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).
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Acting (117 movies)
The Big Lebowski
1998
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000
Barton Fink
1991
Miller's Crossing
1990
Do the Right Thing
1989
The Good Shepherd
2006
Secret Window
2004
State of Grace
1990
Rounders
1998
Jungle Fever
1991
Transformers
2007
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
2008
Mr. Deeds
2002
Fearless
1993
Clockers
1995
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986
The Truce
1997
Box of Moonlight
1996
Quiz Show
1994
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
2008
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
2009
Monkeybone
2001
The Sicilian
1987
The Color of Money
1986
What Just Happened
2008
Cradle Will Rock
1999
Brain Donors
1992
Miracle at St. Anna
2008
Anger Management
2003
Catchfire
1990
To Live and Die in L.A.
1985
Collateral Damage
2002
Gung Ho
1986
Senza Lucio
2015
Margot at the Wedding
2007
Mo' Better Blues
1990
The Man Who Cried
2000
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
2016
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
2005
Fear X
2003
Company Man
2000
Lesser Prophets
1997
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011
A Few Days in September
2006
Sacco and Vanzetti
2006
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
2009
Cars 2
2011
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
2001
Slipstream
2007
The Search for One-eye Jimmy
1994
The Nutcracker
2010
The Luzhin Defence
2000
Unstrung Heroes
1995
Five Corners
1987
Illuminata
1998
Sugartime
1995
Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy
2009
Men Of Respect
1990
Grace of My Heart
1996
Romance & Cigarettes
2005
Two Thousand and None
2000
Somewhere Tonight
2011
Mac
1992
Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014
Forty Winks
2022
Monday Night Mayhem
2002
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003
Animals with the Tollkeeper
1998
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
2013
Fading Gigolo
2013
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002
Gods Behaving Badly
2013
God's Pocket
2014
2BPerfectlyHonest
2004
The Flamingo Kid
1984
The Cut
2025
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
2004
Off Beat
1986
High Noon on the Waterfront
2022
Mia Madre
2015
The Room Next Door
2024
Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells
2015
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
2015
Hands of Stone
2016
He Got Game
1998
The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen
2009
All Revved Up
1998
The Ridiculous 6
2015
Secret Passage
2004
Being Human
1994
Raging Bull
1980
Landline
2017
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
The Source
1999
The Jesus Rolls
2019
Rio, I Love You
2014
Brando
2007
Desperately Seeking Susan
1985
She Hate Me
2004
Search and Destroy
1995
Directing (9 movies)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Mac | 1992 | Writer |
| Illuminata | 1998 | Producer |
| Illuminata | 1998 | Screenplay |
| Romance & Cigarettes | 2005 | Producer |
| Romance & Cigarettes | 2005 | Writer |
| Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy | 2009 | Writer |
| Passione | 2010 | Writer |
| Passione | 2010 | Screenplay |
| Fading Gigolo | 2013 | Screenplay |
| Rio, I Love You | 2014 | Writer |
| Hair | 2017 | Writer |
| The Jesus Rolls | 2019 | Screenplay |
| Potentially Dangerous | 2022 | Executive Producer |