Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1957-02-28 (Age: 69)
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.
Filmography (123)
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
2026
The Cut
2025
The Room Next Door
2024
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022
High Noon on the Waterfront
2022
Forty Winks
2022
The Batman
2022
The Oedipus Project
2020
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
2020
The True Adventures of Wolfboy
2019
The Jesus Rolls
2019
Pulling the Evidence That Remains
2019
Gloria Bell
2019
Frank Serpico
2017
