John Turturro
Acting
Born: February 28, 1957 (age 69) · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Highest Rated
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
Transformers
2007
The Big Lebowski
1998
The Batman
2022
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
2009
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011
Cars 2
2011
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014
Raging Bull
1980
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
2008
Secret Window
2004
Photos (13)
Movies (100)
The Batman
Carmine Falcone
Cars 2
Francesco Bernoulli (voice)
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Sethos I
Transformers: The Last Knight
Agent Simmons
The Big Lebowski
Jesus Quintana
Raging Bull
Man at Webster Hall Table (uncredited)
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Pete Hogwallop
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
Lt. Camonetti
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Dottore (voice)
Anger Management
Chuck
Mr. Deeds
Emilio Lopez
The Room Next Door
Damian
The Good Shepherd
Raymond Brocco
To Live and Die in L.A.
Carl Cody
Transformers
Agent Simmons
Rounders
Joey Knish
Secret Window
John Shooter
Do the Right Thing
Pino
The Ridiculous 6
Abner Doubleday
Collateral Damage
Sean Amstrong
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Simmons
Quiz Show
Herb Stempel
The Color of Money
Julian
Barton Fink
Barton Fink
State of Grace
Nick
Hands of Stone
Frankie Carbo
Miller's Crossing
Bernie Bernbaum
Hannah and Her Sisters
TV Writer
He Got Game
Billy Sunday
Desperately Seeking Susan
Ray
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Simmons
Jungle Fever
Pauline Carbone
Clockers
Det. Larry Mazilli
Monkeybone
Monkeybone (voice)
Miracle at St. Anna
Detective Antonio Ri
She Hate Me
Don Angelo Bonasera
Fading Gigolo
Fioravante
The Sicilian
Pisciotta
God's Pocket
Arthur 'Bird' Capezio
The Cut
Boz
Gung Ho
Willie
All Revved Up
Johnny Candellano
Romance & Cigarettes
Male Dancer & Singer
Fearless
Dr. Bill Perlman
Margot at the Wedding
Jim
What Just Happened
Dick Bell
The Nutcracker
The Rat King
The Man Who Cried
Dante Dominio
Gloria Bell
Arnold
Summer of Sam
Harvey the Black Dog (voice)
Mo' Better Blues
Moe Flatbush
The Jesus Rolls
Jesus Quintana
Slipstream
Harvey Brickman
Fear X
Harry
Catchfire
Pinella
Cradle Will Rock
Aldo Silvano
Being Human
Lucinnius
The True Adventures of Wolfboy
Mr. Silk
Off Beat
Neil Pepper
Rio, I Love You
Homem (segment "Quando não há Mais Amor")
Landline
Alan Jacobs
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Walker
Men Of Respect
Mike Battaglia
Company Man
Crocker Johnson
Monday Night Mayhem
Howard Cosell
Girl 6
Murray - the Agent
Grace of My Heart
Joel Millner
Box of Moonlight
Al Fountain
Mia madre
Barry Huggins
Brain Donors
Roland T. Flakfizer
The Luzhin Defence
Aleksandr Ivanovich 'Sascha' Luzhin
Five Corners
Heinz Sabatino
The Source
Allen Ginsberg
The Flamingo Kid
Ted from Pinky's
The Truce
Primo Levi
Animals with the Tollkeeper
Tuxedo Man
The Search for One-eye Jimmy
Disco Bean
Exterminator 2
Guy #1
2BPerfectlyHonest
Sal / Roberto
Gods Behaving Badly
Hades
Mac
Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli
Search and Destroy
Ron
A Few Days in September
William Pound
Lesser Prophets
Leon
Unstrung Heroes
Sid Lidz
High Noon on the Waterfront
Elia Kazan (voice)
The Oedipus Project
Creon
Secret Passage
Paolo Zane
Somewhere Tonight
Leroy
Sugartime
Sam Giancana
Two Thousand and None
Benjamin Kasparian
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
Son
Opopomoz
John (voice)
Sacco and Vanzetti
Vanzetti (Voice)
Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells
Ingegnere Lombelli
Illuminata
Tuccio
Forty Winks
Milo
In the Shadow of No Towers
Narrator
Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy
2009
TV Shows (18)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
1 eps
Frasier
Grant (voice) · 1 eps
Monk
Ambrose Monk · 3 eps
Miami Vice
David Traynor · 1 eps
Severance
Irving Bailiff · 19 eps
Green Eggs and Ham
Goat (voice) · 6 eps
The Night Of
John Stone · 8 eps
Flight of the Conchords
Credits Cop · 1 eps
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Eric Shane · 1 eps
Difficult People
Dusty · 1 eps
Rachael Ray
1 eps
Baseball
Various (voice)
Baseball
(voice) · 5 eps
The Name of the Rose
William of Baskerville · 8 eps
The Plot Against America
Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf · 6 eps
The Bronx Is Burning
Billy Martin · 8 eps
The Fortunate Pilgrim
Larry · 2 eps
Can't Go Home
Paulo Santana · 1 eps
Self / Appearances (34)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self · 1 eps
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest · 4 eps
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Late Show with David Letterman
Self - Guest · 2 eps
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host · 1 eps
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest · 2 eps
Late Night with David Letterman
Self - Guest · 2 eps
The Oscars
Self · 1 eps
Finding Your Roots
Self · 2 eps
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Brando: The Documentary
Self · 2 eps
The Emmy Awards
Self · 1 eps
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
Self · 1 eps
The Italian Americans
Self · 4 eps
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
Self
Frank Serpico
Self
Brando
Self
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
Self
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
Himself
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
Self
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Self
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
Self
Dreaming Slipstream Dream
Self
The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen
Self
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
Self
At Sundance
Self
Senza Lucio
Self
The Coen Brothers
Self
Passione
Self
Pulling the Evidence That Remains
Self
Hair
Himself
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
Self
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
Self
John Torturro and the Soul of Naples
himself
Upcoming (4)
Directing (9)
Fading Gigolo
Director
Romance & Cigarettes
Director
The Jesus Rolls
Director
Rio, I Love You
Director
Mac
Director
Passione
Director
Illuminata
Director
Rigoletto (Teatro Massimo di Palermo)
Director
Hair
Director
Writing (13)
The Name of the Rose
Writer
Fading Gigolo
Screenplay
Romance & Cigarettes
Writer
The Jesus Rolls
Screenplay
Rio, I Love You
Writer
Mac
Writer
Passione
Idea
Passione
Writer
Passione
Story
Passione
Screenplay
Illuminata
Screenplay
Hair
Writer
Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy
Writer
