John Turturro
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
ActingBirthday
February 28, 1957Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
134Place of birth
Brooklyn, New York, USAAlso known as
John Michael Turturro, 约翰·特托罗, Джон Туртурро, 존 터투로, 約翰·特托羅Cast credits
The Big Lebowski
Jesus QuintanaO Brother, Where Art Thou?
Pete HogwallopBarton Fink
Barton FinkMiller's Crossing
Bernie BernbaumDo the Right Thing
Pino FragioneThe Good Shepherd
Raymond BroccoSecret Window
John ShooterState of Grace
NickJungle Fever
Pauline CarboneTransformers
Agent SimmonsMr. Deeds
Emilio LopezRounders
Joey KnishFearless
Dr. Bill PerlmanYou Don't Mess with the Zohan
Fatoush 'The Phantom' HakbarahClockers
Det. Larry MazilliHannah and Her Sisters
TV WriterThe Truce
Primo LeviQuiz Show
Herbert 'Herb' StempelBox of Moonlight
Al FountainMonkeybone
Monkeybone (voice)The Color of Money
JulianCrew credits
Romance & Cigarettes
Director, Writer, ProducerIlluminata
Director, Screenplay, ProducerPassione
DirectorMac
Director, WriterFading Gigolo
Director, ScreenplayRio, I Love You
Director, WriterThe Jesus Rolls
Director, ScreenplayHair
Director, WriterPotentially Dangerous
Executive ProducerWhen the Music Changes
Executive Producer