Jonathan Kimble Simmons (born January 9, 1955) is an American actor and voice actor. In television, he is known for playing Dr. Emil Skoda on the NBC series Law & Order, neo-Nazi Vernon Schillinger on the HBO prison-drama Oz and Assistant Police Chief Will Pope on TNT\'s The Closer. Since 2017, he has executive-produced and starred as Howard Silk in the Starz series Counterpart.\n', '

His film roles include J. Jonah Jameson in Sam Raimi\'s Spider-Man trilogy and music instructor Terence Fletcher in 2014\'s Whiplash. He is known for voicing Cave Johnson in the video game Portal 2 (2011), Tenzin in The Legend of Korra (2012–2014), Stanford Pines in Gravity Falls (2015–16), Kai in Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016) and Mayor Lionheart in Zootopia (2016). Simmons reprised his role as J. Jonah Jameson in various Marvel animated series and video games. He has also appeared in a series of television commercials for Farmers Insurance and voices the Yellow M&M.\n', '

Simmons\'s performance in Whiplash (2014) received widespread critical acclaim and earned him more than thirty accolades, including the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor.\n', '

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