J.K. Simmons
Acting
Born 1955-01-09
Detroit, Michigan, USA
238 credits
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Jonathan Kimble Simmons (born January 9, 1955) is an American actor. He has been cited as one of the greatest contemporary character actors, and has appeared in over 200 film and television roles since his debut in 1986. He is an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Critics Choice Award winner, among other accolades.
His film roles include J. Jonah Jameson in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007), tobacco industry executive B.R. in Thank You for Smoking (2005), Mac MacGuff in Juno (2007), music instructor Terence Fletcher in Whiplash (2014), Bill in La La Land (2016), William Frawley in Being the Ricardos (2021), and Commissioner James Gordon in the DC Extended Universe films Justice League (2017), Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021), and Batgirl (2022). He reprised his role as Jameson in various Marvel media unrelated to the Sam Raimi trilogy, including multiple animated series and the Marvel Cinematic Universe/Sony's Spider-Man Universe films Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), Venom: Let There Be Carnage, and Spider-Man: No Way Home (both 2021), and the web series TheDailyBugle.net (2019; 2021).
On television, he is known for playing Dr. Emil Skoda on the NBC series Law & Order, white supremacist prisoner Vernon Schillinger on the HBO series Oz, and Assistant Police Chief Will Pope on TNT's The Closer. From 2017 to 2019, he starred as Howard Silk in the Starz series Counterpart. He has also appeared in a series of commercials for Farmers Insurance and starred in the third season of the IFC comedy series Brockmire. In 2020, he had recurring roles on the miniseries Defending Jacob and The Stand.
As a voice artist, he is known for voicing Cave Johnson in the video game Portal 2 (2011), Tenzin in The Legend of Korra (2012–2014), Stanford “Ford” Pines in Gravity Falls (2015–2016), Kai in Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016), Mayor Leodore Lionheart in Zootopia (2016), the titular character in Klaus (2019), Pig Baby in Season 4 of the HBO Max animated series Infinity Train (2021), and Nolan “Omni-Man” Grayson in the Amazon Prime action animated series Invincible (2021). He has been the voice of the Yellow M&M since 1996.
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Filmography
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Spider-Man: No Way Home
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Spider-Man
The Simpsons
Law & Order
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Daily Show
Spider-Man: Far From Home
American Dad!
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Spider-Man 3
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Saturday Night Live
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
INVINCIBLE
The West Wing
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Phineas and Ferb
The Closer
Arrested Development
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Everwood
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Parks and Recreation
ER
Without a Trace
BoJack Horseman
Goliath
Gravity Falls
The Legend of Korra
Spider-Man 2
Numb3rs
Third Watch
Oz
Nip/Tuck
Whiplash
Veronica Mars
Homicide: Life on the Street
Red One
Archer
Kim Possible
The Talk
Zootopia
Raising Hope
Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man
La La Land
The Westies
Ben 10: Alien Force
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Ben 10: Ultimate Alien
American Masters
Justice League
Batman: The Brave and the Bold
Spin City
Terminator Genisys
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Justice League Unlimited
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