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