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.
125 movies · 31 shows
The Cut
2025·6.0
The Room Next Door
2024·6.7
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022·8.0
High Noon on the Waterfront
2022·6.8
Forty Winks
2022·5.7
The Batman
2022·7.7
The Oedipus Project
2020·10.0
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
2020·6.8
The True Adventures of Wolfboy
2019·5.9
The Jesus Rolls
2019·4.4
Pulling the Evidence That Remains
2019·0.0
Gloria Bell
2019·6.0
Frank Serpico
2017·5.9
Landline
2017·6.1
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017·6.1
Hair
2017·6.5
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
2016·0.0
Hands of Stone
2016·6.6
The Ridiculous 6
2015·5.2
Mia madre
2015·6.6
Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells
2015·4.3
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
2015·5.8
Senza Lucio
2015·7.5
Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014·5.9
Rio, I Love You
2014·4.8
God's Pocket
2014·5.8
Gods Behaving Badly
2013·2.5
Fading Gigolo
2013·5.8
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
2013·7.5
In the Shadow of No Towers
2011·0.0
Somewhere Tonight
2011·6.9
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011·6.2
Cars 2
2011·6.2
The Nutcracker
2010·5.0
Passione
2010·6.4
The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen
2009·6.8
Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy
2009·0.0
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
2009·7.0
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
2009·6.2
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
2009·6.4
What Just Happened
2008·5.4
The Godfather vs. The Godfather Part II
2008·0.0
Miracle at St. Anna
2008·6.1
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
2008·5.7
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
2008·7.2
Dreaming Slipstream Dream
2008·0.0
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
2008·7.0
Margot at the Wedding
2007·5.8
Transformers
2007·6.8
Brando
2007·6.8
Slipstream
2007·4.9
The Good Shepherd
2006·6.4
John Torturro and the Soul of Naples
2006·0.0
A Few Days in September
2006·4.8
Sacco and Vanzetti
2006·7.0
Romance & Cigarettes
2005·6.0
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
2005·6.3
She Hate Me
2004·5.2
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
2004·9.0
2BPerfectlyHonest
2004·6.2
Secret Window
2004·6.6
Secret Passage
2004·4.7
Opopomoz
2003·7.0
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003·7.3
Anger Management
2003·6.2
Fear X
2003·5.8
Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July
2002·0.0
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002·7.0
New York at the Movies
2002·9.0
Mr. Deeds
2002·5.9
Collateral Damage
2002·5.8
Monday Night Mayhem
2002·6.0
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
2001·6.3
Monkeybone
2001·5.2
The Coen Brothers
2000·7.8
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000·7.3
The Man Who Cried
2000·6.1
The Luzhin Defence
2000·6.2
Two Thousand and None
2000·5.0
Company Man
2000·5.1
Cradle Will Rock
1999·6.5
Summer of Sam
1999·6.5
The Source
1999·5.4
Rounders
1998·7.0
Illuminata
1998·5.5
He Got Game
1998·6.7
All Revved Up
1998·5.6
The Big Lebowski
1998·7.8
Animals with the Tollkeeper
1998·7.8
Lesser Prophets
1997·5.6
The Truce
1997·6.1
Grace of My Heart
1996·6.0
Box of Moonlight
1996·6.8
Girl 6
1996·5.0
Sugartime
1995·5.9
Clockers
1995·6.7
Unstrung Heroes
1995·6.1
Search and Destroy
1995·4.8
At Sundance
1995·5.8
The Search for One-eye Jimmy
1994·5.6
Quiz Show
1994·7.3
Being Human
1994·5.1
Fearless
1993·6.9
Mac
1992·5.7
Brain Donors
1992·6.2
Barton Fink
1991·7.5
Jungle Fever
1991·6.4
Men Of Respect
1990·4.8
Miller's Crossing
1990·7.4
State of Grace
1990·7.0
Mo' Better Blues
1990·6.5
Catchfire
1990·5.3
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
1989·6.9
Do the Right Thing
1989·7.8
The Sicilian
1987·5.2
Five Corners
1987·5.9
The Color of Money
1986·6.8
Off Beat
1986·4.8
Gung Ho
1986·6.1
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986·7.5
To Live and Die in L.A.
1985·7.1
Desperately Seeking Susan
1985·6.1
The Flamingo Kid
1984·6.0
Exterminator 2
1984·4.1
Raging Bull
1980·7.9