Acting
Jesse Plemons
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.
Filmography
Digger
Film · 2026
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
Film · 2026
Bugonia
Film · 2025
Willie Nelson Presents: King of the Roadies
Film · 2025
The Birth and The Bees: The Making of Bugonia
Film · 2025
Zero Day
Series · 2025
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
Series · 2025
Kinds of Kindness
Film · 2024
Civil War
Film · 2024
Torn Asunder: Waging Alex Garland's Civil War
Film · 2024
Killers of the Flower Moon
Film · 2023
Love & Death
Series · 2023
Behind the Scenes with Jane Campion
Film · 2022
Windfall
Film · 2022
Jungle Cruise
Film · 2021
Antlers
Film · 2021
Judas and the Black Messiah
Film · 2021
The Power of the Dog
Film · 2021
Snow Globe: A Breaking Bad Short
Film · 2020
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Film · 2020
The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Film · 2019
The Irishman
Film · 2019
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Film · 2019
Game Night
Film · 2018
Vice
Film · 2018
American Made
Film · 2017
The Discovery
Film · 2017
Hostiles
Film · 2017
The Post
Film · 2017
No Activity
Series · 2017
Other People
Film · 2016
Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls
Film · 2016
Black Mass
Film · 2015
The Program
Film · 2015
Bridge of Spies
Film · 2015
The Homesman
Film · 2014
Flutter
Film · 2014
Fargo
Series · 2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Series · 2014
Olive Kitteridge
Series · 2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Series · 2014
No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad
Film · 2013
Dalai Lama
Film · 2013
Drunk History
Series · 2013
Drunk History
Series · 2013
Drunk History
Series · 2013
Battleship
Film · 2012
The Master
Film · 2012
Bent
Series · 2012
Paul
Film · 2011
Black Mirror
Series · 2011
Meeting Spencer
Film · 2010
Happiness Runs
Film · 2010
Observe and Report
Film · 2009
Shrink
Film · 2009
The Flyboys
Film · 2008
The Sacrifice
Film · 2008
Fear Itself
Series · 2008
Childrens Hospital
Series · 2008
Breaking Bad
Series · 2008
Friday Night Lights
Series · 2006
Grey's Anatomy
Series · 2005
The Failures
Film · 2004
Huff
Series · 2004
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
Film · 2003
Cold Case
Series · 2003
NCIS
Series · 2003
The Lyon's Den
Series · 2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Series · 2003
Like Mike
Film · 2002
Children on Their Birthdays
Film · 2002
The Guardian
Series · 2001
All the Pretty Horses
Film · 2000
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Series · 2000
Varsity Blues
Film · 1999
Judging Amy
Series · 1999
Finding North
Film · 1998
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
Series · 1996
Walker, Texas Ranger
Series · 1993
The Oscars
Series · 1953
Golden Globe Awards
Series · 1944
Jonty
Film