Actor · Acting

J.K. Simmons

Born 1955-01-09

📍 Detroit, Michigan, USA

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.

Filmography 240

The Brink of War

as George Shultz

as Eamon Sweeney

as Warren Duffy

The Accountant²

The Fish Thief: A Great Lakes Mystery

as Milton Berle

as Lint (voice)

You Can't Run Forever

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

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

as J. Jonah Jameson (voice)

Rally Road Racers

as Gnash (voice)

One Day as a Lion

as Walter Boggs

Rivals: Ohio State vs. Michigan

Prophets of Change

Hopper: An American Love Story

as Edward Hopper (voice)

as Ghat (voice)

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers

as Captain Putty (voice)

as Franklin York

as Zeus (voice)

Spider-Man: No Way Home

as J. Jonah Jameson

Being the Ricardos

as William Frawley

National Champions

as Coach James Lazor

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

as Claggart (voice)

Venom: Let There Be Carnage

as J. Jonah Jameson (uncredited)

The Tomorrow War

as James Forester

as Nolan Grayson / Omni-Man (voice)

Rushing or Dragging

as Terrence Fletcher (Archive Audio)

Zack Snyder's Justice League

as Commissioner Gordon

The Great North

as Tusk Johnson (voice)

as General Starkey

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

as Jackson Pepper

Home Movie: The Princess Bride

as The Grandfather

Coronavirus, Explained

as Self - Narrator

Defending Jacob

as Billy Barber

as Klaus (voice)

as Captain Matt McKenna

3 Days with Dad

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Spider-Man: Far From Home

as J. Jonah Jameson

as J.K. / Frank Perry

The Front Runner

Detroit: Comeback City

as Himself - Narrator

A Boy Called Sailboat

as Narrator (voice)

The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island

as Dr. Moore (voice)

as Commissioner Gordon

Robert Kirkman's Secret History of Comics

The Black Ghiandola

as Matt "The Bat" Hardesty

as Sgt. Jeffrey Pugliese

The Late Bloomer

as James Newmans

as Khampa (voice)

as Randall Zipper

as Mayor Lionheart (voice)

Gravity Falls: Between the Pines

as Ford Pines (Voice)

Kung Fu Panda 3

as Napoleon / Additional Voices (voice)

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

as Self - Guest

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Terminator Genisys

as President Whitewall (voice)

What Lives Inside

as Benjamin 'Pops' Delaney

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

Men, Women & Children

as Allison's Dad

as General Tiger (voice)

BoJack Horseman

as Lenny Turtletaub (voice)

as Narrator (voice)

The Boxcar Children

as Dr. Moore (voice)

as Dr. Hal Lerner

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Murder of a Cat

as Sheriff Frank Hoyle

Late Night with Seth Meyers

as Self - Guest

Growing Up Fisher

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

as Self - Guest

as Dr. Bertleman

LEGO MARVEL Super Heroes: Maximum Overload

as J. Jonah Jameson (voice)

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

as Frank Dillman

as Edwin Pollard

as Stanford Pines (voice)

The Legend of Korra

as Tenzin (voice)

The Legend of Korra

as Mushi (voice)

Best Friends Forever

Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man

as J. Jonah Jameson (voice)

as Captain Camp

Ben 10 / Generator Rex: Heroes United

as White Knight (voice)

as Mavis' Publisher (voice) (uncredited)

as Frank Forrest

The Good Doctor

as Detective Krauss

The Music Never Stopped

as Henry Sawyer

Desert Car Kings

as Himself - Narrator

as J. Noble Daggett (voice) (uncredited)

as Warden (voice)

4192: The Crowning of the Hit King

as Narrator (voice)

The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes

as J. Jonah Jameson (voice)

as Self - Guest

as Lt. Rock (voice)

as Mr. Withers (voice)

An Invisible Sign

as Bruce Chance

A Beginner's Guide to Endings

Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore

as Gruff K-9 (voice)

Ben 10: Ultimate Alien

as Magister Gilhil / Plumber (voice)

Crazy on the Outside

Extract: Mike Judge's Secret Recipe

The Vicious Kind

as Donald Sinclaire

Jennifer's Body

as Mr. Wroblewski

as Detective (voice)

Aliens in the Attic

as Skip (voice)

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

as Self - Guest

as Sergeant Mitchell

Parks and Recreation

I Love You, Man

as Oswald Klaven

as Leonard Stiltskin

as Lt. Col. Arson

as Stu Kopenhafer

Batman: The Brave and the Bold

as Guardian (voice)

Burn After Reading

as CIA Superior

Ben 10: Alien Force

as Magister Gilhil (voice)

as Narrator (voice)

as Candidate Welles

Phineas and Ferb

as Napoleon (voice)

Phineas and Ferb

as J.B. (voice)

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

as James McLaughlin

as J. Jonah Jameson

The Astronaut Farmer

as Agent Richards

Thank You for Smoking

as Judge (voice)

as Dean of CIA Academy (voice)

as Gene (voice)

as Jed Farnsworth (voice)

as Dr. Clarence Weaver

3: The Dale Earnhardt Story

as Ralph Earnhardt

Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing

Broadway's Lost Treasures II

as Benny Southstreet (segment "Guys & Dolls")

as Clyde Pickett

Justice League Unlimited

as Eiling (voice)

Justice League Unlimited

as General Eiling (voice)

as J. Jonah Jameson

The Ladykillers

as Garth Pancake

as Dep. Dist. Atty. Joe Carter

as Buffalo Bill Cody

Arrested Development

as General Anderson

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

as Self - Guest

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Without a Trace

as Phil Drebbles

as Martin Smarty (voice)

as J. Jonah Jameson

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

as Sheriff Pearl Johnson

Autumn in New York

as Dr. Tom Grandy

The Cider House Rules

as Frank Hagedorn

as Harry Ravitch

I Lost My M in Vegas

as Yellow (voice)

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Dr. Emil Skoda

For Love of the Game

Crossing Fields

as Souvenir Hawker

as Ensemble and Character Vocals (voice)

as FBI Agent T. I. Witherspoon

as Vernon Schillinger

Extreme Measures

The First Wives Club

as Federal Marshall

as Self - Guest

as 'Captain Amazon'

as Assistant Coach

New York Undercover

The Adventures of Pete & Pete

Homicide: Life on the Street

as Alexander Rausch

Guys and Dolls: Off the Record

as Himself / Benny Southstreet

as Jerry Luppin

as Victor Kleskow (voice)

as Tabloid Editor (voice)

as J. Jonah Jameson (voice)

as JJ Gruff (voice)

as Dr. Jessup (voice)

American Masters

as Edward Hopper

as Patrolman in Park

Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live

as Vern Schillinger (uncredited)

Behind the Zirkonians

as Skip (voice)