John Turturro

John Turturro

1957-02-28

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.

Also appears in

The Batman

The Batman

7.7

Transformers: The Last Knight

Transformers: The Last Knight

6.1

Cars 2

Cars 2

6.1

The Room Next Door

The Room Next Door

7.2

Exodus: Gods and Kings

Exodus: Gods and Kings

5.9

You Don’t Mess with the Zohan

You Don’t Mess with the Zohan

5.7

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

8.1

The Big Lebowski

The Big Lebowski

7.8

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

6.2

Anger Management

Anger Management

6.1

The Ridiculous 6

The Ridiculous 6

5.2

Transformers

Transformers

6.8

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

6.2

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

7.3

Raging Bull

Raging Bull

7.9

Collateral Damage

Collateral Damage

5.8

Miller’s Crossing

Miller’s Crossing

7.5

Mr. Deeds

Mr. Deeds

5.9

Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing

7.7

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

6.4