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