In 1994, he sang multiple roles in the Wagner opera satire Das Barbecü. On Broadway, Simmons played Benny Southstreet in the 1992 revival of Guys and Dolls. Simmons made his way up in the acting world from there, eventually landing a role on Broadway in 1992. Later, he moved to Seattle and became a member of the Seattle Repertory Theatre, where he met his best friend Michael Smith. During college, he became a member of the music-oriented fraternity Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. The younger Simmons graduated from the University of Montana in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in music. In 1973, when he was 18, they moved to Missoula, Montana, where his father became director of the School of Music at the University of Montana. From 1970 to 1972, he attended Worthington High School, where he participated in drama, football and choir. In 1965, when he was 10 years old, his family moved to Worthington, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus, Ohio. One of three children, Simmons attended Ferry Elementary School in Grosse Pointe Woods. Simmons was born on January 9, 1955, in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, the son of Patricia (née Kimble), an administrator, and Donald William Simmons, a music teacher at Parcells Middle School. He has been the voice of the Yellow M&M since 1996.
In 2022, he played the lead role in the Amazon Prime Video science fiction series Night Sky.Īs a voice artist, he is known for voicing Cave Johnson in the video game Portal 2 (2011) and its spin-off Aperture Desk Job (2022), 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). In 2020, he had recurring roles on the miniseries Defending Jacob and The Stand. He has also appeared in a series of commercials for Farmers Insurance and starred in the third season of the IFC comedy series Brockmire.
From 2017 to 2019, he starred as Howard Silk in the Starz series Counterpart. 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. On television, he is known for playing Dr. He reprised his role as Jameson in various Marvel media unrelated to the Raimi trilogy, including multiple animated series, the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), the web series The Daily Bugle (2019–2022), and the Sony's Spider-Man Universe film Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021).
in Thank You for Smoking (2006), Mac MacGuff in Juno (2007), music instructor Terence Fletcher in Whiplash (2014), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Bill in La La Land (2016), William Frawley in Being the Ricardos (2021), for which he received another nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and Commissioner James Gordon in the DC Extended Universe films Justice League (2017), Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021), and Batgirl (2022). Jonah Jameson in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007), tobacco industry executive B.R. He is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award. One of the most prolific and well-established character actors of his generation, he has appeared in over 200 film and television roles since his debut in 1986.
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