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.

Filmography

• 2026Digger — Kenny Rockwell
• 2026The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping — Plutarch Heavensbee
• 2025Bugonia — Teddy
• Zero Day — Roger Carlson
• 2024Civil War — Militia Soldier (uncredited)
• 2024Kinds of Kindness — Robert / Daniel / Andrew
• 2023Killers of the Flower Moon — Tom White
• Love & Death — Allan Gore
• 2022Windfall — CEO, Producer
• 2021Antlers — Paul Meadows
• 2021Judas and the Black Messiah — Roy Mitchell
• 2021Jungle Cruise — Prince Joachim
• 2021The Power of the Dog — George Burbank
• 2020I'm Thinking of Ending Things — Jake
• 2020Snow Globe: A Breaking Bad Short — Todd
• 2019El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie — Todd
• 2019The Irishman — Chuckie O'Brien
• 2018Game Night — Gary
• 2018Vice — Kurt
• 2017American Made — Sheriff Downing
• 2017Hostiles — Lieutenant Rudy Kidder
• No Activity — Angus
• 2017The Discovery — Toby Harbor
• 2017The Post — Roger Clark
• 2016Other People — David Mulcahey
• 2015Black Mass — Kevin Weeks
• 2015Bridge of Spies — Joe Murphy
• 2015The Program — Floyd Landis
• Fargo — Ed Blumquist
• 2014Flutter — David
• Olive Kitteridge — Jerry McCarthy
• 2014The Homesman — Garn Sours
• 2013Dalai Lama — Jeff
• Drunk History — Edgar Allan Poe, William Kenward, Charles Ponzi
• 2012Battleship — Boatswain Mate Seaman Jimmy "Ordy" Ord
• Bent — Gary
• 2012The Master — Val Dodd
• Black Mirror — Robert Daly
• 2011Paul — Jake
• 2010Happiness Runs — Chad
• 2010Meeting Spencer — Spencer West
• 2009Observe and Report — Charles
• 2009Shrink — Jesus
• Breaking Bad — Todd
• Childrens Hospital — Jesse
• Fear Itself — Lemmon
• 2008The Flyboys — Bully #1
• 2008The Sacrifice — Lemmon
• Friday Night Lights — Landry Clarke
• Grey's Anatomy — Jake Burton
• Huff — Dawson James
• 2004The Failures — Boe
• Cold Case — Ryan Stewart
• NCIS — Jason Geckler
• The Lyon's Den — Ray Ferris
• 2003When Zachary Beaver Came to Town — Jay
• 2002Children on Their Birthdays — Preacher Star
• 2002Like Mike — Ox
• The Guardian — Lawrence Neal
• 2000All the Pretty Horses — Young Grady (uncredited)
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Owen Durbin
• Judging Amy — James Franklin
• 1999Varsity Blues — Tommy Harbor
• 1998Finding North — Hobo
• Sabrina, the Teenage Witch — Bigger Kid
• Walker, Texas Ranger — Russell, Jr.
• Jonty — Jonty, Executive Producer

Appearances as themselves (13)

• 2025The Birth and The Bees: The Making of Bugonia — Self
• Variety & CNN Actors on Actors — Self
• 2025Willie Nelson Presents: King of the Roadies — Self
• 2024Torn Asunder: Waging Alex Garland's Civil War — Self
• 2022Behind the Scenes with Jane Campion — Self (archive footage)
• 2019The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie — Self
• 2016Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls — Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
• 2013No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad — Self (uncredited)
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
• The Oscars — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee