
John Turturro
Department: Acting
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

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

New York at the Movies
2002

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

Wilder & Me
—

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

The Thing That Hurts
—

Raging Bull
1980

Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
2008

Landline
2017

Transformers: The Last Knight
2017

The Source
1999

Making 'Do the Right Thing'
1989

The Jesus Rolls
2019

Rio, I Love You
2014

Brando
2007

Desperately Seeking Susan
1985

She Hate Me
2004

Search and Destroy
1995

Exterminator 2
1984

Frank Serpico
2017

At Sundance
1995

Gloria Bell
2019

The True Adventures of Wolfboy
2019

Summer of Sam
1999

Girl 6
1996

Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
2009

The Batman
2022

In the Shadow of No Towers
2011

Opopomoz
2003

Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
2020

Hair
2017

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022

The Oedipus Project
2020

Passione
2010

Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July
2002

John Torturro and the Soul of Naples
2006

The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
2026

Pulling the Evidence That Remains
2019

The Statement
—

The Coen Brothers
2000

Monk
2002

Flight of the Conchords
2007

Frasier
1993

Finding Your Roots
2012

The Bronx Is Burning
2007

The Oscars
1953

Saturday Night Live
1975

The Night Of
2016

Can't Go Home
2023

Green Eggs and Ham
2019

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009

Baseball
1994

The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996

Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2024

Rachael Ray
2006

The Plot Against America
2020

The Name of the Rose
2019

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015

Miami Vice
1984

The Fortunate Pilgrim
1988

Severance
2022

Brando: The Documentary
2007

Baseball
1994

Difficult People
2015

The Emmy Awards
1949

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014

The Italian Americans
2015

Late Night with David Letterman
1982

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993

Late Show with David Letterman
1993

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015