J.K. Simmons
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 Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007), tobacco industry executive B.R. 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 Snyder’s 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 Universe/Sony’s Spider-Man Universe films Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), Venom: Let There Be Carnage, and Spider-Man: No Way Home (both 2021), and the web series TheDailyBugle.net (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 TNT’s 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 (2012–2014), Stanford “Ford” Pines in Gravity Falls (2015–2016), 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 “Omni-Man” Grayson in the Amazon Prime action animated series Invincible (2021). He has been the voice of the Yellow M&M since 1996.
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J.K. Simmons Movies
Discover the best J.K. Simmons movies. Explore the complete filmography, including top-rated classics, newest releases, and highest-grossing films starring J.K. Simmons ranked by year and score.
1
Heart of the Beast (2026)
Action
Adventure
When a military transport goes down over remote Alaska, Special Forces operator James Belmont and his battle-hardened canine partner Odin emerge as the sole survivors. Stranded in unforgiving terrain where...
Score
-.-
2
The Accountant² (2025)
Crime
Mystery
Thriller
When a former associate turns up dead, Christian Wolff finds himself drawn back into a world he'd tried to leave behind. Desperate times demand desperate measures, so he reaches out...
Score
7.1
3
Red One (2024)
Action
Comedy
Fantasy
When someone bold enough to kidnap Santa Claus actually pulls it off, the North Pole scrambles to respond. The man running security for the big guy teams up with a...
Score
7.0
4
Juror #2 (2024)
Drama
Thriller
Justin Kemp's quiet life as a devoted father shatters when jury duty places him inside a murder trial where he discovers a deeply personal connection to the case. Torn between...
Score
6.9
5
The Union (2024)
Action
Comedy
When a mysterious woman from his past shows up at a New Jersey construction site with an impossible proposition, a working-class guy finds himself caught between his ordinary life and...
Score
6.1
6
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Action
Adventure
Animation
Miles Morales thought he had this Spider-Man thing figured out. Then a reunion with Gwen Stacy pulls him into a sprawling multiverse teeming with hundreds of Spider-People, all operating under...
Score
8.3
7
Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022)
Adventure
Animation
Comedy
Chip has traded in his detective badge for cubicle walls and actuarial tables, finding comfort in suburban anonymity. Dale pursued a different path: cosmetic enhancement and convention appearances, chasing the...
Score
7.0
8
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Action
Adventure
Science Fiction
When Peter Parker's secret identity goes public, his entire world collapses overnight. College plans, friendships, and any hope of a normal life evaporate under the glare of a hostile city....
Score
7.9
9
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
Adventure
Comedy
Fantasy
A broke single mother moves her two kids into a crumbling Oklahoma farmhouse left by a grandfather they barely knew. What they find buried beneath the property, and the strange...
Score
7.3
10
Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)
Action
Adventure
Science Fiction
Eddie Brock and his alien passenger Venom have reached an uneasy truce, bickering through their shared body like the world's most dysfunctional odd couple. That fragile arrangement gets stress-tested when...
Score
6.7
11
The Tomorrow War (2021)
Action
Adventure
Science Fiction
When visitors from 2051 arrive with devastating news, Earth learns it's already lost a future war against alien invaders. The solution is brutal: conscript present-day civilians to fight a war...
Score
7.5
12
Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021)
Action
Adventure
Fantasy
Superman is gone, and the void he left behind is enormous. Bruce Wayne knows it, and so does the enemy already moving toward Earth. Partnering with Diana Prince, Wayne goes...
Score
8.1
13
Palm Springs (2020)
Comedy
Romance
Science Fiction
Nyles has clearly been stuck in this desert wedding for a very long time. He knows every song, every toast, every embarrassing relative on sight. When Sarah, the bride's reluctant...
Score
7.3
14
Klaus (2019)
Adventure
Animation
Comedy
Jesper is the laziest student ever to graduate from postal academy, so his father ships him off to Smeerensburg, a frozen, feuding town at the top of the world where...
Score
8.2
15
Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
Action
Adventure
Science Fiction
Peter Parker just wants a normal school trip through Europe, a chance to see Venice with MJ and forget, for a few weeks, that he is Spider-Man. Nick Fury has...
Score
7.4
16
Justice League (2017)
Action
Adventure
Science Fiction
Superman's sacrifice leaves a void that no single hero can fill, and Bruce Wayne knows it. Partnering with Diana Prince, he goes looking for extraordinary people willing to stand against...
Score
6.1
17
La La Land (2016)
Comedy
Drama
Romance
Two strivers meet in the smoggy, sun-drenched margins of Los Angeles: Mia rehearses audition monologues between coffee orders, while Sebastian haunts whatever piano bench will have him, still convinced that...
Score
7.9
18
The Accountant (2016)
Crime
Drama
Thriller
Christian Wolff keeps two sets of skills sharp: forensic accounting and lethal combat. Somewhere between autism spectrum disorder and a lifetime of brutal discipline, he has built a quiet life...
Score
7.1
19
The Meddler (2016)
Comedy
Drama
A widow relocates from New Jersey to Los Angeles with her late husband's inheritance and an unbridled determination to fix her daughter's life. When Lori, a successful screenwriter, finally sets...
Score
6.0
20
Zootopia (2016)
Adventure
Animation
Comedy
Judy Hopps arrives at the Zootopia Police Department ready to change the world, only to be sidelined with parking duty. When a missing mammal case lands on her desk, she...
Score
7.8
21
Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)
Action
Adventure
Animation
Po reunites with his long-lost father in a hidden panda sanctuary, but their joyful reunion is cut short when a supernatural menace emerges to consume China's martial arts masters. Stripped...
Score
6.9
22
Terminator Genisys (2015)
Action
Science Fiction
Thriller
By 2029, John Connor has spent his life fighting a war he believed he understood. But SkyNet has grown more cunning, launching a strategy that strikes simultaneously across different points...
Score
5.9
23
Whiplash (2014)
Drama
Music
Andrew Neiman arrives at a prestigious New York conservatory with one ambition: to become one of the great drummers. What he finds is Terence Fletcher, a conductor whose methods border...
Score
8.4
24
True Grit (2010)
Adventure
Drama
Western
When a hired hand guns down her father, fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross does not wait for justice to find her. She goes looking for it herself, negotiating hard with a disreputable,...
Score
7.3
25
Megamind (2010)
Action
Animation
Comedy
When the blue-skinned supervillain finally vanquishes his heroic rival, he discovers that unchallenged victory feels hollow. Craving a worthy adversary, Megamind manufactures a new champion from the DNA of an...
Score
7.0
26
Crazy on the Outside (2010)
Comedy
Crime
Romance
Released after three years inside for covering his accomplice's crime, a man discovers that freedom presents its own complications. Reentry proves disorienting as he navigates family dynamics, romantic complications, and...
Score
5.3
27
Up in the Air (2009)
Drama
Romance
Ryan Bingham has perfected the art of detachment. As a corporate fixer who specializes in firing people, he lives perpetually between terminals, chasing airline status like others chase meaning. When...
Score
6.9
28
Jennifer’s Body (2009)
Comedy
Horror
When a demonic possession transforms Jennifer from high school queen bee into something genuinely monstrous, her best friend Needy becomes the only person who understands what's really happening. As Jennifer's...
Score
6.0
29
Extract (2009)
Comedy
Joel runs a successful extract factory but feels emotionally adrift in his marriage. Desperate to justify his own infidelity, he schemes to push his wife toward another man's arms. His...
Score
5.8
30
I Love You, Man (2009)
Comedy
Romance
When a successful real estate agent gets engaged, he realizes he's spent so much time cultivating business connections that he has no genuine male friendships to draw from. Desperate to...
Score
6.6
31
Juno (2007)
Comedy
Drama
Romance
Sixteen-year-old Juno MacGuff is sharp-tongued, self-possessed, and suddenly pregnant. Rather than spiral, she makes a practical, surprising choice: find the perfect couple to raise her baby. What follows is a...
Score
7.1
32
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)
Drama
History
TV Movie
In the years following Little Big Horn, the Lakota nation faces a slow and systematic erasure. Two men navigate this collapse from opposite ends: Sitting Bull, the unyielding chief who...
Score
6.6
33
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Action
Adventure
Science Fiction
Peter Parker has never felt more confident, but confidence has a way of curdling into arrogance. When a strange alien symbiote bonds with him, it amplifies his darker impulses at...
Score
6.5
34
Thank You for Smoking (2005)
Comedy
Drama
Nick Naylor sells cigarettes for a living, and he's disturbingly good at it. A silver-tongued lobbyist juggling the impossible task of being both an effective spin-doctor for Big Tobacco and...
Score
7.2
35
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Action
Adventure
Science Fiction
Peter Parker is falling apart. His grades are slipping, his landlord wants him gone, and the girl he loves is moving on with someone else. When he walks away from...
Score
7.3
36
Hidalgo (2004)
Adventure
Western
Frank Hopkins is a weathered Pony Express rider in 1890, living somewhere between legend and obscurity, when an invitation arrives to enter the Ocean of Fire, a brutal 3,000-mile endurance...
Score
6.9
37
Spider-Man (2002)
Action
Science Fiction
Peter Parker is the kind of kid who gets overlooked in every hallway. Then a single bite from a lab-engineered spider rewires him from the inside out, and suddenly the...
Score
7.3
38
The Cider House Rules (1999)
Drama
Raised in a rural orphanage, Homer has absorbed medicine from his mentor Dr. Larch without ever stepping into the wider world. When he finally escapes to find his own path,...
Score
7.1
J.K. Simmons TV Shows
Browse the ultimate list of J.K. Simmons TV shows. Find top-rated television series, critically acclaimed dramas, and hit shows starring J.K. Simmons.
1
The Westies (2026)
Crime
Drama
Hell's Kitchen in the early 1980s becomes the battleground for an unlikely power play. Irish gangsters known for their ferocity negotiate a dangerous arrangement with the Five Families over the...
Score
-.-
2
Night Sky (2022)
Drama
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Irene and Franklin have spent decades tending to a peculiar underground structure on their property, one that opens onto an impossible world. When a stranger arrives with questions about the...
Score
6.9
3
Invincible (2021)
Action & Adventure
Animation
Drama
Seventeen years of ordinary life end the moment Mark Grayson's body starts doing things no human body should. His father, Omni-Man, is the most celebrated hero on Earth, and now...
Score
8.6
4
Defending Jacob (2020)
Crime
Drama
Mystery
When a teenager in a quiet Massachusetts suburb becomes the prime suspect in a classmate's murder, his father, an assistant district attorney, finds himself on the wrong side of a...
Score
8.2
5
Counterpart (2017)
Drama
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Howard Silk has spent decades filing papers and following orders at a Berlin-based UN office, a forgettable man in a forgettable job. Then he learns the truth: buried beneath the...
Score
7.4
6
The Legend of Korra (2012)
Action & Adventure
Animation
Family
Korra knows she is the Avatar, but knowing and becoming are very different things. Trained in three of the four elements since childhood, she arrives in a sprawling, modernizing city...
Score
8.2
7
Oz (1997)
Crime
Drama
Inside Oswald Maximum Security Prison, a progressive pod called Emerald City was supposed to represent a better way. Instead, it became a pressure cooker where rival factions, Aryan supremacists, Italian...
Score
8.0
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the highest-rated movies starring J.K. Simmons?
According to aggregate user scores, the absolute best titles starring J.K. Simmons are Heart of the Beast, The Accountant², and Red One.
How many movies and TV shows has J.K. Simmons starred in?
Our database currently features a comprehensive filmography of 45 titles starring J.K. Simmons, ranging from their earliest roles to the newest releases.
Are the movies starring J.K. Simmons worth watching?
Yes! The overall filmography starring J.K. Simmons maintains a strong average user rating of 7.1 out of 10 across all tracked titles.