
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

Miami Vice

Monk

Finding Your Roots

Frasier

Green Eggs and Ham

Flight of the Conchords

Saturday Night Live

Cars on the Road

Raging Bull

Summer of Sam

The Ridiculous 6

Transformers: The Last Knight

The Good Shepherd

The Oscars

The Big Lebowski

Anger Management

Transformers

He Got Game

The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't

Severance

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Hands of Stone

Collateral Damage

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Cars 2

The Batman

Do the Right Thing

To Live and Die in L.A.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Gung Ho

Exodus: Gods and Kings

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Margot at the Wedding

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

Rounders

Can't Go Home

Mr. Deeds

The Nutcracker

Quiz Show

Brain Donors

You Don't Mess with the Zohan

The Room Next Door

Secret Window

Gloria Bell

The Fortunate Pilgrim

Company Man

The Night Of

The Plot Against America

Sugartime

The Jesus Rolls
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