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John Turturro (b. 1957)

Alias:
John Michael Turturro
Джон Туртурро
جان تورتورو
約翰·特托羅
约翰·特托罗
존 터투로

Birthplace:
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Born:
February 28, 1957

Biography from TheMovieDB

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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Film Performances

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Film Production

Director:
1992  Mac
1998  Illuminata
2005  Romance & Cigarettes
2010  Passione
2013  Fading Gigolo
2014  Rio, I Love You
2017  Hair
2019  The Jesus Rolls

Executive Producer:
1992  Mac
1998  Illuminata
2005  Romance & Cigarettes
2010  Passione
2013  Fading Gigolo
2014  Rio, I Love You
2017  Hair
2019  The Jesus Rolls
2022  Potentially Dangerous
????  When the Music Changes

Producer:
1992  Mac
1998  Illuminata
2005  Romance & Cigarettes
2010  Passione
2013  Fading Gigolo
2014  Rio, I Love You
2017  Hair
2019  The Jesus Rolls
2022  Potentially Dangerous
????  When the Music Changes

Screenplay:
1992  Mac
1998  Illuminata
2005  Romance & Cigarettes
2010  Passione
2013  Fading Gigolo
2014  Rio, I Love You
2017  Hair
2019  The Jesus Rolls
2022  Potentially Dangerous
????  When the Music Changes

Writer:
1992  Mac
1998  Illuminata
2005  Romance & Cigarettes
2009  Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy
2010  Passione
2013  Fading Gigolo
2014  Rio, I Love You
2017  Hair
2019  The Jesus Rolls
2022  Potentially Dangerous
????  When the Music Changes

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TV Performances

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TV Production

Executive Producer:
2019  The Name of the Rose

Writer:
2019  The Name of the Rose

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