John Turturro
Acting • Born 1957-02-28
Biography
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
158 credits
The Big Lebowski
Movie • 1998
Jesus Quintana
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Movie • 2000
Pete Hogwallop
Barton Fink
Movie • 1991
Barton Fink
Miller's Crossing
Movie • 1990
Bernie Bernbaum
Do the Right Thing
Movie • 1989
Pino
The Good Shepherd
Movie • 2006
Raymond Brocco
Secret Window
Movie • 2004
John Shooter
State of Grace
Movie • 1990
Nick
Rounders
Movie • 1998
Joey Knish
Jungle Fever
Movie • 1991
Pauline Carbone
Transformers
Movie • 2007
Agent Simmons
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
Movie • 2008
Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah
Mr. Deeds
Movie • 2002
Emilio Lopez
Fearless
Movie • 1993
Dr. Bill Perlman
Clockers
Movie • 1995
Det. Larry Mazilli
Hannah and Her Sisters
Movie • 1986
TV Writer
The Truce
Movie • 1997
Primo Levi
Box of Moonlight
Movie • 1996
Al Fountain
Quiz Show
Movie • 1994
Herb Stempel
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
Movie • 2008
Self
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Movie • 2009
Simmons
Monkeybone
Movie • 2001
Monkeybone (voice)
The Sicilian
Movie • 1987
Pisciotta
The Color of Money
Movie • 1986
Julian
What Just Happened
Movie • 2008
Dick Bell
Cradle Will Rock
Movie • 1999
Aldo Silvano
Brain Donors
Movie • 1992
Roland T. Flakfizer
Miracle at St. Anna
Movie • 2008
Detective Antonio Ri
Anger Management
Movie • 2003
Chuck
Catchfire
Movie • 1990
Pinella
To Live and Die in L.A.
Movie • 1985
Carl Cody
Collateral Damage
Movie • 2002
Sean Amstrong
Gung Ho
Movie • 1986
Willie
Senza Lucio
Movie • 2015
Self
Margot at the Wedding
Movie • 2007
Jim
Mo' Better Blues
Movie • 1990
Moe Flatbush
The Man Who Cried
Movie • 2000
Dante Dominio
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
Movie • 2016
Self
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
Movie • 2005
Son
Fear X
Movie • 2003
Harry
Company Man
Movie • 2000
Crocker Johnson
Lesser Prophets
Movie • 1997
Leon
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Movie • 2011
Simmons
A Few Days in September
Movie • 2006
William Pound
Sacco and Vanzetti
Movie • 2006
Vanzetti (Voice)
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
Movie • 2009
Lt. Camonetti
Cars 2
Movie • 2011
Francesco Bernoulli (voice)
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Movie • 2001
Walker
Slipstream
Movie • 2007
Harvey Brickman
The Search for One-eye Jimmy
Movie • 1994
Disco Bean
The Nutcracker
Movie • 2010
The Rat King
The Luzhin Defence
Movie • 2000
Aleksandr Ivanovich 'Sascha' Luzhin
Unstrung Heroes
Movie • 1995
Sid Lidz
Five Corners
Movie • 1987
Heinz Sabatino
Illuminata
Movie • 1998
Tuccio
Sugartime
Movie • 1995
Sam Giancana
Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy
Movie • 2009
Men Of Respect
Movie • 1990
Mike Battaglia
Grace of My Heart
Movie • 1996
Joel Millner
Romance & Cigarettes
Movie • 2005
Male Dancer & Singer
Two Thousand and None
Movie • 2000
Benjamin Kasparian
Somewhere Tonight
Movie • 2011
Leroy
Mac
Movie • 1992
Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Movie • 2014
Sethos I
Forty Winks
Movie • 2022
Milo
Monday Night Mayhem
Movie • 2002
Howard Cosell
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
Movie • 2003
Self
Animals with the Tollkeeper
Movie • 1998
Tuxedo Man
New York at the Movies
Movie • 2002
Self
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
Movie • 2013
Himself
Fading Gigolo
Movie • 2013
Fioravante
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Movie • 2002
Self
Gods Behaving Badly
Movie • 2013
Hades
God's Pocket
Movie • 2014
Arthur 'Bird' Capezio
2BPerfectlyHonest
Movie • 2004
Sal / Roberto
The Flamingo Kid
Movie • 1984
Ted from Pinky's
The Cut
Movie • 2025
Boz
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
Movie • 2004
Self
Off Beat
Movie • 1986
Neil Pepper
High Noon on the Waterfront
Movie • 2022
Elia Kazan (voice)
Mia madre
Movie • 2015
Barry Huggins
The Room Next Door
Movie • 2024
Damian
Wilder & Me
Movie
I.A.L. Diamond
Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells
Movie • 2015
Ingegnere Lombelli
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
Movie • 2015
Self
Hands of Stone
Movie • 2016
Frankie Carbo
He Got Game
Movie • 1998
Billy Sunday
The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen
Movie • 2009
Self
All Revved Up
Movie • 1998
Johnny Candellano
The Ridiculous 6
Movie • 2015
Abner Doubleday
Secret Passage
Movie • 2004
Paolo Zane
Being Human
Movie • 1994
Lucinnius
The Thing That Hurts
Movie
Raging Bull
Movie • 1980
Man at Webster Hall Table (uncredited)
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
Movie • 2008
Landline
Movie • 2017
Alan Jacobs
Transformers: The Last Knight
Movie • 2017
Agent Simmons
The Source
Movie • 1999
Allen Ginsberg
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
Movie • 1989
Self
The Jesus Rolls
Movie • 2019
Jesus Quintana
Rio, I Love You
Movie • 2014
Homem (segment "Quando não há Mais Amor")
Brando
Movie • 2007
Self
Desperately Seeking Susan
Movie • 1985
Ray
She Hate Me
Movie • 2004
Don Angelo Bonasera
Search and Destroy
Movie • 1995
Ron
Exterminator 2
Movie • 1984
Guy #1
Frank Serpico
Movie • 2017
Self
At Sundance
Movie • 1995
Self
Gloria Bell
Movie • 2019
Arnold
The True Adventures of Wolfboy
Movie • 2019
Mr. Silk
Summer of Sam
Movie • 1999
Harvey the Black Dog (voice)
Girl 6
Movie • 1996
Murray - the Agent
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
Movie • 2009
Self
The Batman
Movie • 2022
Carmine Falcone
In the Shadow of No Towers
Movie • 2011
Narrator
Opopomoz
Movie • 2003
John (voice)
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
Movie • 2020
Self
Hair
Movie • 2017
Himself
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Movie • 2022
Dottore (voice)
The Oedipus Project
Movie • 2020
Creon
Passione
Movie • 2010
Self
Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July
Movie • 2002
Narrator
John Torturro and the Soul of Naples
Movie • 2006
himself
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
Movie • 2026
Harry
Pulling The Evidence That Remains
Movie • 2019
The Statement
Movie
Monk
TV • 2002
Ambrose Monk
Flight of the Conchords
TV • 2007
Credits Cop
Frasier
TV • 1993
Grant (voice)
Finding Your Roots
TV • 2012
Self
The Bronx Is Burning
TV • 2007
Billy Martin
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Host
The Night Of
TV • 2016
John Stone
Can't Go Home
TV • 2023
Paulo Santana
Green Eggs and Ham
TV • 2019
Goat (voice)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2014
Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV • 2009
Baseball
TV • 1994
Various (voice)
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
TV • 1996
Self - Guest
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
TV • 2024
Eric Shane
Rachael Ray
TV • 2006
The Plot Against America
TV • 2020
Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf
The Name of the Rose
TV • 2019
William of Baskerville
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self
Miami Vice
TV • 1984
David Traynor
The Fortunate Pilgrim
TV • 1988
Larry
Severance
TV • 2022
Irving Bailiff
Brando: The Documentary
TV • 2007
Self
Baseball
TV • 1994
(voice)
Difficult People
TV • 2015
Dusty
The Emmy Awards
TV • 1949
Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self - Guest
The Italian Americans
TV • 2015
Self
Late Night with David Letterman
TV • 1982
Self - Guest
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV • 1993
Self - Guest
Late Show with David Letterman
TV • 1993
Self - Guest
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self - Guest