John Turturro
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1957-02-28 (68 years old)
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
John Turturro
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).
Description above from the Wikipedia article John Turturro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Acting
Wilder & Me
as I.A.L. Diamond
(2025)
The Cut
as Boz
(2024)
The Room Next Door
as Damian
(2022)
The Batman
as Carmine Falcone
(2022)
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
as Dottore (voice)
(2022)
Forty Winks
as Milo
(2022)
High Noon on the Waterfront
as Elia Kazan (voice)
(2020)
(2020)
The Oedipus Project
as Creon
(2019)
The Jesus Rolls
as Jesus Quintana
(2019)
Gloria Bell
as Arnold
(2019)
The True Adventures of Wolfboy
as Mr. Silk
(2017)
Transformers: The Last Knight
as Agent Simmons
(2017)
Landline
as Alan Jacobs
(2017)
Hair
as Himself
(2017)
Frank Serpico
as Self
(2016)
Hands of Stone
as Frankie Carbo
(2016)
(2015)
The Ridiculous 6
as Abner Doubleday
(2015)
Mia madre
as Barry Huggins
(2015)
Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells
as Ingegnere Lombelli
(2015)
(2015)
Senza Lucio
as Self
(2014)
Exodus: Gods and Kings
as Sethos I
(2014)
God's Pocket
as Arthur 'Bird' Capezio
(2014)
Rio, I Love You
as Homem (segment "Quando não há Mais Amor")
(2013)
Fading Gigolo
as Fioravante
(2013)
Gods Behaving Badly
as Hades
(2013)
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
as Himself
(2011)
Cars 2
as Francesco Bernoulli (voice)
(2011)
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
as Simmons
(2011)
(2011)
In the Shadow of No Towers
as Narrator
(2010)
The Nutcracker
as The Rat King
(2010)
Passione
as Self
(2009)
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
as Simmons
(2009)
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
as Lt. Camonetti
(2009)
(2009)
(2009)
(2008)
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
as Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah
(2008)
What Just Happened
as Dick Bell
(2008)
Miracle at St. Anna
as Detective Antonio Ri
(2008)
(2008)
(2007)
Transformers
as Agent Simmons
(2007)
Margot at the Wedding
as Jim
(2007)
Slipstream
as Harvey Brickman
(2007)
Brando
as Self
(2006)
The Good Shepherd
as Raymond Brocco
(2006)
Sacco and Vanzetti
as Vanzetti (Voice)
(2006)
A Few Days in September
as William Pound
(2006)
John Torturro and the Soul of Naples
as himself
(2005)
Romance & Cigarettes
as Male Dancer & Singer
(2005)
(2004)
Secret Window
as John Shooter
(2004)
She Hate Me
as Don Angelo Bonasera
(2004)
2BPerfectlyHonest
as Sal / Roberto
(2004)
Secret Passage
as Paolo Zane
(2004)
(2003)
Anger Management
as Chuck
(2003)
Fear X
as Harry
(2003)
Opopomoz
as John (voice)
(2003)
(2002)
Mr. Deeds
as Emilio Lopez
(2002)
Collateral Damage
as Sean Amstrong
(2002)
New York at the Movies
as Self
(2002)
Monday Night Mayhem
as Howard Cosell
(2002)
(2002)
Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July
as Narrator
(2001)
Monkeybone
as Monkeybone (voice)
(2001)
(2000)
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
as Pete Hogwallop
(2000)
The Man Who Cried
as Dante Dominio
(2000)
The Luzhin Defence
as Aleksandr Ivanovich 'Sascha' Luzhin
(2000)
Company Man
as Crocker Johnson
(2000)
Two Thousand and None
as Benjamin Kasparian
(1999)
Summer of Sam
as Harvey the Black Dog (voice)
(1999)
Cradle Will Rock
as Aldo Silvano
(1999)
The Source
as Allen Ginsberg
(1998)
The Big Lebowski
as Jesus Quintana
(1998)
Rounders
as Joey Knish
(1998)
He Got Game
as Billy Sunday
(1998)
Illuminata
as Tuccio
(1998)
Animals with the Tollkeeper
as Tuxedo Man
(1998)
All Revved Up
as Johnny Candellano
(1997)
The Truce
as Primo Levi
(1997)
Lesser Prophets
as Leon
(1996)
Girl 6
as Murray - the Agent
(1996)
Box of Moonlight
as Al Fountain
(1996)
Grace of My Heart
as Joel Millner
(1995)
Clockers
as Det. Larry Mazilli
(1995)
Sugartime
as Sam Giancana
(1995)
Search and Destroy
as Ron
(1995)
At Sundance
as Self
(1995)
Unstrung Heroes
as Sid Lidz
(1994)
Quiz Show
as Herbert 'Herb' Stempel
(1994)
Being Human
as Lucinnius
(1994)
The Search for One-eye Jimmy
as Disco Bean
(1993)
Fearless
as Dr. Bill Perlman
(1992)
Brain Donors
as Roland T. Flakfizer
(1992)
Mac
as Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli
(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)
Mo' Better Blues
as Moe Flatbush
(1990)
Catchfire
as Pinella
(1990)
Men Of Respect
as Mike Battaglia
(1989)
Do the Right Thing
as Pino
(1989)
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
as Self
(1987)
Five Corners
as Heinz Sabatino
(1987)
The Sicilian
as Pisciotta
(1986)
Hannah and Her Sisters
as TV Writer
(1986)
The Color of Money
as Julian
(1986)
Gung Ho
as Willie
(1986)
Off Beat
as Neil Pepper
(1985)
To Live and Die in L.A.
as Carl Cody
(1985)
(1984)
Exterminator 2
as Guy #1
(1984)
The Flamingo Kid
as Ted from Pinky's
(1980)
Raging Bull
as Man at Webster Hall Table (uncredited)
Crew
When the Music Changes
Executive Producer
(2022)
Potentially Dangerous
Executive Producer
(2019)
The Jesus Rolls
Director, Screenplay
(2017)
Hair
Writer, Director
(2014)
Rio, I Love You
Director, Writer
(2013)
Fading Gigolo
Director, Screenplay
(2010)
Passione
Director, Choreographer, Idea, Writer, Story, Screenplay
(2009)
(2005)
Romance & Cigarettes
Director, Producer, Writer
(1998)
Illuminata
Director, Screenplay, Producer
(1992)
Mac
Director, Writer