
J.K. Simmons
11 FOLLOWERS • 126 CREDITS • JAN 9, 1955 • 70
Biography
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.
Known For

Law & Order

The Kelly Clarkson Show

American Dad!

The Oscars

Saturday Night Live

ER

The Simpsons

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Parks and Recreation

Veronica Mars

Third Watch

BoJack Horseman

Without a Trace

The West Wing

Homicide: Life on the Street

Kim Possible

Raising Hope

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Justice League Unlimited

Batman: The Brave and the Bold

Archer

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Phineas and Ferb

Everwood

The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes

Nip/Tuck

Explained

Defending Jacob

Ren & Stimpy

The Venture Bros.

Arrested Development

The Great North

The Talk

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Robert Kirkman's Secret History of Comics

Home Movie: The Princess Bride

Best Friends Forever

Coronavirus, Explained

Ben 10: Ultimate Alien

New York News

NTSF:SD:SUV::

The Stand

No Activity

Party Down

Gravity Falls

Venom: Let There Be Carnage

Young Adult

True Grit

Spider-Man: Far From Home

The First Wives Club

Gravity Falls: Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back the Falls

Goliath

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Anastasia

Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse

Saturday Night

Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore

Men, Women & Children

Path to War

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home

Zack Snyder's Justice League

Jennifer's Body

The Cider House Rules

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers

LEGO MARVEL Super Heroes: Maximum Overload

The Gift

Justice League

The Ref

Megamind

Labor Day

Zootopia

Despicable Me 4

Autumn in New York

Up in the Air

Contraband

Oz

Spider-Man 3

Spider-Man

The Boxcar Children

The Good Doctor

Phineas and Ferb: The O.W.C.A. Files

The Snowman

Spider-Man 2

Face Down

Terminator Genisys

Ben 10 - Generator Rex: Heroes United

Juno

The Jackal

Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Kung Fu Panda 3

I Love You, Man

Extract

La La Land

Major Lazer

The Legend of Korra

Red One

One Day as a Lion

The Accountant 2

The Accountant

The Tomorrow War 2

Father Figures

Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man

21 Bridges

Being the Ricardos

The Meddler

INVINCIBLE

The Tomorrow War

The Union

Palm Springs

Juror #2

Patriots Day

The Heart of the Beast

The Closer

Whiplash

Whiplash

What Lives Inside

Klaus

Night Sky

Growing Up Fisher

Counterpart

You Can't Run Forever

Renegades

Desert Car Kings
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