J. K. Simmons

Jonathan Kimble Simmons (born January 9, 1955) is an American actor. His career spans over five decades of screen and stage. Simmons is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a British Academy Film Award for his supporting role in Damien Chazelle's independent film ''Whiplash'' (2014).

Simmons is known for his role as J. Jonah Jameson in Sam Raimi's ''Spider-Man'' trilogy (2002–2007). He reprised his role as Jameson in various Marvel media unrelated to the Raimi trilogy, including multiple animated titles and the Marvel Cinematic Universe films. He has appeared in numerous supporting roles in films such as ''The Cider House Rules'' (1999), ''Thank You for Smoking'' (2005), ''Juno'' (2007), ''Burn After Reading'' (2008), ''Up in the Air'' (2009), ''Jennifer's Body'' (2009), ''La La Land'' (2016), ''Justice League'' (2017), ''Palm Springs'' (2020), and ''Juror No. 2'' (2024), playing iterations of Santa Claus in ''Klaus'' (2019) and ''Red One'' (2024). He portrayed William Frawley in ''Being the Ricardos'' (2021), for which he received another nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

On television he is known for playing white supremacist prisoner Vernon Schillinger on the HBO series ''Oz'' (1997–2003), the recurring role of Dr. Emil Skoda on the NBC series ''Law & Order'' (1997–2010), Assistant Police Chief Will Pope on the TNT series ''The Closer'' (2005–2012), and Howard Silk in the Starz series ''Counterpart'' (2017–2019). He also appeared in commercials for Farmers Insurance.

On the Broadway stage Simmons played Captain Hook in the 1991 revival of ''Peter Pan'' and Benny Southstreet in the 1992 revival of ''Guys and Dolls''.

As a voice actor he is known for portraying the Yellow M&M in commercials since 1996, Cave Johnson in the video game ''Portal 2'' (2011), White Knight in ''Generator Rex'' (2010–2013), 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), Martin Smarty in Kim Possible (2002–2007), Nolan Grayson / Omni-Man in ''Invincible'' (2021–present) and ''Mortal Kombat 1'' (2023), and General Ketheric Thorm in the video game ''Baldur's Gate 3'' (2023). Provided by Wikipedia