Jesse Plemons

Jesse Plemons

Jesse Plemons (/ˈplɛmənz/; 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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Jesse Plemons Movies

Discover the best Jesse Plemons movies. Explore the complete filmography, including top-rated classics, newest releases, and highest-grossing films starring Jesse Plemons ranked by year and score.

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The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (2026)

Action Adventure Science Fiction
Long before Katniss Everdeen ever held a bow, Panem was already perfecting its cruelty. Set 24 years prior to the original trilogy, the story drops us into the morning of...
Score -.-
2
Digger

Digger (2026)

Comedy Drama
He got to the top by convincing everyone he was the answer. Now, with catastrophe closing in, he has to convince himself. Digger follows the world's most powerful man as...
Score -.-
3
Bugonia

Bugonia (2025)

Comedy Science Fiction Thriller
When two deeply online conspiracy theorists convince themselves that the ruthless CEO of a powerful corporation is actually an extraterrestrial bent on wiping out humanity, their logical next step is...
Score 7.3
4
Kinds of Kindness

Kinds of Kindness (2024)

Comedy Drama
Yorgos Lanthimos returns with three interlocking fables, each one stranger and more unsettling than the last. The first follows a man desperate to escape the grip of someone who controls...
Score 6.5
5
Civil War

Civil War (2024)

Action Drama War
America is fracturing, and four journalists are racing toward the epicenter of it. Set in a near-future United States consumed by internal conflict, Alex Garland's film follows a tight-knit press...
Score 6.9
6
Killers of the Flower Moon

Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

Crime Drama History
In 1920s Oklahoma, the Osage Nation sits atop one of the richest oil deposits in the country, and that wealth makes them targets. Scorsese's sprawling adaptation of David Grann's book...
Score 7.4
7
The Power of the Dog

The Power of the Dog (2021)

Drama Western
On a sprawling Montana ranch in the 1920s, Phil Burbank rules through contempt. Brilliant, cruel, and deliberately unwashed, he turns his quiet menace on the timid woman his brother brings...
Score 6.7
8
Judas and the Black Messiah

Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

Drama History
Fred Hampton was twenty-one years old when the FBI decided he was dangerous enough to destroy. The bureau recruited petty criminal Bill O'Neal to burrow deep inside the Illinois Black...
Score 7.3
9
I’m Thinking of Ending Things

I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

Drama Mystery Thriller
A young woman rides through a snowstorm with a boyfriend she is already reconsidering, headed toward a farmhouse dinner with his parents that keeps slipping out of time. Charlie Kaufman's...
Score 6.6
10
The Irishman

The Irishman (2019)

Crime Drama History
Frank Sheeran spent decades telling himself he was just a working man doing favors for friends. Scorsese's sprawling late-career meditation traces how a Pennsylvania truck driver drifted, almost casually, from...
Score 7.6
11
Vice

Vice (2018)

Comedy Drama
Dick Cheney spent decades quietly accumulating power, moving from congressional back rooms to the Pentagon to the boardroom of Halliburton before George W. Bush handed him the vice presidency. Adam...
Score 7.0
12
Game Night

Game Night (2018)

Comedy Crime Mystery
Max and Annie host a weekly game night with their competitive friends, but things escalate sharply when Max's slick older brother Brooks organizes an elaborate murder mystery event with hired...
Score 6.8
13
Hostiles

Hostiles (2017)

Adventure Drama History
New Mexico, 1892. A decorated but deeply bitter Army captain who has spent his career fighting and despising Native Americans receives orders that cut against every conviction he holds: escort...
Score 6.9
14
The Post

The Post (2017)

Drama History
Katharine Graham had never expected to run a newspaper. Then the Pentagon Papers landed on her desk. Steven Spielberg's 2017 drama follows the Washington Post's pivotal decision to publish classified...
Score 7.0
15
American Made

American Made (2017)

Action Comedy Crime
Barry Seal was a TWA pilot with a talent for bending rules and a hunger for something bigger than a commercial flight path. When the CIA came knocking in the...
Score 6.9
16
Bridge of Spies

Bridge of Spies (2015)

Drama Thriller
James Donovan is an insurance lawyer with no business being at the center of Cold War diplomacy, yet that is exactly where he ends up. After defending Soviet spy Rudolf...
Score 7.2
17
The Master

The Master (2012)

Drama
Freddie Quell comes home from World War II with nothing but rage and a talent for brewing toxic hooch from whatever chemicals he can find. Drifting and dangerous, he falls...
Score 7.1
18
Battleship

Battleship (2012)

Action Adventure Science Fiction
A radio signal sent toward the stars gets answered, and the reply lands in the Pacific with catastrophic force. Lieutenant Alex Hopper, a weapons officer with more raw talent than...
Score 5.9
19
Paul

Paul (2011)

Adventure Comedy Science Fiction
A wisecracking extraterrestrial has spent six decades confined within Area 51, serving as a government asset while his expiration date approaches. When Paul's continued existence becomes inconvenient to his captors,...
Score 6.7
20
Varsity Blues

Varsity Blues (1999)

Comedy Drama Romance
In small-town Texas, high school football is a religion, 17-year-old schoolboys carry the hopes of an entire community onto the gridiron every Friday night. When star quarterback Lance Harbor suffers...
Score 6.1

Jesse Plemons TV Shows

Browse the ultimate list of Jesse Plemons TV shows. Find top-rated television series, critically acclaimed dramas, and hit shows starring Jesse Plemons.

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Zero Day

Zero Day (2025)

Drama War & Politics
When a catastrophic cyberattack brings the United States to its knees, a retired president is pulled back into the corridors of power to lead the investigation. What begins as a...
Score 7.0
2
Love & Death

Love & Death (2023)

Crime Drama
In a quiet corner of 1980s Texas, two respectable church families live the kind of suburban life that looks perfect from the outside. Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore are neighbors,...
Score 7.8
3
Olive Kitteridge

Olive Kitteridge (2014)

Drama
In a quiet Maine town, nothing is quite as settled as it appears. Olive Kitteridge commands every room with her sharp tongue and unforgiving judgments, yet beneath that armor lies...
Score 7.6

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the highest-rated movies starring Jesse Plemons? +
According to aggregate user scores, the absolute best titles starring Jesse Plemons are The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, Digger, and Bugonia.
How many movies and TV shows has Jesse Plemons starred in? +
Our database currently features a comprehensive filmography of 23 titles starring Jesse Plemons, ranging from their earliest roles to the newest releases.
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Yes! The overall filmography starring Jesse Plemons maintains a strong average user rating of 7 out of 10 across all tracked titles.