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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

Samuel Grayson
for Samuel Grayson in Project Chimera
Suggested by sepanta_kazemi

PROJECT CHIMERA is a present-day action thriller where the missing don’t come home. They break out. For years, a black-site program erased six ordinary people from the world. No ransom. No bodies. No answers. Behind sealed doors, scientists rebuilt them into engineered hybrids. Human spliced with predator. Bone reshaped. Blood rewritten. Names replaced by codenames. Then, an incident tears the facility open. Five experiments escape into the city. Seth Vaymar, designated VIPERION, is the first through the breach. Part man, part serpent, he moves with silent precision and a vengeance that never cooled. He does not run to survive. He runs to hunt. The people who did this, and the world that let it happen, are on his list. At his side is Lennie Marrow, designated CHARCHARION. A human-shark hybrid made for impact and appetite, he follows the smell of fear like a signal. Where Viperion plans, Charcharion crashes. Together they turn an escape into a message. But the other survivors refuse to become the lab’s prophecy. Lyra Storm, designated AERALIS, carries wings that make her a target in every camera frame. Kailey Forrester, designated STRYVERA, a white tiger hybrid built for slaughter, wants one impossible thing. To see her family again and still be recognized. They move through back alleys and abandoned places, trying to pass as human long enough to reach home, while the city closes in with armed teams and blind panic. Caught between them is Damon Kross, designated LYKANIS. A wolf-hybrid with instincts on a hair trigger, he shifts from protector to threat in a heartbeat. He doesn’t know which side he belongs to. He only knows the world outside feels as dangerous as the one they escaped. And somewhere beneath the same concrete walls they fled, Selena Graves remains in captivity. Designated VENOMORA. A toxic butterfly hybrid, she is the most lethal specimen the project produced. Her poison kills fast. Her presence turns air into a weapon. Yet she is the gentlest among them, trapped in a body designed to end lives. Viperion wants her freed, not to save her, but to unleash her. In his mind, Venomora is the point of no return. The difference between revenge and extinction. As the manhunt escalates, alliances form in the wrong places. Some of the hybrids risk everything to work with humans who want the truth exposed. Others choose open war. The experiment becomes the headline. The city becomes the cage. And the question stops being who survives. The question becomes what escapes with them. PROJECT CHIMERA is a relentless blend of action and drama about stolen identities, fractured loyalties, and the moment victims decide what the world deserves back.
