
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 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article John Turturro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
TV Shows(30)

Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Eric Shane

Can't Go Home
Paulo Santana

Severance
Irving Bailiff

The Plot Against America
Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf

Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
Self

Green Eggs and Ham
Goat (voice)

The Name of the Rose
William of Baskerville

The Night Of
John Stone

Difficult People
Dusty

The Italian Americans
Self

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self

Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest

Finding Your Roots
Self

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Flight of the Conchords
Credits Cop

The Bronx Is Burning
Billy Martin

Brando: The Documentary
Self

Rachael Ray

Monk
Ambrose Monk