John Turturro
Biography
John Michael Turturro (born February 28, 1957) is an American-Italian actor, writer and filmmaker, known for his association with the independent film movement. He has appeared in over sixty feature films and has worked frequently with the Coen brothers, Adam Sandler and Spike Lee. He began his acting career on-screen in the early 1980s, and received early critical recognition with the independent film Five Corners (1987). Turturro's mainstream breakthrough came with Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989) and the Coens' Miller's Crossing (1990) and Barton Fink (1991), for which he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival. His subsequent roles included Herb Stempel in Quiz Show (1994), Jesus Quintana in The Big Lebowski (1998) and The Jesus Rolls (2020), Pete Hogwallop in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Seymour Simmons in the Transformers film series and is set to play Carmine Falcone in The Batman. In 2016, in a lead role, he portrayed a lawyer in the HBO miniseries The Night Of and had a recurring role in the miniseries The Plot Against America in 2020. An Emmy Award winner, Turturro has also been nominated for four Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and four Independent Spirit Awards. He directed Mac (1992), which won the Golden Camera Award at the Cannes Film Festival, Illuminata (1998), and Romance and Cigarettes (2005). Description above from the Wikipedia article John Turturro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Jesus Quintana
The Big Lebowski
Pete Hogwallop
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Barton Fink
Barton Fink
Bernie Bernbaum
Miller's Crossing
Pino
Do the Right Thing
Raymond Brocco
The Good Shepherd
John Shooter
Secret Window
Nick
State of Grace
Joey Knish
Rounders
Pauline Carbone
Jungle Fever
Agent Simmons
Transformers
Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
Emilio Lopez
Mr. Deeds
Dr. Bill Perlman
Fearless
Det. Larry Mazilli
Clockers
TV Writer
Hannah and Her Sisters
Primo Levi
La tregua
Al Fountain
Box of Moonlight
Herb Stempel
Quiz Show
Self
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
Simmons
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Monkeybone (voice)
Monkeybone
Pisciotta
The Sicilian
Julian
The Color of Money
Dick Bell
What Just Happened
Aldo Silvano
Cradle Will Rock
Roland T. Flakfizer
Brain Donors
Detective Antonio Ri
Miracle at St. Anna
Chuck
Anger Management
Pinella
Catchfire
Carl Cody
To Live and Die in L.A.
Sean Amstrong
Collateral Damage
Willie
Gung Ho
Self
Senza Lucio
Jim
Margot at the Wedding
Moe Flatbush
Mo' Better Blues
Dante Dominio
The Man Who Cried
Son
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
Self
Un Film E Basta: sul set di MIA MADRE accanto a Nanni Moretti
Harry
Fear X
Crocker Johnson
Company Man
Leon
Lesser Prophets
Simmons
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
William Pound
Quelques jours en septembre
Vanzetti (Voice)
Sacco and Vanzetti
Lt. Camonetti
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
Francesco Bernoulli (voice)
Cars 2
Walker
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Harvey Brickman
Slipstream
Disco Bean
The Search for One-eye Jimmy
The Rat King
The Nutcracker
Aleksandr Ivanovich 'Sascha' Luzhin
The Luzhin Defence
Sid Lidz
Unstrung Heroes
Heinz Sabatino
Five Corners
Tuccio
Illuminata
Sam Giancana
Sugartime
Prove per una tragedia siciliana
Mike Battaglia
Men Of Respect
Joel Millner
Grace of My Heart
Male Dancer & Singer
Romance & Cigarettes
Benjamin Kasparian
Two Thousand and None
Leroy
Somewhere Tonight
Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli
Mac
Sethos I
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Milo
Forty Winks
Howard Cosell
Monday Night Mayhem
Self
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
Tuxedo Man
Animals with the Tollkeeper
Self
New York at the Movies
Himself
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
Fioravante
Fading Gigolo
Self
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Hades
Gods Behaving Badly
Arthur 'Bird' Capezio
God's Pocket
Sal / Roberto
2BPerfectlyHonest
Ted from Pinky's
The Flamingo Kid
Boz
The Cut
Self
Il cineasta e il labirinto
Neil Pepper
Off Beat
Elia Kazan (voice)
High Noon on the Waterfront
Barry Huggins
Mia madre
Damian
La habitación de al lado
I.A.L. Diamond
Wilder & Me
Self
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
Ingegnere Lombelli
Tempo instabile con probabili schiarite
Frankie Carbo
Hands of Stone
Billy Sunday
He Got Game
Self
The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen
Johnny Candellano
OK Garage
Abner Doubleday
The Ridiculous 6
Paolo Zane
Secret Passage
Lucinnius
Being Human
The Thing That Hurts
Man at Webster Hall Table (uncredited)
Raging Bull
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
Alan Jacobs
Landline
Agent Simmons
Transformers: The Last Knight
Allen Ginsberg
The Source
Self
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
Jesus Quintana
The Jesus Rolls
Homem (segment "Quando não há Mais Amor")
Rio, Eu Te Amo
Self
Brando
Ray
Desperately Seeking Susan
Guy #1
Exterminator 2
Don Angelo Bonasera
She Hate Me
Ron
Search and Destroy
Self
Frank Serpico
Self
At Sundance
Arnold
Gloria Bell
Mr. Silk
The True Adventures of Wolfboy
Harvey the Black Dog (voice)
Summer of Sam
Murray - the Agent
Girl 6
Self
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
Carmine Falcone
The Batman
Narrator
In the Shadow of No Towers
John (voice)
Opopomoz
Self
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
Himself
Hair
Dottore (voice)
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Creon
The Oedipus Project
Self
Passione
Narrator
Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July
himself
Diario di viaggio con fantasmi
Harry
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
124
Gender
Male
Birthday
1957-02-28
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
John Michael Turturro