John Turturro
Acting
- Born:
- 1957-02-28
- Place of birth:
- 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
A Statement
The Cut
The Room Next Door
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Can't Go Home
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
High Noon on the Waterfront
Forty Winks
The Batman
Severance
The Drew Barrymore Show
The Oedipus Project
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
The Plot Against America
The True Adventures of Wolfboy
Green Eggs and Ham
The Jesus Rolls
Pulling the Evidence That Remains
Gloria Bell
The Name of the Rose
Frank Serpico
Landline
Transformers: The Last Knight
Hair
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
Hands of Stone
The Night Of
The Ridiculous 6
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Difficult People
Mia Madre
Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
Senza Lucio
The Italian Americans
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Rio, I Love You
God's Pocket
Fading Gigolo
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Gods Behaving Badly
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
Finding Your Roots
In the Shadow of No Towers
Somewhere Tonight
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Cars 2
The Nutcracker
Passione
The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen
Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
What Just Happened
The Godfather vs. The Godfather Part II
Miracle at St. Anna
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
Dreaming Slipstream Dream
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
Margot at the Wedding
The Bronx Is Burning
Transformers
Flight of the Conchords
Brando
Brando: The Documentary
Slipstream
The Good Shepherd
John Torturro and the Soul of Naples
Rachael Ray
A Few Days in September
Sacco and Vanzetti
Romance & Cigarettes
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
She Hate Me
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
2BPerfectlyHonest
Secret Window
Secret Passage
Opopomoz
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
Anger Management
Fear X
Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Monk
New York at the Movies
Mr. Deeds
Heart of the Festival
Collateral Damage
Monday Night Mayhem
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Monkeybone
The Coen Brothers
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Man Who Cried
The Luzhin Defence
Two Thousand and None
Company Man
Cradle Will Rock
Summer of Sam
The Source
Rounders
Illuminata
He Got Game
All Revved Up
The Big Lebowski
Animals with the Tollkeeper
Lesser Prophets
The Truce
Grace of My Heart
Box of Moonlight
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Girl 6
Sugartime
Clockers
Unstrung Heroes
Search and Destroy
At Sundance
The Search for One-eye Jimmy
Baseball
Quiz Show
Being Human
Fearless
Frasier
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Late Show with David Letterman
Mac
Brain Donors
Barton Fink
Jungle Fever
Men Of Respect
Miller's Crossing
State of Grace
Mo' Better Blues
Catchfire
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
Do the Right Thing
The Fortunate Pilgrim
The Sicilian
Five Corners
The Color of Money
Off Beat
Gung Ho
Hannah and Her Sisters
To Live and Die in L.A.
Desperately Seeking Susan
The Flamingo Kid
Miami Vice
Exterminator 2
Late Night with David Letterman
Raging Bull
Saturday Night Live
The Oscars
The Emmy Awards
Wilder & Me
The Thing That Hurts