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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 Spectacular Spider-Man (2025)
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Fourth entry to the MCU Spider-Man Saga and the beginning of a new trilogy. Film opens with Spider-Man fighting the MCU variant of Sandman and him using the cure from NWH to defeat him. He keeps tabs on those villains in his world but hasn't found any sign of Osborn. Wilson Fisk and J. Jonah Jameson run against each other for Mayor of New York while targeting masked street level heroes. Jameson takes it a step further by working with the infamous Scorpion to kill Spider-Man for his supporters. On the otherside, Kingpin hires the Prowler for protection and any other job he needs off the books...Peter Parker, now a college student living alone in NYC, keeps up with his old friends online and still struggles with losing them after the spell in NWH. Spider-Man, however, makes a new friend in Daredevil, and a new romance with the Black Cat. The film would end with JJJ being exposed for working with Scorpion and losing the election to Kingpin. Scorpion is defeated in battle and presumed dead by Spider-Man, however, one of the after credit scenes shows him recovering in Mexico where the venom symbiote left by the Eddie Brock varient in NWH finds him.
