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John Turturro

John Turturro

Acting · Directing · Production

Born February 28, 1957, 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

Appearances as themselves (36)
  • 2020Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness — Self
  • Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time — Self
  • 2019Pulling the Evidence That Remains — Self
  • 2017Frank Serpico — Self
  • 2016Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre' — Self
  • 2015Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' — Self
  • 2015Senza Lucio — Self
  • The Italian Americans — Self
  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
  • Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
  • The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
  • 2013Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me — Self
  • Finding Your Roots — Self
  • 2009Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later — Self
  • 2009The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen — Self
  • 2008Dreaming Slipstream Dream — Self
  • 2008The Godfather vs. The Godfather Part II — Himself
  • 2008The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't — Self
  • 2007Brando — Self
  • Brando: The Documentary — Self
  • 2006John Torturro and the Soul of Naples — himself
  • 2004The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth — Self
  • 2003The Evolution of an American Filmmaker — Self
  • 2002Heart of the Festival — Self (archive footage)
  • 2002New York at the Movies — Self
  • 2002Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick — Self
  • 2000The Coen Brothers — Self
  • The Rosie O'Donnell Show — Self - Guest
  • 1995At Sundance — Self
  • Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
  • Late Show with David Letterman — Self - Guest
  • 1989Making 'Do the Right Thing' — Self
  • Late Night with David Letterman — Self - Guest
  • Saturday Night Live — Self - Host
  • The Oscars — Self
  • The Emmy Awards — Self
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