John Turturro
Date of birth: 1957-02-28
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article John Turturro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
The Big Lebowski
1998-03-06
Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians,
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000-08-30
In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relent
Barton Fink
1991-08-01
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the he
Miller's Crossing
1990-09-21
Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the
Do the Right Thing
1989-06-14
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggi
The Good Shepherd
2006-12-11
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society wh
Secret Window
2004-03-12
Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remot
State of Grace
1990-09-14
Hell's Kitchen, New York. Terry Noonan returns home after a ten-year absence. He soon reconnects wit
Rounders
1998-09-11
Poker addict Mike McDermott knows the game inside out, but loses his money one night in a game to Ru
Jungle Fever
1991-06-07
A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's q
Transformers
2007-06-27
Young teenager Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial fa
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
2008-06-05
An Israeli counterterrorism soldier with a secretly fabulous ambition to become a Manhattan hairstyl
Mr. Deeds
2002-06-28
When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased
Fearless
1993-10-15
After surviving a plane crash that kills many others, Max Klein develops a sense of invulnerability,
Clockers
1995-09-15
Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manag
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986-02-07
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondri
The Truce
1997-02-14
After the liberation of Auschwitz, an Italian prisoner of War begins a torturous voyage home to Turi
Box of Moonlight
1996-08-29
Al Fountain, a middle-aged electrical engineer, is on the verge of a mid-life crisis, when he decide
Quiz Show
1994-08-25
Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures vic
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
2008-06-03
On the 35th anniversary of the release of the landmark film "The Godfather," (March 15, 1972) we loo
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
2009-06-19
Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic
Monkeybone
2001-02-23
After a car crash sends repressed cartoonist Stu into a coma, he and the mischievous Monkeybone, his
The Sicilian
1987-10-07
Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leadi
The Color of Money
1986-10-17
Former pool hustler "Fast Eddie" Felson decides he wants to return to the game by taking a pupil. He
What Just Happened
2008-10-17
During the course of an ordinary week in Hollywood, movie producer Ben must navigate his way through
Cradle Will Rock
1999-12-10
A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attem
Brain Donors
1992-04-17
Three manic idiots—a lawyer, a cab driver and a handyman—team up to run a ballet company to fulfil t
Miracle at St. Anna
2008-09-15
Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black
Anger Management
2003-04-11
After a small misunderstanding aboard an airplane escalates out of control, timid businessman Dave B
Catchfire
1990-04-03
A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life from town to town, switching identities, but can
To Live and Die in L.A.
1985-11-01
When his longtime partner on the force is killed, reckless U.S. Secret Service agent Richard Chance
Collateral Damage
2002-02-06
Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism
Gung Ho
1986-03-14
When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt
Senza Lucio
2015-03-04
The singer-songwriter Lucio Dalla seen through the eyes of the person closest to him in the last twe
Margot at the Wedding
2007-11-16
Margot Zeller is a short story writer with a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue. On the eve of her
Mo' Better Blues
1990-08-03
Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness abo
The Man Who Cried
2000-08-29
A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
2016-11-15
A documentary on the making of Mia Madre (2015).
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
2005-01-05
An animated documentary that explores the terrain of father/son relationships, as seen through Canem
Fear X
2003-01-13
When his wife is killed in a seemingly random incident, Harry, prompted by mysterious visions, journ
Company Man
2000-03-09
In the 1960's, a school teacher pretends to be a CIA spy to get his nagging wife off his back. He he
Lesser Prophets
1997-11-28
The police have three bookies under surveillance, but they escape and set up shop elsewhere. By chan
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011-06-28
The Autobots continue to work for NEST, now no longer in secret. But after discovering a strange art
A Few Days in September
2006-09-06
1 September 2001. Elliot, an American C.I.A. agent holding top secret information on the immediate f
Sacco and Vanzetti
2006-04-06
SACCO AND VANZETTI is an 80-minute-long documentary that tells the story of Nicola Sacco and Bartolo
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
2009-06-10
Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom
Cars 2
2011-06-11
Star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix r
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
2001-09-02
In New York City, the lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a house-cleaner, a professor, and the people ar
Slipstream
2007-02-10
Aging screenwriter Felix Bonhoeffer has lived his life in two states of existence: in reality and hi
The Search for One-eye Jimmy
1994-11-09
While working on a documentary on his old neighborhood, a young film school graduate shifts the focu
The Nutcracker
2010-11-24
In 1920s Vienna, a young girl receives a magical doll on Christmas Eve.
The Luzhin Defence
2000-08-21
Based upon the novel by Vladimir Nabokov, a chess grandmaster travels to Italy in the 1920s to play
Unstrung Heroes
1995-09-15
Steven Lidz, unhappy with his home life since his mother became sick, moves in with his two eccentri
Five Corners
1987-09-11
A psychotic young man returns to his old neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks out the wo
Illuminata
1998-05-21
It's the start of the 20th century, and Tuccio, resident playwright of a theatre repertory company o
Sugartime
1995-11-25
Sam Giancana is a ruthless mob boss from Chicago. During a trip to Las Vegas, he sees a performance
Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy
2009-09-05
John Turturro goes back to the land of his ancestors.
Men Of Respect
1990-10-01
In this modern day version of Shakespeare's Macbeth, a hitman heeds a spiritualist's prophesies that
Grace of My Heart
1996-09-13
Philadelphia teenager Edna Buxton wins a talent contest during the early rock 'n' roll era, changes
Romance & Cigarettes
2005-09-13
Ironworker Nick lives with his wife, Kitty, and three daughters. When he meets a significantly young
Two Thousand and None
2000-07-07
A paleontologist is diagnosed with a fatal brain disease and, rather than falling into a depression,
Somewhere Tonight
2011-07-08
Somewhere Tonight is an urban fable that tells the story of two lonely New Yorkers trying to find co
Mac
1992-09-17
Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli is the eldest of three brothers in 1950s Queens. Mac is a construction builder
Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014-12-03
The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 400,000 slaves on a m
Forty Winks
2022-03-19
Forty Winks follows Fabio Berker, struggling Hypnotist in New York City, as he is blackmailed into b
Monday Night Mayhem
2002-01-14
The early years of a television sports powerhouse are chronicled as ABC becomes a player in the NFL
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003-05-20
Spike Lee's filmmaking career is examined in this partial making-of for the film 25th Hour (2002). I
Animals with the Tollkeeper
1998-01-06
While looking for paradise, a cab driver suddenly falls in love.
New York at the Movies
2002-07-07
Meryl Streep conducts us to a trip to New York City as presented in many films during the 20th Centu
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
2013-04-09
Broadway legend Elaine Stritch remains in the spotlight at eighty-seven years old. Join the uncompro
Fading Gigolo
2013-09-07
Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strap
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002-09-01
Rosy-Fingered Dawn is a film on Terrence Malick. It is about the making of BADLANDS, DAYS OF HEAVEN,
Gods Behaving Badly
2013-11-13
Greek gods living in modern-day New York intervene in the lives of a young couple.
God's Pocket
2014-05-09
A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newsp
2BPerfectlyHonest
2004-05-02
Business partners Frank and Josh go bankrupt after their dot-com start-up collapses before it goes o
The Flamingo Kid
1984-12-21
Brooklyn teenager Jeffrey Willis, thoroughly unhappy with his modest homestead, embraces the other-w
The Cut
2025-09-04
A retired boxer intends to return to the ring for one last shot at the title, but first he must make
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
2004-06-17
A documentary looking at the life and films of Francesco Rosi.
Off Beat
1986-04-10
Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his i
High Noon on the Waterfront
2022-09-04
An inventive remembrance of the impact of the Hollywood blacklist on two American classics, rendered
My Mother
2015-04-16
Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and s
The Room Next Door
2024-10-07
Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine.
Wilder & Me
Part coming-of-age story, part true-life portrait of the beloved Billy Wilder, the film is set durin
Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells
2015-04-02
Two friends, founders of a cooperative that produce couches and that it is found in a situation of b
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
2015-03-17
An in-depth documentary on the making of Ridley Scott's "Exodus: Gods and Kings," featuring intervie
Hands of Stone
2016-08-26
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
He Got Game
1998-05-01
A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter pri
The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen
2009-10-20
The definitive feature-length documentary on the creation of "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen".
All Revved Up
1998-04-19
A lovely school teacher finds herself the victim of a scam artist - a garage owner who delights in r
The Ridiculous 6
2015-12-11
When his long-lost outlaw father returns, Tommy "White Knife" Stockburn goes on an adventure-filled
Secret Passage
2004-01-01
Isabel and Clara are growing up in a time of terror. It is 1492, and Spain has decreed that all Jews
Being Human
1994-05-06
One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.
The Thing That Hurts
The patients of a recently deceased American psychotherapist remember her.
Raging Bull
1980-11-14
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destro
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
2008-01-20
Documentary portrays the saga of how Italian Americans went from being outsiders who were stereotype
Landline
2017-07-21
A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her fathe
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017-06-16
Humans and Transformers are at war. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried
The Source
1999-01-23
Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to th
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
1989-11-03
The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing.
The Jesus Rolls
2019-10-17
Hours after his release from prison, Jesus Quintana pairs up with fellow misfits Petey and Marie for
Rio, I Love You
2014-09-12
The third episode of the Cities of Love franchise, Rio, I Love You is an anthology, created by 10 vi
Brando
2007-05-01
The life and legacy of Marlon Brando and how he changed acting.
Desperately Seeking Susan
1985-03-29
A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in
She Hate Me
2004-07-30
Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.
Search and Destroy
1995-04-23
A self-help guru's televised teachings inspire a down-and-out businessman to pursue his dream of mak
Exterminator 2
1984-09-14
The flamethrower-wielding vigilante John Eastland returns to rid New York of a drug lord and his gan
Frank Serpico
2017-11-01
In 1972, officer Frank Serpico exposes the corruption which poisons the roots of the NYPD and become
At Sundance
1995-01-01
A group portrait of filmmakers attend the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. Featuring Matthew Harrison, R
Gloria Bell
2019-03-07
Gloria is a free-spirited divorcée who spends her days at a straight-laced office job and her nights
The True Adventures of Wolfboy
2019-12-08
Follows a young boy who runs away from home in the search of his estranged mother.
Summer of Sam
1999-06-28
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on
Girl 6
1996-03-22
A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator.
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
2009-06-30
In this documentary directed by Spike Lee, he interviews the cast and crew of his 1989 film DO THE R
The Batman
2022-03-01
In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his
In the Shadow of No Towers
2011-09-06
Pulitzer Prize-winning MAUS cartoonist Art Spiegelman uses his harrowing experiences as a New Yorker
Opopomoz
2003-12-05
It's Christmas Eve in Naples. Little Rocco feels increasingly jealous due to the imminent birth of a
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
2020-04-21
From "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" to "The Big Lebowski" and everything in between, this fascinati
Hair
2017-04-21
Actors John Turturro and Bobby Cannavale talk about their hair.
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022-11-09
During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to
The Oedipus Project
2020-06-24
The Oedipus Project is an innovative new digital initiative by Theater of War Productions that will
Passione
2010-09-04
Songs and singers from Naples, musicians and poets, real and legendary characters are the protagonis
Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July
2002-10-01
Imagine 125 men carrying a five-ton, five-story, hand-sculptured tower and a 12- piece brass band -
John Torturro and the Soul of Naples
2006-11-30
From New York to Naples: award-winning actor John Turturro celebrates his origins and Naples' rich c
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
Harry, a career pickpocket, is forced into a desperate, high-stakes race against time through the st