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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
Phantom Stranger
for Phantom Stranger in Tales of The Spectre S1
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Episode 1 narrates the creation, while the 2nd one recounts the arrival of darkness, The Great Darkness, tasked with restoring balance against the light of the source. Episode 3 tells the tale of the transformation of the source into the being known as The Presence, simultaneously giving birth to Paradise. Following a rebellion by Lucifer, the Hell and demons were born. Episode 4 narrates how The Presence gave birth to the Greek gods, tasked with representing different forms of life. The episode recounts the famous myth of Cronus devouring his children. In episode 5, Aztar, an angel of Lucifer, comes to seek forgiveness from The Presence, who turns him into its spirit of vengeance, The Spectre. Episode 6 recounts the creation of the Parliaments of Life (including the Parliament of Trees), where the gods represent the beliefs of humans and the representations of The Presence, while the parliaments act to protect the world. Episode 7 narrates the creation of magic. The Presence brings the goddess Hecate to life, based on its Greek gods. Witnessing this, The Great Darkness creates the Upside Down Man, the opposite of Hecate's light. The Phantom Stranger also appears at the same time as an eye of The Presence. Episode 8 tells the story of the creation of the Lords of Order and Chaos, as well as the first confrontation between the two sides.
