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A film career followed, including roles in Fight Club , Requiem for a Dream , Dallas Buyers Club — for which he received an Academy Award for best supporting actor — and Suicide Squad Leto is also the lead singer of the popular band 30 Seconds to Mars, which he founded with his brother, Shannon.

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Leto was born on December 26, , in Bossier City, Louisiana. Leto's parents divorced shortly after he was born and his mother, a traveling artist, raised him. The family struggled financially, but creativity was emphasized and Jared and his older brother, Shannon, both developed a robust appreciation of the arts. Leto enrolled at Philadelphia's University of the Arts to study painting, but switched his focus to acting and transferred to the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where he majored in filmmaking.

Leto is the lead vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and main songwriter for Thirty Seconds to Mars, a band he formed in in Los Angeles, California.

In , Leto moved to Los Angeles, California. Fans of the show were so rabid that Leto received a human ear and a box of pubic hair. Solidifying his heartthrob status, the actor was named to People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People" list in both and The actor showed similar dedication for his portrayal of John Lennon's assassin in Chapter 27 , gaining 60 pounds for the part.

He then earned more acclaim for his co-starring role in the sci-fi drama Mr. Nobody In , Leto won the Academy Award for best supporting actor for his role as a transgender woman named Rayon in Dallas Buyers Club Leto lost 30 pounds for the role, which marked his return to acting after a six-year hiatus. After another hiatus, Leto played the villainous Joker in the action-packed superhero release of Suicide Squad , alongside Will Smith and Margot Robbie.