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John Turturro
2 FOLLOWERS • 52 CREDITS • FEB 28, 1957 • 67
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
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Miami Vice
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Monk
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Finding Your Roots
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Frasier
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Green Eggs and Ham
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Flight of the Conchords
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Saturday Night Live
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Cars on the Road
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Raging Bull
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Summer of Sam
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The Ridiculous 6
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The Good Shepherd
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The Oscars
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The Big Lebowski
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Anger Management
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Transformers
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He Got Game
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The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
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Transformers: The Last Knight
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Severance
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Hands of Stone
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith
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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
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Cars 2
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The Batman
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Collateral Damage
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Gung Ho
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
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The Room Next Door
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Do the Right Thing
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To Live and Die in L.A.
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Margot at the Wedding
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Exodus: Gods and Kings
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You Don't Mess with the Zohan
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Can't Go Home
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Mr. Deeds
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon
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Brain Donors
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Quiz Show
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The Nutcracker: The Untold Story
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Rounders
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The Plot Against America
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The Night Of
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Gloria Bell
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Company Man
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Secret Window
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The Fortunate Pilgrim
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The Jesus Rolls
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Sugartime
Production Credits
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