John Turturro
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
- 2024 · The Room Next Door as Damian
- 2024 · Mr. & Mrs. Smith as Eric Shane
- 2023 · Can't Go Home as Paulo Santana
- 2019 · The True Adventures of Wolfboy as Mr. Silk
- 2017 · Frank Serpico as Self
- 2015 · Mia madre as Barry Huggins
- 2014 · Rio, I Love You as Homem (segment "Quando não há Mais Amor")
- 2014 · God's Pocket as Arthur 'Bird' Capezio
- 2013 · Gods Behaving Badly as Hades
- 2010 · Passione as Self
- 2009 · The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen as Self
- 2008 · What Just Happened as Dick Bell
- 2008 · The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't as Self
- 2008 · Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies as
- 2007 · The Bronx Is Burning as Billy Martin
- 2007 · Brando: The Documentary as Self
- 2005 · Romance & Cigarettes as Male Dancer & Singer
- 2004 · She Hate Me as Don Angelo Bonasera
- 2004 · 2BPerfectlyHonest as Sal / Roberto
- 2003 · Opopomoz as John (voice)
- 2002 · Monday Night Mayhem as Howard Cosell
- 2000 · The Man Who Cried as Dante Dominio
- 2000 · The Luzhin Defence as Aleksandr Ivanovich 'Sascha' Luzhin
- 2000 · Company Man as Crocker Johnson
- 1998 · Illuminata as Tuccio
- 1997 · Lesser Prophets as Leon
- 1997 · The Truce as Primo Levi
- 1996 · Girl 6 as Murray - the Agent
- 1995 · Sugartime as Sam Giancana
- 1995 · Unstrung Heroes as Sid Lidz
- 1995 · Clockers as Det. Larry Mazilli
- 1994 · Being Human as Lucinnius
- 1990 · Mo' Better Blues as Moe Flatbush
- 1988 · The Fortunate Pilgrim as Larry
- 1987 · The Sicilian as Pisciotta
- 1987 · Five Corners as Heinz Sabatino
- 1986 · Gung Ho as Willie
- 1984 · The Flamingo Kid as Ted from Pinky's
- 1984 · Exterminator 2 as Guy #1
- Future · The Only Living Pickpocket in New York as Harry
- 2025 · The Cut as Boz
- 2022 · Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio as Dottore (voice)
- 2022 · High Noon on the Waterfront as Elia Kazan (voice)
- 2022 · Forty Winks as Milo
- 2022 · The Batman as Carmine Falcone
- 2022 · Severance as Irving Bailiff
- 2020 · The Oedipus Project as Creon
- 2020 · Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness as Self
- 2020 · The Plot Against America as Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf
- 2019 · Green Eggs and Ham as Goat (voice)
- 2019 · The Jesus Rolls as Jesus Quintana
- 2019 · Gloria Bell as Arnold
- 2019 · The Name of the Rose as William of Baskerville
- 2017 · Landline as Alan Jacobs
- 2017 · Transformers: The Last Knight as Agent Simmons
- 2017 · Hair as Himself
- 2016 · Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre' as Self
- 2016 · Hands of Stone as Frankie Carbo
- 2016 · The Night Of as John Stone
- 2015 · The Ridiculous 6 as Abner Doubleday
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2015 · Difficult People as Dusty
- 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
- 2014 · Exodus: Gods and Kings as Sethos I
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2013 · Fading Gigolo as Fioravante
- 2013 · Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me as Himself
- 2012 · Finding Your Roots as Self
- 2011 · 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)
- 2010 · The Nutcracker as The Rat King
- 2009 · Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy as
- 2009 · Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as
- 2009 · Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later as Self
- 2009 · Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen as Simmons
- 2009 · The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 as Lt. Camonetti
- 2008 · Miracle at St. Anna as Detective Antonio Ri
- 2008 · You Don't Mess with the Zohan as Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah
- 2007 · Margot at the Wedding as Jim
- 2007 · Transformers as Agent Simmons
- 2007 · Flight of the Conchords as Credits Cop
- 2007 · Brando as Self
- 2007 · Slipstream as Harvey Brickman
- 2006 · The Good Shepherd as Raymond Brocco
- 2006 · John Torturro and the Soul of Naples as himself
- 2006 · Rachael Ray as
- 2006 · A Few Days in September as William Pound
- 2006 · Sacco and Vanzetti as Vanzetti (Voice)
- 2005 · The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation as Son
- 2004 · The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth as Self
- 2004 · Secret Window as John Shooter
- 2004 · Secret Passage as Paolo Zane
- 2003 · The Evolution of an American Filmmaker as Self
- 2003 · Anger Management as Chuck
- 2003 · Fear X as Harry
- 2002 · Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July as Narrator
- 2002 · Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick as Self
- 2002 · Monk as Ambrose Monk
- 2002 · New York at the Movies as Self
- 2002 · Mr. Deeds as Emilio Lopez
- 2002 · Collateral Damage as Sean Amstrong
- 2001 · Thirteen Conversations About One Thing as Walker
- 2001 · Monkeybone as Monkeybone (voice)
- 2000 · O Brother, Where Art Thou? as Pete Hogwallop
- 2000 · Two Thousand and None as Benjamin Kasparian
- 1999 · Cradle Will Rock as Aldo Silvano
- 1999 · Summer of Sam as Harvey the Black Dog (voice)
- 1999 · The Source as Allen Ginsberg
- 1998 · Rounders as Joey Knish
- 1998 · He Got Game as Billy Sunday
- 1998 · All Revved Up as Johnny Candellano
- 1998 · The Big Lebowski as Jesus Quintana
- 1998 · Animals with the Tollkeeper as Tuxedo Man
- 1996 · Grace of My Heart as Joel Millner
- 1996 · Box of Moonlight as Al Fountain
- 1996 · The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
- 1990 · Men Of Respect as Mike Battaglia
- Future · Wilder & Me as I.A.L. Diamond
- 1995 · Search and Destroy as Ron
- 1995 · At Sundance as Self
- 1994 · The Search for One-eye Jimmy as Disco Bean
- 1994 · Baseball as Various (voice)
- 1994 · Baseball as (voice)
- 1994 · Quiz Show as Herbert 'Herb' Stempel
- 1993 · Fearless as Dr. Bill Perlman
- 1993 · Frasier as Grant (voice)
- 1992 · Mac as Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli
- 1992 · Brain Donors as Roland T. Flakfizer
- 1991 · Barton Fink as Barton Fink
- 1991 · Jungle Fever as Pauline Carbone
- 1990 · Miller's Crossing as Bernie Bernbaum
- 1990 · State of Grace as Nick
- 1990 · Catchfire as Pinella
- 1989 · Making 'Do the Right Thing' as Self
- 1989 · Do the Right Thing as Pino
- 1986 · The Color of Money as Julian
- 1986 · Off Beat as Neil Pepper
- 1986 · Hannah and Her Sisters as TV Writer
- 1985 · To Live and Die in L.A. as Carl Cody
- 1985 · Desperately Seeking Susan as Ray
- 1984 · Miami Vice as David Traynor
- 1980 · Raging Bull as Man at Webster Hall Table (uncredited)
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- Future · The Thing That Hurts as