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.

Spider-Man: No Way Home

8.0

Spider-Man

7.3

La La Land

7.9

Zootopia

7.7

Spider-Man: Far From Home

7.4

Whiplash

8.4

Spider-Man 2

7.3

Spider-Man 3

6.4

Justice League

6.1

Venom: Let There Be Carnage

6.8

Zack Snyder's Justice League

8.1

The Simpsons

8.0

Terminator Genisys

5.9

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

8.4

Juno

7.1

Megamind

7.0

The Accountant

7.1

Kung Fu Panda 3

6.9

Anastasia

7.6

True Grit

7.3

Burn After Reading

6.7

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

7.4

INVINCIBLE

8.6

Klaus

8.2

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

7.9

Jennifer's Body

6.0

Up in the Air

6.9

The Tomorrow War

7.5

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

8.2

Palm Springs

7.3

Gravity Falls

8.6

Patriots Day

7.1

BoJack Horseman

8.6

Jobs

6.1

The Snowman

5.2

Thank You for Smoking

7.2

American Dad!

7.0

Red One

7.1

The Legend of Korra

8.2

Contraband

6.3

21 Bridges

6.8

The Jackal

6.4

Dark Skies

6.3

I Love You, Man

6.6

The Ladykillers

6.1

Parks and Recreation

8.0

The Mexican

5.9

Defending Jacob

8.3

Arrested Development

8.0

Young Adult

5.8

Juror #2

6.9

Archer

7.9

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers

7.0

The Gift

6.5

Hidalgo

6.9

The Words

6.6

Labor Day

7.0

The Cider House Rules

7.1

Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man

7.7

Aliens in the Attic

5.7

The Union

6.2

Men, Women & Children

6.5

Phineas and Ferb

7.9

ER

7.8

Ben 10: Ultimate Alien

8.2

Justice League Unlimited

8.3

The First Wives Club

6.7

Oz

8.0

Autumn in New York

6.1

Harsh Times

6.4

The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes

8.2

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

7.9

Rendition

6.4

The Stand

6.9

Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore

5.2

Being the Ricardos

6.5

Father Figures

5.8

Barefoot

6.6

Veronica Mars

7.8

Extract

5.8

The Rewrite

6.0

Law & Order

7.4

Kim Possible

7.5

The West Wing

8.3

New in Town

5.8

Nip/Tuck

7.2

Celebrity

6.0

Saturday Night Live

6.9

For Love of the Game

6.5

Goliath

7.6

The Front Runner

5.9

Counterpart

7.4

The Meddler

5.9

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

7.6

The Astronaut Farmer

6.2

Postal

4.7

Renegades

5.6

The Late Bloomer

5.5

The Ref

6.6

Extreme Measures

6.0

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

5.8

Post Grad

5.0

The Closer

7.9

Spin City

7.0

Rock Dog

6.2

Without a Trace

7.3

Batman: The Brave and the Bold

7.5

The Good Doctor

6.2

Seal Team

6.9

All Nighter

5.7

Third Watch

7.9

The Venture Bros.

7.8

Everwood

7.6

Party Down

7.4

Night Sky

6.9

First Snow

6.1

Glorious

5.9

The Music Never Stopped

7.2

The Bachelors

7.1

Saturday Night

6.9

Crazy on the Outside

5.2

One Day as a Lion

5.7

Homicide: Life on the Street

8.0

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

6.5

The Vicious Kind

6.3

An Invisible Sign

5.2

Explained

7.4

The Scout

5.2

Red Sands

4.4

Die Hart

6.4

Marmaduke

5.0

Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home

6.7

John Doe

7.2

Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing

6.7

National Champions

6.5

The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart

7.3

Worlds Apart

6.5

Ride the Eagle

6.4

I'm Not Here

6.0

The Oscars

7.0

The Great North

6.8

Break Point

5.8

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

4.9

The Kelly Clarkson Show

6.3

Brockmire

6.8

The Way of War

3.7

Path to War

6.7

Ben 10 - Generator Rex: Heroes United

7.1

You Can't Run Forever

5.7

Punching Henry

5.9

Men At Work

6.7

Coronavirus, Explained

6.9

Murder of a Cat

5.2

Rally Road Racers

6.7

NTSF:SD:SUV::

6.9

New York Undercover

7.2

Off the Map

6.5

A Beginner's Guide to Endings

6.1

Growing Up Fisher

6.5

No Activity

6.8

A Boy Called Sailboat

6.6

3 Geezers!

4.0

The Boxcar Children

8.0

3: The Dale Earnhardt Story

7.5

Robert Kirkman's Secret History of Comics

7.5

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

5.7

American Masters

7.1

Home Movie: The Princess Bride

7.5

Major Lazer

6.3

The Black Ghiandola

7.0

LEGO MARVEL Super Heroes: Maximum Overload

6.7

The Talk

3.4

Jack & Bobby

6.7

Popeye Doyle

4.4

3 Days with Dad

5.5

Pound Puppies

5.2

What Lives Inside

7.3

Hit and Runway

4.6

The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island

6.9

Hopper: An American Love Story

7.1

Family Tools

5.2

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

4.4

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

7.7

Wild Hawaii

6.8

Drug$

9.2

Extract: Mike Judge's Secret Recipe

2.5

4192: The Crowning of the Hit King

5.5

Broadway's Lost Treasures II

8.0

Best Friends Forever

3.0

Love Walked In

4.0

Ava & Lala

8.0

Face Down

3.0

Above Freezing

7.0

Blackstone

7.0

Detroit: Comeback City

8.0

Guys and Dolls: Off the Record

10.0

Walt Whitman

5.0

Rushing or Dragging

9.0

The Jury

7.0

Starwater

0.0

Fanboy

0.0

Little Brother

0.0

Prophets of Change

0.0

Hypergalactic

0.0

Rivals: Ohio State vs. Michigan

0.0

The Accountant 2

0.0

The Prince

0.0

The Magic Bracelet

0.0

Crossing Fields

0.0

Disposal

0.0

The Heeler

0.0

Reykjavik

0.0

Spaceman

0.0

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

0.0

The Tomorrow War 2

0.0

109 Billion Followers

0.0

Gravity Falls: Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back the Falls

0.0

Gravity falls: Weirdmaggeddon

0.0

The Fish Thief: A Great Lakes Mystery

0.0

New York News

0.0

The D.A.

0.0

Desert Car Kings

0.0

Oz (TV Series 1997-2003)

0.0