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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Detroit, Michigan, USA, 1955-01-09

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1994	The Ref	Siskel	65
2	1996	Extreme Measures	Dr. Mingus	60
3	1997	Love Walked In	Mr. Shulman	40
4	1997	The Jackal	FBI Agent T. I. Witherspoon	64
5	1997	Face Down	Herb Aames	30
6	1998	Celebrity	Souvenir Hawker	60
7	1999	Hit and Runway	Ray Tilman	46
8	1999	The Cider House Rules	Ray Kendall	71
9	2000	The Gift	Sheriff Pearl Johnson	65
10	2001	Starwater		0
11	2001	The Mexican	Ted Slocum	59
12	2002	Spider-Man	J. Jonah Jameson	73
13	2003	Off the Map	George	65
14	2004	Hidalgo	Buffalo Bill Cody	69
15	2004	The Ladykillers	Garth Pancake	61
16	2004	Spider-Man 2	J. Jonah Jameson	73
17	2004	Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing	Self	66
18	2005	Thank You for Smoking	BR	72
19	2005	Harsh Times	Agent Richards	64
20	2006	First Snow	Vacaro	61
21	2007	Spider-Man 3	J. Jonah Jameson	64
22	2007	Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee	James McLaughlin	65
23	2007	Rendition	Lee Mayer	64
24	2007	Juno	Mac MacGuff	71
25	2008	Burn After Reading	CIA Superior	67
26	2009	New in Town	Stu Kopenhafer	58
27	2009	I Love You, Man	Oswald Klaven	66
28	2009	The Way of War	Sergeant Mitchell	36
29	2009	Post Grad	Roy Davies	50
30	2009	Extract	Brian	58
31	2009	Jennifer's Body	Mr. Wroblewski	60
32	2009	Up in the Air	Bob	69
33	2009	The Vicious Kind	Donald Sinclaire	63
34	2010	Crazy on the Outside	Ed	52
35	2010	A Beginner's Guide to Endings	Uncle Pal	60
36	2010	An Invisible Sign	Mr. Jones	52
37	2010	Megamind	Warden (voice)	70
38	2011	The Music Never Stopped	Henry Sawyer	72
39	2012	Contraband	Captain Camp	63
40	2012	The Words	Mr. Jansen	67
41	2013	Dark Skies	Edwin Pollard	63
42	2013	3 Geezers!	J. Kimball	39
43	2013	Jobs	Arthur Rock	61
44	2013	Labor Day	Mr. Jervis	70
45	2014	Barefoot	Dr. Bertleman	66
46	2014	Break Point	Jack	58
47	2014	Murder of a Cat	Sheriff Frank Hoyle	50
48	2014	The Rewrite	Dr. Hal Lerner	60
49	2014	Whiplash	Fletcher	84
50	2014	Men, Women & Children	Allison's Dad	65
51	2015	Terminator Genisys	O'Brien	59
52	2015	O.W.C.A. Files	Napoleon / Additional Voices (voice)	78
53	2016	The Meddler	Randall Zipper	60
54	2016	Rock Dog	Khampa (voice)	62
55	2016	The Accountant	Ray King	71
56	2017	Punching Henry	Jay Warren	59
57	2017	Renegades	Levin	56
58	2019	Fanboy	J.K. / Frank Perry	0
59	2021	Venom: Let There Be Carnage	J. Jonah Jameson (uncredited)	68
60	2021	Seal Team	Claggart (voice)	69
61	2021	Ghostbusters: Afterlife	Ivo Shandor	73
62	2022	Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home	Self (archive footage)	68
63	2022	Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers	Captain Putty (voice)	70
64	2022	Glorious	Ghat (voice)	58
65	2022	Prophets of Change	Narrator	0
66	2022	Rivals: Ohio State vs. Michigan	Narrator	0
67	2023	Little Brother	Warren Duffy	10
68	2023	Rally Road Racers	Gnash (voice)	66
69	2023	Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse	J. Jonah Jameson (voice)	83
70	2023	The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart	Ben (voice)	73
71	2024	You Can't Run Forever	Wade	57
72	2024	The Union	Tom Brennan	62
73	2024	Juror #2	Harold	68
74		Hypergalactic	(voice)	0
75	1986	Popeye Doyle	Patrolman in Park	45
76	1994	The Scout	Assistant Coach	52
77	1997	Anastasia	Ensemble and Character Vocals (voice)	76
78	1998	Above Freezing	Hoyd	70
79	1998	Crossing Fields	Guy	0
80	1999	For Love of the Game	Frank Perry	65
81	2000	Autumn in New York	Dr. Tom Grandy	61
82	2003	Disposal	Older Hunter	0
83	2004	3: The Dale Earnhardt Story	Ralph Earnhardt	75
84	2007	The Astronaut Farmer	Jacobson	62
85	2007	Postal	Candidate Welles	46
86	2009	Aliens in the Attic	Skip (voice)	57
87	2010	Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore	Gruff K-9 (voice)	52
88	2010	4192: The Crowning of the Hit King	Narrator (voice)	55
89	2011	The Good Doctor	Detective Krauss	62
90	2011	Blackstone	Detective Burke	70
91	2011	Young Adult	Mavis' Publisher (voice) (uncredited)	58
92	2013	Whiplash	Fletcher	78
93	2013	The Heeler	Roscoe	0
94	2013	The Magic Bracelet	The Shaman	50
95	2014	The Boxcar Children	Dr. Moore (voice)	77
96	2014	Ava & Lala	General Tiger (voice)	80
97	2015	Worlds Apart	Sebastian	66
98	2016	Kung Fu Panda 3	Kai (voice)	69
99	2016	Zootopia	Mayor Leodore Lionheart (voice)	77
100	2016	The Late Bloomer	James Newmans	55
101	2016	La La Land	Bill	79
102	2016	Patriots Day	Sgt. Jeffrey Pugliese	71
103	2017	All Nighter	Mr. Gallo	57
104	2017	The Snowman	Arve Støp	52
105	2017	The Bachelors	Bill Palet	71
106	2017	Justice League	Commissioner James Gordon	61
107	2017	I'm Not Here	Steve	59
108	2017	Father Figures	Ronald Hunt	58
109	2018	A Boy Called Sailboat	Ernest	66
110	2023	One Day as a Lion	Walter Boggs	57
111	2024	Saturday Night	Milton Berle	67
112		The Prince		0
113	1992	Guys and Dolls: Off the Record	Himself / Benny Southstreet	100
114	2003	Path to War	CIA Briefer	67
115	2004	Broadway's Lost Treasures II	Benny Southstreet (segment "Guys & Dolls")	80
116	2008	Walt Whitman	Narrator (voice)	50
117	2009	Red Sands	Lt. Col. Arson	43
118	2009	Extract: Mike Judge's Secret Recipe	Self	30
119	2010	True Grit	J. Noble Daggett (voice) (uncredited)	73
120		Spaceman		0
121	1996	The First Wives Club	Federal Marshall	67
122	2011	Ben 10 - Generator Rex: Heroes United	White Knight (voice)	71
123	2017	The Black Ghiandola	Ralph Aceto	70
124	2018	The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island	Dr. Moore (voice)	62
125	2018	Detroit: Comeback City	Himself - Narrator	80
126	2018	The Front Runner	Bill Dixon	59
127	2018	Drug$	Narrator	92
128	2019	Spider-Man: Far From Home	J. Jonah Jameson	74
129	2019	3 Days with Dad	Joey	51
130	2019	21 Bridges	Captain Matt McKenna	68
131	2019	Klaus	Klaus (voice)	82
132	2020	Palm Springs	Roy	73
133	2020	Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens	Orville	0
134	2021	Zack Snyder's Justice League	Commissioner Gordon	81
135	2021	Rushing or Dragging	Terrence Fletcher (Archive Audio)	90
136	2021	Ride the Eagle	Carl	63
137	2021	The Tomorrow War	James Forester	75
138	2021	Being the Ricardos	William Frawley	65
139	2021	National Champions	Coach James Lazor	64
140	2022	Marmaduke	Zeus (voice)	49
141		The Tomorrow War 2	Slade	0
142	2021	Spider-Man: No Way Home	J. Jonah Jameson	79
143		109 Billion Followers		0
144		Reykjavik	George Shultz	0
145	2022	Hopper: An American Love Story	Edward Hopper (voice)	69
146	2024	Red One	Nick	70
147	2025	The Fish Thief: A Great Lakes Mystery	Narrator	55
148	2025	The Accountant²	Ray King	72
149		Heart of the Beast		0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
2	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host	70
3	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Cameo (uncredited)	70
4	1986	American Masters	Edward Hopper	74
5	1989	The Simpsons	Victor Kleskow (voice)	80
6	1989	The Simpsons	Tabloid Editor (voice)	80
7	1989	The Simpsons	J. Jonah Jameson (voice)	80
8	1989	The Simpsons	JJ Gruff (voice)	80
9	1989	The Simpsons	Dr. Jessup (voice)	80
10	1990	Law & Order	Emil Skoda	74
11	1990	Law & Order	Jerry Luppin	74
12	1993	Homicide: Life on the Street	Alexander Rausch	80
13	1994	New York Undercover		71
14	1994	ER	Gus Loomer	78
15	1995	New York News		0
16	1996	Remember WENN	'Captain Amazon'	80
17	1996	Spin City	Kevin	71
18	1997	Oz	Vernon Schillinger	80
19	1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Dr. Emil Skoda	79
20	1999	The West Wing	Harry Ravitch	83
21	1999	Third Watch	Frank Hagedorn	79
22	2001	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Emil Skoda	76
23	2002	Kim Possible	Martin Smarty (voice)	75
24	2002	Kim Possible	Martin Smarty / Additional voices (voice)	75
25	2002	Everwood	Phil Drebbles	75
26	2002	John Doe		72
27	2002	Without a Trace	Mark Wilson	72
28	2003	Nip/Tuck		72
29	2003	Arrested Development	General Anderson	79
30	2004	The D.A.	Dep. Dist. Atty. Joe Carter	0
31	2004	The Jury		70
32	2004	Justice League Unlimited	Eiling (voice)	83
33	2004	Justice League Unlimited	General Eiling (voice)	83
34	2004	Jack & Bobby		70
35	2004	Veronica Mars	Clyde Pickett	78
36	2005	American Dad!	Judge (voice)	70
37	2005	American Dad!	Dean of CIA Academy (voice)	70
38	2005	American Dad!	Gene (voice)	70
39	2005	American Dad!	Jed Farnsworth (voice)	70
40	2005	The Closer	Will Pope	79
41	2007	Phineas and Ferb	Napoleon (voice)	79
42	2007	Phineas and Ferb	J.B. (voice)	79
43	2008	Batman: The Brave and the Bold	Guardian (voice)	76
44	2009	Party Down	Leonard Stiltskin	75
45	2009	Parks and Recreation	Mayor Stice	80
46	2009	Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen	Self - Guest	51
47	2009	Archer	Detective (voice)	80
48	2010	Ben 10: Ultimate Alien	Magister Gilhil / Plumber (voice)	82
49	2010	Raising Hope	Bruce Chance	74
50	2010	Pound Puppies	Lt. Rock (voice)	52
51	2010	Pound Puppies	Mr. Withers (voice)	52
52	2010	The Talk	Self - Guest	34
53	2010	The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes	J. Jonah Jameson (voice)	82
54	2011	Desert Car Kings	Himself - Narrator	0
55	2011	NTSF:SD:SUV::	Frank Forrest	68
56	2012	Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man	J. Jonah Jameson (voice)	77
57	2012	Best Friends Forever	Don	30
58	2012	The Legend of Korra	Tenzin (voice)	82
59	2012	Men At Work	P.J. Jordan	66
60	2012	Gravity Falls	Stanford Pines (voice)	86
61	2013	Family Tools		51
62	2013	Brooklyn Nine-Nine	Frank Dillman	82
63	2013	LEGO MARVEL Super Heroes: Maximum Overload	J. Jonah Jameson (voice)	66
64	2014	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	Self	59
65	2014	Growing Up Fisher	Mel Fisher	65
66	2014	Last Week Tonight with John Oliver	Voice Over (voice)	79
67	2014	Wild Hawaii	Narrator (voice)	68
68	2014	BoJack Horseman	Lenny Turtletaub (voice)	85
69	2014	Variety Studio: Actors on Actors	Self	50
70	2015	What Lives Inside	Benjamin 'Pops' Delaney	74
71	2015	Major Lazer	President Whitewall (voice)	66
72	2015	Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter	Self	57
73	2016	Goliath	George Zax	76
74	2017	Brockmire	Matt "The Bat" Hardesty	68
75	2017	No Activity	Leo	68
76	2017	Robert Kirkman's Secret History of Comics	Self	74
77	2017	Counterpart	Howard Silk	74
78	2018	Explained	Narrator (voice)	75
79	2019	The Kelly Clarkson Show	Self	65
80	2020	Defending Jacob	Billy Barber	83
81	2020	Coronavirus, Explained	Self - Narrator	69
82	2020	Home Movie: The Princess Bride	The Grandfather	75
83	2020	Die Hart	Jackson Pepper	62
84	2020	The Stand	General Starkey	69
85	2021	The Great North	Tusk Johnson (voice)	69
86	2021	INVINCIBLE	Nolan Grayson / Omni-Man (voice)	86
87	2022	Night Sky	Franklin York	69
88	2024	Ren & Stimpy	Lint (voice)	0
89		The Westies	Eamon Sweeney	0

J.K. Simmons

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