John Turturro

John Turturro

Date of Birth:

Feb 28, 1957

Place of Birth:

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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.

filmography:

Mia madre Mia madre

2015

Off Beat Off Beat

1986

The Cut The Cut

2024

The Batman The Batman

2022

Girl 6 Girl 6

1996

Opopomoz Opopomoz

2003

Passione Passione

2010

Hair Hair

2017

The Source The Source

1999

Landline Landline

2017

Brando Brando

2007

Mac Mac

1992

Monkeybone Monkeybone

2001

Quiz Show Quiz Show

1994

The Truce The Truce

1997

Catchfire Catchfire

1990

Clockers Clockers

1995

Rounders Rounders

1998

Mr. Deeds Mr. Deeds

2002

Fearless Fearless

1993

Slipstream Slipstream

2007

Illuminata Illuminata

1998

Sugartime Sugartime

1995

Cars 2 Cars 2

2011

Gung Ho Gung Ho

1986

Fear X Fear X

2003

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