
Jesse Plemons
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
Digger2026 · Alejandro G. Iñárritu
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping2026 · Francis Lawrence
Bugonia2025 · Yorgos Lanthimos
Kinds of Kindness2024 · Yorgos Lanthimos
Killers of the Flower Moon2023 · Martin Scorsese
Jungle Cruise2021 · Jaume Collet-Serra
Antlers2021 · Scott Cooper
The Power of the Dog2021 · Jane Campion
Judas and the Black Messiah2021 · Shaka King
I'm Thinking of Ending Things2020 · Charlie Kaufman
The Irishman2019 · Martin Scorsese
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie2019 · Vince Gilligan
Game Night2018 · John Francis Daley
Vice2018 · Adam McKay
American Made2017 · Doug Liman
Hostiles2017 · Scott Cooper
The Post2017 · Steven Spielberg
The Discovery2017 · Charlie McDowell
Other People2016 · Chris Kelly
Bridge of Spies2015 · Steven Spielberg
Black Mass2015 · Scott Cooper
The Program2015 · Stephen Frears
The Homesman2014 · Tommy Lee Jones
Battleship2012 · Peter Berg
The Master2012 · Paul Thomas Anderson
Paul2011 · Greg Mottola- Observe and Report2009 · Jody Hill
- The Sacrifice2008 · Breck Eisner
Like Mike2002 · John Schultz
Varsity Blues1999 · Brian Robbins


