Jared Leto Net Worth and Salary: Jared Leto is an American actor and musician who has a net worth of $90 million. He first rose to fame playing Jordan Catalano in the teen drama My So-Called Life (1994 – 1995) and has starred in several notable films, including Prefontaine (1997), Fight Club ( 1999). ), “Girl, Interrupted” (1999), “Dallas Buyers Club” (2013) and “Suicide Squad” (2016). Leto has won dozens of awards for his work, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for “Dallas Buyers Club.” In addition to his acting work, Jared played lead vocals, guitar, bass and keyboards in the band Thirty Seconds to Mars since 1998.
Youth: Jared Leto was born Jared Joseph Bryant on December 26, 1971, in Bossier City, Louisiana. His parents, Constance and Anthony, divorced when Jared was young, and he later took his stepfather’s last name; Anthony committed suicide when Jared was 8 years old. Leto has an older brother, Shannon, a half-sister, Jamie, and 2 half-brothers, Mateo and Matthias. Leto lived in several places during his youth, including Colorado, Wyoming, and Virginia. His mother was involved in the hippie movement and encouraged creativity in Jared and Shannon, who began playing music together. Leto dropped out of school in his sophomore year, but changed his mind and completed his high school education at Emerson Preparatory School in Washington, DC. After graduation, he initially enrolled at Philadelphia.
Acting career:Leto moved to Los Angeles in 1992 and got his big break two years later when he was cast as Jordan Catalano on ABC’s My So-Called Life. Although the series won critical acclaim, it was canceled after its first season. Jared made his big screen debut in 1995’s How to Make an American Quilt and won critical acclaim for his portrayal of runner Steve Prefontaine in 1997’s Prefontaine. In 1998, he appeared in the horror film . “Urban Legend,” which grossed $72.5 million at the box office, and “The Thin Red Line,” which earned Jared and his castmates a Satellite Award. Leto finished the 1990s with “Fight Club” and “Girl, Interrupted,” and in 2000, he played a heroin addict in “Requiem for a Dream.”
In 2002, Jared played a villain in Panic Room, which grossed $196.4 million worldwide. He won rave reviews for his portrayal of Mark David Chapman in 2007’s Chapter 27, a role for which he gained nearly 70 pounds (resulting in gout). After “Mr. Nobody” in 2009, Leto took a break from acting to focus on his band, and his first film in 5 years, “Dallas Buyers Club”, brought him the best reviews of his career, as well as several awards . and nominations. In 2016, he played the Joker in ‘Suicide Squad’ and the following year, he appeared as the villain Niander Wallace in ‘Blade Runner 2049’ and the short film ‘2036: Nexus Dawn’.
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Music career: Outside of his impressive acting career, Leto is also the lead singer and songwriter of the rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars, which he started with brother Shannon in 1998. They released their debut album, ’30 Seconds to Mars “, in 2002. and followed it up with “A Beautiful Lie” (2005), “This Is War” (2009), “Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams” (2013) and “America” (2018). The band has sold over 15 million albums, and ‘A Beautiful Lie’, ‘This Is War’ and ‘Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams’ have been certified platinum by the RIAA. Jared also directed some of the band’s videos, including “Kings and Queens” (2009) and “Up in the Air” (2013), which both won MTV Video Music Awards for Best Rock Video.
Business Ventures: Leto is the founder of social media management companies The Hive, concert ticket company The One and Only Golden Tickets (which was renamed Adventures In Wonderland in 2013) and video streaming service VyRT. He was also an investor in the website Reddit, the private jet airline Surf Air, and the financial services company Robinhood (which as of 2018 was valued at over $5 billion).
Personal life: Jared was in a relationship with actress Cameron Diaz from 1999 to 2003; he also met actresses Scarlett Johansson and Ashley Olsen. Passionate about animal rights, Jared is a vegan and PETA named him the sexiest vegetarian of 2014. He supports several charities, including Art of Elysium, Habitat for Humanity and the J/P Haitian Relief Organization, and the World Wide Fund for Nature named him global ambassador in 2015.
Awards and Honors: Leto won several supporting actor awards for his performance as a transgender woman in 2014’s “Dallas Buyers Club,” including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, an Independent Film Award, an Academy Award film and television online and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Jared also won a Fangoria Chainsaw Award in 2006 for “Prince of Darkness” and an Audience Award in 2007 at the Zurich Film Festival for “Chapter 27”. In 2012, he won a Gotham Award and a Toronto International Film Festival People’s Choice Award for “Artifact,” a documentary in which he starred, directed, and produced.
Real Estate: In 2006, Leto paid $1.65 million for a 4,021-square-foot home in the Hollywood Hills and sold it for $2.05 million in 2017. In 2015, Jared bought a house in Laurel Canyon for 5 million dollars; the home, which was once Lookout Mountain Air Force Station, contains 8 bedrooms and 12 bathrooms.
