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Jesse Plemons

Jesse Plemons

10 films · 656 frames · top-billed in 5 · 20082025

Born 2 April 1988 · Dallas, Texas, USA

Jesse Lon Plemons 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.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 10 films · 656 frames · top-billed in 5 · 20082025

  • Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series2014
  • Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor2024

How their films are shot

Measured across 656 frames from the 10 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jesse takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 10 films we hold, 53% of their frames are day, 43% natural — the look of the work Jesse takes.

Time of day

Day53%
Night38%
Interior6%

Lighting

Natural43%
Low key42%
High key10%

Shot size

Medium41%
Wide27%
Closeup21%
Fullbody7%

Camera angle

Eye level83%
Low angle8%
High angle7%

Mood

Neutral62%
Tense22%
Lonely6%
Ominous4%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

Often with

Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 656 frames from Jesse Plemons's 10 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.