John Turturro

Known for ActingBorn 1957-02-28 (age 69)Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Oedipus Project

The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth

The Italian Americans

Severance

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Green Eggs and Ham

The Night Of

Flight of the Conchords

Monk

The Batman

The Big Lebowski

The Coen Brothers

Animals with the Tollkeeper

Raging Bull

Do the Right Thing

Senza Lucio

Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me

Frasier

Baseball

The Only Living Pickpocket in New York

Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time

The Emmy Awards

Barton Fink

Hannah and Her Sisters

Miller's Crossing

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't

The Bronx Is Burning

Miami Vice

The Evolution of an American Filmmaker

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

New York at the Movies

The Name of the Rose

Quiz Show

Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later

Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies

Sacco and Vanzetti

Opopomoz

Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

High Noon on the Waterfront

Somewhere Tonight

Rounders

The Room Next Door

To Live and Die in L.A.

Transformers

State of Grace

The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen

Brando