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What role does J.K. Simmons play in Spider-Man films?

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J.K. Simmons plays newspaper editor J. Jonah Jameson in the Spider-Man films. He portrayed the character in Spider-Man (2002), Spider-Man 2 (2004), and Spider-Man 3 (2007), all directed by Sam Raimi. Simmons later returned as Jameson in Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019), Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), and the animated Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.