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John Turturro

John Turturro

Birthday: 1957-02-28 | Place of Birth: Brooklyn, 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
The Batman

as    Carmine Falcone

2022
Severance

as    Irving Bailiff

2022
Vengeance in the Making

as    Self

2020
The Jesus Rolls

as    Jesus Quintana

2020
The Plot Against America

as    Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf

2019
Gloria Bell

as    Arnold

2019
The Name of the Rose

as    William of Baskerville

2017
Landline

as    Alan Jacobs

2017
Frank Serpico

as    Self

2017
Transformers: The Last Knight

as    Seymour Simmons

2016
Hands of Stone

as    Frankie Carbo

2016
Rio, I Love You

as    Homem (segment "Quando não há Mais Amor")

2016
The Night Of

as    John Stone

2014
God's Pocket

as    Arthur 'Bird' Capezio

2014
Fading Gigolo

as    Fioravante

2014
Exodus: Gods and Kings

as    Sethos I

2013
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me

as    Himself

2011
Cars 2

as    Francesco Bernoulli (voice)

2011
Transformers: Dark of the Moon

as    Simmons

2010
Passione

as    Narrator

2010
The Nutcracker: The Untold Story

as    The Rat King

2009
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

as    Lt. Camonetti

2009
2008
Miracle at St. Anna

as    Detective Antonio Ri

2008
What Just Happened

as    Dick Bell

2008
You Don't Mess with the Zohan

as    Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah