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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: The Deranged Detective
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While investigating a medicine robbery from Arkham Asylum, Renee Montoya suddenly loses her mind and destroys all of the evidence she’d gathered. She then goes on a terrifying rampage towards the GCPD in order to destroy the hard drives stored there. After she’s stopped by the combined efforts of Batman & The Jokester, the two investigate her apartment in order to find out what made her go cuckoo. During their search of Renee’s apartment, they manage to uncover a solved rubix cube on her desk. After a quick scan, Bruce discovers that it had been solved the day she went crazy. The next day at Wayne Enterprises, Bruce winds up getting a chinese puzzle box mailed to his office. Suddenly, Bruce went crazy and started tearing up his office, destroying his computer and everything on his desk, laughing like a madman and babbling incoherent nonsense. He and Renee were then committed to Arkham Asylum for psychological analysis. Now it’s up to Jokester and Batgirl to figure out what happened to Bruce. It turns out that the mastermind is actually Dr. Byron Meredith (a.k.a) the Merrymaker. His plan was to inject the chemicals he stole into his fellow doctors and drive them insane, all in a revenge plot against the people who fired him for his extreme research into the minds of Joker worshippers. After that, he’d become the new head doctor of Arkham Asylum under the false identity of Dr. Merion Brydeth.
