J.K. Simmons won the Oscar for best supporting actor at the 87th Academy Awards on Sunday night for his role in “Whiplash.”The actor, also known for his role in the Farmers Insurance … ...

The late-night show released a “commercial break” clip on Wednesday showing host Jimmy Fallon, Whiplash star J.K. Simmons and musical guest Billy Joel joining Joel’s band in an awesome ...

“Whiplash” star and newly crowned Oscar winner JK Simmons got right to the point when posed with the age-old question: ... [Farmers Insurance] commercials for the first time,” he quipped.

During a commercial break while filming local promos Tuesday for NBC’s “The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon,” Billy Joel, J.K. Simmons and Fallon broke into an unrehearsed doo-wop performance ...

In his Oscar acceptance speech Sunday, J.K. Simmons begged everyone with a parent to pick up the phone and call them. "Call your mom. Call your dad," he said while accepting a trophy for his role ...

Though he’s appeared in more than 50 movies and several hit TV shows, J.K. Simmons is perhaps still best known as the deadpan professor in Farmer’s Insurance commercials. “It’s humbling ...

Once you hear J.K. Simmons as the Yellow M&M, it's impossible not to hear it. Simmons puts on a slow drawling speech pattern, but the deep baritone voice is unmistakably his.

J.K. Simmons. He’s in “Being the Ricardos” playing Lucille Ball’s next-door neighbor Fred, who for real was played by William Frawley. He’s also in endless insurance commercials.

Actor J.K. Simmons' long and varied resume ranges from his Academy Award-winning portrayal of a hyper-intense music instructor in "Whiplash" to Farmers Insurance spokesman to "Law & Order" to voicing ...

In showbiz, of course, Simmons was already a name because backgrounders like him are essential to the machinery: “I’ve heard people say a ‘J.K. Simmons type, but younger’ or ‘J.K ...

J.K. Simmons. J.K. Simmons accepts the award for best actor in a supporting role for 'Whiplash"'at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.