Jesse Plemons
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jesse Plemons, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
Bugonia (2025)
as Teddy
Digger (2026)
Actor
Civil War (2024)
as Militia Soldier (uncredited)
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
as Tom White
Battleship (2012)
as Boatswain Mate Seaman Jimmy "Ordy" Ord
The Post (2017)
as Roger Clark
The Irishman (2019)
as Chuckie O'Brien
Game Night (2018)
as Gary
American Made (2017)
as Sheriff Downing
Jungle Cruise (2021)
as Prince Joachim
Paul (2011)
as Jake
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)
as Todd
Bridge of Spies (2015)
as Joe Murphy
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (2026)
as Plutarch Heavensbee
The Master (2012)
as Val Dodd
Kinds of Kindness (2024)
as Robert / Daniel / Andrew
Black Mass (2015)
as Kevin Weeks
Vice (2018)
as Kurt
Hostiles (2017)
as Lieutenant Rudy Kidder
The Power of the Dog (2021)
as George Burbank
Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
as Roy Mitchell
Like Mike (2002)
as Ox
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
as Jake
Antlers (2021)
as Paul Meadows
The Homesman (2014)
as Garn Sours
Varsity Blues (1999)
as Tommy Harbor
The Discovery (2017)
as Toby Harbor
The Flyboys (2008)
as Bully #1
The Program (2015)
as Floyd Landis
Other People (2016)
as David Mulcahey
Observe and Report (2009)
as Charles
All the Pretty Horses (2000)
as Young Grady (uncredited)
Shrink (2009)
as Jesus
Windfall (2022)
as CEO
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
The Failures (2004)
as Boe
Meeting Spencer (2010)
as Spencer West
Happiness Runs (2010)
as Chad
Dalai Lama (2013)
as Jeff
Jonty (—)
as Jonty
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town (2003)
as Jay
Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls (2016)
as Self
Willie Nelson Presents: King of the Roadies (2025)
as Self
Finding North (1998)
as Hobo
Torn Asunder: Waging Alex Garland's Civil War (2024)
as Self
Behind the Scenes with Jane Campion (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
The Birth and the Bees: The Making of Bugonia (2025)
as Self
Children on Their Birthdays (2002)
as Preacher Star
Flutter (2014)
as David
Snow Globe: A Breaking Bad Short (2020)
as Todd
Fear Itself: The Sacrifice (2008)
as Lemmon