26 December,2013 10:47 PM IST | | The Centrestage Team
American actor, musician, singer and songwriter Jared Leto celebrates his birthday today, CS gives you some interestingtrivia on him.
>>u00a0He has English, Cajun (French) and Spanish ancestry. Leto was his stepfather's surname.
>>u00a0Jared Leto is earning Oscar buzz for his role as a transgender woman in Dallas Buyers Club.
>>u00a0After the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Leto and his bandmates raised $100,100 for Haitian relief. The charity auction included concert tickets, an exclusive backstage meet and greet, and dinner with the band.
>>u00a0While preparing for his role as a heroin addict in the movie Requiem for a Dream (2000), Jared lost 28 pounds by starving himself and also abstained from getting physically intimate with then-fiancee Cameron Diaz.
>> Leto is a vegan. He was nominated several times as one of the sexiest vegetarians in the world.
>>u00a0His hobbies include snowboarding, skateboarding, hiking, writing songs, reading and painting.u00a0
