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 Raimis SpiderMan trilogy 20022007 tobacco industry executive BR 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 Snyders 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 UniverseSonys SpiderMan Universe films SpiderMan Far From Home 2019 Venom Let There Be Carnage and SpiderMan No Way Home both 2021 and the web series TheDailyBuglenet 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 TNTs 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 20122014 Stanford Ford Pines in Gravity Falls 20152016 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 OmniMan Grayson in the Amazon Prime action animated series Invincible 2021 He has been the voice of the Yellow MM since 1996
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