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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 9, 1955
Place of Birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Also Known As
- JK Simmons
- Jonathan Simmons
- Jonathan Kimble "J.K." Simmons
- Τζέι Κέι Σίμονς
- ג'יי-קיי סימונס
J.K. Simmons
5.2 Popularity
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.
Known For
5.5
Warren Duffy
Little Brother
2025
7.1
Ray King
The Accountant²
2025
5.5
Narrator
The Fish Thief: A Great Lakes Mystery
2025
7.0
Nick
Red One
2024
6.9
Harold
Juror #2
2024
6.7
Milton Berle
Saturday Night
2024
6.1
Tom Brennan
The Union
2024
9.0
Lint (voice)
Ren & Stimpy
2024
5.9
Wade
You Can't Run Forever
2024
7.2
Ben (voice)
The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart
2023
Credits
Little Brother
as Warren Duffy
2025
5.5
The Accountant²
as Ray King
2025
7.1
The Fish Thief: A Great Lakes Mystery
as Narrator
2025
5.5
Red One
as Nick
2024
7.0
Juror #2
as Harold
2024
6.9
Saturday Night
as Milton Berle
2024
6.7
The Union
as Tom Brennan
2024
6.1
Ren & Stimpy
as Lint (voice)
2024
9.0
You Can't Run Forever
as Wade
2024
5.9
The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart
as Ben (voice)
2023
7.2
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
as J. Jonah Jameson (voice)
2023
8.3
Rally Road Racers
as Gnash (voice)
2023
6.5
One Day as a Lion
as Walter Boggs
2023
5.7
Rivals: Ohio State vs. Michigan
as Narrator
2022
0.0
Prophets of Change
as Narrator
2022
0.0
Hopper: An American Love Story
as Edward Hopper (voice)
2022
7.3
Glorious
as Ghat (voice)
2022
5.9
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
as Captain Putty (voice)
2022
7.0
Night Sky
as Franklin York
2022
6.9
Marmaduke
as Zeus (voice)
2022
5.1
Spider-Man: No Way Home
as J. Jonah Jameson
2021
7.9
National Champions
as Coach James Lazor
2021
6.4
Being the Ricardos
as William Frawley
2021
6.5
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
as Ivo Shandor
2021
7.3
Seal Team
as Claggart (voice)
2021
6.9
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
as J. Jonah Jameson (uncredited)
2021
6.8
The Tomorrow War
as James Forester
2021
7.5
Ride the Eagle
as Carl
2021
6.3
INVINCIBLE
as Nolan Grayson / Omni-Man (voice)
2021
8.6
Rushing or Dragging
as Terrence Fletcher (Archive Audio)
2021
9.0
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Commissioner Gordon
2021
8.1
The Great North
as Tusk Johnson (voice)
2021
7.0
The Stand
as General Starkey
2020
6.9
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
as Orville
2020
0.0
Die Hart
as Jackson Pepper
2020
6.1
Palm Springs
as Roy
2020
7.3
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
as The Grandfather
2020
7.5
Coronavirus, Explained
as Self - Narrator
2020
6.9
Defending Jacob
as Billy Barber
2020
8.3
Klaus
as Klaus (voice)
2019
8.2
21 Bridges
as Captain Matt McKenna
2019
6.8
3 Days with Dad
as Joey
2019
5.1
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2019
6.3
Spider-Man: Far From Home
as J. Jonah Jameson
2019
7.4
Fanboy
as J.K. / Frank Perry
2019
0.0
Drug$
as Narrator
2018
9.2
The Front Runner
as Bill Dixon
2018
5.9
Detroit: Comeback City
as Himself - Narrator
2018
8.0
A Boy Called Sailboat
as Ernest
2018
6.6
Explained
as Narrator (voice)
2018
7.5
The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island
as Dr. Moore (voice)
2018
6.2
Father Figures
as Ronald Hunt
2017
5.8
Counterpart
as Howard Silk
2017
7.4
I'm Not Here
as Steve
2017
5.8
Justice League
as Commissioner Gordon
2017
6.1
Robert Kirkman's Secret History of Comics
as Self
2017
7.4
No Activity
as Leo
2017
6.8
The Bachelors
as Bill Palet
2017
7.1
The Snowman
as Arve Støp
2017
5.2
Renegades
as Levin
2017
5.6
The Black Ghiandola
as Ralph Aceto
2017
6.9
Brockmire
as Matt "The Bat" Hardesty
2017
6.8
All Nighter
as Mr. Gallo
2017
5.7
Punching Henry
as Jay Warren
2017
5.9
Patriots Day
as Sgt. Jeffrey Pugliese
2016
7.1
La La Land
as Bill
2016
7.9
Goliath
as George Zax
2016
7.6
The Accountant
as Ray King
2016
7.1
The Late Bloomer
as James Newmans
2016
5.4
Rock Dog
as Khampa (voice)
2016
6.2
The Meddler
as Randall Zipper
2016
6.0
Zootopia
as Mayor Lionheart (voice)
2016
7.8
Kung Fu Panda 3
as Kai (voice)
2016
6.9
Worlds Apart
as Sebastian
2015
6.4
O.W.C.A. Files
as Napoleon / Additional Voices (voice)
2015
7.5
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
2015
6.2
Terminator Genisys
as O'Brien
2015
5.9
Major Lazer
as President Whitewall (voice)
2015
6.6
What Lives Inside
as Benjamin 'Pops' Delaney
2015
7.4
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
4.6
Men, Women & Children
as Allison's Dad
2014
6.4
Whiplash
as Fletcher
2014
8.4
Ava & Lala
as General Tiger (voice)
2014
8.0
BoJack Horseman
as Lenny Turtletaub (voice)
2014
8.5
Wild Hawaii
as Narrator (voice)
2014
7.7
The Boxcar Children
as Dr. Moore (voice)
2014
7.7
The Rewrite
as Dr. Hal Lerner
2014
6.0
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
as Voice Over (voice)
2014
7.8
Murder of a Cat
as Sheriff Frank Hoyle
2014
5.0
Break Point
as Jack
2014
5.8
Growing Up Fisher
as Mel Fisher
2014
6.3
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
5.9
Barefoot
as Dr. Bertleman
2014
6.6
Labor Day
as Mr. Jervis
2013
7.0
LEGO MARVEL Super Heroes: Maximum Overload
as J. Jonah Jameson (voice)
2013
6.5
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
as Frank Dillman
2013
8.2
Jobs
as Arthur Rock
2013
6.1
3 Geezers!
as J. Kimball
2013
3.9
🎬
The Magic Bracelet
as The Shaman
2013
5.0
Family Tools
as Tony Shea
2013
4.9
🎬
The Heeler
as Roscoe
2013
0.0
Dark Skies
as Edwin Pollard
2013
6.3
Whiplash
as Fletcher
2013
7.8
The Words
as Mr. Jansen
2012
6.7
Gravity Falls
as Stanford Pines (voice)
2012
8.6
Men at Work
as P.J. Jordan
2012
6.6
The Legend of Korra
as Tenzin (voice)
2012
8.2
The Legend of Korra
as Mushi (voice)
2012
8.2
Best Friends Forever
as Don
2012
2.5
Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man
as J. Jonah Jameson (voice)
2012
7.7
Contraband
as Captain Camp
2012
6.3
Ben 10 / Generator Rex: Heroes United
as White Knight (voice)
2011
7.1
Young Adult
as Mavis' Publisher (voice) (uncredited)
2011
5.8
NTSF:SD:SUV::
as Frank Forrest
2011
6.8
🎬
Blackstone
as Detective Burke
2011
7.0
The Good Doctor
as Detective Krauss
2011
6.2
The Music Never Stopped
as Henry Sawyer
2011
7.1
Desert Car Kings
as Himself - Narrator
2011
0.0
True Grit
as J. Noble Daggett (voice) (uncredited)
2010
7.3
Megamind
as Warden (voice)
2010
7.0
4192: The Crowning of the Hit King
as Narrator (voice)
2010
5.5
The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
as J. Jonah Jameson (voice)
2010
8.2
The Talk
as Self - Guest
2010
3.0
Pound Puppies
as Lt. Rock (voice)
2010
5.2
Pound Puppies
as Mr. Withers (voice)
2010
5.2
An Invisible Sign
as Mr. Jones
2010
5.2
Raising Hope
as Bruce Chance
2010
7.4
A Beginner's Guide to Endings
as Uncle Pal
2010
6.0
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
as Gruff K-9 (voice)
2010
5.2
Ben 10: Ultimate Alien
as Magister Gilhil / Plumber (voice)
2010
8.2
Crazy on the Outside
as Ed
2010
5.2
Extract: Mike Judge's Secret Recipe
as Self
2009
3.0
The Vicious Kind
as Donald Sinclaire
2009
6.2
Up in the Air
as Bob
2009
6.9
Jennifer's Body
as Mr. Wroblewski
2009
6.0
Archer
as Detective (voice)
2009
8.0
Extract
as Brian
2009
5.8
Post Grad
as Roy Davies
2009
5.0
Aliens in the Attic
as Skip (voice)
2009
5.7
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
The Way of War
as Sergeant Mitchell
2009
3.6
Parks and Recreation
as Mayor Stice
2009
8.0
Party Down
as Leonard Stiltskin
2009
7.5
I Love You, Man
as Oswald Klaven
2009
6.6
Red Sands
as Lt. Col. Arson
2009
4.3
New in Town
as Stu Kopenhafer
2009
5.8
Batman: The Brave and the Bold
as Guardian (voice)
2008
7.6
Burn After Reading
as CIA Superior
2008
6.7
Ben 10: Alien Force
as Magister Gilhil (voice)
2008
8.3
Walt Whitman
as Narrator (voice)
2008
5.0
Juno
as Mac MacGuff
2007
7.1
Postal
as Candidate Welles
2007
4.6
Rendition
as Lee Mayer
2007
6.4
Phineas and Ferb
as Napoleon (voice)
2007
7.9
Phineas and Ferb
as J.B. (voice)
2007
7.9
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
as James McLaughlin
2007
6.5
Spider-Man 3
as J. Jonah Jameson
2007
6.4
The Astronaut Farmer
as Jacobson
2007
6.2
First Snow
as Vacaro
2006
6.1
Harsh Times
as Agent Richards
2005
6.4
Thank You for Smoking
as BR
2005
7.2
The Closer
as Will Pope
2005
7.9
American Dad!
as Judge (voice)
2005
7.0
American Dad!
as Dean of CIA Academy (voice)
2005
7.0
American Dad!
as Gene (voice)
2005
7.0
American Dad!
as Jed Farnsworth (voice)
2005
7.0
Numb3rs
as Dr. Clarence Weaver
2005
7.0
3: The Dale Earnhardt Story
as Ralph Earnhardt
2004
7.5
Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing
as Self
2004
6.7
Broadway's Lost Treasures II
as Benny Southstreet (segment "Guys & Dolls")
2004
8.0
Veronica Mars
as Clyde Pickett
2004
7.8
Jack & Bobby
2004
7.0
Justice League Unlimited
as Eiling (voice)
2004
8.3
Justice League Unlimited
as General Eiling (voice)
2004
8.3
Spider-Man 2
as J. Jonah Jameson
2004
7.3
The Jury
2004
7.0
The Ladykillers
as Garth Pancake
2004
6.1
The D.A.
as Dep. Dist. Atty. Joe Carter
2004
0.0
Hidalgo
as Buffalo Bill Cody
2004
6.9
Arrested Development
as General Anderson
2003
7.9
Path to War
as CIA Briefer
2003
6.7
Off the Map
as George
2003
6.4
Nip/Tuck
as Ike Connors
2003
7.2
🎬
Disposal
as Older Hunter
2003
0.0
Without a Trace
as Mark Wilson
2002
7.2
John Doe
as Lucas Doya
2002
7.2
Everwood
as Phil Drebbles
2002
7.6
Kim Possible
as Martin Smarty (voice)
2002
7.5
Kim Possible
as Martin Smarty / Additional voices (voice)
2002
7.5
Spider-Man
as J. Jonah Jameson
2002
7.3
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Emil Skoda
2001
7.6
The Mexican
as Ted Slocum
2001
5.9
🎬
Starwater
2001
0.0
Autumn in New York
as Dr. Tom Grandy
2000
6.1
The Gift
as Sheriff Pearl Johnson
2000
6.5
The Cider House Rules
as Ray Kendall
1999
7.1
Third Watch
as Frank Hagedorn
1999
7.9
The West Wing
as Harry Ravitch
1999
8.2
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Dr. Emil Skoda
1999
7.9
I Lost My M in Vegas
as Yellow (voice)
1999
0.0
For Love of the Game
as Frank Perry
1999
6.4
Hit and Runway
as Ray Tilman
1999
4.2
Crossing Fields
as Guy
1998
0.0
Above Freezing
as Hoyd
1998
7.0
Celebrity
as Souvenir Hawker
1998
6.0
Anastasia
as Ensemble and Character Vocals (voice)
1997
7.6
Face Down
as Herb Aames
1997
4.7
The Jackal
as FBI Agent T. I. Witherspoon
1997
6.4
Oz
as Vernon Schillinger
1997
8.0
Love Walked In
as Mr. Shulman
1997
3.3
Extreme Measures
as Dr. Mingus
1996
6.0
The First Wives Club
as Federal Marshall
1996
6.7
Spin City
as Kevin
1996
7.0
Remember WENN
as 'Captain Amazon'
1996
8.0
New York News
1995
0.0
The Scout
as Assistant Coach
1994
5.2
ER
as Gus Loomer
1994
7.8
New York Undercover
1994
7.2
The Ref
as Siskel
1994
6.5
Homicide: Life on the Street
as Alexander Rausch
1993
8.1
Guys and Dolls: Off the Record
as Himself / Benny Southstreet
1992
10.0
Law & Order
as Emil Skoda
1990
7.4
Law & Order
as Jerry Luppin
1990
7.4
The Simpsons
as Victor Kleskow (voice)
1989
8.0
The Simpsons
as Tabloid Editor (voice)
1989
8.0
The Simpsons
as J. Jonah Jameson (voice)
1989
8.0
The Simpsons
as JJ Gruff (voice)
1989
8.0
The Simpsons
as Dr. Jessup (voice)
1989
8.0
American Masters
as Edward Hopper
1986
7.5
Popeye Doyle
as Patrolman in Park
1986
4.2
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
7.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975
7.0
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
🎬
The Prince
N/A
0.0
🎬
Reykjavik
as George Shultz
N/A
0.0
🎬
109 Billion Followers
N/A
0.0
🎬
Heart of the Beast
N/A
0.0
Spaceman
N/A
0.0
🎬
The Westies
as Eamon Sweeney
N/A
0.0
Behind the Zirkonians
as Skip (voice)
N/A
0.0
Hypergalactic
as (voice)
N/A
0.0