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Home/People/Jesse Plemons
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Born
Apr 2, 1988
Age 37
Place of Birth
Dallas, Texas, USA
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male

Career Highlights

53
Movies
30
TV Shows
IMDb Profile

Jesse Plemons

Acting

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.
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping poster

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

as Plutarch Heavensbee
2026
Digger poster

Digger

Cast
2026
The Birth and the Bees: The Making of Bugonia poster

The Birth and the Bees: The Making of Bugonia

Cast
2025
Bugonia poster

Bugonia

as Teddy
2025
Willie Nelson Presents: King of the Roadies poster

Willie Nelson Presents: King of the Roadies

as Self
2025
Torn Asunder: Waging Alex Garland's Civil War poster

Torn Asunder: Waging Alex Garland's Civil War

as Self
2024
Kinds of Kindness poster

Kinds of Kindness

as Robert / Daniel / Andrew
2024
Civil War poster

Civil War

as Militia Soldier (uncredited)
2024
Civil War poster

Civil War

as Militant (uncredited)
2024
Killers of the Flower Moon poster

Killers of the Flower Moon

as Tom White
2023
Windfall poster

Windfall

as CEO
2022
Behind the Scenes With Jane Campion poster

Behind the Scenes With Jane Campion

as Self (archive footage)
2022
Antlers poster

Antlers

as Paul Meadows
2021
The Power of the Dog poster

The Power of the Dog

as George Burbank
2021
Jungle Cruise poster

Jungle Cruise

as Prince Joachim
2021
Judas and the Black Messiah poster

Judas and the Black Messiah

as Roy Mitchell
2021
I'm Thinking of Ending Things poster

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

as Jake
2020
Snow Globe: A Breaking Bad Short poster

Snow Globe: A Breaking Bad Short

as Todd
2020
The Irishman poster

The Irishman

as Chuckie O'Brien
2019
The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie poster

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

as Self
2019