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.
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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Filmography (Movies)
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
Character:Harry
Release Date:27/01/2026
The Cut
Character:Boz
Release Date:04/09/2025
The Room Next Door
Character:Damian
Release Date:07/10/2024
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Character:Dottore (voice)
Release Date:09/11/2022
High Noon on the Waterfront
Character:Elia Kazan (voice)
Release Date:04/09/2022
Forty Winks
Character:Milo
Release Date:19/03/2022
The Batman
Character:Carmine Falcone
Release Date:01/03/2022
The Oedipus Project
Character:Creon
Release Date:24/06/2020
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
Character:Self
Release Date:21/04/2020
The True Adventures of Wolfboy
Character:Mr. Silk
Release Date:08/12/2019
The Jesus Rolls
Character:Jesus Quintana
Release Date:17/10/2019
Pulling The Evidence That Remains
Character:
Release Date:16/05/2019
Gloria Bell
Character:Arnold
Release Date:07/03/2019
Frank Serpico
Character:Self
Release Date:01/11/2017
Landline
Character:Alan Jacobs
Release Date:21/07/2017
Transformers: The Last Knight
Character:Agent Simmons
Release Date:16/06/2017
Hair
Character:Himself
Release Date:21/04/2017
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
Character:Self
Release Date:15/11/2016
Hands of Stone
Character:Frankie Carbo
Release Date:26/08/2016
The Ridiculous 6
Character:Abner Doubleday
Release Date:11/12/2015
My Mother
Character:Barry Huggins
Release Date:16/04/2015
Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells
Character:Ingegnere Lombelli
Release Date:02/04/2015
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
Character:Self
Release Date:17/03/2015
Senza Lucio
Character:Self
Release Date:04/03/2015
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Character:Sethos I
Release Date:03/12/2014
Rio, I Love You
Character:Homem (segment "Quando não há Mais Amor")
Release Date:12/09/2014
God's Pocket
Character:Arthur 'Bird' Capezio
Release Date:09/05/2014
Gods Behaving Badly
Character:Hades
Release Date:13/11/2013
Fading Gigolo
Character:Fioravante
Release Date:07/09/2013
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
Character:Himself
Release Date:09/04/2013
In the Shadow of No Towers
Character:Narrator
Release Date:06/09/2011
Somewhere Tonight
Character:Leroy
Release Date:08/07/2011
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Character:Simmons
Release Date:28/06/2011
Cars 2
Character:Francesco Bernoulli (voice)
Release Date:11/06/2011
The Nutcracker
Character:The Rat King
Release Date:24/11/2010
Passione
Character:Self
Release Date:04/09/2010
The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen
Character:Self
Release Date:20/10/2009
Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy
Character:
Release Date:05/09/2009
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
Character:Self
Release Date:30/06/2009
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Character:Simmons
Release Date:19/06/2009
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
Character:Lt. Camonetti
Release Date:10/06/2009
What Just Happened
Character:Dick Bell
Release Date:17/10/2008
Miracle at St. Anna
Character:Detective Antonio Ri
Release Date:15/09/2008
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
Character:Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah
Release Date:05/06/2008
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
Character:Self
Release Date:03/06/2008
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
Character:
Release Date:20/01/2008
Margot at the Wedding
Character:Jim
Release Date:16/11/2007
Transformers
Character:Agent Simmons
Release Date:27/06/2007
Brando
Character:Self
Release Date:01/05/2007
Slipstream
Character:Harvey Brickman
Release Date:10/02/2007
The Good Shepherd
Character:Raymond Brocco
Release Date:11/12/2006
John Torturro and the Soul of Naples
Character:himself
Release Date:30/11/2006
A Few Days in September
Character:William Pound
Release Date:06/09/2006
Sacco and Vanzetti
Character:Vanzetti (Voice)
Release Date:06/04/2006
Romance & Cigarettes
Character:Male Dancer & Singer
Release Date:13/09/2005
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
Character:Son
Release Date:05/01/2005
She Hate Me
Character:Don Angelo Bonasera
Release Date:30/07/2004
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
Character:Self
Release Date:17/06/2004
2BPerfectlyHonest
Character:Sal / Roberto
Release Date:02/05/2004
Secret Window
Character:John Shooter
Release Date:12/03/2004
Secret Passage
Character:Paolo Zane
Release Date:01/01/2004
Opopomoz
Character:John (voice)
Release Date:05/12/2003
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
Character:Self
Release Date:20/05/2003
Anger Management
Character:Chuck
Release Date:11/04/2003
Fear X
Character:Harry
Release Date:13/01/2003
Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July
Character:Narrator
Release Date:01/10/2002
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Character:Self
Release Date:01/09/2002
New York at the Movies
Character:Self
Release Date:07/07/2002
Mr. Deeds
Character:Emilio Lopez
Release Date:28/06/2002
Collateral Damage
Character:Sean Amstrong
Release Date:06/02/2002
Monday Night Mayhem
Character:Howard Cosell
Release Date:14/01/2002
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Character:Walker
Release Date:02/09/2001
Monkeybone
Character:Monkeybone (voice)
Release Date:23/02/2001
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Character:Pete Hogwallop
Release Date:30/08/2000
The Man Who Cried
Character:Dante Dominio
Release Date:29/08/2000
The Luzhin Defence
Character:Aleksandr Ivanovich 'Sascha' Luzhin
Release Date:21/08/2000
Two Thousand and None
Character:Benjamin Kasparian
Release Date:07/07/2000
Company Man
Character:Crocker Johnson
Release Date:09/03/2000
Cradle Will Rock
Character:Aldo Silvano
Release Date:10/12/1999
Summer of Sam
Character:Harvey the Black Dog (voice)
Release Date:28/06/1999
The Source
Character:Allen Ginsberg
Release Date:23/01/1999
Rounders
Character:Joey Knish
Release Date:11/09/1998
Illuminata
Character:Tuccio
Release Date:21/05/1998
He Got Game
Character:Billy Sunday
Release Date:01/05/1998
All Revved Up
Character:Johnny Candellano
Release Date:19/04/1998
The Big Lebowski
Character:Jesus Quintana
Release Date:06/03/1998
Animals with the Tollkeeper
Character:Tuxedo Man
Release Date:06/01/1998
Lesser Prophets
Character:Leon
Release Date:28/11/1997
The Truce
Character:Primo Levi
Release Date:14/02/1997
Grace of My Heart
Character:Joel Millner
Release Date:13/09/1996
Box of Moonlight
Character:Al Fountain
Release Date:29/08/1996
Girl 6
Character:Murray - the Agent
Release Date:22/03/1996
Sugartime
Character:Sam Giancana
Release Date:25/11/1995
Clockers
Character:Det. Larry Mazilli
Release Date:15/09/1995
Unstrung Heroes
Character:Sid Lidz
Release Date:15/09/1995
Search and Destroy
Character:Ron
Release Date:23/04/1995
At Sundance
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1995
The Search for One-eye Jimmy
Character:Disco Bean
Release Date:09/11/1994
Quiz Show
Character:Herb Stempel
Release Date:25/08/1994
Being Human
Character:Lucinnius
Release Date:06/05/1994
Fearless
Character:Dr. Bill Perlman
Release Date:15/10/1993
Mac
Character:Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli
Release Date:17/09/1992
Brain Donors
Character:Roland T. Flakfizer
Release Date:17/04/1992
Barton Fink
Character:Barton Fink
Release Date:01/08/1991
Jungle Fever
Character:Pauline Carbone
Release Date:07/06/1991
Men Of Respect
Character:Mike Battaglia
Release Date:01/10/1990
Miller's Crossing
Character:Bernie Bernbaum
Release Date:21/09/1990
State of Grace
Character:Nick
Release Date:14/09/1990
Mo' Better Blues
Character:Moe Flatbush
Release Date:03/08/1990
Catchfire
Character:Pinella
Release Date:03/04/1990
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
Character:Self
Release Date:03/11/1989
Do the Right Thing
Character:Pino
Release Date:14/06/1989
The Sicilian
Character:Pisciotta
Release Date:07/10/1987
Five Corners
Character:Heinz Sabatino
Release Date:11/09/1987
The Color of Money
Character:Julian
Release Date:17/10/1986
Off Beat
Character:Neil Pepper
Release Date:10/04/1986
Gung Ho
Character:Willie
Release Date:14/03/1986
Hannah and Her Sisters
Character:TV Writer
Release Date:07/02/1986
To Live and Die in L.A.
Character:Carl Cody
Release Date:01/11/1985
Desperately Seeking Susan
Character:Ray
Release Date:29/03/1985
The Flamingo Kid
Character:Ted from Pinky's
Release Date:21/12/1984
Exterminator 2
Character:Guy #1
Release Date:14/09/1984
Raging Bull
Character:Man at Webster Hall Table (uncredited)
Release Date:14/11/1980
Television Appearances
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Character:Eric Shane
Can't Go Home
Character:Paulo Santana
Severance
Character:Irving Bailiff
The Plot Against America
Character:Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf
Green Eggs and Ham
Character:Goat (voice)
The Name of the Rose
Character:William of Baskerville
The Night Of
Character:John Stone
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Character:Self
Difficult People
Character:Dusty
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Character:Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Character:Self
Finding Your Roots
Character:Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Character:
The Bronx Is Burning
Character:Billy Martin
Flight of the Conchords
Character:Credits Cop
Brando: The Documentary
Character:Self
Rachael Ray
Character:
Monk
Character:Ambrose Monk
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Character:Self - Guest
Baseball
Character:Various (voice)
Baseball
Character:(voice)
Frasier
Character:Grant (voice)
The Fortunate Pilgrim
Character:Larry
Miami Vice
Character:David Traynor
Saturday Night Live
Character:Self - Host
The Oscars
Character:Self
The Emmy Awards
Character:Self
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