J.K. Simmons
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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1955-01-09
Place of birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA
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Cast
Spider-Man
2002
7.32
Spider-Man 2
2004
7.30
Spider-Man 3
2007
6.45
The Gift
2000
6.47
Hidalgo
2004
6.90
Seal Team
2021
6.90
You Can't Run Forever
2024
5.80
The Jackal
1997
6.38
Burn After Reading
2008
6.67
The Ladykillers
2004
6.13
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
2021
6.75
Rendition
2007
6.42
Up in the Air
2009
6.89
Extreme Measures
1996
6.00
Juno
2007
7.05
The Mexican
2001
5.90
Off the Map
2003
6.40
Harsh Times
2005
6.43
Extract
2009
5.83
Post Grad
2009
4.99
The Vicious Kind
2009
6.23
Thank You for Smoking
2005
7.18
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
2007
6.54
Crazy on the Outside
2010
5.20
Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing
2004
6.70
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
2021
7.33
New in Town
2009
5.83
The Way of War
2009
3.65
Megamind
2010
7.02
First Snow
2006
6.12
I Love You, Man
2009
6.58
Starwater
2001
0.00
Jennifer's Body
2009
5.99
The Words
2012
6.70
The Music Never Stopped
2011
7.10
An Invisible Sign
2010
5.17
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
2022
7.00
Glorious
2022
5.84
Fanboy
2019
0.00
Contraband
2012
6.33
A Beginner's Guide to Endings
2010
5.98
Dark Skies
2013
6.33
Jobs
2013
6.13
3 Geezers!
2013
3.90
Hit and Runway
1999
4.22
O.W.C.A. Files
2015
7.50
Love Walked In
1997
3.33
Little Brother
2025
5.50
The Union
2024
6.10
Break Point
2014
5.77
Barefoot
2014
6.65
Whiplash
2014
8.37
Terminator Genisys
2015
5.95
Murder of a Cat
2014
5.01
The Cider House Rules
1999
7.07
Rally Road Racers
2023
6.52
The Rewrite
2014
6.03
Men, Women & Children
2014
6.47
Juror #2
2024
6.88
The Ref
1994
6.55
Celebrity
1998
5.97
Face Down
1997
4.67
The Accountant
2016
7.13
Punching Henry
2017
5.90
Prophets of Change
2022
0.00
Hypergalactic
0.00
Rock Dog
2016
6.24
Red One
2024
7.01
The Meddler
2016
5.96
Renegades
2017
5.55
Rivals: Ohio State vs. Michigan
2022
0.00
Labor Day
2013
7.03
The Accountant²
2025
7.10
Worlds Apart
2015
6.40
All Nighter
2017
5.70
Father Figures
2017
5.81
Saturday Night
2024
6.70
One Day as a Lion
2023
5.71
The Boxcar Children
2014
7.73
Zootopia
2016
7.76
Whiplash
2013
7.80
The Snowman
2017
5.22
Young Adult
2011
5.81
The Astronaut Farmer
2007
6.25
Kung Fu Panda 3
2016
6.92
Justice League
2017
6.07
Patriots Day
2016
7.10
The Bachelors
2017
7.06
The Prince
0.00
La La Land
2016
7.90
The Magic Bracelet
2013
5.00
I'm Not Here
2017
5.80
Anastasia
1997
7.61
The Late Bloomer
2016
5.42
Postal
2007
4.65
The Good Doctor
2011
6.18
For Love of the Game
1999
6.45
Popeye Doyle
1986
4.17
Crossing Fields
1998
0.00
Ava & Lala
2014
8.00
The Scout
1994
5.20
Above Freezing
1998
7.00
Disposal
2003
0.00
3: The Dale Earnhardt Story
2004
7.50
A Boy Called Sailboat
2018
6.61
Autumn in New York
2000
6.11
The Heeler
2013
0.00
Aliens in the Attic
2009
5.70
Blackstone
2011
7.00
Red Sands
2009
4.30
True Grit
2010
7.30
Path to War
2003
6.70
Spaceman
0.00
The Black Ghiandola
2017
6.90
The Front Runner
2018
5.90
Klaus
2019
8.23
The First Wives Club
1996
6.70
Detroit: Comeback City
2018
8.00
Guys and Dolls: Off the Record
1992
10.00
21 Bridges
2019
6.76
Drug$
2018
9.20
Broadway's Lost Treasures II
2004
8.00
Palm Springs
2020
7.33
Spider-Man: Far From Home
2019
7.40
3 Days with Dad
2019
5.10
The Tomorrow War
2021
7.49
Marmaduke
2022
5.10
Walt Whitman
2008
5.00
Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021
8.10
Being the Ricardos
2021
6.49
Rushing or Dragging
2021
9.00
National Champions
2021
6.42
Ride the Eagle
2021
6.30
Spider-Man: No Way Home
2021
7.93
Reykjavik
0.00
Hopper: An American Love Story
2022
7.20
I Lost My M in Vegas
1999
0.00
Invincible: Atom Eve
2023
6.50