John Turturro
- Acting
- February 28, 1957 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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
- A Statement · Dr. David Rose
- 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 Vol. 1: Midnight Madness · Self
- Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time · 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, Screenplay
- Pulling the Evidence That Remains · Self
- Gloria Bell · Arnold
- The Name of the Rose · William of Baskerville, Writer
- Verdi: Rigoletto - Teatro Massimo di Palermo · Director
- Frank Serpico · Self
- Landline · Alan Jacobs
- Transformers: The Last Knight · Agent Simmons
- Hair · Self, Writer
- 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
- 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, Director
- God's Pocket · Arthur 'Bird' Capezio
- Late Night with Seth Meyers · Self
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon · Self
- Gods Behaving Badly · Hades
- Fading Gigolo · Fioravante, Director
- Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me · Self
- 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)
- The Nutcracker · The Rat King
- Passione · Self, Director
- The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen · Self
- Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy · Writer
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
- Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later · Self
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen · Simmons
- The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 · Lt. Camonetti
- What Just Happened · Dick Bell
- The Godfather vs. The Godfather Part II · Self
- Miracle at St. Anna · Detective Antonio Ri
- You Don't Mess with the Zohan · Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah
- The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't · Self
- Dreaming Slipstream Dream · Self
- Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
- Margot at the Wedding · Jim
- The Bronx Is Burning · Billy Martin
- Transformers · Agent Simmons
- Flight of the Conchords · Credits Cop
- Brando · Self
- Brando: The Documentary · Self
- Slipstream · Harvey Brickman
- The Good Shepherd · Raymond Brocco
- John Torturro and the Soul of Naples · Self
- Rachael Ray
- A Few Days in September · William Pound
- Sacco and Vanzetti · Vanzetti (Voice)
- Romance & Cigarettes · Male Dancer & Singer, Director
- The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation · Son