Jesse Plemons
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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
Credits
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
as Tom White
Bugonia (2025)
as Teddy
Civil War (2024)
as Militia Soldier (uncredited)
Bridge of Spies (2015)
as Joe Murphy
Battleship (2012)
as Boatswain Mate Seaman Jimmy "Ordy" Ord
Jungle Cruise (2021)
as Prince Joachim
Kinds of Kindness (2024)
as Robert / Daniel / Andrew
The Irishman (2019)
as Chuckie O'Brien
American Made (2017)
as Sheriff Downing
Vice (2018)
as Kurt
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (2026)
as Plutarch Heavensbee
Game Night (2018)
as Gary
Paul (2011)
as Jake
Digger (2026)
as Kenny
Black Mass (2015)
as Kevin Weeks
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)
as Todd
The Power of the Dog (2021)
as George Burbank
Hostiles (2017)
as Lieutenant Rudy Kidder
The Post (2017)
as Roger Clark
Antlers (2021)
as Paul Meadows
The Master (2012)
as Val Dodd
Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
as Roy Mitchell
The Flyboys (2008)
as Bully #1
The Homesman (2014)
as Garn Sours
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
as Jake
Like Mike (2002)
as Ox
All the Pretty Horses (2000)
as Young Grady (uncredited)
The Discovery (2017)
as Toby Harbor
The Program (2015)
as Floyd Landis
Varsity Blues (1999)
as Tommy Harbor
Observe and Report (2009)
as Charles
Windfall (2022)
as CEO
Other People (2016)
as David Mulcahey
The Sacrifice (2008)
as Lemmon
No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad (2013)
as Self (uncredited)
The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)
as Self
Shrink (2009)
as Jesus
Jonty (—)
as Jonty
Behind the Scenes with Jane Campion (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Willie Nelson Presents: King of the Roadies (2025)
as Self
Torn Asunder: Waging Alex Garland's Civil War (2024)
as Self
Children on Their Birthdays (2002)
as Preacher Star
The Birth and the Bees: The Making of Bugonia (2025)
as Self
Meeting Spencer (2010)
as Spencer West
Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls (2016)
as Self
The Failures (2004)
as Boe
Finding North (1998)
as Hobo
Happiness Runs (2010)
as Chad
Dalai Lama (2013)
as Jeff
Snow Globe: A Breaking Bad Short (2020)
as Todd
Flutter (2014)
as David
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town (2003)
as Jay