
Jesse Plemons
Biography
Jesse Plemons (/ˈplɛmənz/; 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.
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Acting History
2026
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping as Plutarch Heavensbee
2026Judy
2025Variety & CNN Actors on Actors as Self
2025The Birth and the Bees: The Making of Bugonia as Self
2025Bugonia as Teddy
2025Willie Nelson Presents: King of the Roadies as Self
2025Zero Day as Roger Carlson
2024Torn Asunder: Waging Alex Garland's Civil War as Self
2024Kinds of Kindness as Robert / Daniel / Andrew
2024Civil War as Militia Soldier (uncredited)
2024Civil War as Militant (uncredited)
2023Killers of the Flower Moon as Tom White
2023Love & Death as Allan Gore
2022Windfall as CEO
2022Behind the Scenes With Jane Campion as Self (archive footage)
2021Antlers as Paul Meadows
2021The Power of the Dog as George Burbank
2021Jungle Cruise as Prince Joachim
2021Judas and the Black Messiah as Roy Mitchell
2020I'm Thinking of Ending Things as Jake
2020Snow Globe: A Breaking Bad Short as Todd
2019The Irishman as Chuckie O'Brien
2019The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie as Self
2019El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie as Todd
2018Vice as Kurt
2018Game Night as Gary
2017Hostiles as Lieutenant Rudy Kidder
2017The Post as Roger Clark
2017No Activity as Angus
2017American Made as Sheriff Downing
2017The Discovery as Toby Harbor
2016Other People as David Mulcahey
2016Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls as Self
2015Bridge of Spies as Joe Murphy
2015Black Mass as Kevin Weeks
2015The Program as Floyd Landis
2014Olive Kitteridge as Jerry McCarthy
2014The Homesman as Garn Sours
2014Fargo as Ed Blumquist
2014Flutter as David
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
2013Dalai Lama as Jeff
2013No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad as Self (uncredited)
2013Drunk History as Edgar Allan Poe
2013Drunk History as William Kenward
2013Drunk History as Charles Ponzi
2012The Master as Val Dodd
2012Battleship as Boatswain Mate Seaman Jimmy "Ordy" Ord
2012Bent as Gary
2011Black Mirror as Robert Daly
2011Paul as Jake
2010Happiness Runs as Chad
2010Meeting Spencer as Spencer West
2009Shrink as Jesus
2009Observe and Report as Charles
2008Childrens Hospital as Jesse
2008The Flyboys as Bully #1
2008Fear Itself as Lemmon
2008Fear Itself: The Sacrifice as Lemmon
2008Breaking Bad as Todd
2006Friday Night Lights as Landry Clarke
2005Grey's Anatomy as Jake Burton
2004Huff as Dawson James
2004The Failures as Boe
2003When Zachary Beaver Came to Town as Jay
2003Cold Case as Ryan Stewart
2003The Lyon's Den as Ray Ferris
2003NCIS as Jason Geckler
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
2002Like Mike as Ox
2002Children on Their Birthdays as Preacher Star
2001The Guardian as Lawrence Neal
2000All the Pretty Horses as Young Grady (uncredited)
2000CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Owen Durbin
1999Judging Amy as James Franklin
1999Varsity Blues as Tommy Harbor
1998Finding North as Hobo
1996Sabrina, the Teenage Witch as Bigger Kid
1993Walker, Texas Ranger as Russell, Jr.
1953The Oscars as Self
1944Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
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