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Jesse Lon Plemons is an American actor and comedian. He began his career as a child actor and achieved a career breakthrough with his supporting role as Landry Clarke in the NBC drama series Friday Night Lights (2006–11). He subsequently portrayed Todd Alquist in season 5 of the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad and won a Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance as part of the show's ensemble cast; he reprised the role in its sequel, the television film El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019). Following Breaking Bad, Plemons received his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination and won a Critics' Choice Television Award for portraying Ed Blumquist in the season 2 of the FX anthology series Fargo. He received a second Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his portrayal of Robert Daly in "USS Callister", an episode of the Netflix anthology series Black Mirror.
Birth Name
Jesse Lon Plemons
Born
Saturday, 02 April 1988
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Kinds of Kindness | Robert / Daniel / Andrew | 2024 |
Civil War | Soldier | 2024 |
Bugonia | 2024 | |
Killers of the Flower Moon | Tom White | 2023 |
Love & Death | Allan Gore | 2023 |
Windfall | CEO | 2022 |
The 27th Annual Critics' Choice Awards | Self | 2022 |
The 28th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards | Self - Presenter | 2022 |
Behind the Scenes with Jane Campion | Self (archive footage) | 2022 |
The Power of the Dog | George Burbank | 2021 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Kinds of Kindness | Robert / Daniel / Andrew | 2024 |
Civil War | Soldier | 2024 |
Bugonia | 2024 | |
Killers of the Flower Moon | Tom White | 2023 |
Love & Death | Allan Gore | 2023 |
Windfall | CEO | 2022 |
The 27th Annual Critics' Choice Awards | Self | 2022 |
The 28th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards | Self - Presenter | 2022 |
Behind the Scenes with Jane Campion | Self (archive footage) | 2022 |
The Power of the Dog | George Burbank | 2021 |
Antlers | Paul Meadows | 2021 |
Jungle Cruise | Prince Joachim | 2021 |
Judas and the Black Messiah | Roy Mitchell | 2021 |
I'm Thinking of Ending Things | Jake | 2020 |
The Irishman | Chuckie O'Brien | 2019 |
The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie | Self - Todd | 2019 |
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie | Todd | 2019 |
Vice | Kurt | 2018 |
GMA3: Strahan, Sara & Keke | Self | 2018 |
Hollywood Insider | Self | 2018 |
Game Night | Gary | 2018 |
The Post | Roger Clark | 2017 |
Hostiles | Lt. Rudy Kidder / Lieutenant Rudy Kidder | 2017 |
The IMDb Show | Self - Guest | 2017 |
No Activity | Angus | 2017 |
American Made | Sheriff Downing | 2017 |
The Discovery | Toby / Toby Harbor | 2017 |
The 68th Primetime Emmy Awards | Self - Nominee | 2016 |
Other People | David / David Mulcahey | 2016 |
Bridge of Spies | Joe Murphy | 2015 |
Black Mass | Kevin Weeks | 2015 |
The Program | Floyd Landis | 2015 |
Olive Kitteridge | Jerry McCarthy | 2014 |
The Homesman | Garn Sours | 2014 |
Dalai Lama | Jeff | 2014 |
Fargo | Ed Blumquist | 2014 |
Flutter | David | 2014 |
Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self - Guest | 2014 |
No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad | Self | 2013 |
Celebrity Page | Self | 2013 |
Drunk History | William Kenward / Edgar Allan Poe / Charles Ponzi | 2013 |
The Master | Val Dodd | 2012 |
Battleship | Boatswain Mate Seaman Jimmy "Ordy" Ord / Boatswain Mate Seaman Jimmy 'Ordy' Ord | 2012 |
Bent | Gary | 2012 |
Black Mirror | Robert Daly | 2011 |
Paul | Jake | 2011 |
Happiness Runs | Chad | 2010 |
Meeting Spencer | Spencer West | 2010 |
Shrink | Jesus | 2009 |
Observe and Report | Charles | 2009 |
Childrens Hospital | Jesse | 2008 |
Sky Kids | Bully #1 | 2008 |
Fear Itself | Lemmon | 2008 |
Breaking Bad | Todd | 2008 |
Friday Night Lights | Landry Clarke | 2006 |
Made in Hollywood | Self | 2005 |
Grey's Anatomy | Jake Burton | 2005 |
Huff | Dawson James | 2004 |
The Failures | Boe | 2004 |
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town | Jay, the Trailer Bully / Jay | 2003 |
The Lyon's Den | Ray Ferris | 2003 |
Cold Case | Ryan Stewart | 2003 |
NCIS | Jason Geckler | 2003 |
eTalk Daily | Self | 2002 |
Like Mike | Ox | 2002 |
Children on Their Birthdays | Preacher Star | 2002 |
The Guardian | Lawrence Neal | 2001 |
All the Pretty Horses | Young Grady | 2000 |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Owen Durbin | 2000 |
Judging Amy | James Franklin | 1999 |
Varsity Blues | Tommy Harbor | 1999 |
Finding North | Hobo | 1998 |
Sabrina the Teenage Witch | Bigger Kid | 1996 |
Walker, Texas Ranger | Russell, Jr. | 1993 |
Producer Filmography
Title | Year |
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Windfall | 2022 |
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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2023 | Emmy | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie | Nominated |
2022 | Oscar | Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role | Nominated |
2018 | Emmy | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie | Nominated |
2016 | Emmy | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie | Nominated |