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John Turturro
2 FOLLOWERS • 50 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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Mr. & Mrs. Smith
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Saturday Night Live
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Cars on the Road
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Summer of Sam
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The Ridiculous 6
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The Oscars
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The Good Shepherd
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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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Transformers: The Last Knight
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The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
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Raging Bull
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Severance
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The Batman
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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
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Collateral Damage
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
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To Live and Die in L.A.
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Do the Right Thing
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Cars 2
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Gung Ho
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Exodus: Gods and Kings
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Margot at the Wedding
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The Nutcracker: The Untold Story
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Quiz Show
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Rounders
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You Don't Mess with the Zohan
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon
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Mr. Deeds
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Brain Donors
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Can't Go Home
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Secret Window
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Company Man
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The Plot Against America
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The Fortunate Pilgrim
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The Night Of
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Gloria Bell
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The Jesus Rolls
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Sugartime
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