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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: Grain by Grain
Suggested by matthewfenner
Three months after defeating Mysterio, Peter Parker tries to rebuild what’s left of his life. Nearing the end of his second year at Empire State University, he’s begun to find a fragile rhythm between school, heroism, and the quiet grief that still shadows him. But peace doesn’t last long in New York. When a string of violent robberies linked to high-tech weapons hits the city, Spider-Man discovers the culprit: Flint Marko, a small-time crook turned monstrous after a particle physics experiment gone wrong. His body now fused with living sand, Marko can shift, grow, and crush anything in his path — and he’ll do whatever it takes to provide for his sick daughter, no matter who stands in the way. As Spider-Man pursues the Sandman across a city choking on dust and destruction, Peter finds himself torn between empathy and rage. Flint isn’t a villain born of evil — he’s a desperate man consumed by circumstance. But his crimes are leaving bodies in their wake, and the longer the fight goes on, the more innocent blood spills. In this gritty, R-rated tale of redemption and ruin, Peter must decide what kind of hero he truly is: one who punishes, or one who saves. As the final battle erupts in a storm of sand and sorrow, Spider-Man realizes that even monsters can have hearts — and that mercy, not vengeance, may be the hardest choice of all.
