Age: 71
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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.
J.K. Simmons
James Gordon
for James Gordon in Batman: Day Of The Jackanapes
Suggested by gwynplaine
One snowy winter night in Gotham, a portal opened in the sky above the theme park from the "Killing Joke", and through it fell a clown. Turns out that this clown is the Jokester, a heroic version of The Joker from Earth 3, a twisted alternate universe where the villains are good and the heroes are bad. He wound up coming into our dimension during a battle with Owlman & The Crime Syndicate, and he was pushed through a portal that led to our dimension. Now without a way back to his home, Jokester decides to make the best of a bad situation; IE fight crime in this world until he finds a way back home. Unfortunately, he wound up being mistaken for the Joker, leading to him being hunted by Batman, the Bat-family, & the GCPD. Meanwhile, word of this new Joker reaches the real Joker while he's in Arkham Asylum. Angered that someone is besmirching his reputation, Joker breaks out of Arkham in order to kill this "cheap phony". The tension keeps building and building until it reaches a crescendo of madness that ends in a battle between Batman, the Bat-family, the Joker, the Jokester, & the GCPD at the Amusement Mile boardwalk theme park.
