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