John Turturro

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1957-02-28 (68 years old)

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

John Turturro

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...

Acting

1998

The Big Lebowski

as Jesus Quintana

2000

1991

Barton Fink

as Barton Fink

1990

Miller's Crossing

as Bernie Bernbaum

2006

The Good Shepherd

as Raymond Brocco

2004

Secret Window

as John Shooter

1990

1998

Rounders

as Joey Knish

1991

Jungle Fever

as Pauline Carbone

2007

Transformers

as Agent Simmons

2008

You Don't Mess with the Zohan

as Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah

2002

Mr. Deeds

as Emilio Lopez

1993

Fearless

as Dr. Bill Perlman

1995

Clockers

as Det. Larry Mazilli

1986

1997

The Truce

as Primo Levi

1996

Box of Moonlight

as Al Fountain

1994

Quiz Show

as Herbert 'Herb' Stempel

2001

Monkeybone

as Monkeybone (voice)

1987

The Sicilian

as Pisciotta

1986

2008

What Just Happened

as Dick Bell

1999

Cradle Will Rock

as Aldo Silvano

1992

Brain Donors

as Roland T. Flakfizer

2008

Miracle at St. Anna

as Detective Antonio Ri

2003

1990

Catchfire

as Pinella

1985

2002

Collateral Damage

as Sean Amstrong

1986

Gung Ho

as Willie

2015

1990

Mo' Better Blues

as Moe Flatbush

2000

The Man Who Cried

as Dante Dominio

2003

Fear X

as Harry

2000

Company Man

as Crocker Johnson

1997

2006

A Few Days in September

as William Pound

2006

Sacco and Vanzetti

as Vanzetti (Voice)

2009

2011

Cars 2

as Francesco Bernoulli (voice)

2007

Slipstream

as Harvey Brickman

2010

The Nutcracker

as The Rat King

2000

The Luzhin Defence

as Aleksandr Ivanovich 'Sascha' Luzhin

1995

Unstrung Heroes

as Sid Lidz

1987

Five Corners

as Heinz Sabatino

1998

Illuminata

as Tuccio

1995

Sugartime

as Sam Giancana

1990

Men Of Respect

as Mike Battaglia

1996

Grace of My Heart

as Joel Millner

2005

Romance & Cigarettes

as Male Dancer & Singer

2000

Two Thousand and None

as Benjamin Kasparian

2011

1992

Mac

as Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli

2014

2022

2002

Monday Night Mayhem

as Howard Cosell

2013

Fading Gigolo

as Fioravante

2014

God's Pocket

as Arthur 'Bird' Capezio

2004

2BPerfectlyHonest

as Sal / Roberto

1984

The Flamingo Kid

as Ted from Pinky's

2025

The Cut

as Boz

1986

Off Beat

as Neil Pepper

2022

High Noon on the Waterfront

as Elia Kazan (voice)

2015

Mia madre

as Barry Huggins

2024

-

Wilder & Me

as I.A.L. Diamond

2015

Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells

as Ingegnere Lombelli

2016

Hands of Stone

as Frankie Carbo

1998

He Got Game

as Billy Sunday

1998

All Revved Up

as Johnny Candellano

2015

The Ridiculous 6

as Abner Doubleday

2004

Secret Passage

as Paolo Zane

1994

Being Human

as Lucinnius

1980

Raging Bull

as Man at Webster Hall Table (uncredited)

2017

Landline

as Alan Jacobs

2017

1999

The Source

as Allen Ginsberg

2019

The Jesus Rolls

as Jesus Quintana

2014

Rio, I Love You

as Homem (segment "Quando não há Mais Amor")

2007

Brando

as Self

1984

2004

She Hate Me

as Don Angelo Bonasera

2017

1995

2019

Gloria Bell

as Arnold

1999

Summer of Sam

as Harvey the Black Dog (voice)

1996

Girl 6

as Murray - the Agent

2022

The Batman

as Carmine Falcone

2003

Opopomoz

as John (voice)

2017

Hair

as Himself

2022

2010

Passione

as Self

Production

2005

2005

1998

Illuminata

as Director

1998

Illuminata

as Screenplay

1998

Illuminata

as Producer

2010

Passione

as Director

1992

Mac

as Director

2013

Fading Gigolo

as Director

2013

Fading Gigolo

as Screenplay

2022

Potentially Dangerous

as Executive Producer

-

When the Music Changes

as Executive Producer

2014

Rio, I Love You

as Director

2019

The Jesus Rolls

as Director

2019

The Jesus Rolls

as Screenplay

1992

Mac

as Writer

2014

2017

Hair

as Director

2017

Hair

as Writer

2010

Passione

as Choreographer

2010

Passione

as Idea

2010

Passione

as Writer

2010

Passione

as Story

2010

Passione

as Screenplay

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