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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 Amazing Spider-Man (TV Series)
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The Amazing Spider-Man was an American Superhero Drama series developed by writer-producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. The show premiered on August 10, 2010 and its tenth and final season ended on May 18th, 2020. The Amazing Spider-Man follows the coming-of-age adventures of Peter Parker (Josh Hutcherson) who after a radioctive spider bite, get powers that he used to become the Amazing Spider-Man following the dead of his beloved Uncle Ben (Martin Sheen). The first three seasons focus on the high school life of Peter and his friends, as well as his double life as Spider-Man, such as his complicated romance with popular cheerleader Liz Allan (Lucy Fry), and the bullying he suffered from his classmate Flash Thompson (Lucas Till) as he had a part-time job for the Daily Bugle lead by J. Jonah Jameson (J.K. Simmons) in order to help his Aunt May (Sally Field) to pay the bills. From season four onwards, The Amazing Spider-Man ventures into Peter's college and early adult years, eventually introducing characters such as Mary Jane (Holland Roden), Harry Osborn (Jesse Eisenberg), and other Marvel's comicbook superheroes and villains.
