Actor
John Turturro
130 movies as actor · 10 as director
Born Feb 28, 1957 (age 69)From Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USAAlso known as John Michael Turturro, 约翰·特托罗, Джон Туртурро
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, a…
Known for
The Batman
2022 · Crime, Mystery
Transformers
2007 · Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Big Lebowski
1998 · Comedy, Crime
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
2009 · Sci-Fi, Action
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011 · Action, Sci-Fi
Cars 2
2011 · Animation, Family
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017 · Action, Adventure
Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014 · Adventure, Drama
Raging Bull
1980 · Drama, History
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000 · Adventure, Comedy
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
2008 · Comedy, Action
Secret Window
2004 · Mystery, Thriller
John Turturro movies
Wilder & Me
I.A.L. Diamond
The Thing That Hurts
The Thing That Hurts
Upcoming
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
2026 · Harry
A Statement
2026 · Dr. David Rose
The Cut
2025 · Boz
The Room Next Door
2024 · Damian
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022 · Dottore (voice)
High Noon on the Waterfront
2022 · Elia Kazan (voice)
Forty Winks
2022 · Milo
The Batman
2022 · Carmine Falcone
The Oedipus Project
2020 · Creon
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
2020 · Self
The True Adventures of Wolfboy
2019 · Mr. Silk
The Jesus Rolls
2019 · Jesus Quintana
Pulling the Evidence That Remains
2019 · Self
Gloria Bell
2019 · Arnold
Frank Serpico
2017 · Self
Landline
2017 · Alan Jacobs
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017 · Agent Simmons
Hair
2017 · Himself
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
2016 · Self
Hands of Stone
2016 · Frankie Carbo
The Ridiculous 6
2015 · Abner Doubleday
Mia Madre
2015 · Barry Huggins
Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells
2015 · Ingegnere Lombelli
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
2015 · Self
Senza Lucio
2015 · Self
Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014 · Sethos I
Rio, I Love You
2014 · Homem
God's Pocket
2014 · Arthur 'Bird' Capezio
Gods Behaving Badly
2013 · Hades
Fading Gigolo
2013 · Fioravante
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
2013 · Self
In the Shadow of No Towers
2011 · Narrator
Somewhere Tonight
2011 · Leroy
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011 · Simmons
Cars 2
2011 · Francesco Bernoulli (voice)
The Nutcracker
2010 · The Rat King
Passione
2010 · Self
The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen
2009 · Self
Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy
2009
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
2009 · Self
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
2009 · Simmons
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
2009 · Lt. Camonetti
What Just Happened
2008 · Dick Bell
The Godfather vs. The Godfather Part II
The Godfather vs. The Godfather Part II
2008 · Himself
Miracle at St. Anna
2008 · Detective Antonio Ri
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
2008 · Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
2008 · Self
Dreaming Slipstream Dream
2008 · Self
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
2008
Margot at the Wedding
2007 · Jim
Transformers
2007 · Agent Simmons
Brando
2007 · Self
Slipstream
2007 · Harvey Brickman
The Good Shepherd
2006 · Raymond Brocco
John Torturro and the Soul of Naples
2006 · himself
A Few Days in September
2006 · William Pound
Sacco and Vanzetti
2006 · Vanzetti (Voice)
Romance & Cigarettes
2006 · Male Dancer & Singer
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
2005 · Son
She Hate Me
2004 · Don Angelo Bonasera
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
2004 · Self
2BPerfectlyHonest
2004 · Sal / Roberto
Secret Window
2004 · John Shooter
Secret Passage
2004 · Paolo Zane
Opopomoz
2003 · John (voice)
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003 · Self
Anger Management
2003 · Chuck
Fear X
2003 · Harry
Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July
Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July
2002 · Narrator
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002 · Self
New York at the Movies
New York at the Movies
2002 · Self
Mr. Deeds
2002 · Emilio Lopez
Heart of the Festival
2002 · Self (archive footage)
Collateral Damage
2002 · Sean Amstrong
Monday Night Mayhem
2002 · Howard Cosell
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
2001 · Walker
Monkeybone
2001 · Monkeybone (voice)
The Coen Brothers
2000 · Self
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000 · Pete Hogwallop
The Man Who Cried
2000 · Dante Dominio
The Luzhin Defence
2000 · Aleksandr Ivanovich 'Sascha' Luzhin
Two Thousand and None
2000 · Benjamin Kasparian
Company Man
2000 · Crocker Johnson
Cradle Will Rock
1999 · Aldo Silvano
Summer of Sam
1999 · Harvey the Black Dog (voice)
The Source
1999 · Allen Ginsberg
Rounders
1998 · Joey Knish
Illuminata
1998 · Tuccio
He Got Game
1998 · Billy Sunday
All Revved Up
1998 · Johnny Candellano
The Big Lebowski
1998 · Jesus Quintana
Animals with the Tollkeeper
1998 · Tuxedo Man
Lesser Prophets
1997 · Leon
The Truce
1997 · Primo Levi
Grace of My Heart
1996 · Joel Millner
Box of Moonlight
1996 · Al Fountain
Girl 6
1996 · Murray - the Agent
Sugartime
1995 · Sam Giancana
Clockers
1995 · Det. Larry Mazilli
Unstrung Heroes
1995 · Sid Lidz
Search and Destroy
1995 · Ron
At Sundance
1995 · Self
The Search for One-eye Jimmy
1994 · Disco Bean
Quiz Show
1994 · Herb Stempel
Being Human
1994 · Lucinnius
Fearless
1993 · Dr. Bill Perlman
Mac
1992 · Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli
Brain Donors
1992 · Roland T. Flakfizer
Barton Fink
1991 · Barton Fink
Jungle Fever
1991 · Pauline Carbone
Men Of Respect
1990 · Mike Battaglia
Miller's Crossing
1990 · Bernie Bernbaum
State of Grace
1990 · Nick
Mo' Better Blues
1990 · Moe Flatbush
Catchfire
1990 · Pinella
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
1989 · Self
Do the Right Thing
1989 · Pino
The Sicilian
1987 · Pisciotta
Five Corners
1987 · Heinz Sabatino
The Color of Money
1986 · Julian
Off Beat
1986 · Neil Pepper
Gung Ho
1986 · Willie
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986 · TV Writer
To Live and Die in L.A.
1985 · Carl Cody
Desperately Seeking Susan
1985 · Ray
The Flamingo Kid
1984 · Ted from Pinky's
Exterminator 2
1984 · Guy #1
Raging Bull
1980 · Man at Webster Hall Table (uncredited)
Directed by John Turturro
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