Jesse Plemons

Jesse Plemons

CountryUnited States United States
GenderMale
BirthdayApr 2, 1988
BiographyJesse Plemons (born April 2, 1988) is an American actor. His accolades include nominations for an Academy Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards and a British Academy Film Award.

Plemons began his career as a child actor and had his breakthrough with the role of Landry Clarke in the NBC drama series Friday Night Lights (2006–2011). He subsequently portrayed Todd Alquist in the fifth and final season of the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad (2012–2013) and its sequel film El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019). He received Emmy nominations for his roles as Ed Blumquist in the second season of the FX anthology series Fargo (2015), the Netflix anthology series Black Mirror (2017–2025), and the HBO Max miniseries Love & Death (2023).

Plemons received further recognition with supporting roles in the films 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 received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor and his first Golden Globe nomination.

Plemons is known for being typecast as quiet and unnerving characters in his most prominent roles, such as Breaking Bad, Kinds of Kindness, and Game Night (2018). His acting style is characterized by his Texan accent, cowboy-inspired persona, and dramatic pauses in his speech.

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