John Turturro
Known for Acting · 161 credits
- Born
- 1957-02-28 (age 69)
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Also known as
- John Michael Turturro · 约翰·特托罗 · Джон Туртурро · 존 터투로 · 約翰·特托羅 · جان تورتورو
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
TV Shows (32)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
as Self - Guest
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self - Guest
Frasier
1993
as Grant (voice)
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host
Severance
2022
as Irving Bailiff
Miami Vice
1984
as David Traynor
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
Late Night with David Letterman
1982
as Self - Guest
Monk
2002
as Ambrose Monk
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Difficult People
2015
as Dusty
Rachael Ray
2006
Finding Your Roots
2012
as Self
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2024
as Eric Shane
Green Eggs and Ham
2019
as Goat (voice)
The Night Of
2016
as John Stone
Flight of the Conchords
2007
as Credits Cop
The Bronx Is Burning
2007
as Billy Martin
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
as Self - Guest
Baseball
1994
as Various (voice)
The Name of the Rose
2019
as William of Baskerville
The Plot Against America
2020
as Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf
The Emmy Awards
1949
as Self
The Fortunate Pilgrim
1988
as Larry
Can't Go Home
2023
as Paulo Santana
Two Times
2004
as Danilo "Danny B" Brullo
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
2020
as Self
Brando: The Documentary
2007
as Self
The Italian Americans
2015
as Self
Movies (129)
The Batman
2022
as Carmine Falcone
Cars 2
2011
as Francesco Bernoulli (voice)
Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014
as Sethos I
The Big Lebowski
1998
as Jesus Quintana
Mr. Deeds
2002
as Emilio Lopez
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
as Agent Simmons
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000
as Pete Hogwallop
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022
as Dottore (voice)
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
2008
as Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah
Anger Management
2003
as Chuck
Secret Window
2004
as John Shooter
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
2009
as Simmons
All Revved Up
1998
as Johnny Candellano
Raging Bull
1980
as Man at Webster Hall Table (uncredited)
Transformers
2007
as Agent Simmons
The Good Shepherd
2006
as Raymond Brocco
The Ridiculous 6
2015
as Abner Doubleday
Rounders
1998
as Joey Knish
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
2009
as Lt. Camonetti
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986
as TV Writer
The Room Next Door
2024
as Damian
Collateral Damage
2002
as Sean Amstrong
Miller's Crossing
1990
as Bernie Bernbaum
To Live and Die in L.A.
1985
as Carl Cody
Do the Right Thing
1989
as Pino
Fading Gigolo
2013
as Fioravante
The Color of Money
1986
as Julian
Somewhere Tonight
2011
as Leroy
Summer of Sam
1999
as Harvey the Black Dog (voice)
Monkeybone
2001
as Monkeybone (voice)
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011
as Simmons
Hands of Stone
2016
as Frankie Carbo
Romance & Cigarettes
2005
as Male Dancer & Singer
He Got Game
1998
as Billy Sunday
Gung Ho
1986
as Willie
The Nutcracker
2010
as The Rat King
Barton Fink
1991
as Barton Fink
Jungle Fever
1991
as Pauline Carbone
Frank Serpico
2017
as Self
The Man Who Cried
2000
as Dante Dominio
Landline
2017
as Alan Jacobs
Margot at the Wedding
2007
as Jim
State of Grace
1990
as Nick
Catchfire
1990
as Pinella
Desperately Seeking Susan
1985
as Ray
Mo' Better Blues
1990
as Moe Flatbush
She Hate Me
2004
as Don Angelo Bonasera
Quiz Show
1994
as Herb Stempel
Miracle at St. Anna
2008
as Detective Antonio Ri
God's Pocket
2014
as Arthur 'Bird' Capezio
The Cut
2025
as Boz
The Jesus Rolls
2019
as Jesus Quintana
The Thing That Hurts
Girl 6
1996
as Murray - the Agent
Fearless
1993
as Dr. Bill Perlman
The Statement
The Sicilian
1987
as Pisciotta
Clockers
1995
as Det. Larry Mazilli
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
2026
as Harry
Men Of Respect
1990
as Mike Battaglia
Gloria Bell
2019
as Arnold
Cradle Will Rock
1999
as Aldo Silvano
What Just Happened
2008
as Dick Bell
Rio, I Love You
2014
as Homem (segment "Quando não há Mais Amor")
Grace of My Heart
1996
as Joel Millner
Gods Behaving Badly
2013
as Hades
Slipstream
2007
as Harvey Brickman
Exterminator 2
1984
as Guy #1
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
2013
as Himself
The Luzhin Defence
2000
as Aleksandr Ivanovich 'Sascha' Luzhin
The Coen Brothers
2000
as Self
The Flamingo Kid
1984
as Ted from Pinky's
The Source
1999
as Allen Ginsberg
Being Human
1994
as Lucinnius
Five Corners
1987
as Heinz Sabatino
Monday Night Mayhem
2002
as Howard Cosell
New York at the Movies
2002
as Self
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
2020
as Self
Search and Destroy
1995
as Ron
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
1989
as Self
The Search for One-eye Jimmy
1994
as Disco Bean
The True Adventures of Wolfboy
2019
as Mr. Silk
2BPerfectlyHonest
2004
as Sal / Roberto
High Noon on the Waterfront
2022
as Elia Kazan (voice)
The Truce
1997
as Primo Levi
Hair
2017
as Himself
Two Thousand and None
2000
as Benjamin Kasparian
The Oedipus Project
2020
as Creon
Unstrung Heroes
1995
as Sid Lidz
The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen
2009
as Self
Box of Moonlight
1996
as Al Fountain
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002
as Self
Off Beat
1986
as Neil Pepper
Mac
1992
as Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli
Lesser Prophets
1997
as Leon
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
2001
as Walker
Brain Donors
1992
as Roland T. Flakfizer
Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July
2002
as Narrator
Fear X
2003
as Harry
Mia madre
2015
as Barry Huggins
Company Man
2000
as Crocker Johnson
Dreaming Slipstream Dream
2008
as Self
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
2015
as Self
Wilder & Me
as I.A.L. Diamond
Opopomoz
2003
as John (voice)
Animals with the Tollkeeper
1998
as Tuxedo Man
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
2008
as Self
At Sundance
1995
as Self
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
2008
The Godfather vs. The Godfather Part II
2008
as Himself
Senza Lucio
2015
as Self
Illuminata
1998
as Tuccio
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
2009
as Self
A Few Days in September
2006
as William Pound
Sugartime
1995
as Sam Giancana
Brando
2007
as Self
Sacco and Vanzetti
2006
as Vanzetti (Voice)
Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells
2015
as Ingegnere Lombelli
Forty Winks
2022
as Milo
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
2004
as Self
About 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 B… With 161 credits spanning from 1949 to 2026, John Turturro has appeared in 129 films and 32 TV shows.
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- The Batman (2022) — as Carmine Falcone
- Cars 2 (2011) — as Francesco Bernoulli (voice)
- Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) — as Sethos I
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- Mr. Deeds (2002) — as Emilio Lopez
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