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Jesse Plemons
Dallas, Texas, USA
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 serie…
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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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2026
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
Movie Plutarch Heavensbee
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2026
Digger
Movie Kenny
- 2025
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2025
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
TV show Self
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2025
Bugonia
Movie Teddy
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2025
Willie Nelson Presents: King of the Roadies
Movie Self
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2025
Zero Day
TV show Roger Carlson
- 2024
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2024
Kinds of Kindness
Movie Robert / Daniel / Andrew
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2024
Civil War
Movie Militia Soldier (uncredited)
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2023
Killers of the Flower Moon
Movie Tom White
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2023
Love & Death
TV show Allan Gore
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2022
Windfall
Movie CEO
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2022
Behind the Scenes with Jane Campion
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
Antlers
Movie Paul Meadows
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2021
The Power of the Dog
Movie George Burbank
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2021
Jungle Cruise
Movie Prince Joachim
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2021
Judas and the Black Messiah
Movie Roy Mitchell
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2020
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Movie Jake
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2020
Snow Globe: A Breaking Bad Short
Movie Todd
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2019
The Irishman
Movie Chuckie O'Brien
- 2019
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2019
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Movie Todd
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2018
Vice
Movie Kurt
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2018
Game Night
Movie Gary
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2017
The Post
Movie Roger Clark
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2017
Hostiles
Movie Lieutenant Rudy Kidder
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2017
No Activity
TV show Angus
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2017
American Made
Movie Sheriff Downing
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2017
The Discovery
Movie Toby Harbor
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2016
Other People
Movie David Mulcahey
- 2016
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2015
Bridge of Spies
Movie Joe Murphy
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2015
Black Mass
Movie Kevin Weeks
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2015
The Program
Movie Floyd Landis
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2014
Olive Kitteridge
TV show Jerry McCarthy
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2014
The Homesman
Movie Garn Sours
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2014
Fargo
TV show Ed Blumquist
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2014
Flutter
Movie David
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2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV show Self - Guest
