Actor

Jesse Plemons

Born 2 April 1988 · 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.

Films and shows

  1. 2026The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping2h 38mPlutarch Heavensbee
  2. 2026Digger2h 9m
  3. 2025Bugonia1h 59mTeddy
  4. 2025Zero Day1 seasonRoger Carlson
  5. 2025The Birth and The Bees: The Making of Bugonia23mSelf
  6. 2025Willie Nelson Presents: King of the Roadies1h 26mSelf
  7. 2025The Birth and the Bees: The Making of Bugonia23mSelf
  8. 2024Kinds of Kindness2h 44mRobert / Daniel / Andrew
  9. 2024Torn Asunder: Waging Alex Garland's Civil War57mSelf
  10. 2023Love & Death1 seasonAllan Gore
  11. 2023Killers of the Flower Moon3h 26mTom White
  12. 2022Windfall1h 33mCEO
  13. 2022Behind the Scenes with Jane Campion17mSelf (archive footage)
  14. 2021Antlers1h 39mPaul Meadows
  15. 2021Judas and the Black Messiah2h 5mRoy Mitchell
  16. 2021The Power of the Dog2h 7mGeorge Burbank
  17. 2021Jungle Cruise2h 7mPrince Joachim
  18. 2020I'm Thinking of Ending Things2h 15mJake
  19. 2020Snow Globe: A Breaking Bad Short3mTodd
  20. 2019El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie2h 3mTodd
  21. 2019The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie13mSelf
  22. 2019The Irishman3h 29mChuckie O'Brien
  23. 2018Game Night1h 40mGary
  24. 2018Vice2h 12mKurt
  25. 2017Hostiles2h 14mLieutenant Rudy Kidder
  26. 2017American Made1h 55mSheriff Downing
  27. 2017The Discovery1h 42mToby Harbor
  28. 2017The Post1h 56mRoger Clark
  29. 2016Other People1h 37mDavid Mulcahey
  30. 2016Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls44mSelf
  31. 2015The Program1h 43mFloyd Landis
  32. 2015Black Mass2h 3mKevin Weeks
  33. 2015Bridge of Spies2h 21mJoe Murphy
  34. 2014Flutter1h 36mDavid
  35. 2014Olive Kitteridge1 seasonJerry McCarthy
  36. 2014The Homesman2h 2mGarn Sours
  37. 2013Dalai Lama14mJeff
  38. 2012The Master2h 17mVal Dodd
  39. 2012Battleship2h 11mBoatswain Mate Seaman Jimmy "Ordy" Ord
  40. 2011Paul1h 44mJake
  41. 2010Meeting SpencerSpencer West
  42. 2010Happiness Runs1h 28mChad
  43. 2009Observe and Report1h 26mCharles
  44. 2009Shrink1h 44mJesus
  45. 2008The Sacrifice45mLemmon
  46. 2004The Failures1h 27mBoe
  47. 2003When Zachary Beaver Came to Town1h 25mJay
  48. 2002Like Mike1h 39mOx
  49. 2002Children on Their Birthdays1h 44mPreacher Star
  50. 1999Varsity Blues1h 46mTommy Harbor
  51. JontyJonty