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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
J. Jonah Jameson
for J. Jonah Jameson in Spectacular Spider-Man 9
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Otto Octavius wanders out into Manhattan only to be captured by Norman Osborn where he has villains all ready to become the Sinister Six with Otto as the leader. Meanwhile Peter and Harry are fighting but Peter eventually manages to snap Harry out of the brainwashing, and they decide to work together to stop Norman but then Harry is shot through the back. Peter looks up to see Norman holding a gun as the Sinister Six walk up behind him. Peter tries his best to get away, but villains just keep coming. Eventually Peter has a fights Scorpion and nearly gets killed but when Vulture comes flying in Peter dives out of the way and Vulture crashes into Scorpion. Peter manages to escape and get home and realizes that he has nothing he can do but he decides to start working on a new suit one that is made out of armor to protect him better but is interrupted by Mj who asks him what's happening, and Peter tells her he's going to die but that he has to try and save New York. Mj tells him not to go but Peter leaves and starts heading to the six where he manages to beat everyone but Doc Ock who escapes. Peter finds Norman and holds no punches and gets Norman on the ground at the bottom of a clock tower where Peter is about to kill him but remembers Uncle Ben, Gwen Stacy, Aunt May, Harry Osborn, and everyone in between and remembers with great responsibility and doesn't kill Norman but Peter senses something and jumps over Norman's glider which instead of going into Peter goes into Norman.
