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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.
Arc 1: The Doom Patrol faces Crucifer, who seeks to turn the team members into his army, and Nicholas Galtry, the legal guardian of Garfield Logan AKA Beast Boy. Mento sacrifices himself. The arc also includes flashbacks about Crucifer's banishment by Hippolyta and the origins of Rita Farr, a 1950s actress who becomes a monster after an accident. Arc 2: After failing to prevent the Cult of The Unwritten Book from enabling the Decreator to begin destroying the world, the DP is forced to ally with Detective Willoughby Kipling, as well as Detective Chimp and Xanadu. They use Phantom Stranger to travel into the past and let Crazy Jane transform the Cult of the Unwritten Book into the Cult of Jane. Willoughby reveals that the Decreator is connected to The Great Darkness. The arc also features flashbacks about the encounter between Kay Challis and Niles Caulder in the 1970s. Arc 3: Danny The Street faces the Men From N.O.W.H.E.R.E. of Argus while Flex Mentallo is released to go on a mission alongside Laura DeMille and the Men of N.O.W.H.E.R.E. Argus aims to restore order to the abnormality of this living street. Upon contact with the Patrol, Flex regains his memory and helps them save Danny. The flashbacks in this arc concern Negative Man and are set in the 1960s, depicting him as an Air Force pilot who encountered the Negative Spirit during a plane test.
