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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1957-02-28 (68 years old)

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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).

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Known For

Acting

2025

The Cut as Boz

2024

Mr. & Mrs. Smith as Eric Shane

2023

Can't Go Home as Paulo Santana

2022

Forty Winks as Milo
High Noon on the Waterfront as Elia Kazan (voice)
The Batman as Carmine Falcone
Severance as Irving Bailiff

2020

The Plot Against America as Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf

2019

The Jesus Rolls as Jesus Quintana
Gloria Bell as Arnold
Green Eggs and Ham as Goat (voice)
The Name of the Rose as William of Baskerville

2017

Landline as Alan Jacobs
Hair as Himself

2016

Hands of Stone as Frankie Carbo
The Night Of as John Stone

2015

Senza Lucio as Self
Mia madre as Barry Huggins
Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells as Ingegnere Lombelli
The Ridiculous 6 as Abner Doubleday

2014

God's Pocket as Arthur 'Bird' Capezio
Rio, I Love You as Homem (segment "Quando não há Mais Amor")

2013

Fading Gigolo as Fioravante

2012

2011

Cars 2 as Francesco Bernoulli (voice)

2010

The Nutcracker as The Rat King
Passione as Self

2009

2008

You Don't Mess with the Zohan as Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah
What Just Happened as Dick Bell
Miracle at St. Anna as Detective Antonio Ri

2007

Transformers as Agent Simmons
Slipstream as Harvey Brickman
Brando as Self
The Bronx Is Burning as Billy Martin

2006

The Good Shepherd as Raymond Brocco
A Few Days in September as William Pound
Sacco and Vanzetti as Vanzetti (Voice)

2005

Romance & Cigarettes as Male Dancer & Singer

2004

Secret Window as John Shooter
2BPerfectlyHonest as Sal / Roberto
Secret Passage as Paolo Zane
She Hate Me as Don Angelo Bonasera

2003

Fear X as Harry
Opopomoz as John (voice)

2002

Mr. Deeds as Emilio Lopez
Collateral Damage as Sean Amstrong
Monday Night Mayhem as Howard Cosell
Monk as Ambrose Monk

2001

Monkeybone as Monkeybone (voice)

2000

O Brother, Where Art Thou? as Pete Hogwallop
The Man Who Cried as Dante Dominio
Company Man as Crocker Johnson
The Luzhin Defence as Aleksandr Ivanovich 'Sascha' Luzhin
Two Thousand and None as Benjamin Kasparian

1999

Cradle Will Rock as Aldo Silvano
The Source as Allen Ginsberg
Summer of Sam as Harvey the Black Dog (voice)

1998

The Big Lebowski as Jesus Quintana
Rounders as Joey Knish
Illuminata as Tuccio
He Got Game as Billy Sunday
All Revved Up as Johnny Candellano

1997

The Truce as Primo Levi

1996

Box of Moonlight as Al Fountain
Grace of My Heart as Joel Millner
Girl 6 as Murray - the Agent
The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest

1995

Clockers as Det. Larry Mazilli
Unstrung Heroes as Sid Lidz
Sugartime as Sam Giancana
At Sundance as Self

1994

Quiz Show as Herbert 'Herb' Stempel
Being Human as Lucinnius
Baseball as Various (voice)
Baseball as (voice)

1993

Fearless as Dr. Bill Perlman
Frasier as Grant (voice)

1992

Brain Donors as Roland T. Flakfizer
Mac as Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli

1991

Barton Fink as Barton Fink
Jungle Fever as Pauline Carbone

1990

Miller's Crossing as Bernie Bernbaum
Catchfire as Pinella
Mo' Better Blues as Moe Flatbush
Men Of Respect as Mike Battaglia

1989

Do the Right Thing as Pino Fragione

1988

1987

The Sicilian as Pisciotta
Five Corners as Heinz Sabatino

1986

Gung Ho as Willie
Off Beat as Neil Pepper

1985

1984

The Flamingo Kid as Ted from Pinky's
Exterminator 2 as Guy #1
Miami Vice as David Traynor

1980

Raging Bull as Man at Webster Hall Table (uncredited)

1975

Saturday Night Live as Self - Host

1953

The Oscars as Self

-

Wilder & Me as I.A.L. Diamond

Directing

2019

The Jesus Rolls as Director

2017

Hair as Director

2014

Rio, I Love You as Director

2013

Fading Gigolo as Director

2010

Passione as Director

2005

1998

Illuminata as Director

1992

Mac as Director

Production

2022

Potentially Dangerous as Executive Producer

2019

The Name of the Rose as Executive Producer

2005

1998

Illuminata as Producer

-

When the Music Changes as Executive Producer

Writing

2019

The Jesus Rolls as Screenplay

2017

Hair as Writer

2014

Rio, I Love You as Writer

2013

Fading Gigolo as Screenplay

2010

Passione as Idea
Passione as Writer
Passione as Story
Passione as Screenplay

2005

1998

Illuminata as Screenplay

1992

Mac as Writer

Crew

2010

Passione as Choreographer