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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: Wings of Ruin
Suggested by matthewfenner
Eleven months after the battle with Doctor Octopus, Peter Parker is ready to move on — from high school, from grief, and from the ghosts that still haunt him. Graduation week should be a fresh start: he and Gwen share a small apartment in Queens, and for once, life almost feels normal. But when a string of high-tech heists sweeps through the city, Spider-Man discovers that the culprit is Adrian Toomes, a former engineer turned black-market scavenger. Using stolen Oscorp tech, Toomes has built a winged exosuit, becoming the ruthless Vulture — a man desperate to provide for his dying daughter, no matter how many bodies he leaves behind. As Toomes’ aerial reign of terror escalates, Peter’s fragile sense of peace begins to crumble, forcing him to choose between the life he’s built and the one he can never escape. Spider-Man: Wings of Ruin is an R-rated story of desperation, morality, and the price of survival. Vulture isn’t just another criminal — he’s what Peter fears becoming: a man driven by loss, willing to destroy everything to protect what little he has left. As their war tears through New York’s skies, Peter’s double life begins to unravel, endangering Gwen and everything they’ve built together. The battle pushes Spider-Man to his limits — testing not only his body, but his soul. In a brutal final confrontation over the city skyline, Peter must face the harsh truth that even when he wins, someone always falls.
