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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.

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J. Jonah Jameson
for J. Jonah Jameson in The Spider-Man Part II 2019
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The Spider-Man Part II is a 2019 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man, co-produced by Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. It is the sequel to The Spider-Man (2017) and the 23rd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Matt Reeves, written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, and stars Tom Holland, Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Timothee Chalamet, Kiernan Shipka, Katherine McNamara, Zendaya, J. B. Smoove, Jacob Batalon, Martin Starr, Tony Revolori, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Jake Gyllenhaal. In the film, Parker is recruited Mysterio to face the Elementals while he is on a school trip to Europe and must try and fix his relationship with Harry after a fallout so many years ago. The Spider-Man Part II premiered at the TCL Chinese Theatre on June 26, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on July 2, as the second to last film in Phase Three of the MCU. The film received positive reviews with praise for its humor, Dark Tone, action sequences, visuals, and the performances of Holland and Gyllenhaal.