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

7.9

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

8.3

Juno

7.1

Megamind

7.0

The Accountant

7.1

Kung Fu Panda 3

6.9

True Grit

7.3

Anastasia

7.6

INVINCIBLE

8.6

Burn After Reading

6.7

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

7.3

Klaus

8.2

Jennifer's Body

6.0

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

7.9

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

8.5

Jobs

6.1

Red One

7.1

The Snowman

5.2

Thank You for Smoking

7.2

American Dad!

7.0

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

Juror #2

6.8

The Ladykillers

6.1

Parks and Recreation

8.0

The Mexican

5.9

Defending Jacob

8.3

Arrested Development

7.9

Archer

7.9

Young Adult

5.8

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

Aliens in the Attic

5.7

Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man

7.7

The Union

6.2

Phineas and Ferb

7.9

Men, Women & Children

6.5

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

The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes

8.2

Harsh Times

6.4

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

7.9

Rendition

6.4

The Stand

6.9

Being the Ricardos

6.5

Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore

5.2

Father Figures

5.8

Barefoot

6.6

Veronica Mars

7.8

Extract

5.8

Law & Order

7.4

The Rewrite

6.0

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

Counterpart

7.4

The Front Runner

5.9

The Meddler

6.0

Postal

4.6

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

7.6

The Astronaut Farmer

6.2

Renegades

5.6

The Late Bloomer

5.4

The Ref

6.5

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

5.8

Extreme Measures

6.0

The Closer

7.9

Post Grad

5.0

Spin City

7.0

Rock Dog

6.2

Raising Hope

7.5

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

Saturday Night

6.7

Third Watch

7.9

Party Down

7.4

Everwood

7.5

The Venture Bros.

7.8

Night Sky

6.9

Glorious

5.9

First Snow

6.1

The Music Never Stopped

7.2

The Bachelors

7.0

Crazy on the Outside

5.2

One Day as a Lion

5.7

Homicide: Life on the Street

8.1

The Vicious Kind

6.3

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

6.6

Explained

7.5

An Invisible Sign

5.2

The Scout

5.2

Red Sands

4.4

Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home

6.8

Die Hart

6.3

Marmaduke

5.0

John Doe

7.2

Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing

6.6

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

7.3

National Champions

6.5

The Oscars

6.9

Worlds Apart

6.6

Ride the Eagle

6.3

I'm Not Here

6.0

The Great North

6.8

You Can't Run Forever

5.7

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

5.0

Break Point

5.8

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

Men At Work

6.7

Murder of a Cat

5.1

Punching Henry

5.9

Coronavirus, Explained

6.9

Rally Road Racers

6.7

NTSF:SD:SUV::

6.8

New York Undercover

7.1

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

7.4

American Masters

6.9

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

5.7

Major Lazer

6.4

Home Movie: The Princess Bride

7.5

The Black Ghiandola

7.0

LEGO MARVEL Super Heroes: Maximum Overload

6.7

Jack & Bobby

7.0

The Talk

3.4

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

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

4.4

Hopper: An American Love Story

7.1

Family Tools

5.2

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

7.8

Extract: Mike Judge's Secret Recipe

3.0

Wild Hawaii

6.8

Drug$

9.2

Remember WENN

8.0

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 Fish Thief: A Great Lakes Mystery

6.0

Invincible: Atom Eve

8.0

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

Spaceman

0.0

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

0.0

The Tomorrow War 2

0.0

109 Billion Followers

0.0

Reykjavik

0.0

Heart of the Beast

0.0

New York News

0.0

The D.A.

0.0

Desert Car Kings

0.0

Ren & Stimpy

0.0