<P> He is known for his roles as Dr. Emil Skoda, a police psychiatrist who has appeared on three of the four incarnations of Law & Order and New York Undercover, and as sadistic neo-Nazi inmate Vernon Schillinger on the prison drama Oz . He also stars as Ralph Earnhardt, the father of race - car driver Dale Earnhardt, in 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story . He plays Will Pope, Assistant Chief of the LAPD, in the series The Closer . In the show Raising Hope, he plays Burt Chance's brother Bruce Chance . In a precursor to joining the Law & Order cast as Skoda, Simmons appeared in Homicide: Life on the Street, portraying a criminal in a Law & Order cross-over episode . Other roles include that of an army general in the television sitcom Arrested Development, and Dan the Barber in the surreal Nickelodeon kid's show The Adventures of Pete & Pete in 1995 . </P> <P> He played B.R. in the film Thank You for Smoking (2005) and has been praised for his performance in Juno (2007) as "Mac" McGuff, the title character's father . In all three of Sam Raimi's Spider - Man films, Simmons played J. Jonah Jameson, editor - in - chief of the newspaper Daily Bugle (as well as in the expanded video game adaptation of Spider - Man 3). In 2008, he played a CIA superior in Burn After Reading and appeared in Postal as Candidate Welles . He also appeared in I Love You, Man as the father of Paul Rudd's character . </P> <P> Simmons starred in several films produced or directed by his friend Jason Reitman, including Thank You for Smoking, Juno, Up in the Air, and Jennifer's Body . In 2013, he had a small role as Mr. Jervis in Reitman's film Labor Day . He voices Tenzin, an Airbending master and the son of Aang and Katara, in the 2012 Nickelodeon series The Legend of Korra . He starred as blind lawyer "Mel Fisher" in Growing Up Fisher . From 2015 to 2016, he voiced the scientist Stanford Pines on the Disney XD cartoon series Gravity Falls . </P> <P> In the 2014 drama film Whiplash, Simmons played Terence Fletcher, an intensely demanding conductor at the fictional Shaffer Conservatory of Music, who bullies and cajoles his student, Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller). The wide acclaim for Simmons's performance included an Academy Award win for Best Supporting Actor . Rolling Stone said "Beat the drums for an Oscar for Simmons ." Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun - Times said "Simmons delivers one of the most memorable performances of the year ." Entertainment Weekly summed up the reaction by saying Simmons's performance "has been universally praised" and that he was "a leading contender for Best Supporting Actor ." On January 11, 2015, Simmons won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor--Motion Picture and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor on February 22, 2015 . </P>

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