Jared Leto is a successful actor and musician. He also has fame as one of the most attractive men of our time, because at forty-five Jared looks no older than twenty-five. However, he achieved success in his career not because of his good looks, but thanks to his undeniable talent. Many film critics after watching films where Jared Leto starred, praised his acting.
Biography
Jared Leto was born December 26, 1971 in a city called Bossière City, Louisiana. The guy’s debut on television took place in 1992 in the series “Wilder Camp”. As for the full-length pictures, the film “Patchwork” became the first tape to be released on large screens, where Jared Leto was shot. His biography tells that for the sake of working in the cinema, Summer moved from New York to Los Angeles.
Jared is known to have an older brother, Shannon, and two half-younger brothers, born from his father’s second marriage. Summer's mother, named Constance, raised two children alone, and, despite the severity of the situation, she was able to instill in her brothers a love of art.
In one of his interviews, Jared admitted that he got his first job when he was twelve years old, then he washed dishes in a small diner located in Virginia. At sixteen he became a doorman. According to the actor, work never interfered with his studies, so after graduating from school he easily entered the University of Arts in Philadelphia, where he studied painting, but moved to the University of Fine Arts in New York. Jared did not manage to connect life with art and art, but Summer found himself in the film industry.
Jared Leto as a musician
Jared Leto achieved worldwide popularity not only thanks to his work as an actor, but also by participating in the music group 30 Seconds to Mars. Together with his brother Shannon, Jared founded the group in 1998. In 2002, musicians released their first album, but it is not gaining popularity.
After a tour of the USA, 30 Seconds to Mars members begin work on their second album, which will be released in 2005. This time the group’s songs appealed to the public, which made the brothers real celebrities in the world of music. Jared himself calls himself an actor, not a musician, because he considers the group a successful hobby, and not a matter of life. The projects where Jared Leto starred confirm the actor’s words.
The film "Mr. Nobody"
The movie "Mr. Nobody" from the director Jaco van Dormel is one of the films where Jared Leto was shot. The roles of the main characters of the picture, in addition to Summer, were played by Sarah Polly, who had previously starred in John Adams, Diane Kruger from Troy, and Lin Dan Pam from Indochina.
In the film, Jared introduced a key character named Nemo Nobody. In film history, the actor appears in the form of a character in his youth and old age. Hero Summer is the last mortal man on the planet. Since people are no longer aware of the feeling of loss or fear of death, they are interested in the thoughts of an old man who is living his last days.
A journalist comes to Nemo, to whom Mr. Nobody tells the story of his youth, which is not like any other story, since the hero’s life developed in parallel in several scenarios. Despite the interesting idea of ​​the director, the project failed at the box office.
The film "The Baron of Arms"
Among the films where Jared Leto was shot, there is also the picture “The Arms Baron”, which was released on world screens in the fall of 2005. At the head of the story was Andrew Niccol, who also wrote the script for the tape. In the project, Jared played a non-key role, but the contribution of his hero to the development of the plot was rather big.
In the center of the story was a native of Ukraine, Yuri, who has been living in the USA since childhood. The hero of Nicolas Cage (“The Phantom Racer”, “The Rock”, “The Treasure of the Nation”) trades in the illegal sale of weapons, in which Vitaly Orlov, the character of Jared Leto helps him.
Once they find out that Yuri is being monitored by an interpol agent, and they need to deal with the problem. During the rental in cinemas around the world, the tape collected more than 72 million dollars.
The film "Room of Fear"
In 2002, the “Room of Fear” project started at the box office, another film starring Jared Leto. The actor in the film showed himself in a new light, as he played a criminal named Junior, who does not know how to restrain his emotions. He is angry at the former owner of the house, because he did not receive the inheritance of a wealthy grandfather.
He, along with other criminals, breaks into the house of a deceased millionaire to find bonds worth several millions there. Most recently, Meg Altman, who survived a divorce, acquired it. Together with her daughter Sarah, she hides in a secret room, where she discovers the papers that Junior is looking for.
The film "Requiem for a Dream"
One of the main roles in the dramatic film “Requiem for a Dream” was played by Jared Leto. In the film, the actor appears before the audience in the image of the addict Harold, who trades in the sale of heroin with his girlfriend Marion and a friend Tyler.
Also, the film, where Jared Leto starred, was attended by actress Ellen Burstin, who played the role of Harold's girlfriend. After visiting a doctor, she begins to take amphetamine, which destroys her consciousness.
The picture shows the fate of four heroes and their dreams, which remain unattainable due to addiction. In addition, drugs destroy the lives of each of them.
The film "Prefontaine"
Steve James's drama Prefontaine talks about the life of a runner named Steve Prefontaine. On the screens of the athlete Jared Leto embodies. Steve was an incredibly strong body and spirit, because numerous difficulties could not stop him on the road to success.
Despite the fact that Prefonstein was able to withstand problems, his story did not have a happy ending. A runner's life of its kind is one of the most tragic stories of athletes known around the world.
The films where Jared Leto starred show completely different stories, but the actor makes the viewer think that each of them is real, and he truly survived it. Very often, directors of various films tell the press how responsibly Jared takes work and how quickly and convincingly transforms into heroes.
Recent works by Jared
Suicide Squad is another film starring Jared Leto. The Joker, the world famous Batman comic book villain, is the hero of the actor. Fans of Summer's work were delighted with the character of Jared, who looked really crazy in the tapes.
Despite this, the actor Joker also received many negative reviews due to his dissimilarity to the villain from the comics. The main complaint was that the hero of Jared looked attractive, and not scary, as in the original story.
Critics did not agree with the reviews of the audience and noted the game of Jared, but the tape received low ratings. Due to the rating of the entire film “Suicide Squad”, Summer was nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award as the worst supporting actor.
We remind you that Jared is the owner of the most prestigious award in the world of film cinema - the Oscar. The Summer Award was given through participation in the film Dallas Buyers Club.