Shannon Leto was born on March 9, 1970 in Bossier City, Louisiana, USA as Shannon Christopher Bryant. He is an actor and composer, known for My So-Called Life (1994), Prefontaine (1997) and 30 Seconds to Mars: Walk on Water (2017).
Shannon Leto
Movies
Highway
Jack is caught with the wife of his employer, a Vegas thug. The thug sends goons after Jack, who convinces his best friend, Pilot, to flee with him. Pilot insists that they head for Seattle, but doesn’t tell Jack why. The goons learn from Pilot’s drug source where the youths…
Fun Facts
"" we wanted to create something that we never had done before. So we put a mic in the middle of the room with Jared on the piano
Quotes
[on growing up with his brother, Jared Leto] We've experienced a lot growing up, moving around a lot, so we read a lot of books, watched a lot of movies, things like that. So we drew a lot from our life experiences. We don't sit around and think about what other people were doing. I don't even think my brother and I really went to concerts growing up! I didn't go to school for drumming or anything, we just had these instruments around when we were four or five years old, and we used them as toys! It all just sort of came full circle and made sense that this is where we ended up.
[on how he started his own business] It started out of my love for coffee, which goes back to my childhood watching my grandfather prepare chicory coffee in Louisiana. So I decided to start Black Fuel Trading Co. to be able to share my love of coffee with the world by coming up with my own proprietary blends, each of which have a special meaning to me. But I didn't want to just stop at coffee; I want to share my vision for apparel, accessories, style and beyond, so I'm developing a full lifestyle brand and will offer other like-brands in addition to Black Fuel Trading Co. products.
[on his relationship with Thirty Seconds to Mars fans] It's a real natural thing for us. We make an effort to do all that we can do. I remember when we were doing our first shows, we were always interested in how the audience was participating, and most importantly took those responses into consideration and respected it. Then we just built our performance and interaction from there. It became much more of a back-and-forth conversation, so now we have our own family out there. It's pretty awesome.
[on performing emotional songs with Thirty Seconds to Mars] With "Alibi