
John Turturro
Known for Acting · 157 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 (31)

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self - Guest

Late Show with David Letterman
1993
as Self - Guest

Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host

Monk
2002
as Ambrose Monk

Frasier
1993
as Grant (voice)

Miami Vice
1984
as David Traynor

Late Night with David Letterman
1982
as Self - Guest

Severance
2022
as Irving Bailiff

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest

Finding Your Roots
2012
as Self

The Oscars
1953
as Self

The Night Of
2016
as John Stone

Green Eggs and Ham
2019
as Goat (voice)

Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2024
as Eric Shane

Flight of the Conchords
2007
as Credits Cop

Baseball
1994
as Various (voice)

Rachael Ray
2006

Difficult People
2015
as Dusty

The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
as Self - Guest

The Plot Against America
2020
as Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf

The Bronx Is Burning
2007
as Billy Martin

The Emmy Awards
1949
as Self

The Name of the Rose
2019
as William of Baskerville

Can't Go Home
2023
as Paulo Santana

The Fortunate Pilgrim
1988
as Larry

Brando: The Documentary
2007
as Self

Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
2020
as Self

The Italian Americans
2015
as Self
Movies (126)

The Batman
2022
as Carmine Falcone

Cars 2
2011
as Francesco Bernoulli (voice)

Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
as Agent Simmons

The Big Lebowski
1998
as Jesus Quintana

Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014
as Sethos I

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022
as Dottore (voice)

You Don't Mess with the Zohan
2008
as Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah

Raging Bull
1980
as Man at Webster Hall Table (uncredited)

Transformers
2007
as Agent Simmons

Rounders
1998
as Joey Knish

Anger Management
2003
as Chuck

Mr. Deeds
2002
as Emilio Lopez

O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000
as Pete Hogwallop

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
2009
as Simmons

The Good Shepherd
2006
as Raymond Brocco

Secret Window
2004
as John Shooter

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
2009
as Lt. Camonetti

Do the Right Thing
1989
as Pino

The Color of Money
1986
as Julian

Miller's Crossing
1990
as Bernie Bernbaum

The Room Next Door
2024
as Damian

Clockers
1995
as Det. Larry Mazilli

The Ridiculous 6
2015
as Abner Doubleday

Collateral Damage
2002
as Sean Amstrong

Quiz Show
1994
as Herb Stempel

Barton Fink
1991
as Barton Fink

To Live and Die in L.A.
1985
as Carl Cody

Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011
as Simmons

Monkeybone
2001
as Monkeybone (voice)

Summer of Sam
1999
as Harvey the Black Dog (voice)

He Got Game
1998
as Billy Sunday

The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
2026
as Harry

State of Grace
1990
as Nick

God's Pocket
2014
as Arthur 'Bird' Capezio

Hannah and Her Sisters
1986
as TV Writer

Cradle Will Rock
1999
as Aldo Silvano

Hands of Stone
2016
as Frankie Carbo

What Just Happened
2008
as Dick Bell

Fading Gigolo
2013
as Fioravante

Desperately Seeking Susan
1985
as Ray

Romance & Cigarettes
2005
as Male Dancer & Singer

Jungle Fever
1991
as Pauline Carbone

The Nutcracker
2010
as The Rat King

The Sicilian
1987
as Pisciotta

Catchfire
1990
as Pinella

The Cut
2025
as Boz

Gung Ho
1986
as Willie

Fearless
1993
as Dr. Bill Perlman

Miracle at St. Anna
2008
as Detective Antonio Ri

Landline
2017
as Alan Jacobs

Mo' Better Blues
1990
as Moe Flatbush

She Hate Me
2004
as Don Angelo Bonasera

Slipstream
2007
as Harvey Brickman

Being Human
1994
as Lucinnius

Mia madre
2015
as Barry Huggins

Fear X
2003
as Harry

Girl 6
1996
as Murray - the Agent

Company Man
2000
as Crocker Johnson

The Truce
1997
as Primo Levi

Gloria Bell
2019
as Arnold

The Search for One-eye Jimmy
1994
as Disco Bean

The Jesus Rolls
2019
as Jesus Quintana

Margot at the Wedding
2007
as Jim

The Man Who Cried
2000
as Dante Dominio

Five Corners
1987
as Heinz Sabatino

The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen
2009
as Self

Brando
2007
as Self

Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
2020
as Self

Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
2001
as Walker

The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
2008
as Self

Rio, I Love You
2014
as Homem (segment "Quando não há Mais Amor")

The Luzhin Defence
2000
as Aleksandr Ivanovich 'Sascha' Luzhin

Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
2015
as Self

Sugartime
1995
as Sam Giancana

Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002
as Self

Men Of Respect
1990
as Mike Battaglia

Monday Night Mayhem
2002
as Howard Cosell

Grace of My Heart
1996
as Joel Millner

Box of Moonlight
1996
as Al Fountain

Mac
1992
as Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli

Lesser Prophets
1997
as Leon

Search and Destroy
1995
as Ron
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
2008

Off Beat
1986
as Neil Pepper

Brain Donors
1992
as Roland T. Flakfizer

Gods Behaving Badly
2013
as Hades

2BPerfectlyHonest
2004
as Sal / Roberto

Unstrung Heroes
1995
as Sid Lidz

At Sundance
1995
as Self

The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003
as Self

The Flamingo Kid
1984
as Ted from Pinky's

The True Adventures of Wolfboy
2019
as Mr. Silk

The Source
1999
as Allen Ginsberg

A Few Days in September
2006
as William Pound

Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
2013
as Himself

All Revved Up
1998
as Johnny Candellano
New York at the Movies
2002
as Self

Illuminata
1998
as Tuccio

High Noon on the Waterfront
2022
as Elia Kazan (voice)
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
1989
as Self

The Oedipus Project
2020
as Creon

Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
2009
as Self
The Statement

Animals with the Tollkeeper
1998
as Tuxedo Man

Frank Serpico
2017
as Self

Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells
2015
as Ingegnere Lombelli

Somewhere Tonight
2011
as Leroy

The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
2005
as Son

The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
2004
as Self

Opopomoz
2003
as John (voice)

The Coen Brothers
2000
as Self

Two Thousand and None
2000
as Benjamin Kasparian

Forty Winks
2022
as Milo
The Thing That Hurts

Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
2016
as Self

Wilder & Me
as I.A.L. Diamond

Sacco and Vanzetti
2006
as Vanzetti (Voice)

Secret Passage
2004
as Paolo Zane

Passione
2010
as Self
Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July
2002
as Narrator
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 157 credits spanning from 1949 to 2026, John Turturro has appeared in 126 films and 31 TV shows.
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- The Batman (2022) — as Carmine Falcone
- Cars 2 (2011) — as Francesco Bernoulli (voice)
- Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) — as Agent Simmons
- The Big Lebowski (1998) — as Jesus Quintana
- Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) — as Sethos I
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