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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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2025 The Cut as Boz

2025 The Only Living Pickpocket in New York as Harry

2025 The Thing That Hurts

2025 Wilder & Me as I.A.L. Diamond

2025 When the Music Changes Executive Producer

2024 The Room Next Door as Damian

2022 Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio as Dottore (voice)

2022 High Noon on the Waterfront as Elia Kazan (voice)

2022 Potentially Dangerous Executive Producer

2022 Forty Winks as Milo

2022 The Batman as Carmine Falcone

2022 Severance as Irving Bailiff

2020 The Oedipus Project as Creon

2020 Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness as Self

2019 The True Adventures of Wolfboy as Mr. Silk

2019 The Jesus Rolls as Jesus Quintana Director, Screenplay

2019 Gloria Bell as Arnold

2017 Frank Serpico as Self

2017 Landline as Alan Jacobs

2017 Transformers: The Last Knight as Agent Simmons

2017 Hair as Himself Writer, Director

2016 Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre' as Self

2016 Hands of Stone as Frankie Carbo

2015 The Ridiculous 6 as Abner Doubleday

2015 Mia madre as Barry Huggins

2015 Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells as Ingegnere Lombelli

2015 Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' as Self

2015 Senza Lucio as Self

2014 Exodus: Gods and Kings as Sethos I

2014 Rio, I Love You as Homem (segment "Quando não há Mais Amor") Director, Writer

2014 God's Pocket as Arthur 'Bird' Capezio

2013 Gods Behaving Badly as Hades

2013 Fading Gigolo as Fioravante Director, Screenplay

2013 Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me as Himself

2011 In the Shadow of No Towers as Narrator

2011 1-900-TONIGHT (Somewhere Tonight) as Leroy

2011 Transformers: Dark of the Moon as Simmons

2011 Cars 2 as Francesco Bernoulli (voice)

2010 The Nutcracker as The Rat King

2010 Passione as Self Director, Choreographer, Idea, Writer, Story, Screenplay

2009 The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen as Self

2009 Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy Writer

2009 Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later as Self

2009 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen as Simmons

2009 The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 as Lt. Camonetti

2008 What Just Happened as Dick Bell

2008 Miracle at St. Anna as Detective Antonio Ri

2008 You Don't Mess with the Zohan as Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah

2008 The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't as Self

2008 Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies

2007 Margot at the Wedding as Jim

2007 Transformers as Agent Simmons

2007 Brando as Self

2007 Slipstream as Harvey Brickman

2006 The Good Shepherd as Raymond Brocco

2006 John Torturro and the Soul of Naples as himself

2006 A Few Days in September as William Pound

2006 Sacco and Vanzetti as Vanzetti (Voice)

2005 Romance & Cigarettes as Male Dancer & Singer Director, Producer, Writer

2005 The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation as Son

2004 She Hate Me as Don Angelo Bonasera

2004 The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth as Self

2004 2BPerfectlyHonest as Sal / Roberto

2004 Secret Window as John Shooter

2004 Secret Passage as Paolo Zane

2003 Opopomoz as John (voice)

2003 The Evolution of an American Filmmaker as Self

2003 Anger Management as Chuck

2003 Fear X as Harry

2002 Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July as Narrator

2002 Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick as Self

2002 New York at the Movies as Self

2002 Mr. Deeds as Emilio Lopez

2002 Collateral Damage as Sean Amstrong

2002 Monday Night Mayhem as Howard Cosell

2001 Thirteen Conversations About One Thing as Walker

2001 Monkeybone as Monkeybone (voice)

2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou? as Pete Hogwallop

2000 The Man Who Cried as Dante Dominio

2000 The Luzhin Defence as Aleksandr Ivanovich 'Sascha' Luzhin

2000 Two Thousand and None as Benjamin Kasparian

2000 Company Man as Crocker Johnson

1999 Cradle Will Rock as Aldo Silvano

1999 Summer of Sam as Harvey the Black Dog (voice)

1999 The Source as Allen Ginsberg

1998 Rounders as Joey Knish

1998 Illuminata as Tuccio Director, Screenplay, Producer

1998 He Got Game as Billy Sunday

1998 All Revved Up as Johnny Candellano

1998 The Big Lebowski as Jesus Quintana

1998 Animals with the Tollkeeper as Tuxedo Man

1997 Lesser Prophets as Leon

1997 The Truce as Primo Levi

1996 Grace of My Heart as Joel Millner

1996 Box of Moonlight as Al Fountain

1996 Girl 6 as Murray - the Agent

1995 Sugartime as Sam Giancana

1995 Unstrung Heroes as Sid Lidz

1995 Clockers as Det. Larry Mazilli

1995 Search and Destroy as Ron

1995 At Sundance as Self

1994 The Search for One-eye Jimmy as Disco Bean

1994 Quiz Show as Herbert 'Herb' Stempel

1994 Being Human as Lucinnius

1993 Fearless as Dr. Bill Perlman

1992 Mac as Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli Director, Writer

1992 Brain Donors as Roland T. Flakfizer

1991 Barton Fink as Barton Fink

1991 Jungle Fever as Pauline Carbone

1990 Men Of Respect as Mike Battaglia

1990 Miller's Crossing as Bernie Bernbaum

1990 State of Grace as Nick

1990 Mo' Better Blues as Moe Flatbush

1990 Catchfire as Pinella

1989 Making 'Do the Right Thing' as Self

1989 Do the Right Thing as Pino

1987 The Sicilian as Pisciotta

1987 Five Corners as Heinz Sabatino

1986 The Color of Money as Julian

1986 Off Beat as Neil Pepper

1986 Gung Ho as Willie

1986 Hannah and Her Sisters as TV Writer

1985 To Live and Die in L.A. as Carl Cody

1985 Desperately Seeking Susan as Ray

1984 The Flamingo Kid as Ted from Pinky's

1984 Exterminator 2 as Guy #1

1980 Raging Bull as Man at Webster Hall Table (uncredited)

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