Jared Leto was born on 26 December 1971 in Bossier City, Louisiana USA, of partly Cajun ancestry (his mother’s side). He is a phenomenal actor, musician, singer, songwriter and director who is exceptionally passionate and dedicated to what he does, which led to his fame and success in both movie and music industries.
Jared Leto Net Worth $40 Million
It only makes sense that a person of such great talent and creativity earns a great amount of money. Sources estimate Jared’s current net worth to be $40 million. It is a great sum of money but he absolutely deserves it.
Jared’s commitment and original approach to art might be linked with the fact that he was surrounded by artistic people during his childhood. His mother, Constance Leto, was a part of the hippie movement and saw it as her duty to let her children freely express their creativity. After graduating from Flint High School, Jared studied at the University of the Arts (located in Philadelphia), then transferred to the School of Visual Arts in New York. Jared intended to begin his career mainly as a director and took on a few acting roles as a side-job. However, when in 1994 he appeared as Jordan Catalano in ABC’s drama “My-so-Called-Life”, his acting career took off. A year after that, he appeared in his first movie, entitled “How to Make an American Quilt”.
Jared is known as a method actor who tends to delve into the deepest parts of his character’s personality which he sometimes achieves by drastically altering his own lifestyle. Such intense devotion to the craft usually leads to great results. In 1997 Jared Leto played a role in a biographical film “Prefontaine” which was an important milestone in the actor’s career – he managed to incredibly accurately resemble the athlete and it lead to the film’s success and Leto’s recognition as a great actor. The role that people mostly relate to Jared’s name is probably his portrayal of Harry Goldfarb, a drug addict in the intense psychological drama “Requiem for a Dream”. At that point, Jared Leto was already a famous actor and music star. Another movie that has added a lot to Jared’s net worth was the biographical drama “Dallas Buyer’s Club” (2013) – he won an AACTA, Critic’s Choice Movie Award, Hollywood Film, Academy Award, a Golden Globe and many other awards in the nomination of Best Supporting Actor. Another example of the seriousness with which Jared takes his craft was a massive weight gain to play “Mark David Chapman”, infamous murderer of John Lennon, in the movie Chapter 27 (2007). Of course all these roles help improve Jared’s net worth considerably.
Another important part of Jared Leto’s life has always been music and song writing. In 1998 he finally formed a rock band called “Thirty Seconds to Mars” together with his brother Shannon Leto and Tomo Miličević. While their first album, released in 2002 and titled “30 Seconds to Mars” was fairly successful, they reached worldwide success and recognition with their second album entitled “A Beautiful Lie”, released in 2005. After that, they released two more albums: “This is War” in 2009 and “Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams” in 2013 which were both successful and added a nice number to Jared’s already impressive net worth. Naturally, Jared’s net worth rose steadily after each release.
In his personal life, Jared dated Cameron Diaz between 1999 and 2003. Nowadays, he tends to keep his private life separate from his public one and there is not much known.
