Jesse Plemons

Jesse Plemons (born April 2, 1988, in Dallas, Texas) is an American actor celebrated for quietly intense performances across television and film. He started working as a child performer, steadily building a résumé that would later make him one of his generation’s most in-demand character actors.

Plemons’ major breakthrough came as Landry Clarke on NBC’s Friday Night Lights (2006–2011). He then made a lasting impression as Todd Alquist in AMC’s Breaking Bad and returned to the role in El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie. His TV work has earned multiple Emmy nominations, including for FX’s Fargo (where he won a Critics’ Choice Television Award) and the “USS Callister” episode of Black Mirror.

On the big screen, Plemons has appeared in acclaimed films such as The Master, Bridge of Spies, Game Night, The Irishman, Judas and the Black Messiah, and Killers of the Flower Moon. He also led features like Other People and I’m Thinking of Ending Things.

His performance in The Power of the Dog brought an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, and in 2024 he won Cannes’ Best Actor prize for portraying three roles in Kinds of Kindness. Notable early credits include Like Mike and All the Pretty Horses.