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John Turturro
John Turturro

John Turturro

ActingBorn February 28, 1957 (age 69)Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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.

Filmography

2025
The Cut

as Boz

Movie
2024Movie
2024
Mr. & Mrs. Smith

as Eric Shane

TV
2023
Can't Go Home

as Paulo Santana

TV
2022Movie
2022
High Noon on the Waterfront

as Elia Kazan (voice)

Movie
2022Movie
2022
The Batman

as Carmine Falcone

Movie
2022
Severance

as Irving Bailiff

TV
2020Movie
2020
The Plot Against America

as Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf

TV
2019Movie
2019
Green Eggs and Ham

as Goat (voice)

TV
2019
The Jesus Rolls

as Jesus Quintana

Movie
2019
Gloria Bell

as Arnold

Movie
2019
The Name of the Rose

as William of Baskerville

TV
2017Movie
2017
Landline

as Alan Jacobs

Movie
2017Movie
2017
Hair

as Himself

Movie
2016
Hands of Stone

as Frankie Carbo

Movie
2016
The Night Of

as John Stone

TV
2015
The Ridiculous 6

as Abner Doubleday

Movie
2015TV
2015
Mia madre

as Barry Huggins

Movie
2015
Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells

as Ingegnere Lombelli

Movie
2015Movie
2014Movie
2014
Rio, I Love You

as Homem (segment "Quando não há Mais Amor")

Movie
2014
God's Pocket

as Arthur 'Bird' Capezio

Movie
2014TV
2013Movie
2013
Fading Gigolo

as Fioravante

Movie
2013Movie
2012TV
2011Movie
2011Movie
2011
Cars 2

as Francesco Bernoulli (voice)

Movie
2010
The Nutcracker

as The Rat King

Movie
2010
Passione

as Self

Movie
2009Movie
2008
What Just Happened

as Dick Bell

Movie
2008
Miracle at St. Anna

as Detective Antonio Ri

Movie
2008
You Don't Mess with the Zohan

as Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah

Movie
2007Movie
2007
The Bronx Is Burning

as Billy Martin

TV
2007
Transformers

as Agent Simmons

Movie
2007TV
2007
Brando

as Self

Movie
2007
Slipstream

as Harvey Brickman

Movie
2006
The Good Shepherd

as Raymond Brocco

Movie
2006
A Few Days in September

as William Pound

Movie
2006
Sacco and Vanzetti

as Vanzetti (Voice)

Movie
2005
Romance & Cigarettes

as Male Dancer & Singer

Movie
2004
She Hate Me

as Don Angelo Bonasera

Movie
2004
2BPerfectlyHonest

as Sal / Roberto

Movie
2004
Secret Window

as John Shooter

Movie
2004
Secret Passage

as Paolo Zane

Movie
2003
Opopomoz

as John (voice)

Movie
2003Movie
2003
Fear X

as Harry

Movie
2002
Monk

as Ambrose Monk

TV
2002Movie
2002
Mr. Deeds

as Emilio Lopez

Movie
2002
Collateral Damage

as Sean Amstrong

Movie
2002
Monday Night Mayhem

as Howard Cosell

Movie
2001
Monkeybone

as Monkeybone (voice)

Movie
2000Movie
2000Movie
2000
The Man Who Cried

as Dante Dominio

Movie
2000
The Luzhin Defence

as Aleksandr Ivanovich 'Sascha' Luzhin

Movie
2000
Two Thousand and None

as Benjamin Kasparian

Movie
2000
Company Man

as Crocker Johnson

Movie
1999
Cradle Will Rock

as Aldo Silvano

Movie
1999
Summer of Sam

as Harvey the Black Dog (voice)

Movie
1999
The Source

as Allen Ginsberg

Movie
1998
Rounders

as Joey Knish

Movie
1998
Illuminata

as Tuccio

Movie
1998
He Got Game

as Billy Sunday

Movie
1998
All Revved Up

as Johnny Candellano

Movie
1998
The Big Lebowski

as Jesus Quintana

Movie
1998Movie
1997Movie
1997
The Truce

as Primo Levi

Movie
1996
Grace of My Heart

as Joel Millner

Movie
1996
Box of Moonlight

as Al Fountain

Movie
1996TV
1996
Girl 6

as Murray - the Agent

Movie
1995
Sugartime

as Sam Giancana

Movie
1995
Clockers

as Det. Larry Mazilli

Movie
1995
Unstrung Heroes

as Sid Lidz

Movie
1995Movie
1995Movie
1994Movie
1994
Baseball

as Various (voice)

TV
1994
Baseball

as (voice)

TV
1994
Quiz Show

as Herb Stempel

Movie
1994
Being Human

as Lucinnius

Movie
1993
Fearless

as Dr. Bill Perlman

Movie
1993
Frasier

as Grant (voice)

TV
1993TV
1993TV
1992
Mac

as Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli

Movie
1992
Brain Donors

as Roland T. Flakfizer

Movie
1991
Barton Fink

as Barton Fink

Movie
1991
Jungle Fever

as Pauline Carbone

Movie
1990
Men Of Respect

as Mike Battaglia

Movie
1990
Miller's Crossing

as Bernie Bernbaum

Movie
1990Movie
1990
Mo' Better Blues

as Moe Flatbush

Movie
1990
Catchfire

as Pinella

Movie
1989Movie
1988TV
1987
The Sicilian

as Pisciotta

Movie
1987
Five Corners

as Heinz Sabatino

Movie
1986Movie
1986
Off Beat

as Neil Pepper

Movie
1986
Gung Ho

as Willie

Movie
1986Movie
1985Movie
1984
The Flamingo Kid

as Ted from Pinky's

Movie
1984
Miami Vice

as David Traynor

TV
1982TV
1980
Raging Bull

as Man at Webster Hall Table (uncredited)

Movie
1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host

TV
1953
The Oscars

as Self

TV
1949TV
Wilder & Me

as I.A.L. Diamond

Movie

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayFebruary 28, 1957
Place of BirthBrooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Popularity2.1