John Turturro

John Turturro

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

Also Known As

John Michael Turturro, 约翰·特托罗, Джон Туртурро, 존 터투로, 約翰·特托羅

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.

Movies

(126 total)
Transformers

Transformers

20076.8

as Agent Simmons

The Big Lebowski

The Big Lebowski

19987.8

as Jesus Quintana

The Batman

The Batman

20227.7

as Carmine Falcone

Cars 2

Cars 2

20116.2

as Francesco Bernoulli (voice)

Raging Bull

Raging Bull

19807.9

as Man at Webster Hall Table (uncredited)

You Don't Mess with the Zohan

You Don't Mess with the Zohan

20085.7

as Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah

Secret Window

Secret Window

20046.6

as John Shooter

Mr. Deeds

Mr. Deeds

20025.9

as Emilio Lopez

Rounders

Rounders

19987.0

as Joey Knish

Barton Fink

Barton Fink

19917.5

as Barton Fink

Miller's Crossing

Miller's Crossing

19907.5

as Bernie Bernbaum

TV Shows

(32 total)