John Turturro

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Feb 28, 1957 (68 years old)

John Turturro

Known For

The Cut
1h 39m
Movie 2025

The Cut

A retired boxer intends to return to the ring for one last shot at the title, but first he must make the weight. Holed up in a room in Las Vegas with an unscrupulous trainer, he embarks on an intensive and illegal weight-cutting program.

The Room Next Door
1h 46m
Movie 2024

The Room Next Door

Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

Can't Go Home
0h 43m
TV Show 2023

Can't Go Home

Tom has one day to find and deport a high value fugitive or he'll be forced to step down as captain of the unit. While searching for the fugitive, Tom finds nearly half a million dollars that belong to the Santana brothers

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
1h 57m
Movie 2022

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father's expectations.

High Noon on the Waterfront
0h 14m
Movie 2022

High Noon on the Waterfront

An inventive remembrance of the impact of the Hollywood blacklist on two American classics, rendered as a visually mesmerizing dialogue between Carl Foreman and Elia Kazan.

Forty Winks
1h 20m
Movie 2022

Forty Winks

Forty Winks follows Fabio Berker, struggling Hypnotist in New York City, as he is blackmailed into being the world's first hypnotist hit man by a mysterious woman who finds out his degree is fake.

The Batman
2h 57m
Movie 2022

The Batman

In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.

Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
1h 41m
Movie 2020

Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness

From "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" to "The Big Lebowski" and everything in between, this fascinating deep-dive documentary begins its celebration of the greatest cult movies of all-time discussing the birth of the midnight movie.

The Plot Against America
1h 1m
TV Show 2020

The Plot Against America

An alternate American history told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family in New Jersey, as they watch the political rise of Charles Lindbergh, an aviator-hero and xenophobic populist, who becomes president and turns the nation toward fascism.

The True Adventures of Wolfboy
1h 29m
Movie 2019

The True Adventures of Wolfboy

Follows a young boy who runs away from home in the search of his estranged mother.

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.

Acting

2025
The Cut
2024
The Room Next Door
2023
Can't Go Home
2022
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022
High Noon on the Waterfront
2022
Forty Winks
2022
The Batman
2020
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
2020
The Plot Against America
2019
The True Adventures of Wolfboy
2019
The Jesus Rolls
2019
Gloria Bell
2019
The Name of the Rose
2017
Frank Serpico
2017
Landline
2017
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
Hair
2016
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
2016
Hands of Stone
2016
The Night Of
2015
The Ridiculous 6
2015
Mia madre
2015
Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells
2015
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
2015
Senza Lucio
2014
Exodus: Gods and Kings
2013
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
2011
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011
Cars 2
2010
The Nutcracker
2010
Passione
2009
The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen
2009
Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy
2009
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
2009
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
2008
Miracle at St. Anna
2008
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
2008
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
2008
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
2007
The Bronx Is Burning
2007
Brando: The Documentary
2007
Brando
2007
Slipstream
2006
The Good Shepherd
1998
The Big Lebowski
1997
The Truce
1996
Grace of My Heart
1995
Clockers
1995
Search and Destroy
1995
At Sundance
1993
Fearless
1991
Barton Fink
1990
Miller's Crossing
1990
State of Grace
1990
Catchfire
1989
Do the Right Thing
1988
The Fortunate Pilgrim
1987
The Sicilian
1986
Off Beat
1986
Hannah and Her Sisters

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