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
J. Jonah Jameson
for J. Jonah Jameson in Spider-Man 5: Devil's Breath
Suggested by remkosel
A couple weeks after Peter defeated Kingpin and Scorpion, he tries to live a normal life. He goes to college, saves NYC from low-level criminals and hangs out with Harry and Gwen. He works as a freelancer at the Daily Bugle, where he's reunited with his former classmate Betty Brant and meets reporter Mary Jane Watson. She and Peter eventually become a couple. Fisk might be in prison, but his men are still in the city, thus Peter must intervene. He's unstoppable in fighting them after he bonds with the Venom symbiote and wears the black suit, until he realizes it doesn't only affect his strength but his personality too. He rips it off, causing Venom to emerge with Peter's colleague Eddie Brock. During one of his fights, Peter is saved by NYPD officer Jefferson Davis, who sadly died in the action. His son, Miles Morales, is offered a job at F.E.A.S.T by Peter, now run by Martin Li. However, Li turns out to be the leader of a group of masked criminals, the Inner Demons. Li was exposed to Devil's Breath, a medical serum designed by Oscorp, which can be used as a bioweapon. Norman hires Sable International to protect it. Spider-Man, with help of Miles from inside, can defeat some of the Demons bases, but Li escapes.. After a while, Sable International betrays Silver Sable and attacks the citizens. In a mid credits scene, Miles tells Peter he's bitten by a radioactive spider, whereby Peter tells he's Spider-Man. In a post credits scene, Silver Sable and Spider-Man join forces.
