J. K. Simmons

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Jonathan Kimble "J. K." Simmons is an American actor and voice actor. Though active since 1986, he has become memetic since 2001 for certain acting roles, especially as J. Jonah Jameson across Spider-Man media, and as Cave Johnson in Portal 2.

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Roles performed by J. K. Simmons

Live Action

• The First Wives Club - Federal Marshal
• Extreme Measures - Dr. Mingus
• The Jackal - Witherspoon
• The Cider House Rules - Ray Kendall
• The Mexican - Ted Slocum
• Law and Order (and spinoffs) - Dr. Emil Skoda, Col. Alexander Rausch
• Spider-Man and the Marvel Cinematic Universe - J. Jonah Jameson
• Oz - Vern Schillinger
• Hidalgo - Buffalo Bill Cody
• The Lady Killers - Garth Pancake
• The Closer - Assistant Chief Will Pope
• Thank You for Smoking - BR
• Postal - Candidate Welles
• Juno - Mac MacGuff
• Burn After Reading - CIA Superior
• I Love You, Man - Oswald Klaven
• Extract - Brian
• Up in the Air - Bob
• Jennifer's Body - Mr. Wroblewski
• True Grit - Lawyer Daggett
• Command and Conquer Red Alert - President Ackerman
• Farmers Insurance advertisements - Professor Nathaniel Burke, University of Farmers

Voice Roles

• American Dad! - Various roles
• The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes - J. Jonah Jameson
• Justice League - General Wade Eiling
• Kim Possible - Martin Smarty
• The Legend of Korra - Tenzin
• The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack - Poseidon
• Megamind - Warden
• Portal 2 - Cave Johnson
• Ultimate Spider-Man - J. Jonah Jameson
• Generator Rex - White Knight
• Amazon Prime's Invincible - Omni-Man

Tropes describing J. K. Simmons' roles

• Adam Westing: Most of his cameo, guest or bit roles play up his Typecasting for comedy's sake.
• Badass Baritone
• Badass Mustache
• Bald of Awesome
• Bumbling Dad
• Hair-Trigger Temper
• Hey, It's That Guy!
• Ink Suit Actor
  • He bears an uncanny resemblance to J. Jonah Jameson.
  • Thanks to some Adaptational Attractiveness, Omni-Man looks very much like a younger J.K. Simmons.
• Large Ham
• Playing Against Type: Tenzin is pretty far a role from Simmons' usual Typecasting.
• Typecasting: Quite a few of his roles are forceful, sometimes charismatic men in positions of authority who are insane to varying degrees.