J.K. Simmons
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.
Born: 09 January 1955
Played In
Heart of the Beast
The Brink of War
George Shultz
The Westies
Eamon Sweeney
Little Brother
Warren Duffy
The Accountant²
Ray King
The Fish Thief: A Great Lakes Mystery
Narrator
Red One
Nick
Juror #2
Harold
Saturday Night
Milton Berle
The Union
Tom Brennan
Ren & Stimpy
Lint (voice)
You Can't Run Forever
Wade
The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart
Ben (voice)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
J. Jonah Jameson (voice)
Rally Road Racers
Gnash (voice)
One Day as a Lion
Walter Boggs
Rivals: Ohio State vs. Michigan
Narrator
Prophets of Change
Narrator
Hopper: An American Love Story
Edward Hopper (voice)
Glorious
Ghat (voice)
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
Captain Putty (voice)
Night Sky
Franklin York
Marmaduke
Zeus (voice)
Spider-Man: No Way Home
J. Jonah Jameson
Being the Ricardos
William Frawley
National Champions
Coach James Lazor
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Ivo Shandor
Seal Team
Claggart (voice)
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
J. Jonah Jameson (uncredited)
The Tomorrow War
James Forester
Ride the Eagle
Carl
INVINCIBLE
Nolan Grayson / Omni-Man (voice)
Rushing or Dragging
Terrence Fletcher (Archive Audio)
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Commissioner Gordon
The Great North
Tusk Johnson (voice)
The Stand
General Starkey
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
Orville
Die Hart
Jackson Pepper
Palm Springs
Roy
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
The Grandfather
Coronavirus, Explained
Self - Narrator
Defending Jacob
Billy Barber
Klaus
Klaus (voice)
The Daily Bugle
J. Jonah Jameson
21 Bridges
Captain Matt McKenna
3 Days with Dad
Joey
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self
Spider-Man: Far From Home
J. Jonah Jameson
Fanboy
J.K. / Frank Perry
Drug$
Narrator
The Front Runner
Bill Dixon
Detroit: Comeback City
Himself - Narrator
A Boy Called Sailboat
Ernest
Explained
Narrator (voice)
The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island
Dr. Moore (voice)
Father Figures
Ronald Hunt
Counterpart
Howard Silk
I'm Not Here
Steve
Justice League
Commissioner Gordon
Robert Kirkman's Secret History of Comics
Self
No Activity
Leo
The Bachelors
Bill Palet
The Snowman
Arve Støp
Renegades
Levin
The Black Ghiandola
Ralph Aceto
Brockmire
Matt "The Bat" Hardesty
All Nighter
Mr. Gallo
Punching Henry
Jay Warren
Patriots Day
Sgt. Jeffrey Pugliese
La La Land
Bill
The Accountant
Ray King
Goliath
George Zax
The Late Bloomer
James Newmans
Rock Dog
Khampa (voice)
The Meddler
Randall Zipper
Zootopia
Mayor Lionheart (voice)
Gravity Falls: Between the Pines
Ford Pines (Voice)
Kung Fu Panda 3
Kai (voice)
Worlds Apart
Sebastian
O.W.C.A. Files
Napoleon / Additional Voices (voice)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
Terminator Genisys
O'Brien
Major Lazer
President Whitewall (voice)
What Lives Inside
Benjamin 'Pops' Delaney
Gravity Falls - Weirdmageddon
Grunkle Ford
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
Men, Women & Children
Allison's Dad
Whiplash
Fletcher
Ava & Lala
General Tiger (voice)
BoJack Horseman
Lenny Turtletaub (voice)
Wild Hawaii
Narrator (voice)
The Boxcar Children
Dr. Moore (voice)
The Rewrite
Hal Lerner
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
(voice)
Murder of a Cat
Sheriff Frank Hoyle
Break Point
Jack
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
Growing Up Fisher
Mel Fisher
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
Barefoot
Dr. Bertleman
Labor Day
Mr. Jervis
LEGO MARVEL Super Heroes: Maximum Overload
J. Jonah Jameson (voice)
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Frank Dillman
Jobs
Arthur Rock
3 Geezers!
J. Kimball
The Magic Bracelet
The Shaman
Family Tools
Tony Shea
The Heeler
Roscoe
Dark Skies
Edwin Pollard
Whiplash
Fletcher
The Words
Mr. Jansen
Gravity Falls
Stanford Pines (voice)
Men at Work
P.J. Jordan
The Legend of Korra
Tenzin (voice)
The Legend of Korra
Mushi (voice)
Best Friends Forever
Don
Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man
J. Jonah Jameson (voice)
Contraband
Captain Camp
Ben 10 / Generator Rex: Heroes United
White Knight (voice)
Young Adult
Mavis' Publisher (voice) (uncredited)
NTSF:SD:SUV::
Frank Forrest
Blackstone
Detective Burke
The Good Doctor
Detective Krauss
The Music Never Stopped
Henry Sawyer
Desert Car Kings
Himself - Narrator
True Grit
J. Noble Daggett (voice) (uncredited)
Megamind
Warden (voice)
4192: The Crowning of the Hit King
Narrator (voice)
The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
J. Jonah Jameson (voice)
The Talk
Self - Guest
Pound Puppies
Lt. Rock (voice)
Pound Puppies
Mr. Withers (voice)
An Invisible Sign
Mr. Jones
Raising Hope
Bruce Chance
A Beginner's Guide to Endings
Uncle Pal
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
Gruff K-9 (voice)
Ben 10: Ultimate Alien
Magister Gilhil / Plumber (voice)
Crazy on the Outside
Ed
Extract: Mike Judge's Secret Recipe
Self
The Vicious Kind
Donald Sinclaire
Up in the Air
Bob
Jennifer's Body
Mr. Wroblewski
Archer
Detective (voice)
Extract
Brian
Post Grad
Roy Davies
Aliens in the Attic
Skip (voice)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
The Way of War
Sergeant Mitchell
Parks and Recreation
Mayor Stice
I Love You, Man
Oswald Klaven
Party Down
Leonard Stiltskin
Red Sands
Lt. Col. Arson
New in Town
Stu Kopenhafer
Batman: The Brave and the Bold
Guardian (voice)
Burn After Reading
CIA Superior
Ben 10: Alien Force
Magister Gilhil (voice)
Walt Whitman
Narrator (voice)
Juno
Mac MacGuff
Postal
Candidate Welles
Rendition
Lee Mayer
Phineas and Ferb
Napoleon (voice)
Phineas and Ferb
J.B. (voice)
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
James McLaughlin
Spider-Man 3
J. Jonah Jameson
The Astronaut Farmer
Jacobson
First Snow
Vacaro
Harsh Times
Agent Richards
Thank You for Smoking
BR
The Closer
Will Pope
American Dad!
Judge (voice)
American Dad!
Dean of CIA Academy (voice)
American Dad!
Gene (voice)
American Dad!
Jed Farnsworth (voice)
Numb3rs
Dr. Clarence Weaver
3: The Dale Earnhardt Story
Ralph Earnhardt
Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing
Self
Broadway's Lost Treasures II
Benny Southstreet (segment "Guys & Dolls")
Veronica Mars
Clyde Pickett
Jack & Bobby
Justice League Unlimited
Eiling (voice)
Justice League Unlimited
General Eiling (voice)
Spider-Man 2
J. Jonah Jameson
The Jury
The Ladykillers
Garth Pancake
The D.A.
Dep. Dist. Atty. Joe Carter
Hidalgo
Buffalo Bill Cody
Arrested Development
General Anderson
Path to War
CIA Briefer
Off the Map
George
Nip/Tuck
Ike Connors
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
Disposal
Older Hunter
Without a Trace
Mark Wilson
John Doe
Lucas Doya
Everwood
Phil Drebbles
Kim Possible
Martin Smarty (voice)
Spider-Man
J. Jonah Jameson
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Emil Skoda
The Mexican
Ted Slocum
Starwater
The Gift
Sheriff Pearl Johnson
Autumn in New York
Dr. Tom Grandy
The Cider House Rules
Ray Kendall
Third Watch
Frank Hagedorn
The West Wing
Harry Ravitch
I Lost My M in Vegas
Yellow (voice)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Dr. Emil Skoda
For Love of the Game
Frank Perry
Hit and Runway
Ray Tilman
Crossing Fields
Guy
Above Freezing
Hoyd
Celebrity
Souvenir Hawker
Anastasia
Ensemble and Character Vocals (voice)
Face Down
Herb Aames
The Jackal
FBI Agent T. I. Witherspoon
Oz
Vernon Schillinger
Love Walked In
Mr. Shulman
Extreme Measures
Dr. Mingus
The First Wives Club
Federal Marshall
Spin City
Kevin
The Daily Show
Self - Guest
Swift Justice
Mel Turman
Remember WENN
'Captain Amazon'
New York News
The Scout
Assistant Coach
ER
Gus Loomer
New York Undercover
The Ref
Siskel
The Adventures of Pete & Pete
Homicide: Life on the Street
Alexander Rausch
Guys and Dolls: Off the Record
Himself / Benny Southstreet
Law & Order
Emil Skoda
Law & Order
Jerry Luppin
The Simpsons
Victor Kleskow (voice)
The Simpsons
Tabloid Editor (voice)
The Simpsons
J. Jonah Jameson (voice)
The Simpsons
JJ Gruff (voice)
The Simpsons
Dr. Jessup (voice)
American Masters
Edward Hopper
Popeye Doyle
Patrolman in Park
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
Saturday Night Live
Vern Schillinger (uncredited)
The Oscars
Self
Monkey Quest
(voice)
The Prince
Spaceman
109 Billion Followers
Reaper
Behind the Zirkonians
Skip (voice)
Purgatory
Father Malone
The Thing That Hurts
Embassy
Ambassador Elliot Ashford