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