time when Mars is a vacation spot, Nemo Nobody is a 117-year-old man who is the last mortal among humans who have become immortal due to scientific advances involving the perpetual rejuvenation of telomeres. When Nemo is on his deathbed, he reviews the three possible existences ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 3,114 members
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  • Mr. Nobody - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Jared Leto,  Diane Kruger,  Rhys Ifans
    Director: Jaco Van Dormael
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    In the year 2092, a time when Mars is a vacation spot, Nemo Nobody is a 117-year-old man who is the last mortal among humans who have become immortal due to scientific advances involving the perpetual rejuvenation of telomeres. When Nemo is on his deathbed, he reviews the three possible existences ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 942 members
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  • Chapter 27 on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Mark Lindsay Chapman,  Lindsay Lohan,  Jared Leto
    Director: J.P. Schaefer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    On Dec. 8, 1980, Mark David Chapman shocked the world by murdering the beloved purveyor of peace, 40-year old musician and activist, John Lennon, outside The Dakota, his New York apartment building. Chapman's motives were fabricated from pure delusion, fueled by an obsession with the fictional ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 1,209 member
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  • Lonely Hearts on DVD (2006)
    Starring: John Travolta,  Jared Leto,  Alice Krige
    Director: Todd Robinson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Crime thriller set in the 1940s and based on a series of serial murders. In the late 1940s, Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez were America's notorious 'Lonely Hearts Killers'. Their lethal scam was simple; they would swindle and then viciously murder lovelorn war widows who would answer their ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 8,058 members
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  • Lord of War on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Jared Burke,  Eamonn Walker,  Jeremy Crutchley
    Director: Andrew Niccol
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Tense thriller about the arms industry and gun-running, starring Nicolas Cage and Ethan Hawke. Yuri Orlov (Cage) starts his career as an arms dealer on the streets of Little Odessa in the 1980s, selling handguns to mobsters. By the 1990s, after entering into a partnership with an insane African ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 66,229 members
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  • Lord of War - Blu-ray (2005)
    Starring: Jared Burke,  Eamonn Walker,  Jeremy Crutchley
    Director: Andrew Niccol
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Tense thriller about the arms industry and gun-running, starring Nicolas Cage and Ethan Hawke. Yuri Orlov (Cage) starts his career as an arms dealer on the streets of Little Odessa in the 1980s, selling handguns to mobsters. By the 1990s, after entering into a partnership with an insane African ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 2,752 members
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  • Alexander on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Val Kilmer,  Anthony Hopkins,  Jared Leto
    Director: Oliver Stone
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    The true story of one of history's most luminous and influential leaders, Alexander the Great--a man who had conquered 90% of the known world by the age of twenty-seven. Alexander led his virtually invincible Greek and Macedonian armies through 22,000 miles of sieges and conquests in just eight ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 44% from 46,330 members
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  • Panic Room on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Kristen Stewart,  Forest Whitaker,  Patrick Bauchau
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) and her teenage daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart) move into a luxury Manhattan townhouse they have no plans to use the ultra-secure 'panic room' installed by the previous occupant. But on their first night in their new home, three burglars break-in with plans to steal ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 18,667 members
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  • Highway on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Jared Leto,  Jeremy Piven,  Selma Blair
    Director: James Cox
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    America, 1994. Smalltime criminal Jack (Jared Leto) gets himself in trouble with a couple of gangsters and, for his own safety, decides to hit the road. Travelling with his best friend Pilot (Jake Gyllenhaal), they head for Seattle and meet up with prostitute Cassie (Selma Blair) along the way. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 795 members
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  • American Psycho on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Guinevere Turner,  Chloe Sevigny,  Josh Lucas
    Director: Mary Harron
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Bret Easton Ellis' disturbing novel is brought to the screen by Mary Harron. In 1987, twentysomething Wall Street broker Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) seems to have it all: he is handsome, successful and engaged to the beautiful Evelyn (Reese Witherspoon). However, Patrick is also engaged in an ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 25,615 members
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  • Requiem for a Dream on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Jared Leto,  Ellen Burstyn,  Jennifer Connelly
    Director: Darren Aronofsky
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Sara Goldfarb is a lonely widow who is revitalized by the prospect of appearing on television as a game show contestant, while her son Harry, his girlfriend Marion, and his friend Tyrone have devised an illicit shortcut to wealth and ease. Lulled by early successes, Sara, Harry, Marion and Tyrone ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 29,281 members
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  • Black And White on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Ben Stiller,  Method Man
    Director: James Toback
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    When high school hipster Charlie and her friends start hanging out with Harlem's aspiring rap artist Rich Bower and his group, the American Cream Team, each faction starts to ponder the other's true motivation. Fascinated by this collision of cultures, documentary filmmaker and former rich girl ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 952 members
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  • Fight Club on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Meat Loaf,  Jared Leto,  Richmond Arquette
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Adapted from Chuck Palahniuk's novel, David Fincher's controversial drama explores themes of masculinity and violence in contemporary society. Edward Norton stars as Jack, a bored insomniac, determined to inject some excitement into his life. He meets Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), a charismatic soap ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 88,954 members
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  • Fight Club - Blu-ray (1999)
    Starring: Meat Loaf,  Jared Leto,  Richmond Arquette
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    FIGHT CLUB is narrated by a lonely, unfulfilled young man (Edward Norton) who finds his only comfort in feigning terminal illness and attending disease support groups. Hopping from group to group, he encounters another pretender, or tourist, the morose Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), who ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 85% from 3,170 members
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  • Urban Legend on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Jared Leto,  Robert Englund,  Michael Rosenbaum
    Director: Jamie Blanks
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    When a bizarre series of deaths occur on the campus of Pendleton college, student Natalie (Alicia Witt) starts to believe that they are somehow linked to various urban legends. Her classmates are dismissive, claiming that the deaths are just freak coincidences, but as Natalie investigates more ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 7,234 members
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  • Urban Legend - Blu-ray (1998)
    Starring: Jared Leto,  Robert Englund,  Michael Rosenbaum
    Director: Jamie Blanks
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    When a bizarre series of deaths occur on the campus of Pendleton college, student Natalie (Alicia Witt) starts to believe that they are somehow linked to various urban legends. Her classmates are dismissive, claiming that the deaths are just freak coincidences, but as Natalie investigates more ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 759 members
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  • The Thin Red Line (1998)
    Starring: Sean Penn,  Adrien Brody,  James Caviezel
    Director: Terrence Malick
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    THE THIN RED LINE tells the story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal. The story takes place as Army troops are moved in to relieve battle-..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 14,161 members
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  • Basil on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Claire Forlani,  Jared Leto,  Derek Jacobi
    Director: Radha Bharardwaj
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Period drama based on a novel by Wilkie Collins. Jared Leto stars as Basil, a lonely and somewhat naive young aristocrat in early 20th-century England who is struggling to meet the approval of his overbearing, class-conscious father while simultaneously doing all he can to please the selfish woman ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 209 members
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Jared Leto facts

5 most recent films

Mr. Nobody - 3.0 stars
Mr. Nobody - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Chapter 27 - 3.0 stars
Lonely Hearts - 3.0 stars
Lord of War - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Fight Club - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
The My So Called Life - Complete Series - 4.0 stars
Fight Club - 4.0 stars
Requiem for a Dream - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Lord of War - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Cool and the Crazy - 2.0 stars
10 Hollywood Leading Men - 2.0 stars
Black And White - 2.0 stars
Alexander - 2.0 stars
Basil - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Tom Irwin - 44 times - show films
Lisa Wilhoit - 44 times - show films
Wilson Cruz - 44 times - show films
Devon Odessa - 44 times - show films
Devon Gummersall - 44 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Scott Winant - 44 times - show films
David Fincher - 9 times - show films
Andrew Niccol - 5 times - show films
Jaco Van Dormael - 3 times - show films
Jamie Blanks - 3 times - show films