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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Cannes Film Festival
Best Actor
Caméra d'Or
Known For
The Batman
(2022)
Carmine Falcone
Cars 2
(2011)
Francesco Bernoulli (voice)
Transformers: The Last Knight
(2017)
Seymour Simmons
Exodus: Gods and Kings
(2014)
Sethos I
Raging Bull
(1980)
Man at Webster Hall Table (uncredited)
The Big Lebowski
(1998)
Jesus Quintana
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
(2008)
Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
(2022)
Dottore (voice)
The Ridiculous 6
(2015)
Abner Doubleday
Anger Management
(2003)
Chuck
Mr. Deeds
(2002)
Emilio Lopez
Secret Window
(2004)
John Shooter
Jungle Fever
(1991)
Pauline Carbone
The Good Shepherd
(2006)
Raymond Brocco
Rounders
(1998)
Joey Knish
Collateral Damage
(2002)
Sean Amstrong
Full Filmography
Acting
Raging Bull
(1980)
Man at Webster Hall Table (uncredited)
The Flamingo Kid
(1984)
Ted from Pinky's
Exterminator 2
(1984)
Guy #1
To Live and Die in L.A.
(1985)
Carl Cody
Desperately Seeking Susan
(1985)
Ray
Gung Ho
(1986)
Willie
The Color of Money
(1986)
Julian
Off Beat
(1986)
Neil Pepper
Hannah and Her Sisters
(1986)
TV Writer
The Sicilian
(1987)
Pisciotta
Five Corners
(1987)
Heinz Sabatino
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
(1989)
Self
Do the Right Thing
(1989)
Pino Fragione
Catchfire
(1990)
Pinella
Mo' Better Blues
(1990)
Moe Flatbush
State of Grace
(1990)
Nick
Miller's Crossing
(1990)
Bernie Bernbaum
Men Of Respect
(1991)
Mike Battaglia
Jungle Fever
(1991)
Pauline Carbone
Barton Fink
(1991)
Barton Fink
Brain Donors
(1992)
Roland T. Flakfizer
Mac
(1992)
Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli
Fearless
(1993)
Dr. Bill Perlman
Quiz Show
(1994)
Herbert 'Herb' Stempel
Being Human
(1994)
Lucinnius
Sugartime
(1995)
Sam Giancana
Search and Destroy
(1995)
Ron
At Sundance
(1995)
Self
Clockers
(1995)
Det. Larry Mazilli
Unstrung Heroes
(1995)
Sid Lidz
Box of Moonlight
(1996)
Al Fountain
The Search for One-eye Jimmy
(1996)
Disco Bean
Girl 6
(1996)
Murray - the Agent
Grace of My Heart
(1996)
Joel Millner
The Truce
(1997)
Primo Levi
Lesser Prophets
(1997)
Leon
Illuminata
(1998)
Tuccio
All Revved Up
(1998)
Johnny Candellano
He Got Game
(1998)
Billy Sunday
Animals with the Tollkeeper
(1998)
Tuxedo Man
Rounders
(1998)
Joey Knish
The Big Lebowski
(1998)
Jesus Quintana
Cradle Will Rock
(1999)
Aldo Silvano
The Source
(1999)
Allen Ginsberg
Summer of Sam
(1999)
Harvey the Black Dog (voice)
Company Man
(2000)
Crocker Johnson
The Man Who Cried
(2000)
Dante Dominio
Two Thousand and None
(2000)
Benjamin Kasparian
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
(2000)
Pete Hogwallop
The Luzhin Defence
(2000)
Aleksandr Ivanovich 'Sascha' Luzhin
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
(2001)
Walker
Monkeybone
(2001)
Monkeybone (voice)
Collateral Damage
(2002)
Sean Amstrong
Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July
(2002)
Narrator
Mr. Deeds
(2002)
Emilio Lopez
New York at the Movies
(2002)
Self
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
(2002)
Self
Monday Night Mayhem
(2002)
Howard Cosell
Anger Management
(2003)
Chuck
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
(2003)
Self
Opopomoz
(2003)
John (voice)
Fear X
(2003)
Harry
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
(2004)
Self
Secret Window
(2004)
John Shooter
She Hate Me
(2004)
Don Angelo Bonasera
2BPerfectlyHonest
(2004)
Sal / Roberto
Secret Passage
(2004)
Paolo Zane
Romance & Cigarettes
(2005)
Male Dancer & Singer
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
(2005)
Son
A Few Days in September
(2006)
William Pound
Sacco and Vanzetti
(2006)
Vanzetti (Voice)
The Good Shepherd
(2006)
Raymond Brocco
John Torturro and the Soul of Naples
(2006)
himself
Slipstream
(2007)
Harvey Brickman
Brando
(2007)
Self
Margot at the Wedding
(2007)
Jim
Transformers
(2007)
Agent Simmons
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
(2008)
Miracle at St. Anna
(2008)
Detective Antonio Ri
What Just Happened
(2008)
Dick Bell
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
(2008)
Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
(2008)
Self
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
(2009)
Self
Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy
(2009)
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
(2009)
Lt. Camonetti
The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen
(2009)
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
(2009)
Seymour Simmons
The Nutcracker: The Untold Story
(2010)
The Rat King
Passione
(2010)
Narrator
In the Shadow of No Towers
(2011)
Narrator
Cars 2
(2011)
Francesco Bernoulli (voice)
1-900-TONIGHT (Somewhere Tonight)
(2011)
Leroy
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
(2011)
Simmons
Fading Gigolo
(2013)
Fioravante
Gods Behaving Badly
(2013)
Hades
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
(2013)
Himself
Exodus: Gods and Kings
(2014)
Sethos I
God's Pocket
(2014)
Arthur 'Bird' Capezio
Rio, I Love You
(2014)
Homem (segment "Quando não há Mais Amor")
The Ridiculous 6
(2015)
Abner Doubleday
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
(2015)
Self
Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells
(2015)
Ingegnere Lombelli
Mia madre
(2015)
Barry Huggins
Senza Lucio
(2015)
Sé stesso
Hands of Stone
(2016)
Frankie Carbo
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
(2016)
Self
Hair
(2017)
Himself
Frank Serpico
(2017)
Self
Transformers: The Last Knight
(2017)
Seymour Simmons
Landline
(2017)
Alan Jacobs
The True Adventures of Wolfboy
(2019)
Mr. Silk
Gloria Bell
(2019)
Arnold
The Jesus Rolls
(2019)
Jesus Quintana
The Oedipus Project
(2020)
Creon
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
(2020)
Self
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
(2022)
Dottore (voice)
The Batman
(2022)
Carmine Falcone
Forty Winks
(2022)
Milo
High Noon on the Waterfront
(2022)
Elia Kazan (voice)
Writing
Mac
(1992)
Writer
Illuminata
(1998)
Screenplay
Romance & Cigarettes
(2005)
Writer
Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy
(2009)
Writer
Fading Gigolo
(2013)
Screenplay
Rio, I Love You
(2014)
Writer
Hair
(2017)
Writer
The Jesus Rolls
(2019)
Screenplay
Directing
Mac
(1992)
Director
Illuminata
(1998)
Director
Romance & Cigarettes
(2005)
Director
Passione
(2010)
Director
Fading Gigolo
(2013)
Director
Rio, I Love You
(2014)
Director
Hair
(2017)
Director
The Jesus Rolls
(2019)
Director
Production