Jesse Plemons
Acting
1988-04-02 · Dallas, Texas, USA
Jesse Lon Plemons (born April 2, 1988) is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor and achieved a breakthrough with his role as Landry Clarke in the NBC drama series Friday Night Lights (2006–2011). He subsequently portrayed Todd Alquist in season 5 of the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad (2012–2013) and its sequel film El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019). He received his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his role as Ed Blumquist in season 2 of the FX anthology series Fargo (2015). He won a Critics' Choice Television Award. He received a second Emmy nomination for his performance in "USS Callister", an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror (2017). Plemons has acted in supporting roles in films such as The Master (2012), Bridge of Spies (2015), Game Night (2018), The Irishman (2019), Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). He starred in Other People (2016) and I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020). For playing a rancher in The Power of the Dog (2021), he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and for playing three roles in the anthology film Kinds of Kindness (2024), he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor.
Filmography
TheatersThe Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
2026 · Movie
TheatersDigger
2026 · Movie
The Birth and the Bees: The Making of Bugonia
2025 · Movie
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
2025 · Series
Bugonia
2025 · Movie
Willie Nelson Presents: King of the Roadies
2025 · Movie
Zero Day
2025 · Series
Torn Asunder: Waging Alex Garland's Civil War
2024 · Movie
Kinds of Kindness
2024 · Movie
Civil War
2024 · Movie
Killers of the Flower Moon
2023 · Movie
Love & Death
2023 · Series
Windfall
2022 · Movie
Behind the Scenes with Jane Campion
2022 · Movie
Antlers
2021 · Movie
The Power of the Dog
2021 · Movie
Jungle Cruise
2021 · Movie
Judas and the Black Messiah
2021 · Movie
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
2020 · Movie
Snow Globe: A Breaking Bad Short
2020 · Movie
The Irishman
2019 · Movie
The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
2019 · Movie
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
2019 · Movie
Vice
2018 · Movie
Game Night
2018 · Movie
Hostiles
2017 · Movie
The Post
2017 · Movie
No Activity
2017 · Series
American Made
2017 · Movie
The Discovery
2017 · Movie
Other People
2016 · Movie
Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls
2016 · Movie
Bridge of Spies
2015 · Movie
Black Mass
2015 · Movie
The Program
2015 · Movie
Olive Kitteridge
2014 · Series
The Homesman
2014 · Movie
Fargo
2014 · Series
Flutter
2014 · Movie
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Series
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Series
Dalai Lama
2013 · Movie
No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad
2013 · Movie
Drunk History
2013 · Series
The Master
2012 · Movie
Battleship
2012 · Movie
Bent
2012 · Series
Black Mirror
2011 · Series
Paul
2011 · Movie
Happiness Runs
2010 · Movie
Meeting Spencer
2010 · Movie
Shrink
2009 · Movie
Observe and Report
2009 · Movie
Childrens Hospital
2008 · Series
The Flyboys
2008 · Movie
Fear Itself
2008 · Series
The Sacrifice
2008 · Movie
Breaking Bad
2008 · Series
Friday Night Lights
2006 · Series
Grey's Anatomy
2005 · Series
Huff
2004 · Series
The Failures
2004 · Movie
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
2003 · Movie
Cold Case
2003 · Series
The Lyon's Den
2003 · Series
NCIS
2003 · Series
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Series
Like Mike
2002 · Movie
Children on Their Birthdays
2002 · Movie
The Guardian
2001 · Series
All the Pretty Horses
2000 · Movie
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000 · Series
Judging Amy
1999 · Series
Varsity Blues
1999 · Movie
Finding North
1998 · Movie
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
1996 · Series
Walker, Texas Ranger
1993 · Series
The Oscars
1953 · Series
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Series
Jonty
Movie