John Turturro
110 movies · 15 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Feb 28, 1957 (age 69)
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Also known as
- John Michael Turturro · 约翰·特托罗 · Джон Туртурро · 존 터투로
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.
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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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Known for
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★ 7.7 The Batman
2022 · Film
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★ 6.8 Transformers
2007 · Film
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★ 7.8 The Big Lebowski
1998 · Film
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★ 6.2 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
2009 · Film
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★ 6.2 Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011 · Film
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★ 6.2 Cars 2
2011 · Film
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★ 6.1 Transformers: The Last Knight
2017 · Film
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★ 5.9 Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014 · Film
John Turturro: movies and TV shows
Acting (121)
- Upcoming
- Upcoming Wilder & Me
as I.A.L. Diamond
- Upcoming
- 2026 A Statement
as Dr. David Rose
- 2025 The Cut
as Boz
- 2024 The Room Next Door
as Damian
- 2024
- 2023
- 2022 Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
as Dottore (voice)
- 2022 High Noon on the Waterfront
as Elia Kazan (voice)
- 2022 Forty Winks
as Milo
- 2022 The Batman
as Carmine Falcone
- 2022
- 2020 The Oedipus Project
as Creon
- 2020
- 2019 The True Adventures of Wolfboy
as Mr. Silk
- 2019
- 2019 The Jesus Rolls
as Jesus Quintana
- 2019 Gloria Bell
as Arnold
- 2019
- 2017 Landline
as Alan Jacobs
- 2017 Transformers: The Last Knight
as Agent Simmons
- 2016 Hands of Stone
as Frankie Carbo
- 2016
- 2015 The Ridiculous 6
as Abner Doubleday
- 2015
- 2015 Mia Madre
as Barry Huggins
- 2015 Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells
as Ingegnere Lombelli
- 2014 Exodus: Gods and Kings
as Sethos I
- 2014 Rio, I Love You
as Homem
- 2014 God's Pocket
as Arthur 'Bird' Capezio
- 2013 Gods Behaving Badly
as Hades
- 2013 Fading Gigolo
as Fioravante
- 2011 In the Shadow of No Towers
as Narrator
- 2011 Somewhere Tonight
as Leroy
- 2011 Transformers: Dark of the Moon
as Simmons
- 2011 Cars 2
as Francesco Bernoulli (voice)
- 2010 The Nutcracker
as The Rat King
- 2009
- 2009 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
as Simmons
- 2009 The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
as Lt. Camonetti
- 2008 What Just Happened
as Dick Bell
- 2008 Miracle at St. Anna
as Detective Antonio Ri
- 2008 You Don't Mess with the Zohan
as Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah
- 2008
- 2007 Margot at the Wedding
as Jim
- 2007
- 2007 Transformers
as Agent Simmons
- 2007
- 2007 Slipstream
as Harvey Brickman
- 2006 The Good Shepherd
as Raymond Brocco
- 2006 A Few Days in September
as William Pound
- 2006 Sacco and Vanzetti
as Vanzetti (Voice)
- 2006 Romance & Cigarettes
as Male Dancer & Singer
- 2005
- 2004 She Hate Me
as Don Angelo Bonasera
- 2004 2BPerfectlyHonest
as Sal / Roberto
- 2004 Secret Window
as John Shooter
- 2004 Secret Passage
as Paolo Zane
- 2003 Opopomoz
as John (voice)
- 2003 Anger Management
as Chuck
- 2003 Fear X
as Harry
- 2002 Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July
as Narrator
- 2002
- 2002 Mr. Deeds
as Emilio Lopez
- 2002 Collateral Damage
as Sean Amstrong
- 2002 Monday Night Mayhem
as Howard Cosell
- 2001 Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
as Walker
- 2001 Monkeybone
as Monkeybone (voice)
- 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 Two Thousand and None
as Benjamin Kasparian
- 2000 Company Man
as Crocker Johnson
- 1999 Cradle Will Rock
as Aldo Silvano
- 1999 Summer of Sam
as Harvey the Black Dog (voice)
- 1999 The Source
as Allen Ginsberg
- 1998 Rounders
as Joey Knish
- 1998 Illuminata
as Tuccio
- 1998 He Got Game
as Billy Sunday
- 1998 All Revved Up
as Johnny Candellano
- 1998 The Big Lebowski
as Jesus Quintana
- 1998 Animals with the Tollkeeper
as Tuxedo Man
- 1997 Lesser Prophets
as Leon
- 1997 The Truce
as Primo Levi
- 1996 Grace of My Heart
as Joel Millner
- 1996 Box of Moonlight
as Al Fountain
- 1996 Girl 6
as Murray - the Agent
- 1995 Sugartime
as Sam Giancana
- 1995 Clockers
as Det. Larry Mazilli
- 1995 Unstrung Heroes
as Sid Lidz
- 1995 Search and Destroy
as Ron
- 1994 The Search for One-eye Jimmy
as Disco Bean
- 1994
- 1994 Quiz Show
as Herb Stempel
- 1994 Being Human
as Lucinnius
- 1993 Fearless
as Dr. Bill Perlman
- 1993
- 1992 Mac
as Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli
- 1992 Brain Donors
as Roland T. Flakfizer
- 1991 Barton Fink
as Barton Fink
- 1991 Jungle Fever
as Pauline Carbone
- 1990 Men Of Respect
as Mike Battaglia
- 1990 Miller's Crossing
as Bernie Bernbaum
- 1990 State of Grace
as Nick
- 1990 Mo' Better Blues
as Moe Flatbush
- 1990 Catchfire
as Pinella
- 1989 Do the Right Thing
as Pino
- 1988
- 1987 The Sicilian
as Pisciotta
- 1987 Five Corners
as Heinz Sabatino
- 1986 The Color of Money
as Julian
- 1986 Off Beat
as Neil Pepper
- 1986 Gung Ho
as Willie
- 1986 Hannah and Her Sisters
as TV Writer
- 1985 To Live and Die in L.A.
as Carl Cody
- 1985 Desperately Seeking Susan
as Ray
- 1984 The Flamingo Kid
as Ted from Pinky's
- 1984
- 1984 Exterminator 2
as Guy #1
- 1980 Raging Bull
as Man at Webster Hall Table (uncredited)
Behind the camera (14)
- Upcoming When the Music Changes
Executive Producer
- Upcoming Joe Torre
Director
- 2022 Potentially Dangerous
Executive Producer
- 2019 The Jesus Rolls
Screenplay, Director
- 2019
- 2018
- 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
- 2006 Romance & Cigarettes
Director, Producer, Writer
- 1998 Illuminata
Producer, Screenplay, Director
- 1992 Mac
Director, Writer
Talk shows and appearances (38)
- 2020
- 2020
- 2019
- 2017
- 2016
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
4 episodes
- 2015
- 2015
- 2015 The Italian Americans
4 episodes
- 2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers
1 episode
- 2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
1 episode
- 2013
- 2012 Finding Your Roots
2 episodes
- 2009
- 2009 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
1 episode
- 2009
- 2008
- 2008
- 2008
- 2007
- 2007 Brando: The Documentary
2 episodes
- 2006
- 2006 Rachael Ray
1 episode
- 2004
- 2003
- 2002
- 2002
- 2002
- 2000
- 1996 The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1 episode
- 1995
- 1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien
2 episodes
- 1993 Late Show with David Letterman
2 episodes
- 1989
- 1982 Late Night with David Letterman
2 episodes
- 1975 Saturday Night Live
1 episode
- 1953 The Oscars
1 episode
- 1949 The Emmy Awards
1 episode