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