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
Giganaut
for Giganaut in Transformers: Rise of Prime
Suggested by daviddyster
Orion Pax, his girlfriend Ariel and best friend Dion have witnessed the true evil of Megatronus Prime and his pupil Megatron, the undefeated gladiator as they take civilians like the sparkling Jazz, the junior medic Ratchet, and the rookie security guard Ironhide to be chained in the middle of an arena while Megatron tries to kill for the fun of it. Orion saves them but pays the price. The Primes have fought Megatronus, but fell at the hands of him and Liege Maximo, another traitorous Prime.The three cvilian bots take Orion's body to Alpha Trion to revive him, as Ariel and Dion lead a new faction known as the Autobots against the newly formed faction the Decepticons, led by Megatron and Megatronus. On Orion's journey after resurrection, he encounters an entire planet of Dinobots, ruled by the powerful Giganaut and his son Grimlock, already at war with the Terrorcons. But it ended with Orion Pax's help. Together, Orion Pax leads his friends and the Dinobots to Cybertron and aid the Autobots in the first civil war in Cybertronian history.
