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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jared Leto, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
WeCrashed is an eight‑episode drama miniseries from Apple TV+ inspired by Wondery’s podcast WeCrashed: The Rise and Fall of WeWork. The series follows the meteoric rise and chaotic collapse of WeWork, the coworking company co‑founded in 2010 by Adam and Rebekah Neumann. WeWork grew from one shared office into a worldwide brand valued at about $47 billion in less than a decade before losing around $40 billion of its valuation in the span of a year tv.apple.com The show is framed as both a business saga and a love story. It portrays Adam’s charismatic but reckless leadership and Rebekah’s influence over the company’s spiritual branding, exploring how their ambitions and personal relationship drove WeWork’s “rapid and erratic growth” Alongside the Neumanns, the drama introduces real and fictionalized characters such as co‑founder Miguel McKelvey and investor representatives. These characters illustrate the tensions between vision, culture and financial reality during WeWork’s rise and crash.
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