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

Desperately Seeking Susan

Desperately Seeking Susan

6.1

Rio, I Love You

Rio, I Love You

4.9

Girl 6

Girl 6

5.0

The Man Who Cried

The Man Who Cried

6.1

The Nutcracker: The Untold Story

The Nutcracker: The Untold Story

5.1

Thirteen Conversations About One Thing

Thirteen Conversations About One Thing

6.3

The Jesus Rolls

The Jesus Rolls

4.5

Fear X

Fear X

5.7

Fearless

Fearless

6.9

Jungle Fever

Jungle Fever

6.4

What Just Happened

What Just Happened

5.4

She Hate Me

She Hate Me

5.1

Five Corners

Five Corners

5.8

Gung Ho

Gung Ho

6.0

Landline

Landline

6.1

Unstrung Heroes

Unstrung Heroes

5.9

Being Human

Being Human

5.0

Gloria Bell

Gloria Bell

6.0

Catchfire

Catchfire

5.5

Mo’ Better Blues

Mo’ Better Blues

6.5