Jesse Plemons will star alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro in an upcoming film, Killers of the Flower Moon, directed by Martin Scorsese. The film is a based-on-a-true-story crime thriller, according to Daily Mail, where Plemons plays the role of the lead FBI agent investigating a string of murders of Osage Nation Native Americans in 1920’s Oklahoma.

The role that Plemons landed was originally written for Leonardo DiCaprio, with the idea being to have him star as the traditional good guy of the movie.  DiCaprio pushed to have his role changed to the nephew of the movie’s primary antagonist, played by Robert De Niro, IndieWire reports.

Killers Of The Flower Moon is adapted from David Grann’s award-winning true crime book of the same name.

Plemons had a supporting role in another Scorsese directed film, The Irishman, acting alongside De Niro as well. He has also appeared as creepy characters in recent films such as Netflix’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things and Game Night. 

Plemons is married to actress Kirsten Dunst; he met her on set of FX’s Fargo, where they played a married couple.

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  Plemons was born on April 2, 1988 in Dallas, Texas. He is a direct descendant of Moses Austin, father of Stephen F. Austin, known as the "Father of Texas," who colonized Texas in the early 1800s. The city of Austin is named after Stephen.

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  Plemons was the only main cast member of Friday Night Lights (2006) to have played football in real life.

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  He was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame in March 2016.
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  He has a son with Kirsten Dunst, named Ennis Howard Plemons. He was born May 3, 2018.

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  He resembles Matt Damon and Philip Seymour Hoffman. He played a younger version of Damon's character in All the Pretty Horses (2000) and Hoffman's son in The Master (2012).

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  Plemons had a supporting role in another Scorsese directed film, The Irishman, previously acting alongside De Niro.
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  Plemons played Jason Bateman's creepy neighbor in Game Night.

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  On playing supporting characters: "More times than not, the characters that are close to the leading man are more interesting and more fun to play."

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  As of 2020, he has been in 4 films that were Oscar nominated for Best Picture: Bridge of Spies (2015), The Post (2017), Vice (2018), and The Irishman (2019).
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  Jesse Plemons and Giancarlo Esposito co-starred in the universally acclaimed drama "Breaking Bad."

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  Plemons is married to actress Kirsten Dunst; he met her on set of FX’s Fargo, where they played a married couple.

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  On a Star Trek-themed Black Mirror episode, "USS Callister," Plemons plays the role of Captain Robert Daly, who reigns over his crew with cruelty.

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