John Turturro

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

152

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

  • Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

    Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

  • The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

    The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

  • Saturday Night Live

    Saturday Night Live

  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

    The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

  • Late Night with Seth Meyers

    Late Night with Seth Meyers

  • Monk

    Monk

  • Frasier

    Frasier

  • Severance

    Severance

  • Miami Vice

    Miami Vice

  • The Batman

    The Batman

  • The Oscars

    The Oscars

  • The Cut

    The Cut

  • The Big Lebowski

    The Big Lebowski

  • Cars 2

    Cars 2

  • Finding Your Roots

    Finding Your Roots

  • Catchfire

    Catchfire

  • Sugartime

    Sugartime

  • O Brother, Where Art Thou?

    O Brother, Where Art Thou?

  • Slipstream

    Slipstream

  • Secret Window

    Secret Window

  • Transformers: The Last Knight

    Transformers: The Last Knight

  • The Night Of

    The Night Of

  • Monkeybone

    Monkeybone

  • Exodus: Gods and Kings

    Exodus: Gods and Kings

  • Green Eggs and Ham

    Green Eggs and Ham

  • Mr. & Mrs. Smith

    Mr. & Mrs. Smith

  • Mac

    Mac

  • Mr. Deeds

    Mr. Deeds

  • All Revved Up

    All Revved Up

  • Unstrung Heroes

    Unstrung Heroes

  • Gung Ho

    Gung Ho

  • 2BPerfectlyHonest

    2BPerfectlyHonest

  • Illuminata

    Illuminata

  • Fearless

    Fearless

  • Girl 6

    Girl 6

  • State of Grace

    State of Grace

  • Baseball

    Baseball

  • Baseball

    Baseball

  • Fading Gigolo

    Fading Gigolo

  • You Don't Mess with the Zohan

    You Don't Mess with the Zohan

  • Romance & Cigarettes

    Romance & Cigarettes

  • Flight of the Conchords

    Flight of the Conchords

  • The Plot Against America

    The Plot Against America

  • Hannah and Her Sisters

    Hannah and Her Sisters

  • Animals with the Tollkeeper

    Animals with the Tollkeeper

  • Men Of Respect

    Men Of Respect

  • She Hate Me

    She Hate Me

  • Rio, I Love You

    Rio, I Love You

  • Raging Bull

    Raging Bull

  • Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

    Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

  • Anger Management

    Anger Management

  • Rachael Ray

    Rachael Ray

  • Difficult People

    Difficult People

  • Summer of Sam

    Summer of Sam

  • Landline

    Landline

  • The Good Shepherd

    The Good Shepherd

  • The Name of the Rose

    The Name of the Rose

  • Brain Donors

    Brain Donors

  • The Bronx Is Burning

    The Bronx Is Burning

  • The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

    The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

  • The Rosie O'Donnell Show

    The Rosie O'Donnell Show

  • Miller's Crossing

    Miller's Crossing

  • The Ridiculous 6

    The Ridiculous 6

  • New York at the Movies

    New York at the Movies

  • Off Beat

    Off Beat

  • Lesser Prophets

    Lesser Prophets

  • Desperately Seeking Susan

    Desperately Seeking Susan

  • The Thing That Hurts

    The Thing That Hurts

  • Do the Right Thing

    Do the Right Thing

  • The Emmy Awards

    The Emmy Awards

  • Transformers

    Transformers

  • The Fortunate Pilgrim

    The Fortunate Pilgrim

  • Rounders

    Rounders

  • The Room Next Door

    The Room Next Door

  • The Color of Money

    The Color of Money

  • Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

    Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

  • Quiz Show

    Quiz Show

  • Collateral Damage

    Collateral Damage

  • Transformers: Dark of the Moon

    Transformers: Dark of the Moon

  • Wilder & Me

    Wilder & Me

  • The Source

    The Source

  • He Got Game

    He Got Game

  • Barton Fink

    Barton Fink

  • Senza Lucio

    Senza Lucio

  • Opopomoz

    Opopomoz

  • To Live and Die in L.A.

    To Live and Die in L.A.

  • Frank Serpico

    Frank Serpico

  • Making 'Do the Right Thing'

    Making 'Do the Right Thing'

  • God's Pocket

    God's Pocket

  • Passione

    Passione

  • Somewhere Tonight

    Somewhere Tonight

  • Hands of Stone

    Hands of Stone

  • Jungle Fever

    Jungle Fever

  • Gloria Bell

    Gloria Bell

  • The Nutcracker

    The Nutcracker

  • What Just Happened

    What Just Happened

  • The Man Who Cried

    The Man Who Cried

  • Miracle at St. Anna

    Miracle at St. Anna

  • The Sicilian

    The Sicilian

  • Cradle Will Rock

    Cradle Will Rock

  • Mo' Better Blues

    Mo' Better Blues

  • Clockers

    Clockers

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

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

  • The Jesus Rolls

    The Jesus Rolls

  • Brando: The Documentary

    Brando: The Documentary

  • Grace of My Heart

    Grace of My Heart

  • Can't Go Home

    Can't Go Home

  • The Truce

    The Truce

  • The Flamingo Kid

    The Flamingo Kid

  • Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me

    Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me

  • Five Corners

    Five Corners

  • Margot at the Wedding

    Margot at the Wedding

  • Hair

    Hair

  • Brando

    Brando

  • The True Adventures of Wolfboy

    The True Adventures of Wolfboy

  • Exterminator 2

    Exterminator 2

  • The Only Living Pickpocket in New York

    The Only Living Pickpocket in New York

  • My Mother

    My Mother

  • The Luzhin Defence

    The Luzhin Defence

  • Box of Moonlight

    Box of Moonlight

  • Fear X

    Fear X

  • Being Human

    Being Human

  • Thirteen Conversations About One Thing

    Thirteen Conversations About One Thing

  • Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness

    Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness

  • The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen

    The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen

  • High Noon on the Waterfront

    High Noon on the Waterfront

  • Gods Behaving Badly

    Gods Behaving Badly

  • Company Man

    Company Man

  • The Search for One-eye Jimmy

    The Search for One-eye Jimmy

  • The Evolution of an American Filmmaker

    The Evolution of an American Filmmaker

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

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

  • Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

    Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

  • The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth

    The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth

  • Monday Night Mayhem

    Monday Night Mayhem

  • At Sundance

    At Sundance

  • A Few Days in September

    A Few Days in September

  • The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't

    The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't

  • Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells

    Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells

  • Sacco and Vanzetti

    Sacco and Vanzetti

  • John Torturro and the Soul of Naples

    John Torturro and the Soul of Naples

  • Secret Passage

    Secret Passage

  • The Oedipus Project

    The Oedipus Project

  • Forty Winks

    Forty Winks

  • The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation

    The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation

  • Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later

    Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later

  • Search and Destroy

    Search and Destroy

  • Two Thousand and None

    Two Thousand and None

  • Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies

    Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies

  • Pulling The Evidence That Remains

    Pulling The Evidence That Remains

  • In the Shadow of No Towers

    In the Shadow of No Towers

  • Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July

    Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July

  • Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy

    Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy