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.
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Movies (38)
The Cut
as Boz
2025
The Room Next Door
as Damian
2024
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
as Dottore (voice)
2022
High Noon on the Waterfront
as Elia Kazan (voice)
2022
Potentially Dangerous
Executive Producer (Production)
2022
Forty Winks
as Milo
2022
The Batman
as Carmine Falcone
2022
The Oedipus Project
as Creon
2020
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
as Self
2020
The True Adventures of Wolfboy
as Mr. Silk
2019
The Jesus Rolls
as Jesus Quintana
2019
Gloria Bell
as Arnold
2019
Rigoletto (Teatro Massimo di Palermo)
Director (Directing)
2018
Frank Serpico
as Self
2017
Landline
as Alan Jacobs
2017
Transformers: The Last Knight
as Agent Simmons
2017
Hair
as Himself
2017
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
as Self
2016
Hands of Stone
as Frankie Carbo
2016
The Ridiculous 6
as Abner Doubleday
2015
My Mother
as Barry Huggins
2015
Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells
as Ingegnere Lombelli
2015
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
as Self
2015
Senza Lucio
as Self
2015
Exodus: Gods and Kings
as Sethos I
2014
Rio, I Love You
as Homem (segment "Quando não há Mais Amor")
2014
God's Pocket
as Arthur 'Bird' Capezio
2014
Gods Behaving Badly
as Hades
2013
Fading Gigolo
as Fioravante
2013
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
as Himself
2013
In the Shadow of No Towers
as Narrator
2011
Somewhere Tonight
as Leroy
2011
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
as Simmons
2011
Cars 2
as Francesco Bernoulli (voice)
2011
The Nutcracker
as The Rat King
2010
Passione
as Self
2010
The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen
as Self
2009
Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy
2009
TV Shows (12)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
as Eric Shane
2024
Can't Go Home
as Paulo Santana
2023
Severance
as Irving Bailiff
2022
The Plot Against America
as Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf
2020
Green Eggs and Ham
as Goat (voice)
2019
The Name of the Rose
as William of Baskerville
2019
The Night Of
as John Stone
2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
Difficult People
as Dusty
2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
Finding Your Roots
as Self
2012