Jared Martin

Jared Martin
Martin with Christina Hart in The Fantastic Journey in 1977.
Born	(1941-12-21) December 21, 1941 (age 75) Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1968-2003
Spouse(s)	Nancy Fales (1963-1977) Carol Vogel (1979-1984) Yu Wei (2000-present)

Jared Martin (born December 21, 1941) is an American film and television actor. Jared is best known for his role as Dusty in the Television series Dallas

Born in Manhattan to Charles E. Martin, a cover artist and cartoonist for The New Yorker (C.E.M.), and his wife, Florence an artist and homemaker. Jared Martin began acting at the age of ten, when his parents gave him the choice of either learning to play the piano, or acting in the local children's theater group. After graduating from the Putney School in Vermont, Jared attended Columbia University, graduating in 1965 with a B.A. degree in English Literature and a minor in Art History. His roommate at Columbia was Brian DePalma. While acting in plays and experimental films at Columbia and Sarah Lawrence College he spent a summer apprenticing with Joseph Papp's Shakespeare in the Park. After graduating college he spent two years at The New York Times as copy boy and thumbnail book reviewer for the Sunday edition.

Missing the excitement of theater he left the Times and joined a summer stock company in Cape May, New Jersey; then spent a season with the Boston Classical Repertory, and eventually rejoined Papp at his new Public Theater in Manhattan, where he played Laertes in the modern rock-disco Hamlet with Martin Sheen and then Cleavon Little in the title role. In 1965 he co-founded Group 6 Productions, a New York City film and stage production company for which he directed A Night on the Town starring a young Jill Clayburgh, and in 1966 he played the lead in DePalma’s first feature film Murder A La Mod.