John Turturro
Acting
1957-02-28 · 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
TheatersThe Only Living Pickpocket in New York
2026 · Movie
TheatersA Statement
2026 · Movie
The Cut
2025 · Movie
The Room Next Door
2024 · Movie
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2024 · Series
Can't Go Home
2023 · Series
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022 · Movie
High Noon on the Waterfront
2022 · Movie
Potentially Dangerous
2022 · Movie
Forty Winks
2022 · Movie
The Batman
2022 · Movie
Severance
2022 · Series
The Oedipus Project
2020 · Movie
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
2020 · Series
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
2020 · Movie
The Plot Against America
2020 · Series
The True Adventures of Wolfboy
2019 · Movie
Green Eggs and Ham
2019 · Series
The Jesus Rolls
2019 · Movie
Pulling the Evidence That Remains
2019 · Movie
Gloria Bell
2019 · Movie
The Name of the Rose
2019 · Series
Rigoletto (Teatro Massimo di Palermo)
2018 · Movie
Frank Serpico
2017 · Movie
Landline
2017 · Movie
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017 · Movie
Hair
2017 · Movie
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
2016 · Movie
Hands of Stone
2016 · Movie
The Night Of
2016 · Series
The Ridiculous 6
2015 · Movie
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Series
Difficult People
2015 · Series
Mia madre
2015 · Movie
Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells
2015 · Movie
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
2015 · Movie
Senza Lucio
2015 · Movie
The Italian Americans
2015 · Series
Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014 · Movie
Rio, I Love You
2014 · Movie
God's Pocket
2014 · Movie
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Series
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Series
Gods Behaving Badly
2013 · Movie
Fading Gigolo
2013 · Movie
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
2013 · Movie
Finding Your Roots
2012 · Series
In the Shadow of No Towers
2011 · Movie
Somewhere Tonight
2011 · Movie
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011 · Movie
Cars 2
2011 · Movie
The Nutcracker
2010 · Movie
Passione
2010 · Movie
The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen
2009 · Movie
Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy
2009 · Movie
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · Series
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
2009 · Movie
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
2009 · Movie
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
2009 · Movie
What Just Happened
2008 · Movie
The Godfather vs. The Godfather Part II
2008 · Movie
Miracle at St. Anna
2008 · Movie
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
2008 · Movie
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
2008 · Movie
Dreaming Slipstream Dream
2008 · Movie
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
2008 · Movie
Margot at the Wedding
2007 · Movie
The Bronx Is Burning
2007 · Series
Transformers
2007 · Movie
Flight of the Conchords
2007 · Series
Brando: The Documentary
2007 · Series
Brando
2007 · Movie
Slipstream
2007 · Movie
The Good Shepherd
2006 · Movie
John Torturro and the Soul of Naples
2006 · Movie
Rachael Ray
2006 · Series
A Few Days in September
2006 · Movie
Sacco and Vanzetti
2006 · Movie
Romance & Cigarettes
2005 · Movie
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
2005 · Movie
She Hate Me
2004 · Movie
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
2004 · Movie
2BPerfectlyHonest
2004 · Movie
Secret Window
2004 · Movie
Secret Passage
2004 · Movie
Opopomoz
2003 · Movie
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003 · Movie
Anger Management
2003 · Movie
Fear X
2003 · Movie
Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July
2002 · Movie
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002 · Movie
Monk
2002 · Series
New York at the Movies
2002 · Movie
Mr. Deeds
2002 · Movie
Collateral Damage
2002 · Movie
Monday Night Mayhem
2002 · Movie
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
2001 · Movie
Monkeybone
2001 · Movie
The Coen Brothers
2000 · Movie
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000 · Movie
The Man Who Cried
2000 · Movie
The Luzhin Defence
2000 · Movie
Two Thousand and None
2000 · Movie
Company Man
2000 · Movie
Cradle Will Rock
1999 · Movie
Summer of Sam
1999 · Movie
The Source
1999 · Movie
Rounders
1998 · Movie
Illuminata
1998 · Movie
He Got Game
1998 · Movie
All Revved Up
1998 · Movie
The Big Lebowski
1998 · Movie
Animals with the Tollkeeper
1998 · Movie
Lesser Prophets
1997 · Movie
The Truce
1997 · Movie
Grace of My Heart
1996 · Movie
Box of Moonlight
1996 · Movie
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996 · Series
Girl 6
1996 · Movie
Sugartime
1995 · Movie
Clockers
1995 · Movie
Unstrung Heroes
1995 · Movie
Search and Destroy
1995 · Movie
At Sundance
1995 · Movie
The Search for One-eye Jimmy
1994 · Movie
Baseball
1994 · Series
Quiz Show
1994 · Movie
Being Human
1994 · Movie
Fearless
1993 · Movie
Frasier
1993 · Series
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Series
Late Show with David Letterman
1993 · Series
Mac
1992 · Movie
Brain Donors
1992 · Movie
Barton Fink
1991 · Movie
Jungle Fever
1991 · Movie
Men Of Respect
1990 · Movie
Miller's Crossing
1990 · Movie
State of Grace
1990 · Movie
Mo' Better Blues
1990 · Movie
Catchfire
1990 · Movie
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
1989 · Movie
Do the Right Thing
1989 · Movie
The Fortunate Pilgrim
1988 · Series
The Sicilian
1987 · Movie
Five Corners
1987 · Movie
The Color of Money
1986 · Movie
Off Beat
1986 · Movie
Gung Ho
1986 · Movie
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986 · Movie
To Live and Die in L.A.
1985 · Movie
Desperately Seeking Susan
1985 · Movie
The Flamingo Kid
1984 · Movie
Miami Vice
1984 · Series
Exterminator 2
1984 · Movie
Late Night with David Letterman
1982 · Series
Raging Bull
1980 · Movie
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Series
The Oscars
1953 · Series
The Emmy Awards
1949 · Series
The Thing That Hurts
Movie
Wilder & Me
Movie
When the Music Changes
Movie
Joe Torre
Movie