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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 Spiderman: With Great Power...
Suggested by coltonhess
Peter Parker is finally on his final year of College and focusing on a prosperous relationship with Gwen. His Job at the Daily Bugle is going well but hes noticed some tension between him and Eddie. Peter's boss Jameson wants peter to photograph his Son at a party the night before hes being sent to space. Little did peter know that night some old shadows would strike. A thug who peter put away early in his career named Mac Gargan had escaped with new info that Spiderman was close with Peter Parker. Gargan breaks into Peter's home hoping to find him there but instead its just Aunt May. Mac then beats her within an inch of her life hoping to get info on Peter or Spiderman. After that Peter swore he'd bring him to justice for aunt may. MJ starts getting closer with Peter and Both Eddie and Gwen Hate it. After Jameson saw that Pictures of Spidey ended up front page instead of His Own Son he got in touch with Mac Gargan who showed up looking for Peter Parker. Jameson and Gargan struck a deal and Jameson gave this high powered suit to Gargan making him the scorpion. When he found out he couldnt take it off he tried to Kill Jameson but Spidey Arrives just in Time.
