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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 Spider-Man 4: A New Home
Suggested by rayne_gun
Spider-Man A New Home: Peter starts college with Harry Osborn as his roommate. They become best friends. Peter also takes up photography for the first time. Peter forms a rivalry that is both academic and romantic with a classmate named Eddie Brock, as he outdoes Eddie in school and falls in love with his girlfriend, Gwen Stacy. Peter is becoming jaded and bitter at his lot in life, still struggling to overcome the pain of losing his aunt and leaving his old life (including MJ and Ned) behind. This is exacerbated by the influence of the symbiote, which bonds with him early on in the film. Peter and the symbiote take on a minor villain together; I'm thinking someone like the Lizard? This could work if Connors is one of Peter's professors. However, after defeating the Lizard, Peter realizes what the symbiote is doing to him and separates himself from it. It then bonds with Eddie, who hates Peter for taking his girlfriend and always showing him up. Maybe Peter was an ass to Eddie while bonded with the symbiote. Eddie and the symbiote become Venom and fight Spider-Man in the third act.
