John Turturro
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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
Credits
The Batman (2022)
as Carmine Falcone
Cars 2 (2011)
as Francesco Bernoulli (voice)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
as Jesus Quintana
Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
as Agent Simmons
Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)
as Sethos I
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
as Pete Hogwallop
You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)
as Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)
as Dottore (voice)
The Good Shepherd (2006)
as Raymond Brocco
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)
as Lt. Camonetti
Anger Management (2003)
as Chuck
Collateral Damage (2002)
as Sean Amstrong
Raging Bull (1980)
as Man at Webster Hall Table (uncredited)
Mr. Deeds (2002)
as Emilio Lopez
Secret Window (2004)
as John Shooter
Do the Right Thing (1989)
as Pino
The Color of Money (1986)
as Julian
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
as Simmons
Jungle Fever (1991)
as Pauline Carbone
Miller's Crossing (1990)
as Bernie Bernbaum
State of Grace (1990)
as Nick
Rounders (1998)
as Joey Knish
The Room Next Door (2024)
as Damian
The Ridiculous 6 (2015)
as Abner Doubleday
Transformers (2007)
as Agent Simmons
Quiz Show (1994)
as Herb Stempel
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
as TV Writer
Gloria Bell (2019)
as Arnold
Barton Fink (1991)
as Barton Fink
Hands of Stone (2016)
as Frankie Carbo
What Just Happened (2008)
as Dick Bell
Monkeybone (2001)
as Monkeybone (voice)
The Sicilian (1987)
as Pisciotta
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
as Carl Cody
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York (2026)
as Harry
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
as Simmons
Fading Gigolo (2013)
as Fioravante
Summer of Sam (1999)
as Harvey the Black Dog (voice)
Mo' Better Blues (1990)
as Moe Flatbush
The Nutcracker (2010)
as The Rat King
God's Pocket (2014)
as Arthur 'Bird' Capezio
He Got Game (1998)
as Billy Sunday
Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
as Ray
A Statement (2026)
Actor
Catchfire (1990)
as Pinella
Cradle Will Rock (1999)
as Aldo Silvano
Margot at the Wedding (2007)
as Jim
Miracle at St. Anna (2008)
as Detective Antonio Ri
Gung Ho (1986)
as Willie
Rio, I Love You (2014)
as Homem
Landline (2017)
as Alan Jacobs
The Cut (2025)
as Boz
The Man Who Cried (2000)
as Dante Dominio
Clockers (1995)
as Det. Larry Mazilli
Romance & Cigarettes (2006)
as Male Dancer & Singer
Grace of My Heart (1996)
as Joel Millner
The True Adventures of Wolfboy (2019)
as Mr. Silk
Fearless (1993)
as Dr. Bill Perlman
She Hate Me (2004)
as Don Angelo Bonasera
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001)
as Walker
All Revved Up (1998)
as Johnny Candellano
The Source (1999)
as Allen Ginsberg
Off Beat (1986)
as Neil Pepper
Brain Donors (1992)
as Roland T. Flakfizer
Making 'Do the Right Thing' (1989)
as Self
Girl 6 (1996)
as Murray - the Agent
The Jesus Rolls (2019)
as Jesus Quintana
Slipstream (2007)
as Harvey Brickman
The Flamingo Kid (1984)
as Ted from Pinky's
Monday Night Mayhem (2002)
as Howard Cosell
Frank Serpico (2017)
as Self
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't (2008)
as Self
Company Man (2000)
as Crocker Johnson
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013)
as Self
Men Of Respect (1990)
as Mike Battaglia
The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
as Self
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness (2020)
as Self
Being Human (1994)
as Lucinnius
Mia Madre (2015)
as Barry Huggins
A Few Days in September (2006)
as William Pound
New York at the Movies (2002)
as Self
Animals with the Tollkeeper (1998)
as Tuxedo Man
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick (2002)
as Self
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' (2015)
as Self
Brando (2007)
as Self
Heart of the Festival (2002)
as Self (archive footage)
The Thing That Hurts (—)
Actor
Somewhere Tonight (2011)
as Leroy
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies (2008)
Actor
Box of Moonlight (1996)
as Al Fountain
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker (2003)
as Self
Exterminator 2 (1984)
as Guy #1
Unstrung Heroes (1995)
as Sid Lidz
Fear X (2003)
as Harry
The Luzhin Defence (2000)
as Aleksandr Ivanovich 'Sascha' Luzhin
The Coen Brothers (2000)
as Self
The Truce (1997)
as Primo Levi
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later (2009)
as Self
Five Corners (1987)
as Heinz Sabatino
High Noon on the Waterfront (2022)
as Elia Kazan (voice)
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre' (2016)
as Self
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth (2004)
as Self
The Oedipus Project (2020)
as Creon
Two Thousand and None (2000)
as Benjamin Kasparian
Forty Winks (2022)
as Milo
Mac (1992)
as Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli
Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells (2015)
as Ingegnere Lombelli
Pulling the Evidence That Remains (2019)
as Self
2BPerfectlyHonest (2004)
as Sal / Roberto
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation (2005)
as Son
Gods Behaving Badly (2013)
as Hades
Sugartime (1995)
as Sam Giancana
Senza Lucio (2015)
as Self
Illuminata (1998)
as Tuccio
Search and Destroy (1995)
as Ron
The Search for One-eye Jimmy (1994)
as Disco Bean
Lesser Prophets (1997)
as Leon
Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July (2002)
as Narrator
John Torturro and the Soul of Naples (2006)
as himself
Secret Passage (2004)
as Paolo Zane
Hair (2017)
as Himself
Wilder & Me (—)
as I.A.L. Diamond
Sacco and Vanzetti (2006)
as Vanzetti (Voice)
Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy (2009)
Actor
Opopomoz (2003)
as John (voice)
At Sundance (1995)
as Self
In the Shadow of No Towers (2011)
as Narrator
Passione (2010)
as Self
Dreaming Slipstream Dream (2008)
as Self
The Godfather vs. The Godfather Part II (2008)
as Himself