Composer
Jared Leto
American actor, singer, musician and songwriter (born 1971)
b. 1971
16 works in the index
- Born
- 1971
- Birthplace
- Bossier City
- Citizenship / historical state
- United States
- Period (estimated from birth year)
- Contemporary
Biography
Jared Joseph Leto ( LET-oh; born December 26, 1971) is an American actor and musician. Known for his method acting in a variety of roles, he has received various accolades over a career spanning three decades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe. He is also the frontman of the rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars.
After beginning his career on the television series My So-Called Life (1994), Leto made his film debut in How to Make an American Quilt (1995) and gained critical attention 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), he received praise for his lead role as a drug addict in Requiem for a Dream (2000). He then began to focus more on music, but returned to acting with Panic Room (2002), Alexander (2004), Lord of War (2005), Chapter 27 (2007), and Mr. Nobody (2009). His performance as a transgender woman in Dallas Buyers Club (2013) won him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He has since appeared in Suicide Squad (2016), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), The Little Things (2021), House of Gucci (2021), Morbius (2022), Tron: Ares (2025), and Masters of the Universe (2026).
Leto is the lead vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and main songwriter for Thirty Seconds to Mars, a band he formed in 1998 with his older brother Shannon Leto. Its debut album, 30 Seconds to Mars (2002), was released to positive reviews but to limited commercial success. Its second album, A Beautiful Lie (2005), pushed the band into the public eye, and the next releases, This Is War (2009) and Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams (2013), received further critical and commercial success. They were followed by America (2018) and It's the End of the World but It's a Beautiful Day (2023), both of which polarized critics upon release. The band has sold over 15 million albums worldwide.
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Life and musical career
- Selected occupations
- television actor; film actor; guitarist; singer-songwriter; photographer; film director; voice actor; businessperson; actor; singer; record producer; film producer
- Education
- Emerson Preparatory School; Flint Hill School; The University of the Arts; School of Visual Arts; McLean High School; Garden City Collegiate; Corcoran School of the Arts & Design
- Teachers
- Howard Fine
- Recorded memberships
- 30 Seconds to Mars
- Instruments played
- guitar; piano; voice; bass guitar; keyboard instrument
- Genres
- alternative rock; post-grunge; hard rock; pop rock
- Selected notable works
- My So-Called Life; 30 Seconds to Mars; How to Make an American Quilt; Prefontaine; The Thin Red Line; Fight Club; Girl, Interrupted; American Psycho; Urban Legend; Requiem for a Dream; Panic Room; Alexander
- Selected awards
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor; Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture; MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Transformation; Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role; AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Supporting Actor; Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor; Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor; Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor; Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor; Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor; Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor; Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor - Razzie Award
- Birth name
- Jared Joseph Leto
- Pseudonym
- Bartholomew Cubbins
- Native languages
- English
- Languages used
- English
- VIAF ID
- 34660447
- ISNI
- 0000000121275810
- GND ID
- 135387280
- Library of Congress ID
- no98128583
- MusicBrainz ID
- 5ec4fe5f-c89a-47d1-a9b7-58344b401527
Recorded in Wikidata. Affiliations may refer to earlier stages of the composer's career.
In this catalogue
- Common listed instruments
- Guitar
- Genres represented
- Rock
- Works with composition dates
- 0 of 16
These details describe the indexed sheet music, including arrangements.
Catalogue
Works
Years are composition dates where known. Instruments describe editions in our catalogue and may include arrangements. A dash means the detail is not recorded.
| Work | Year composed | Catalogue / opus | Key in title | Listed instruments | Genre | Editions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Kill | — | — | — | Guitar | Rock | 2 |
| R-Evolve | — | — | — | Guitar | Rock | 1 |
| A Beautiful Lie | — | — | — | Guitar | Rock | 2 |
| Was It A Dream? | — | — | — | Guitar | Rock | 1 |
| The Story | — | — | — | Guitar | Rock | 1 |
| Savior | — | — | — | Guitar | Rock | 1 |
| From Yesterday | — | — | — | Guitar | Rock | 1 |
| The Fantasy | — | — | — | Guitar | Rock | 1 |
| Battle Of One | — | — | — | Guitar | Rock | 1 |
| Praying For A Riot | — | — | — | Guitar | Rock | 1 |
| Attack | — | — | — | Guitar | Rock | 1 |
| Kings And Queens | — | — | — | Guitar | Rock | 1 |
| A Modern Myth | — | — | — | Guitar | Rock | 1 |
| Closer To The Edge | — | — | — | Guitar | — | 1 |
| Modern Myth, A | — | — | — | — | — | 0 |
| Beautiful Lie, A | — | — | — | — | — | 0 |
Biographical record: Wikidata, matched on name and checked against dates held in the catalogue. The period label is an estimate from birth year. Authority record: VIAF 34660447. Portrait: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.