My Take
Caleb Landry Jones is genuinely one of those actors where you can't quite pin down why he unsettles you — you just know you can't look away. The Garland, Texas kid showed up as Banshee in X-Men: First Class and you thought, okay, quirky supporting player, fine. Then Get Out happened and he made that skin-crawling racist politeness feel almost worse than the horror itself. Then The Florida Project, then Three Billboards, and suddenly you realize this guy kept landing in prestige films without ever seeming to try for them. Winning Best Actor at Sitges in 2021 felt right — it's the kind of festival that actually recognizes what he does, which is a kind of raw, off-kilter intensity that mainstream awards panels tend to overlook. The fact that he also makes music tracks perfectly; some people just have too much nervous energy to fit inside one art form.
Overview
Caleb Landry Jones is an American actor and musician. He first gained recognition for his supporting roles as Banshee in X-Men: First Class (2011), Jeremy Armitage in Get Out (2017), Jack Hicks in The Florida Project (2017), and Red Welby in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017). The latter earned him a SAG Award.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Caleb Landry Jones
- Name (Japanese)
- ケイレブ・ランドリー・ジョーンズ
- Reading
- けいれぶ・らんどりー・じょーんず
- Born
- December 7, 1989 (age 36)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Sagittarius / Snake
- Origin
- Garland, Texas, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film actor / actor / musician
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 2021 Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.