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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Popularity127
Credits6.4
Rating114M
Budget390M
RevenueActing
Primarily2025 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)
8.40 Unknown 1
7.32 Mystery 5
7.07 TV Movie 3
6.90 History 8
6.83 Documentary 19
6.56 Animation 5
6.23 Crime 19
6.23 Thriller 17
6.19 Adventure 11
6.15 War 3
6.09 Science Fiction 5
6.07 Music 6
6.04 Family 4
6.02 Drama 61
6.00 Romance 11
5.75 Action 15
5.67 Comedy 37
5.44 Fantasy 7
5.20 Western 1