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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.

From Detroit, Michigan, USA

2.7

Popularity

149

Credits

6.5

Rating

85.7M

Budget

322M

Revenue

Acting

Primarily

149 Credits

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Spider-Man 2002
J. Jonah Jameson
Zootopia 2016
Mayor Leodore Lionheart (voice)
Spider-Man 2 2004
J. Jonah Jameson
Spider-Man 3 2007
J. Jonah Jameson
Justice League 2017
Commissioner James Gordon
Venom: Let There Be Carnage 2021
J. Jonah Jameson (uncredited)
Juno 2007
Mac MacGuff
Megamind 2010
Warden (voice)

Credit 149

2025 Heart of the Beast

2025 The Prince

2025 Reykjavik as George Shultz

2025 Hypergalactic as (voice)

2025 109 Billion Followers

2025 Spaceman

2025 The Accountant² as Ray King

2025 The Fish Thief: A Great Lakes Mystery as Narrator

2024 Red One as Nick

2024 Juror #2 as Harold

2024 Saturday Night as Milton Berle

2024 The Union as Tom Brennan

2024 You Can't Run Forever as Wade

2023 The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart as Ben (voice)

2023 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse as J. Jonah Jameson (voice)

2023 Rally Road Racers as Gnash (voice)

2023 Little Brother as Warren Duffy

2023 One Day as a Lion as Walter Boggs

2022 Rivals: Ohio State vs. Michigan as Narrator

2022 Prophets of Change as Narrator

2022 Hopper: An American Love Story as Edward Hopper (voice)

2022 Glorious as Ghat (voice)

2022 Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers as Captain Putty (voice)

2022 Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home as Self (archive footage)

2022 Marmaduke as Zeus (voice)

2021 Spider-Man: No Way Home as J. Jonah Jameson

2021 National Champions as Coach James Lazor

2021 Being the Ricardos as William Frawley

2021 Ghostbusters: Afterlife as Ivo Shandor

2021 Seal Team as Claggart (voice)

2021 Venom: Let There Be Carnage as J. Jonah Jameson (uncredited)

2021 The Tomorrow War as James Forester

2021 Ride the Eagle as Carl

2021 INVINCIBLE as Nolan Grayson / Omni-Man (voice)

2021 Rushing or Dragging as Terrence Fletcher (Archive Audio)

2021 Zack Snyder's Justice League as Commissioner Gordon

2020 Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens as Orville

2020 Palm Springs as Roy

2019 Klaus as Klaus (voice)

2019 21 Bridges as Captain Matt McKenna

2019 3 Days with Dad as Joey

2019 Spider-Man: Far From Home as J. Jonah Jameson

2019 Fanboy as J.K. / Frank Perry

2018 Drug$ as Narrator

2018 The Front Runner as Bill Dixon

2018 Detroit: Comeback City as Himself - Narrator

2018 A Boy Called Sailboat as Ernest

2018 The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island as Dr. Moore (voice)

2017 Father Figures as Ronald Hunt

2017 I'm Not Here as Steve

2017 Justice League as Commissioner James Gordon

2017 The Bachelors as Bill Palet

2017 The Snowman as Arve Støp

2017 Renegades as Levin

2017 The Black Ghiandola as Ralph Aceto

2017 All Nighter as Mr. Gallo

2017 Punching Henry as Jay Warren

2016 Patriots Day as Sgt. Jeffrey Pugliese

2016 La La Land as Bill

2016 The Accountant as Ray King

2016 The Late Bloomer as James Newmans

2016 Rock Dog as Khampa (voice)

2016 The Meddler as Randall Zipper

2016 Zootopia as Mayor Leodore Lionheart (voice)

2016 Kung Fu Panda 3 as Kai (voice)

2015 Worlds Apart as Sebastian

2015 Phineas and Ferb: The O.W.C.A. Files as Napoleon / Additional Voices (voice)

2015 Terminator Genisys as O'Brien

2014 Men, Women & Children as Allison's Dad

2014 Whiplash as Fletcher

2014 Ava & Lala as General Tiger (voice)

2014 The Boxcar Children as Dr. Moore (voice)

2014 The Rewrite as Dr. Hal Lerner

2014 Murder of a Cat as Sheriff Frank Hoyle

2014 Break Point as Jack

2014 Barefoot as Dr. Bertleman

2013 Labor Day as Mr. Jervis

2013 Jobs as Arthur Rock

2013 3 Geezers! as J. Kimball

2013 The Magic Bracelet as The Shaman

2013 The Heeler as Roscoe

2013 Dark Skies as Edwin Pollard

2013 Whiplash as Fletcher

2012 The Words as Mr. Jansen

2012 Contraband as Captain Camp

2011 Ben 10 - Generator Rex: Heroes United as White Knight (voice)

2011 Young Adult as Mavis' Publisher (voice) (uncredited)

2011 Blackstone as Detective Burke

2011 The Good Doctor as Detective Krauss

2011 The Music Never Stopped as Henry Sawyer

2010 True Grit as J. Noble Daggett (voice) (uncredited)

2010 Megamind as Warden (voice)

2010 4192: The Crowning of the Hit King as Narrator (voice)

2010 An Invisible Sign as Mr. Jones

2010 A Beginner's Guide to Endings as Uncle Pal

2010 Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore as Gruff K-9 (voice)

2010 Crazy on the Outside as Ed

2009 Extract: Mike Judge's Secret Recipe as Self

2009 The Vicious Kind as Donald Sinclaire

2009 Up in the Air as Bob

2009 Jennifer's Body as Mr. Wroblewski

2009 Extract as Brian

2009 Post Grad as Roy Davies

2009 Aliens in the Attic as Skip (voice)

2009 The Way of War as Sergeant Mitchell

2009 I Love You, Man as Oswald Klaven

2009 Red Sands as Lt. Col. Arson

2009 New in Town as Stu Kopenhafer

2008 Burn After Reading as CIA Superior

2008 Walt Whitman as Narrator (voice)

2007 Juno as Mac MacGuff

2007 Postal as Candidate Welles

2007 Rendition as Lee Mayer

2007 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee as James McLaughlin

2007 Spider-Man 3 as J. Jonah Jameson

2007 The Astronaut Farmer as Jacobson

2006 First Snow as Vacaro

2005 Harsh Times as Agent Richards

2005 Thank You for Smoking as BR

2004 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story as Ralph Earnhardt

2004 Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing as Self

2004 Broadway's Lost Treasures II as Benny Southstreet (segment "Guys & Dolls")

2004 Spider-Man 2 as J. Jonah Jameson

2004 The Ladykillers as Garth Pancake

2004 Hidalgo as Buffalo Bill Cody

2003 Path to War as CIA Briefer

2003 Off the Map as George

2003 Disposal as Older Hunter

2002 Spider-Man as J. Jonah Jameson

2001 The Mexican as Ted Slocum

2001 Starwater

2000 Autumn in New York as Dr. Tom Grandy

2000 The Gift as Sheriff Pearl Johnson

1999 The Cider House Rules as Ray Kendall

1999 For Love of the Game as Frank Perry

1999 Hit and Runway as Ray Tilman

1998 Crossing Fields as Guy

1998 Above Freezing as Hoyd

1998 Celebrity as Souvenir Hawker

1997 Anastasia as Ensemble and Character Vocals (voice)

1997 Face Down as Herb Aames

1997 The Jackal as FBI Agent T. I. Witherspoon

1997 Love Walked In as Mr. Shulman

1996 Extreme Measures as Dr. Mingus

1996 The First Wives Club as Federal Marshall

1994 The Scout as Assistant Coach

1994 The Ref as Siskel

1992 Guys and Dolls: Off the Record as Himself / Benny Southstreet

1986 Popeye Doyle as Patrolman in Park

Genres

8.60 Unknown 1

8.05 Music 6

7.25 Animation 17

6.93 Science Fiction 18

6.93 Documentary 11

6.93 Western 3

6.89 Fantasy 8

6.86 Adventure 28

6.66 Family 15

6.50 Action 30

6.48 Drama 57

6.27 History 7

6.25 Romance 19

6.16 Comedy 57

6.00 TV Movie 6

5.94 Thriller 26

5.93 Crime 17

5.87 War 3

5.86 Horror 7

5.72 Mystery 7