
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