Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 28, 1957
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Credits
164 titles
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
Filmography
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
Harry
The Cut
Boz
The Room Next Door
Damian
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Eric Shane
Can't Go Home
Paulo Santana
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Dottore (voice)
High Noon on the Waterfront
Elia Kazan (voice)
Potentially Dangerous
Executive Producer
Forty Winks
Milo
The Batman
Carmine Falcone
Severance
Irving Bailiff
The Oedipus Project
Creon
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
Self
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
Self
The Plot Against America
Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf
The True Adventures of Wolfboy
Mr. Silk
Green Eggs and Ham
Goat (voice)
The Jesus Rolls
Jesus Quintana
Pulling the Evidence That Remains
Self
Gloria Bell
Arnold
The Name of the Rose
William of Baskerville
Rigoletto (Teatro Massimo di Palermo)
Director
Frank Serpico
Self
Landline
Alan Jacobs
Transformers: The Last Knight
Agent Simmons
Hair
Himself
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
Self
Hands of Stone
Frankie Carbo
The Night Of
John Stone
The Ridiculous 6
Abner Doubleday
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
Difficult People
Dusty
Mia madre
Barry Huggins
Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells
Ingegnere Lombelli
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
Self
Senza Lucio
Self
The Italian Americans
Self
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Sethos I
Rio, I Love You
Homem (segment "Quando não há Mais Amor")
God's Pocket
Arthur 'Bird' Capezio
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
Gods Behaving Badly
Hades
Fading Gigolo
Fioravante
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
Himself
Finding Your Roots
Self
In the Shadow of No Towers
Narrator
Somewhere Tonight
Leroy
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Simmons
Cars 2
Francesco Bernoulli (voice)