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.
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Jonty
as Jonty
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
as Plutarch Heavensbee
Digger
as Kenny
The Birth and The Bees: The Making of Bugonia
as Self
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
as Self
Bugonia
as Teddy
Willie Nelson Presents: King of the Roadies
as Self
Zero Day
as Roger Carlson
Torn Asunder: Waging Alex Garland's Civil War
as Self
Kinds of Kindness
as Robert / Daniel / Andrew
Killers of the Flower Moon
as Tom White
Love & Death
as Allan Gore
Windfall
as CEO
Behind the Scenes with Jane Campion
as Self (archive footage)
Antlers
as Paul Meadows
Jungle Cruise
as Prince Joachim
Judas and the Black Messiah
as Roy Mitchell
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
as Jake
Snow Globe: A Breaking Bad Short
as Todd
The Irishman
as Chuckie O'Brien
The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
as Self
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
as Todd
Vice
as Kurt
Game Night
as Gary
Hostiles
as Lieutenant Rudy Kidder
The Post
as Roger Clark
No Activity
as Angus
American Made
as Sheriff Downing
The Discovery
as Toby Harbor
Other People
as David Mulcahey
Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls
as Self
Bridge of Spies
as Joe Murphy
Black Mass
as Kevin Weeks
The Program
as Floyd Landis
Olive Kitteridge
as Jerry McCarthy
The Homesman
as Garn Sours
Fargo
as Ed Blumquist
Flutter
as David
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
Dalai Lama
as Jeff
No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad
as Self (uncredited)
Drunk History
as Edgar Allan Poe
Drunk History
as William Kenward
Drunk History
as Charles Ponzi
The Master
as Val Dodd
Bent
as Gary
Black Mirror
as Robert Daly
Paul
as Jake
Happiness Runs
as Chad
Meeting Spencer
as Spencer West
Shrink
as Jesus
Observe and Report
as Charles
Childrens Hospital
as Jesse
The Flyboys
as Bully #1
The Sacrifice
as Lemmon
Fear Itself
as Lemmon
Friday Night Lights
as Landry Clarke
Grey's Anatomy
as Jake Burton
Huff
as Dawson James
The Failures
as Boe
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
as Jay
Cold Case
as Ryan Stewart
The Lyon's Den
as Ray Ferris
NCIS
as Jason Geckler
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Guest
Like Mike
as Ox
Children on Their Birthdays
as Preacher Star
The Guardian
as Lawrence Neal
All the Pretty Horses
as Young Grady (uncredited)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Owen Durbin
Judging Amy
as James Franklin
Varsity Blues
as Tommy Harbor
Finding North
as Hobo
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
as Bigger Kid
Walker, Texas Ranger
as Russell, Jr.
The Oscars
as Self
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee