Jared Joseph Leto (/ˈlɛtoʊ/; born December 26, 1971) is an American actor and musician. After starting his career with television appearances in the early 1990s, he achieved recognition for his role as Jordan Catalano on the television series My So-Called Life (1994). He made his film debut in How to Make an American Quilt (1995) and received critical praise for his performance in Prefontaine (1997).
After supporting roles in The Thin Red Line (1998), Fight Club (1999), Girl, Interrupted (1999) and American Psycho (2000), and the lead role in Urban Legend (1998), he earned critical acclaim for portraying heroin addict Harry Goldfarb in Requiem for a Dream (2000). He began focusing increasingly on music, then returned to acting with Panic Room (2002), Alexander (2004), Lord of War (2005), Lonely Hearts (2006), Chapter 27 (2007), and Mr. Nobody (2009). His performance as a transgender woman in Dallas Buyers Club (2013) earned him an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor. He starred in Suicide Squad (2016), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), The Little Things (2021) and House of Gucci (2021), of which the latter two earned him nominations for a Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Leto is the lead vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and main songwriter for Thirty Seconds to Mars, a band he formed with his older brother Shannon Leto. Their debut album, 30 Seconds to Mars (2002), released to positive reviews but limited commercial success. The band achieved worldwide fame with the release of their second album A Beautiful Lie (2005). Their following releases, This Is War (2009), and Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams (2013), received further critical success, and their fifth album, America (2018), marked new commercial success. As of September 2014, they have sold over 15 million albums worldwide.
Leto is considered a method actor, known for his constant devotion to and research of his roles. He often remains completely in character for the duration of shooting schedules of his films, even to the point of adversely affecting his health. He is also known to be selective about his film roles.
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Primarily2026 Masters of the Universe as Skeletor
2025 TRON: Ares as Ares Producer
2025 Lunik Heist
2025 Untitled Karl Lagerfeld Biopic as Karl Lagerfeld Producer
2025 Untitled "The Talented Dr. Gray" Film as Dr. Lawrence Gray Producer
2025 Assassination
2025 American Psycho
2025 Adrift Producer
2023 iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2023 as Self - Presenter
2023 30 Seconds to Mars | Digital X 2023 as Self
2023 Haunted Mansion as The Hatbox Ghost
2022 Post Malone: Runaway as Self
2022 Morbius as Dr. Michael Morbius Executive Producer
2021 House of Gucci as Paolo Gucci
2021 Zack Snyder's Justice League as The Joker
2021 The Little Things as Albert Sparma
2020 Joker: Put on a Happy Face as Self
2019 Camp! The Movie as Self
2019 A Day in the Life of America Director, Producer
2018 Asesinato en El Hormiguero Express as Jared Leto
2018 The Outsider as Nick Lowell
2017 Linkin Park and Friends Celebrate Life in Honor of Chester Bennington as Self (archive footage)
2017 Blade Runner 2049 as Niander Wallace
2017 2036: Nexus Dawn as Niander Wallace
2016 Suicide Squad as The Joker
2016 Holy Hell Executive Producer
2016 DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League as Self
2015 Jeremy Scott: The People's Designer as Self
2015 Bartholomew Cubbins 2006–2014 as Self - Bartholomew Cubbins Director, Producer
2013 Dallas Buyers Club as Rayon
2013 30 Seconds To Mars | Hollywood Bowl Live as Self
2013 30 Seconds To Mars: Live in iTunes Festival as Narrator (voice) / Self
2013 30 Seconds To Mars | Rock In Rio 2013 as Self
2013 30 Seconds to Mars | Live at Download Festival 2013 as Self
2013 30 Seconds To Mars | Rock Am Ring 2013 as Self
2012 Stories We Tell Thanks
2012 Artifact as Self Director, Producer
2011 30 Seconds To Mars | MTV World Stage as Narrator (voice) / Self
2011 TT3D: Closer to the Edge as Self - Narrator (voice)
2010 Skyline Thanks
2010 30 Seconds To Mars | Rock Am Ring as Self
2009 Mr. Nobody as Nemo Nobody (Adult / Old)
2007 30 Seconds To Mars | Pinkpop 2007 as Self
2007 Chapter 27 as Mark David Chapman Executive Producer
2007 Edge of the Earth featuring 30 Seconds To Mars as Self Director
2006 Lonely Hearts as Ray Fernandez
2006 The Armenian Genocide as Haig Baronian (voice)
2005 Lord of War as Vitaly Orlov
2004 Alexander as Hephaistion
2004 Shooting 'Panic Room' as Self
2003 Phone Booth as Bobby (uncredited)
2003 Sol Goode as Sage (uncredited)
2002 Panic Room as Junior
2002 Highway as Jack Hayes
2001 The Making of Requiem for a Dream as Self
2000 Requiem for a Dream as Harry Goldfarb
2000 Sunset Strip as Glen Walker
2000 American Psycho as Paul Allen
1999 Girl, Interrupted as Tobias Jacobs
1999 Fight Club as Angel Face
1999 Black and White as Casey
1998 The Thin Red Line as 2nd Lt. William Whyte
1998 Urban Legend as Paul Gardener
1998 Basil as Basil
1997 Switchback as Lane Dixon
1997 Prefontaine as Steve Prefontaine
1996 The Last of the High Kings as Frankie Griffin
1995 How to Make an American Quilt as Beck
1994 Cool and the Crazy as Michael