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J. K. Simmons won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Terence Fletcher in Damien Chazelle's Whiplash (2014). He received the award on the 22nd of February, 2015, having also won the Golden Globe for the same performance on the 11th of January, 2015.
J. K. Simmons played J. Jonah Jameson, the editor-in-chief of the Daily Bugle, in all three of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films from 2002 to 2007. He reprised the role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe starting with Spider-Man: Far From Home in 2019, becoming the second actor to portray the same character across both non-MCU and MCU films.
J. K. Simmons was born on the 9th of January, 1955, in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. His family moved to Worthington, Ohio when he was ten, then to Missoula, Montana in 1973, where he graduated from the University of Montana in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts in music.
J. K. Simmons played Vernon Schillinger, a white supremacist prisoner, on the HBO series Oz from 1997 to 2003. The role was one of his earliest prominent television performances and ran concurrently with his recurring role as Dr. Emil Skoda on Law & Order.
J. K. Simmons has voiced the Yellow M&M in commercials since 1996, Cave Johnson in Portal 2 (2011), Tenzin in The Legend of Korra (2012-2014), Stanford Pines in Gravity Falls (2015-2016), and Omni-Man in Invincible (2021 to present). He also voiced General Ketheric Thorm in Baldur's Gate 3 in 2023.
J. K. Simmons has received two Academy Award nominations. He won Best Supporting Actor for Whiplash (2014) and received a second nomination for portraying William Frawley in Aaron Sorkin's Being the Ricardos (2021).