The best roles of Jesse Plemons

Jesse Plemons is an American-born actor who has starred in films and TV shows such as Kids and Their Birthdays, Friday Night Lights, The Master, Fargo, etc. His filmography includes more than forty projects, and the awards prove that his work is highly regarded by critics and audiences. The article is about actor roles that deserve special attention.

Biography

Jesse Plemons (photo see article) was born in 1988 in Dallas (Texas) in the family of Jim Bob and Lisa Bet Plemons. He studied at a high school in the city of Mart (Texas), where he was a member of a football team. And in 2007 he graduated from Texas Tech University Independent School District. He studied remotely, which allowed him to work and pay for his studies. In 2016, Jesse began dating Kirsten Dunst. Now they are engaged and raise a son - Ennis Howard Plemons.

Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst

Like a cool psychoanalyst

Jesse began his career with feature films. In 1998, he got a small role in the comedy drama Tanya Wexler, "In Search of the North." A year later, along with Paul Walker and John Voight starred in the comedy drama Brian Robbinson's "Student Team". And in 2000, he replenished the main cast of Billy Bob Thornton's melodrama “Indomitable Hearts” about two cowboys who one day leave their ranches to go to Mexico in search of work.

Shot from the film "Psychoanalyst"

In 2002, Jesse Plemons got a supporting role in John Schultz's comedy film "Like Mike." In the same year he took the place in the main part of the comedy drama by Mark Midoff "Children and their birthdays." In 2008, he played a drug dealer named Jesus in the comedy drama Jonas Pate's The Psychoanalyst, starring Kevin Spacey and Mark Webber. And he played a small role in Jody Hill's crime comedy “Like a Cool Guard”, in the center of the plot of which is an unbalanced security guard of a shopping center who dreams of entering the police academy.

Lights of sea battle

In 2011, the actor starred in the sci-fi comedy Greg Mottola's “Sex: The Secret Material”. And from 2006 to 2011 he took part in the filming of the drama series “Night Friday Lights,” the plot of which revolves around a school football team from the fictional city of Dillon, located in Texas. He played Landry Clark, quarterback best friend Matt Sarasen and a freshman who joined the team in season two.

Shot from the series "Friday Night Lights"

In 2012, Jesse Plemons played a supporting role in Peter Berg's action movie Sea Battle. He played Jimmy Horde, an assistant boatswain on an American destroyer. Then starred in six episodes of the romantic comedy channel NBC "Addiction" (2012). And in the same year he became a member of the main cast of the drama film by Paul Thomas Anderson "The Master", which tells the story of a war veteran. Wanting to adapt to a quiet life, he enters into a religious society called "Reason."

Night Games in America

Between 2012 and 2013, the actor starred in Vince Gilligan's crime drama “Breaking Bad”, where he played the role of Todd Alquist, an insect killer from Vamonos Pest and assistant Walter White. This work brought him victory at the IGN Summer Movie Awards, where he was named "the best television villain." And in 2015, Jesse tried on the image of Ed Blomkvist, an excellent butcher and devoted husband, in the second season of Noah Hawley’s crime drama “Fargo”, for which he won the Best Supporting Actor nomination in 2016 at the Critics Choice Television Awards.

Frame from the series "Breaking Bad"

In the comedy drama Other People, directed by Chris Kelly in 2016, Jesse Plemons played David Malkakhi, a 29-year-old gay man who returned home to take care of his mother. The role of Toby Harbor, the brother of the protagonist, who proved that life after death exists, was performed in the science fiction film by Charlie MacDowell “Discovery” (2017). Together with Tom Cruise and Sarah Wright starred in Dag Lyman's action movie "Made in America" ​​(2017). And as Gary Kingsbury, a neighbor of the Davis family, he played “Night Games” (2018) in the comedy film by John Daily and Jonathan Goldstein.

What to expect?

As for new projects, several films with Jesse Plemons are immediately in line. The shooting of Martin Scorsese’s biographical drama “The Irishman” (2019), in which the actor will compose Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, has ended. Shooting of the adventure film by Jaum Colet-Serra "Jungle Cruise." And in full swing is the preparatory process for the creation of the crime drama Kirsten Dunst "The Glass Cap".


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