Jared Martin
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
Acting career
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.