Caleb Landry Jones

Caleb Landry Jones is an American actor and musician. He first gained recognition for his supporting roles as Banshee in X-Men: First Class, Jeremy Armitage in Get Out, Jack Hicks in The Florida Project, and Red Welby in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. The latter earned him a SAG Award.
His leading roles include Syd March in Antiviral, Ty Carter in The Outpost, and Martin Bryant in Nitram, which earned him a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor and a AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. He later starred in Luc Besson's Dogman and Dracula: A Love Tale.

Early life

Jones was born on 7 December 1989 in Garland, Texas and was raised in Richardson, a suburb in Dallas. His father Patrick is a contractor and his mother Cindy is a special educator. He is the second of three brothers. His older brother served in the Marine Corps. Jones' maternal grandparents had played in the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
Jones attended Richardson High School, where his mother worked, and was encouraged to take ballet, tap, and theater classes. As a child, he was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder. He discovered acting in speech class and began performing professionally shortly afterwards around his home state.

Career

Acting
Jones began his acting career in Coen brothers' No Country for Old Men. He then played a drummer in Friday Night Lights and Walt Jr.'s best friend in Breaking Bad. In 2010, he had a supporting role in the supernatural horror film The Last Exorcism. He then played the mutant Banshee in X-Men: First Class.
In 2012, he appeared in the action thriller film Contraband, which was an English-language remake of the Icelandic film Reykjavík-Rotterdam. In the same year, he played Frank in Neil Jordan’s horror film Byzantium, and had his first lead role in the science fiction horror film Antiviral, the feature-film debut of Brandon Cronenberg.
In 2017, he appeared consecutively in supporting roles in Doug Liman’s action comedy film American Made, Sean Baker’s The Florida Project, Jordan Peele’s psychological horror film Get Out, and in the crime drama film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. All four films were critically acclaimed. In 2019, he played Ty Carter in the war drama film The Outpost.
In 2021, he starred as the Australian mass murderer Martin Bryant in Justin Kurzel's Nitram, for which he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor.
In 2023, he portrayed the lead role in Luc Besson’s action thriller film Dogman. Besson praised Jones's transformative performance and expressed his fascination with the actor. This inspired Besson to cast Jones as the eponymous character in Dracula: A Love Tale. Besson was not particularly interested in the story of Dracula, but instead reimagined the film specifically around Jones.
Music
He began his music career as a drummer for the worship band in his local church. By the age of 17, he started writing songs on his Casio keyboard. At 19, he formed the experimental folk-rock band Robert Jones with Robert Hudson and A.J. Durham.
On 1 May 2020, Jones released his debut studio album, The Mother Stone, through Sacred Bones Records. He has since released three more albums: Gadzooks Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 in 2021 and 2022, and Hey Gary, Hey Dawn in 2024.

Personal life

Jones is in a relationaship with Russian artist Katya Zvereva.

Discography

Albums

Singles

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	No Country for Old Men	Boy on Bike	Credited as Caleb Jones
2008	The Longshots	Jonesy	Credited as Caleb Jones
2010	The Last Exorcism	Caleb Sweetzer
2010	The Social Network	Fraternity Boy	Credited as Caleb Jones
2011	Summer Song	Jack
2011	X-Men: First Class	Sean Cassidy / Banshee
2012	Contraband	Andy
2012	Byzantium	Frank
2012	Antiviral	Syd March
2013	Tom at the Farm	Guillaume	Uncredited role
2014	God's Pocket	Leon Hubbard
2014	Queen and Country	Percy Hapgood
2014	Heaven Knows What	Ilya
2014	Low Down	Cole
2015	Stonewall	Orphan Annie
2016	War on Everyone	Russell Birdwell
2017	Get Out	Jeremy Armitage
2017	The Florida Project	Jack Hicks
2017	American Made	JB
2017	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Red Welby
2018	To the Night	Norman
2018	Tyrel	Pete
2018	Age Out	Swim
2018	Welcome the Stranger	Ethan
2019	The Kindness of Strangers	Jeff
2019	The Dead Don't Die	Bobby Wiggins
2020	Viena and the Fantomes	Albert
2020	The Outpost	Ty Carter
2021	Nitram	Nitram
2021	The Forgiven	Dally Margolis
2021	Finch	Jeff
2023	Dogman	Douglas
2024	Harvest	Walter Thirsk	Also composer
2025	Dracula: A Love Tale	Dracula

			Also co-writer, producer