John Turturro

About

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...

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MonkSeries • 2002FrasierSeries • 1993Miami ViceSeries • 1984The BatmanMovie • 2022SeveranceSeries • 2022Cars 2Movie • 2011The Night OfSeries • 2016The Name of the RoseSeries • 2019The Big LebowskiMovie • 1998Green Eggs and HamSeries • 2019The Good ShepherdMovie • 2006The Only Living Pickpocket in New YorkMovie • 2026Difficult PeopleSeries • 2015Transformers: The Last KnightMovie • 2017Miller's CrossingMovie • 1990Mr. & Mrs. SmithSeries • 2024Exodus: Gods and KingsMovie • 2014Guillermo del Toro's PinocchioMovie • 2022Raging BullMovie • 1980O Brother, Where Art Thou?Movie • 2000Flight of the ConchordsSeries • 2007The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3Movie • 2009Anger ManagementMovie • 2003BaseballSeries • 1994