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