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 (12)
Movies (101)
The Batman
Carmine Falcone
Cars 2
Francesco Bernoulli (voice)
The Big Lebowski
Jesus Quintana
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Pete Hogwallop
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Dottore (voice)
Transformers: The Last Knight
Agent Simmons
Anger Management
Chuck
Raging Bull
Man at Webster Hall Table (uncredited)
Secret Window
John Shooter
Miller's Crossing
Bernie Bernbaum
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Sethos I
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
Lt. Camonetti
The Good Shepherd
Raymond Brocco
The True Adventures of Wolfboy
Mr. Silk
What Just Happened
Dick Bell
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Simmons
Hannah and Her Sisters
TV Writer
To Live and Die in L.A.
Carl Cody
Fading Gigolo
Fioravante
Transformers
Agent Simmons
Clockers
Det. Larry Mazilli
Collateral Damage
Sean Amstrong
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Simmons
He Got Game
Billy Sunday
Mo' Better Blues
Moe Flatbush
Gloria Bell
Arnold
Mr. Deeds
Emilio Lopez
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah
Do the Right Thing
Pino
She Hate Me
Don Angelo Bonasera
The Color of Money
Julian
Cradle Will Rock
Aldo Silvano
Exterminator 2
Guy #1
Girl 6
Murray - the Agent
Monkeybone
Monkeybone (voice)
Rounders
Joey Knish
Summer of Sam
Harvey the Black Dog (voice)
State of Grace
Nick
The Man Who Cried
Dante Dominio
The Jesus Rolls
Jesus Quintana
The Flamingo Kid
Ted from Pinky's
Jungle Fever
Pauline Carbone
The Ridiculous 6
Abner Doubleday
The Room Next Door
Damian
Desperately Seeking Susan
Ray
The Nutcracker
The Rat King
Quiz Show
Herb Stempel
Margot at the Wedding
Jim
Hands of Stone
Frankie Carbo
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Walker
Romance & Cigarettes
Male Dancer & Singer
The Luzhin Defence
Aleksandr Ivanovich 'Sascha' Luzhin
Mia Madre
Barry Huggins
Barton Fink
Barton Fink
Gung Ho
Willie
Company Man
Crocker Johnson
Box of Moonlight
Al Fountain
Brain Donors
Roland T. Flakfizer
The Sicilian
Pisciotta
Miracle at St. Anna
Detective Antonio Ri
Somewhere Tonight
Leroy
God's Pocket
Arthur 'Bird' Capezio
Rio, I Love You
Homem
A Statement
Dr. David Rose
Men Of Respect
Mike Battaglia
Off Beat
Neil Pepper
The Cut
Boz
The Truce
Primo Levi
Monday Night Mayhem
Howard Cosell
Grace of My Heart
Joel Millner
Catchfire
Pinella
Fearless
Dr. Bill Perlman
Being Human
Lucinnius
A Few Days in September
William Pound
Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells
Ingegnere Lombelli
The Source
Allen Ginsberg
Slipstream
Harvey Brickman
Search and Destroy
Ron
Lesser Prophets
Leon
The Oedipus Project
Creon
Unstrung Heroes
Sid Lidz
Opopomoz
John (voice)
Forty Winks
Milo
Sugartime
Sam Giancana
Fear X
Harry
Five Corners
Heinz Sabatino
All Revved Up
Johnny Candellano
The Search for One-eye Jimmy
Disco Bean
Landline
Alan Jacobs
Animals with the Tollkeeper
Tuxedo Man
Two Thousand and None
Benjamin Kasparian
High Noon on the Waterfront
Elia Kazan (voice)
Mac
Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
Son
Gods Behaving Badly
Hades
Secret Passage
Paolo Zane
2BPerfectlyHonest
Sal / Roberto
In the Shadow of No Towers
Narrator
Illuminata
Tuccio
Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy
2009
Sacco and Vanzetti
Vanzetti (Voice)
TV Shows (18)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
1 eps
Monk
Ambrose Monk · 3 eps
Frasier
Grant (voice) · 1 eps
Miami Vice
David Traynor · 1 eps
Severance
Irving Bailiff · 19 eps
The Night Of
John Stone · 8 eps
Green Eggs and Ham
Goat (voice) · 6 eps
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Eric Shane · 1 eps
Flight of the Conchords
Credits Cop · 1 eps
Rachael Ray
1 eps
Difficult People
Dusty · 1 eps
The Name of the Rose
William of Baskerville · 8 eps
Baseball
Various (voice)
Baseball
(voice) · 5 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 (35)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self · 1 eps
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest · 4 eps
Late Show with David Letterman
Self - Guest · 2 eps
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host · 1 eps
Late Night with David Letterman
Self - Guest · 2 eps
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest · 2 eps
The Oscars
Self · 1 eps
Finding Your Roots
Self · 2 eps
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Emmy Awards
Self · 1 eps
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
Self · 1 eps
Brando: The Documentary
Self · 2 eps
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
Self
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
Self
Heart of the Festival
Self (archive footage)
The Italian Americans
Self · 4 eps
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
Self
Frank Serpico
Self
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
Self
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
Self
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
Self
The Coen Brothers
Self
Brando
Self
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Self
Pulling the Evidence That Remains
Self
John Torturro and the Soul of Naples
himself
The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen
Self
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
Self
Senza Lucio
Self
Dreaming Slipstream Dream
Self
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
Self
Hair
Himself
Passione
Self
At Sundance
Self
Upcoming (3)
Directing (9)
Fading Gigolo
Director
The Jesus Rolls
Director
Romance & Cigarettes
Director
Rio, I Love You
Director
Mac
Director
Rigoletto (Teatro Massimo di Palermo)
Director
Illuminata
Director
Hair
Director
Passione
Director
Writing (13)
The Name of the Rose
Writer
Fading Gigolo
Screenplay
The Jesus Rolls
Screenplay
Romance & Cigarettes
Writer
Rio, I Love You
Writer
Mac
Writer
Illuminata
Screenplay
Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy
Writer
Hair
Writer
Passione
Idea
Passione
Writer
Passione
Story
Passione
Screenplay
