John Turturro
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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).
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Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Miami Vice
Monk
Difficult People
The Emmy Awards
Finding Your Roots
Frasier
Green Eggs and Ham
Flight of the Conchords
Saturday Night Live
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Cars on the Road
Raging Bull
Summer of Sam
The Ridiculous 6
Transformers: The Last Knight
The Oscars
The Good Shepherd
The Big Lebowski
Transformers
Anger Management
He Got Game
Severance
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Do the Right Thing
Hands of Stone
The Batman
Cars 2
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Collateral Damage
To Live and Die in L.A.
Gung Ho
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Margot at the Wedding
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
Quiz Show
Mr. Deeds
Brain Donors
Can't Go Home
The Room Next Door
Rounders
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
The Nutcracker
The Plot Against America
Gloria Bell
Secret Window
The Night Of
Company Man
The Fortunate Pilgrim
Sugartime
The Jesus Rolls
The Name of the Rose
Production Credits
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