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.
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From Dallas, Texas, USA
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Primarily2026 The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping as Plutarch Heavensbee
2026 Judy
2025 Bugonia as Teddy
2025 Willie Nelson Presents: King of the Roadies as Self
2025 Zero Day as Roger Carlson
2024 Torn Asunder: Waging Alex Garland's Civil War as Self
2024 Kinds of Kindness as Robert / Daniel / Andrew
2024 Civil War as Militia Soldier (uncredited)
2023 Killers of the Flower Moon as Tom White
2022 Windfall as CEO Producer
2022 Behind the Scenes With Jane Campion as Self (archive footage)
2021 Antlers as Paul Meadows
2021 The Power of the Dog as George Burbank
2021 Jungle Cruise as Prince Joachim
2021 Judas and the Black Messiah as Roy Mitchell
2020 I'm Thinking of Ending Things as Jake
2020 Snow Globe: A Breaking Bad Short as Todd
2019 The Irishman as Chuckie O'Brien
2019 The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie as Self
2019 El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie as Todd
2018 Vice as Kurt
2018 Game Night as Gary
2017 Hostiles as Lieutenant Rudy Kidder
2017 The Post as Roger Clark
2017 American Made as Sheriff Downing
2017 The Discovery as Toby Harbor
2016 Other People as David Mulcahey
2016 Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls as Self
2015 Bridge of Spies as Joe Murphy
2015 Black Mass as Kevin Weeks
2015 The Program as Floyd Landis
2014 The Homesman as Garn Sours
2014 Flutter as David
2013 Dalai Lama as Jeff
2013 No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad as Self
2012 The Master as Val Dodd
2012 Battleship as Boatswain Mate Seaman Jimmy "Ordy" Ord
2011 Paul as Jake
2010 Happiness Runs as Chad
2010 Meeting Spencer as Spencer West
2009 Shrink as Jesus
2009 Observe and Report as Charles
2008 The Flyboys as Bully #1
2004 The Failures as Boe
2003 When Zachary Beaver Came to Town as Jay
2002 Like Mike as Ox
2002 Children on Their Birthdays as Preacher Star
2000 All the Pretty Horses as Young Grady (uncredited)
1999 Varsity Blues as Tommy Harbor
1998 Finding North as Hobo