| J. K. Simmons  AKA Jonathan Kimble Simmons
Born: 9-Jan-1955
Birthplace: Detroit, MI
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: J. Jonah Jameson in Spider-Man J. K. Simmons was born in Michigan, but his family moved to Ohio in his youth, and to Montana when he was 17. He majored in music at the University of Montana, and thought he was going to be a singer. When it became clear that wasn't going to happen, he tried out as an actor at the Bigfork Summer Playhouse in Bigfork, Montana, in 1977. Simmons appeared on stage in many local and regional musicals, comedies, dramas, and Shakespeare plays before moving to New York in 1983. He first appeared on Broadway in 1990, and his biggest Broadway hits came as Benny Southstreet in a long-running revival of Guys and Dolls, and as Captain Hook opposite Cathy Rigby's Peter Pan.
On television, he has played Vern Schillinger, the neo-Nazi leader in Oz, and Dr. Emil Skoda, the sardonic, cynical criminal psychologist on Law & Order and assorted spin-offs. During commercial breaks, Simmons provides the voice of the yellow M&M candy. In movies, he played J. Jonah Jameson, the cigar-chomping newspaperman in the Spider-Man movies, and sang in the cartoon feature Anastasia. Simmons was also in The Ref, The First Wives Club, The Jackal, The Cider House Rules, Hidalgo, and The Ladykillers, and Above Freezing, a low-budget comedy about a florist who gets stuck in a walk-in refrigerator with Simmons and a stash of marijuana.
Wife: Michelle Schumacher (actress, Oz)
University: BA Music, University of Montana
University: Ohio State University
TELEVISION
The Closer Asst. Police Chief Will Pope (2005-)
Oz Vern Schillinger (1997-2003)
Law & Order Dr. Emil Skoda (1994-2004)
Celebrity Poker Showdown Contestant 2005
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Burn After Reading (27-Aug-2008)
Rendition (7-Sep-2007)
Juno (1-Sep-2007)
Postal (21-Jul-2007)
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (27-May-2007)
Spider-Man 3 (16-Apr-2007)
The Astronaut Farmer (23-Feb-2007)
Harsh Times (18-Aug-2006)
First Snow (5-May-2006)
Thank You for Smoking (9-Sep-2005)
3: The Dale Earnhardt Story (11-Dec-2004)
Spider-Man 2 (30-Jun-2004)
The Ladykillers (26-Mar-2004)
Hidalgo (17-Feb-2004)
Off the Map (22-Jan-2003)
Path to War (18-May-2002)
Spider-Man (3-May-2002)
The Mexican (2-Mar-2001)
The Gift (20-Dec-2000)
Autumn in New York (11-Aug-2000)
For Love of the Game (15-Sep-1999)
The Cider House Rules (7-Sep-1999)
Hit and Runaway (17-Apr-1999)
Celebrity (7-Sep-1998)
Above Freezing (1998)
Anastasia (21-Nov-1997)
The Jackal (14-Nov-1997)
Love Walked In (18-Jan-1997)
Extreme Measures (27-Sep-1996)
The First Wives Club (20-Sep-1996)
The Scout (30-Sep-1994)
The Ref (9-Mar-1994)
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