John Turturro

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

150

Gender

Male

Birthday

1957-02-28 (68 years old)

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

John Turturro

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

  • The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

    The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

  • Monk

    Monk

  • Frasier

    Frasier

  • Saturday Night Live

    Saturday Night Live

  • Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

    Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

  • Severance

    Severance

  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

    The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

  • Miami Vice

    Miami Vice

  • The Batman

    The Batman

  • Mr. & Mrs. Smith

    Mr. & Mrs. Smith

  • Cars 2

    Cars 2

  • Transformers: The Last Knight

    Transformers: The Last Knight

  • Finding Your Roots

    Finding Your Roots

  • The Oscars

    The Oscars

  • Raging Bull

    Raging Bull

  • Green Eggs and Ham

    Green Eggs and Ham

  • The Big Lebowski

    The Big Lebowski

  • You Don't Mess with the Zohan

    You Don't Mess with the Zohan

  • Exodus: Gods and Kings

    Exodus: Gods and Kings

  • The Room Next Door

    The Room Next Door

  • Collateral Damage

    Collateral Damage

  • The Night Of

    The Night Of

  • Rachael Ray

    Rachael Ray

  • The Color of Money

    The Color of Money

  • The Good Shepherd

    The Good Shepherd

  • Flight of the Conchords

    Flight of the Conchords

  • Difficult People

    Difficult People

  • Rounders

    Rounders

  • Opopomoz

    Opopomoz

  • Baseball

    Baseball

  • Baseball

    Baseball

  • Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

    Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

  • Cradle Will Rock

    Cradle Will Rock

  • O Brother, Where Art Thou?

    O Brother, Where Art Thou?

  • Mr. Deeds

    Mr. Deeds

  • Fearless

    Fearless

  • Mia Madre

    Mia Madre

  • The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen

    The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen

  • The Rosie O'Donnell Show

    The Rosie O'Donnell Show

  • To Live and Die in L.A.

    To Live and Die in L.A.

  • State of Grace

    State of Grace

  • Box of Moonlight

    Box of Moonlight

  • Brain Donors

    Brain Donors

  • Grace of My Heart

    Grace of My Heart

  • Miracle at St. Anna

    Miracle at St. Anna

  • Quiz Show

    Quiz Show

  • Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later

    Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later

  • Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

    Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

  • The Cut

    The Cut

  • Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'

    Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'

  • Secret Window

    Secret Window

  • Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells

    Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells

  • Gloria Bell

    Gloria Bell

  • Desperately Seeking Susan

    Desperately Seeking Susan

  • The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

    The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

  • The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't

    The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't

  • Anger Management

    Anger Management

  • Thirteen Conversations About One Thing

    Thirteen Conversations About One Thing

  • Slipstream

    Slipstream

  • Transformers

    Transformers

  • Fading Gigolo

    Fading Gigolo

  • At Sundance

    At Sundance

  • The Ridiculous 6

    The Ridiculous 6

  • Animals with the Tollkeeper

    Animals with the Tollkeeper

  • Romance & Cigarettes

    Romance & Cigarettes

  • Monkeybone

    Monkeybone

  • Miller's Crossing

    Miller's Crossing

  • Fear X

    Fear X

  • Summer of Sam

    Summer of Sam

  • Gods Behaving Badly

    Gods Behaving Badly

  • The Bronx Is Burning

    The Bronx Is Burning

  • The Name of the Rose

    The Name of the Rose

  • The Jesus Rolls

    The Jesus Rolls

  • The Luzhin Defence

    The Luzhin Defence

  • Hands of Stone

    Hands of Stone

  • The Plot Against America

    The Plot Against America

  • Catchfire

    Catchfire

  • Passione

    Passione

  • The Sicilian

    The Sicilian

  • Jungle Fever

    Jungle Fever

  • Transformers: Dark of the Moon

    Transformers: Dark of the Moon

  • Lesser Prophets

    Lesser Prophets

  • The Emmy Awards

    The Emmy Awards

  • The Evolution of an American Filmmaker

    The Evolution of an American Filmmaker

  • Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies

    Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies

  • Margot at the Wedding

    Margot at the Wedding

  • Barton Fink

    Barton Fink

  • Clockers

    Clockers

  • God's Pocket

    God's Pocket

  • What Just Happened

    What Just Happened

  • The Truce

    The Truce

  • Unstrung Heroes

    Unstrung Heroes

  • Brando

    Brando

  • Making 'Do the Right Thing'

    Making 'Do the Right Thing'

  • Exterminator 2

    Exterminator 2

  • The Thing That Hurts

    The Thing That Hurts

  • Being Human

    Being Human

  • The Man Who Cried

    The Man Who Cried

  • The True Adventures of Wolfboy

    The True Adventures of Wolfboy

  • Hannah and Her Sisters

    Hannah and Her Sisters

  • Sugartime

    Sugartime

  • Five Corners

    Five Corners

  • The Nutcracker

    The Nutcracker

  • Mo' Better Blues

    Mo' Better Blues

  • He Got Game

    He Got Game

  • Do the Right Thing

    Do the Right Thing

  • The Fortunate Pilgrim

    The Fortunate Pilgrim

  • Rio, I Love You

    Rio, I Love You

  • New York at the Movies

    New York at the Movies

  • Secret Passage

    Secret Passage

  • Gung Ho

    Gung Ho

  • Mac

    Mac

  • The Flamingo Kid

    The Flamingo Kid

  • She Hate Me

    She Hate Me

  • Company Man

    Company Man

  • Forty Winks

    Forty Winks

  • All Revved Up

    All Revved Up

  • Illuminata

    Illuminata

  • Can't Go Home

    Can't Go Home

  • Landline

    Landline

  • 2BPerfectlyHonest

    2BPerfectlyHonest

  • The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth

    The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth

  • Brando: The Documentary

    Brando: The Documentary

  • Wilder & Me

    Wilder & Me

  • Men Of Respect

    Men Of Respect

  • Somewhere Tonight

    Somewhere Tonight

  • A Few Days in September

    A Few Days in September

  • Two Thousand and None

    Two Thousand and None

  • Off Beat

    Off Beat

  • Frank Serpico

    Frank Serpico

  • Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness

    Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness

  • Girl 6

    Girl 6

  • Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'

    Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'

  • Search and Destroy

    Search and Destroy

  • High Noon on the Waterfront

    High Noon on the Waterfront

  • In the Shadow of No Towers

    In the Shadow of No Towers

  • The Only Living Pickpocket in New York

    The Only Living Pickpocket in New York

  • The Source

    The Source

  • Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me

    Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me

  • Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

    Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

  • The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation

    The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation

  • Senza Lucio

    Senza Lucio

  • Sacco and Vanzetti

    Sacco and Vanzetti

  • Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy

    Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy

  • Monday Night Mayhem

    Monday Night Mayhem

  • Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July

    Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July

  • John Torturro and the Soul of Naples

    John Torturro and the Soul of Naples

  • The Search for One-eye Jimmy

    The Search for One-eye Jimmy

  • The Oedipus Project

    The Oedipus Project

  • Hair

    Hair