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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 The Spider-Man III
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When several criminals start trying to kill Norman Osborn, Spider-Man is given the job of protecting him. Meanwhile when experimenting with his neurotransmitter and robotic arms, it starts causing Otto Octavius to change personalities. Throughout the movie whenever Norman was in a room alone Spider-Man would get attacked by a man calling himself the Goblin, but its later revealed that Harry Osborn was the Goblin and was taking a serum that made him stronger but also made him black out. In the end Otto Octavius finally becomes Doc Ock and breaks Electro out of jail. Spider-Man eventually faces off against Doc Ock and Electro. Peter Manages to knock out Electro but right as Doc Ock has Spider-Man by the throat the Goblin shows up and bombs Doc Ock leading to Doc Ock hanging from the edge of the building and Spider-Man trying to hold on to him and for a moment Otto remembers everything and takes Peter's mask off. Suddenly Otto loses his grip and falls to his death. Now Peter without his mask starts trying to stop Harry from doing all this but when the Goblin gets to the ground, he takes his mask off and its Norman Osborn. Peter asks him why and Norman tells his that it was never Harry, but it was him and he had framed Harry. Peter proceeds to start beating Norman while Norman is just laughing. Eventually Norman tells him it's not over and escapes. The movie closes with Peter telling Harry that he is Spider-Man, and his dad is the Goblin.
