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John Turturro
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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…
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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). Description above from the Wikipedia article John Turturro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2026
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
Movie Harry
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2026
A Statement
Movie
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2025
The Cut
Movie Boz
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2024
The Room Next Door
Movie Damian
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2024
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
TV show Eric Shane
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2023
Can't Go Home
TV show Paulo Santana
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2022
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Movie Dottore (voice)
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2022
High Noon on the Waterfront
Movie Elia Kazan (voice)
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2022
Potentially Dangerous
Movie Executive Producer
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2022
Forty Winks
Movie Milo
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2022
The Batman
Movie Carmine Falcone
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2022
Severance
TV show Irving Bailiff
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2020
The Oedipus Project
Movie Creon
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2020
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
TV show Self
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2020
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
Movie Self
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2020
The Plot Against America
TV show Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf
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2019
The True Adventures of Wolfboy
Movie Mr. Silk
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2019
Green Eggs and Ham
TV show Goat (voice)
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2019
The Jesus Rolls
Movie Jesus Quintana
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2019
Pulling the Evidence That Remains
Movie Self
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2019
Gloria Bell
Movie Arnold
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2019
The Name of the Rose
TV show William of Baskerville
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2018
Rigoletto (Teatro Massimo di Palermo)
Movie Director
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2017
Frank Serpico
Movie Self
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2017
Landline
Movie Alan Jacobs
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2017
Transformers: The Last Knight
Movie Agent Simmons
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2017
Hair
Movie Himself
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2016
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
Movie Self
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2016
Hands of Stone
Movie Frankie Carbo
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2016
The Night Of
TV show John Stone
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2015
The Ridiculous 6
Movie Abner Doubleday
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV show Self - Guest
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2015
Difficult People
TV show Dusty
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2015
Mia Madre
Movie Barry Huggins
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2015
Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells
Movie Ingegnere Lombelli
- 2015
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2015
Senza Lucio
Movie Self
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2015
The Italian Americans
TV show Self
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2014
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Movie Sethos I
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2014
Rio, I Love You
Movie Homem
