John Turturro
Birthday: 1957-02-28 | Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USAJohn 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
Acting
Role
as Carmine Falcone
as Irving Bailiff
as Self
as Jesus Quintana
as Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf
as Arnold
as William of Baskerville
as Alan Jacobs
as Self
as Frankie Carbo
as Homem (segment "Quando não há Mais Amor")
as John Stone
as Arthur 'Bird' Capezio
as Fioravante
as Sethos I
as Himself
as Francesco Bernoulli (voice)
as Simmons
as Narrator
as The Rat King
as Lt. Camonetti
as Simmons
as Detective Antonio Ri
as Dick Bell
as Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah
