Jesse Plemons
Acting
- Born:
- 1988-04-02
- Place of birth:
- Dallas, Texas, USA
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
Digger
The Birth and The Bees: The Making of Bugonia
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
Bugonia
Willie Nelson Presents: King of the Roadies
Zero Day
Torn Asunder: Waging Alex Garland's Civil War
Kinds of Kindness
Civil War
Killers of the Flower Moon
Love & Death
Windfall
Behind the Scenes with Jane Campion
Antlers
The Power of the Dog
Jungle Cruise
Judas and the Black Messiah
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Snow Globe: A Breaking Bad Short
The Irishman
The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Vice
Game Night
Hostiles
The Post
No Activity
American Made
The Discovery
Other People
Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls
Bridge of Spies
Black Mass
The Program
Olive Kitteridge
The Homesman
Fargo
Flutter
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Dalai Lama
No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad
Drunk History
The Master
Battleship
Bent
Black Mirror
Paul
Happiness Runs
Meeting Spencer
Shrink
Observe and Report
Childrens Hospital
The Flyboys
The Sacrifice
Fear Itself
Breaking Bad
Friday Night Lights
Grey's Anatomy
Huff
The Failures
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
Cold Case
The Lyon's Den
NCIS
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Like Mike
Children on Their Birthdays
The Guardian
All the Pretty Horses
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Judging Amy
Varsity Blues
Finding North
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
Walker, Texas Ranger
The Oscars
Golden Globe Awards
Jonty