J.K. Simmons

J.K. Simmons

Birthday: 1955-01-09

Place of birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA

Also known as: JK Simmons, Jonathan Simmons, Jonathan Kimble "J.K." Simmons

imdb_id: nm0799777

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.

Played in movies:

Guys and Dolls: Off the Record

Score: 10.0

Drug$

Score: 9.2

Rushing or Dragging

Score: 9.0

Whiplash

Score: 8.4

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Score: 8.3

Klaus

Score: 8.2

Zack Snyder's Justice League

Score: 8.1

Broadway's Lost Treasures II

Score: 8.0

Detroit: Comeback City

Score: 8.0

Ava & Lala

Score: 8.0

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Score: 7.9

La La Land

Score: 7.9

Whiplash

Score: 7.8

Zootopia

Score: 7.8

The Boxcar Children

Score: 7.7

Anastasia

Score: 7.6

3: The Dale Earnhardt Story

Score: 7.5

O.W.C.A. Files

Score: 7.5

The Tomorrow War

Score: 7.5

Spider-Man: Far From Home

Score: 7.4

Palm Springs

Score: 7.3

True Grit

Score: 7.3

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

Score: 7.3

Spider-Man 2

Score: 7.3

Spider-Man

Score: 7.3

Hopper: An American Love Story

Score: 7.3

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

Score: 7.2

Thank You for Smoking

Score: 7.2

The Accountant²

Score: 7.1

Ben 10 - Generator Rex: Heroes United

Score: 7.1

Patriots Day

Score: 7.1

The Accountant

Score: 7.1

The Cider House Rules

Score: 7.1

The Music Never Stopped

Score: 7.1

Juno

Score: 7.1

The Bachelors

Score: 7.1

Red One

Score: 7.0

Above Freezing

Score: 7.0

Blackstone

Score: 7.0

Labor Day

Score: 7.0

Megamind

Score: 7.0

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers

Score: 7.0

The Black Ghiandola

Score: 6.9

Kung Fu Panda 3

Score: 6.9

Seal Team

Score: 6.9

Hidalgo

Score: 6.9

Up in the Air

Score: 6.9

Juror #2

Score: 6.9

21 Bridges

Score: 6.8

Venom: Let There Be Carnage

Score: 6.8

The First Wives Club

Score: 6.7

Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing

Score: 6.7

Burn After Reading

Score: 6.7

Saturday Night

Score: 6.7

Path to War

Score: 6.7

The Words

Score: 6.7

Barefoot

Score: 6.6

I Love You, Man

Score: 6.6

A Boy Called Sailboat

Score: 6.6

The Ref

Score: 6.5

Being the Ricardos

Score: 6.5

Rally Road Racers

Score: 6.5

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Score: 6.5

The Gift

Score: 6.5

Men, Women & Children

Score: 6.5

Worlds Apart

Score: 6.4

National Champions

Score: 6.4

For Love of the Game

Score: 6.4

Harsh Times

Score: 6.4

Off the Map

Score: 6.4

Rendition

Score: 6.4

The Jackal

Score: 6.4

Spider-Man 3

Score: 6.4

Dark Skies

Score: 6.3

Ride the Eagle

Score: 6.3

Rock Dog

Score: 6.3

Contraband

Score: 6.3

The Vicious Kind

Score: 6.2

The Astronaut Farmer

Score: 6.2

The Good Doctor

Score: 6.2

The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island

Score: 6.2

First Snow

Score: 6.1

The Union

Score: 6.1

Autumn in New York

Score: 6.1

Justice League

Score: 6.1

Jobs

Score: 6.1

The Ladykillers

Score: 6.1

The Rewrite

Score: 6.0

A Beginner's Guide to Endings

Score: 6.0

Jennifer's Body

Score: 6.0

Extreme Measures

Score: 6.0

The Meddler

Score: 6.0

Celebrity

Score: 6.0

The Front Runner

Score: 5.9

Punching Henry

Score: 5.9

Terminator Genisys

Score: 5.9

The Mexican

Score: 5.9

Glorious

Score: 5.9

You Can't Run Forever

Score: 5.9

Extract

Score: 5.8

I'm Not Here

Score: 5.8

Young Adult

Score: 5.8

Father Figures

Score: 5.8

New in Town

Score: 5.8

Break Point

Score: 5.8

Aliens in the Attic

Score: 5.7

One Day as a Lion

Score: 5.7

All Nighter

Score: 5.7

Renegades

Score: 5.6

The Fish Thief: A Great Lakes Mystery

Score: 5.5

4192: The Crowning of the Hit King

Score: 5.5

Little Brother

Score: 5.5

The Late Bloomer

Score: 5.4

The Snowman

Score: 5.2

The Scout

Score: 5.2

Crazy on the Outside

Score: 5.2

Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore

Score: 5.2

Marmaduke

Score: 5.2

An Invisible Sign

Score: 5.2

3 Days with Dad

Score: 5.1

Walt Whitman

Score: 5.0

The Magic Bracelet

Score: 5.0

Murder of a Cat

Score: 5.0

Post Grad

Score: 5.0

Face Down

Score: 4.7

Postal

Score: 4.6

Red Sands

Score: 4.3

Hit and Runway

Score: 4.2

Popeye Doyle

Score: 4.2

3 Geezers!

Score: 3.9

The Way of War

Score: 3.6

Love Walked In

Score: 3.3

Extract: Mike Judge's Secret Recipe

Score: 3.0

The Fall

Score: 0.0

Behind the Zirkonians

Score: 0.0

Batgirl

Score: 0.0

I Lost My M in Vegas

Score: 0.0

Heart of the Beast

Score: 0.0

Reykjavik

Score: 0.0

109 Billion Followers

Score: 0.0

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

Score: 0.0

Spaceman

Score: 0.0

Disposal

Score: 0.0

The Heeler

Score: 0.0

Crossing Fields

Score: 0.0

The Prince

Score: 0.0

Rivals: Ohio State vs. Michigan

Score: 0.0

Hypergalactic

Score: 0.0

Prophets of Change

Score: 0.0

Fanboy

Score: 0.0

Starwater

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Ren & Stimpy

Score: 9.0

INVINCIBLE

Score: 8.6

Gravity Falls

Score: 8.6

BoJack Horseman

Score: 8.5

Ben 10: Alien Force

Score: 8.3

Defending Jacob

Score: 8.3

The West Wing

Score: 8.3

Justice League Unlimited

Score: 8.3

Justice League Unlimited

Score: 8.3

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Score: 8.2

The Legend of Korra

Score: 8.2

Ben 10: Ultimate Alien

Score: 8.2

The Legend of Korra

Score: 8.2

The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes

Score: 8.2

Homicide: Life on the Street

Score: 8.1

Parks and Recreation

Score: 8.0

Oz

Score: 8.0

Remember WENN

Score: 8.0

The Simpsons

Score: 8.0

The Simpsons

Score: 8.0

The Simpsons

Score: 8.0

The Simpsons

Score: 8.0

Archer

Score: 8.0

The Simpsons

Score: 8.0

Arrested Development

Score: 7.9

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Score: 7.9

The Closer

Score: 7.9

Third Watch

Score: 7.9

Phineas and Ferb

Score: 7.9

Phineas and Ferb

Score: 7.9

ER

Score: 7.8

Veronica Mars

Score: 7.8

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Score: 7.8

Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man

Score: 7.7

Batman: The Brave and the Bold

Score: 7.6

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Score: 7.6

Everwood

Score: 7.6

Goliath

Score: 7.6

Kim Possible

Score: 7.5

Kim Possible

Score: 7.5

Explained

Score: 7.5

Home Movie: The Princess Bride

Score: 7.5

Party Down

Score: 7.5

Raising Hope

Score: 7.4

What Lives Inside

Score: 7.4

American Masters

Score: 7.4

Law & Order

Score: 7.4

Counterpart

Score: 7.4

Robert Kirkman's Secret History of Comics

Score: 7.4

Law & Order

Score: 7.4

Wild Hawaii

Score: 7.3

John Doe

Score: 7.2

New York Undercover

Score: 7.2

Without a Trace

Score: 7.2

Nip/Tuck

Score: 7.2

Spin City

Score: 7.1

Numb3rs

Score: 7.0

American Dad!

Score: 7.0

American Dad!

Score: 7.0

American Dad!

Score: 7.0

The Jury

Score: 7.0

Jack & Bobby

Score: 7.0

American Dad!

Score: 7.0

The Oscars

Score: 7.0

Saturday Night Live

Score: 6.9

Saturday Night Live

Score: 6.9

The Stand

Score: 6.9

Coronavirus, Explained

Score: 6.9

The Great North

Score: 6.9

Night Sky

Score: 6.9

NTSF:SD:SUV::

Score: 6.9

Brockmire

Score: 6.8

No Activity

Score: 6.8

Men At Work

Score: 6.6

Major Lazer

Score: 6.6

LEGO MARVEL Super Heroes: Maximum Overload

Score: 6.5

Growing Up Fisher

Score: 6.5

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Score: 6.3

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Score: 6.2

Die Hart

Score: 6.1

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Score: 5.9

Pound Puppies

Score: 5.2

Pound Puppies

Score: 5.2

Family Tools

Score: 5.1

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Score: 5.1

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

Score: 4.6

The Talk

Score: 3.0

Best Friends Forever

Score: 2.5

The Westies

Score: 0.0

Desert Car Kings

Score: 0.0

The D.A.

Score: 0.0

New York News

Score: 0.0