John Turturro
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.
157 acting credits · 10 directing credits
Acting · 157
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Monk
2002
Saturday Night Live
1975
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
Frasier
1993
Miami Vice
1984
Severance
2022
Late Night with David Letterman
1982
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
The Batman
2022
The Oscars
1953
Finding Your Roots
2012
Cars 2
2011
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
The Big Lebowski
1998
Green Eggs and Ham
2019
The Night Of
2016
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2024
Baseball
1994
Flight of the Conchords
2007
Rachael Ray
2006
Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014
Difficult People
2015
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
2008
Raging Bull
1980
Rounders
1998
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022
Transformers
2007
Anger Management
2003
The Plot Against America
2020
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
2009
Mr. Deeds
2002
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
2009
The Emmy Awards
1949
The Room Next Door
2024
The Bronx Is Burning
2007
The Good Shepherd
2006
Secret Window
2004
Do the Right Thing
1989
To Live and Die in L.A.
1985
The Color of Money
1986
The Name of the Rose
2019
The Ridiculous 6
2015
Miller's Crossing
1990
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011
Collateral Damage
2002
Monkeybone
2001
Quiz Show
1994
Clockers
1995
Barton Fink
1991
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986
Summer of Sam
1999
The Nutcracker
2010
Hands of Stone
2016
State of Grace
1990
Desperately Seeking Susan
1985
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
2026
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
2020
He Got Game
1998
Jungle Fever
1991
Gung Ho
1986
Cradle Will Rock
1999
Brando: The Documentary
2007
What Just Happened
2008
Romance & Cigarettes
2005
The Sicilian
1987
The Fortunate Pilgrim
1988
God's Pocket
2014
Can't Go Home
2023
The Cut
2025
She Hate Me
2004
Landline
2017
Mo' Better Blues
1990
Miracle at St. Anna
2008
Gloria Bell
2019
Fading Gigolo
2013
Fearless
1993
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
2001
The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen
2009
Catchfire
1990
The Italian Americans
2015
The Man Who Cried
2000
Fear X
2003
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
2015
Girl 6
1996
Mia madre
2015
Margot at the Wedding
2007
The Jesus Rolls
2019
The Search for One-eye Jimmy
1994
Off Beat
1986
The Truce
1997
Brando
2007
Being Human
1994
Rio, I Love You
2014
Box of Moonlight
1996
Men Of Respect
1990
Company Man
2000
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
2008
Unstrung Heroes
1995
Sugartime
1995
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
2008
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
2020
Grace of My Heart
1996
The True Adventures of Wolfboy
2019
The Flamingo Kid
1984
Gods Behaving Badly
2013
Mac
1992
Monday Night Mayhem
2002
Five Corners
1987
The Luzhin Defence
2000
Search and Destroy
1995
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
2013
2BPerfectlyHonest
2004
Slipstream
2007
At Sundance
1995
The Statement
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The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003
A Few Days in September
2006
The Source
1999
Brain Donors
1992
All Revved Up
1998
Lesser Prophets
1997
Illuminata
1998
New York at the Movies
2002
Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells
2015
Animals with the Tollkeeper
1998
The Oedipus Project
2020
Forty Winks
2022
Opopomoz
2003
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
2009
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
1989
Frank Serpico
2017
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
2005
Secret Passage
2004
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
2016
The Coen Brothers
2000
Wilder & Me
—
The Thing That Hurts
—
Somewhere Tonight
2011
High Noon on the Waterfront
2022
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
2004
Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy
2009
Two Thousand and None
2000
Passione
2010
Sacco and Vanzetti
2006
Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July
2002
Pulling the Evidence That Remains
2019
Senza Lucio
2015
In the Shadow of No Towers
2011
Hair
2017
John Torturro and the Soul of Naples
2006
