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John Turturro

Known for: Acting

Biography: 1957-02-28 (67 years old)

Biography

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).

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Filmography

all 153

Movies 127

self 29

TV Shows 26

Voice 6

Producer 4

Director 4

Narrator 2

Writer 2

Damian Cunningham

John Turturro

Biography

Filmography

all 153

Movies 127

self 29

TV Shows 26

Voice 6

Producer 4

Director 4

Narrator 2

Writer 2

The Room Next Door (2024)

The Cut (2024)

Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2024)

Can't Go Home (2023)

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)

High Noon on the Waterfront (2022)

Vengeance in the Making (2022)

Potentially Dangerous (2022)

Forty Winks (2022)

The Batman (2022)

Severance (2022)

NYC Epicenters 9/11➔2021½ (2021)

The Oedipus Project (2020)

Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness (2020)

The Plot Against America (2020)

The True Adventures of Wolfboy (2019)

Green Eggs and Ham (2019)

The Jesus Rolls (2019)

Gloria Bell (2019)

The Name of the Rose (2019)

Frank Serpico (2017)

Landline (2017)

Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)

Hair (2017)

Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre' (2016)

Hands of Stone (2016)

The Night Of (2016)

The Ridiculous 6 (2015)

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015)

Mia madre (2015)

Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells (2015)

Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' (2015)

Senza Lucio (2015)

The Italian Americans (2015)

The Italian Americans (2015)

Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)

Rio, I Love You (2014)

God's Pocket (2014)

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014)

Gods Behaving Badly (2013)

Fading Gigolo (2013)

Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013)

Finding Your Roots (2012)

In the Shadow of No Towers (2011)

1-900-TONIGHT (Somewhere Tonight) (2011)

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)

Cars 2 (2011)

The Nutcracker: The Untold Story (2010)

Passione (2010)

The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy (2009)

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (2009)

Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later (2009)

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)

What Just Happened (2008)

Miracle at St. Anna (2008)

You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)

The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't (2008)

Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies (2008)

Margot at the Wedding (2007)

The Bronx Is Burning (2007)

Transformers (2007)

Flight of the Conchords (2007)

Brando: The Documentary (2007)

Brando (2007)

Slipstream (2007)

The Good Shepherd (2006)