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Jesse Plemons

Acting

Born April 2, 1988 · Dallas, Texas, USA

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jesse Plemons, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Awards & recognition

  • Cannes Film Festival AwardBest Actor · 2024
  • Screen Actors Guild AwardOutstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series · 2014
  • Academy AwardBest Supporting Actor · 2022 · nominated
  • Screen Actors Guild AwardOutstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series · 2014 · nominated
  • Screen Actors Guild AwardOutstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series · 2013 · nominated

Filmography50+ titles

Breaking Bad

2008as Todd

Fargo

2014as Ed Blumquist

Black Mirror

2011as Robert Daly

Grey's Anatomy

2005as Jake Burton

Friday Night Lights

2006as Landry Clarke

Love & Death

2023as Allan Gore

Cold Case

2003as Ryan Stewart

Sabrina, the Teenage Witch

1996as Bigger Kid

Huff

2004as Dawson James

The Irishman

2019as Chuckie O'Brien

Olive Kitteridge

2014as Jerry McCarthy

NCIS

2003as Jason Geckler

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

2000as Owen Durbin

Killers of the Flower Moon

2023as Tom White

Bugonia

2025as Teddy

Jungle Cruise

2021as Prince Joachim

Judas and the Black Messiah

2021as Roy Mitchell

Bridge of Spies

2015as Joe Murphy

The Master

2012as Val Dodd

Zero Day

2025as Roger Carlson

The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

2019as Self

El Camino

2019as Todd

Vice

2018as Kurt

The Post

2017as Roger Clark

Childrens Hospital

2008as Jesse

The Guardian

2001as Lawrence Neal

Walker, Texas Ranger

1993as Russell, Jr.

Civil War

2024as Militia Soldier (uncredited)

Hostiles

2017as Lieutenant Rudy Kidder

American Made

2017as Sheriff Downing

Game Night

2018as Gary

Drunk History

2013as Charles Ponzi

The Power of the Dog

2021as George Burbank

No Activity

2017as Angus

Paul

2011as Jake

Fear Itself

2008as Lemmon

Bent

2012as Gary

Kinds of Kindness

2024as Robert / Daniel / Andrew

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

2020as Jake

Black Mass

2015as Kevin Weeks

The Homesman

2014as Garn Sours

Other People

2016as David Mulcahey

The Program

2015as Floyd Landis

The Discovery

2017as Toby Harbor

Antlers

2021as Paul Meadows

Shrink

2009as Jesus

Behind the Scenes with Jane Campion

2022as Self (archive footage)

Like Mike

2002as Ox

Varsity Blues

1999as Tommy Harbor

Battleship

2012as Boatswain Mate Seaman Jimmy "Ordy" Ord