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John Michael Turturro (/tərˈtʊəroʊ/;[1] born February 28, 1957) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his contributions to 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 both The Big Lebowski (1998) and The Jesus Rolls (2020), Pete in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Seymour Simmons in the Transformers film series (2007–2017) and Carmine Falcone in The Batman (2022). In 2016, in a lead role, he portrayed a lawyer in the HBO miniseries The Night Of. He had a recurring role in the miniseries The Plot Against America in 2020. He currently stars as Irving on the Apple TV+ series Severance.

John Turturro
Turturro at the Montclair Film Festival in May 2017
Born	John Michael Turturro (1957-02-28) February 28, 1957 (age 65) New York City, U.S.
Citizenship	United States Italy
Alma mater	State University of New York, New Paltz (BA) Yale University (MFA)
Occupation	Actor filmmaker
Years active	1980–present
Spouse	Katherine Borowitz ​ (m. 1985)​
Children	2
Relatives	Nicholas Turturro (brother) Aida Turturro (cousin)

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).

Early life

John Turturro was born on February 28, 1957 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, New York, the son of Katherine Florence (Incerella) and Nicholas Turturro. His mother was born in the U.S. to Italian parents with roots in Sicily, and was an amateur jazz singer who had worked in a naval yard during World War II.[2][3][4] His maternal grandmother died of a botched home abortion when his mother was six, leaving his mother in an orphanage, as his grandfather was unable to provide for the children on his own.[5] His father had emigrated at age six from Giovinazzo, Italy to the United States, and later worked as a carpenter and construction worker before joining the U.S. Navy.

Turturro was raised a Roman Catholic and moved to the Rosedale section of Queens, New York with his family when he was 6.[6] He majored in theatre arts at the State University of New York at New Paltz and completed his MFA at the Yale School of Drama.

Career

Turturro's first film appearance was a non-speaking extra role in Martin Scorsese's critically acclaimed Raging Bull (1980).[7] He created the title role of John Patrick Shanley's Danny and the Deep Blue Sea at the Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center in 1983. He repeated it the following year Off-Broadway and won an Obie Award. Turturro had a notable supporting role in William Friedkin's action film To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), as the henchman of the villainous counterfeiter played by Willem Dafoe.

Spike Lee liked Turturro's performance in Five Corners (1987) so much that he cast him in Do the Right Thing (1989). This movie was the first of a long-standing collaboration between the director and Turturro, which includes work together on a total of nine films—more than any other actor in the Lee oeuvre[8]—including Mo' Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Clockers (1995), Girl 6 (1996), He Got Game (1998), Summer of Sam (1999), She Hate Me (2004), and Miracle at St. Anna (2008).[9]

Turturro has appeared in both comedy and drama films, and engaged in an extended collaboration with the Coen Brothers—he appeared in their films Miller's Crossing (1990), Barton Fink (1991, in the lead role), The Big Lebowski (1998), and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). Turturro has also appeared in several of Adam Sandler's movies, such as Mr. Deeds (2002) and You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008). He played a severely disturbed patient of Jack Nicholson's character in the comedy Anger Management and played Johnny Depp's character's antagonist in Secret Window.[9]

Turturro hosted Saturday Night Live in 1994, where he spoofed his then-recently made film, Quiz Show, being told he was ineligible to host unless he answered questions in a booth and if he failed, the honor of hosting would go to Joey Buttafuoco, who was actually backstage to witness Turturro's test. He won an Emmy award for his portrayal of Adrian Monk's brother Ambrose in the USA Network series Monk, and reprised the role on numerous occasions. He has also been nominated and won many awards from film organizations such as Screen Actors Guild, Cannes Film Festival, Golden Globes and others.[9]

Turturro produced and directed, as well as acted in, the film Illuminata (1999), which also starred his wife, actress Katherine Borowitz. He wrote and directed the film Romance and Cigarettes (2005). In 2006 he appeared in Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd, and as the Sector 7 agent Seymour Simmons in four films of the Transformers live-action series. In 2010, he directed (and had cameo on-screen appearances in) Passione, which chronicles the rich musical heritage of Naples, Italy.[10]

His stage directorial debut was in October 2011, with the Broadway play Relatively Speaking, in which he guided an ensemble of veteran actors in a production of three comedic one-act plays, written by Elaine May, Woody Allen and Ethan Coen. The cast included Julie Kavner, Marlo Thomas, Mark Linn-Baker and Steve Guttenberg.[8]

Turturro's fifth directorial film Fading Gigolo premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in mid-September 2013. Turturro also acts in the film alongside Woody Allen, who plays a novice pimp overseeing the sex work of Turturro's character. During a September 2013 interview, Turturro expressed his intention to draw parallels between sex work and acting, explaining that the latter is a "service business" in which actors are "acting out people's wishes or fantasies".[7] In March 2014, Turturro received the Career Achievement tribute and award at the 31st Edition of the Miami International Film Festival at the Olympia Theater in Downtown Miami.[11] Turturro starred in the 2016 miniseries The Night Of, garnering a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. In 2019 Turturro played William of Baskerville in a television adaptation of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose.

In 2022, he appeared in Matt Reeves' film The Batman based on the DC Comics character of the same name as Carmine Falcone.[12]

Personal life

Turturro's brother is actor Nicholas Turturro. Composer and film director Richard Termini and actress Aida Turturro are his cousins.[13] He has two children with his wife, actress Katherine Borowitz, who moved on to a social work career in 2016.[6]

John Turturro participates as a member of the Jury for the New York International Children's Film Festival (NYICFF), which is dedicated to screening films for children between the ages of 3 and 18.[14] Turturro holds dual Italian and American citizenship as of January 2011.[15]

He has lived in Park Slope in Brooklyn, New York since 1988.[16]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1980	Raging Bull	Man at table	Uncredited
1984	The Flamingo Kid	Ted From Pinky's
1985	Desperately Seeking Susan	Ray
	To Live and Die in L.A.	Carl Cody
1986	Hannah and Her Sisters	Writer
	The Color of Money	Julian
	Gung Ho	Willie
	Off Beat	Neil Pepper
1987	Five Corners	Heinz Zabantino
	The Sicilian	Pisciotta
1989	Do the Right Thing	Pino	Directed By Spike Lee
1990	Catchfire	Pinella
	State of Grace	Detective Nick Richardson
	Mo' Better Blues	'Moe' Flatbush	Directed By Spike Lee
	Miller's Crossing	Bernie 'The Shamata Kid' Bernbaum	With The Coen Brothers
1991	Men of Respect	Mike Battaglia
	Jungle Fever	Paulie Carbone	Directed By Spike Lee
	Barton Fink	Barton Fink	With The Coen Brothers
1992	Mac	Niccolò Vitelli	Also director and writer
	Brain Donors	Roland T. Flakfizer
1993	Being Human	Lucinnius
	Fearless	Bill Pearlman
1994	Quiz Show	Herb Stempel
	The Search for One-eye Jimmy	Disco Bean
1995	Search and Destroy	Ron
	Unstrung Heroes	Sidney Lidz
	Clockers	Detective Larry Mazilla
1996	Girl 6	Murray
	Box of Moonlight	Al Fountain
	Grace of My Heart	Joel Milner
1997	Lesser Prophets	Leon
	The Truce	Primo Levi
1998	Illuminata	Tuccio	Also director, writer and producer
	Rounders	Joey Knish
	He Got Game	Billy Sunday
	OK Garage	Jonny
	The Big Lebowski	Jesus Quintana
	Animals	Tuxedo Man
1999	Summer of Sam	Harvey The Dog (voice)
	Cradle Will Rock	Aldo Silvana
2000	O Brother, Where Art Thou?	Pete
	The Man Who Cried	Dante Dominio
	Company Man	Crocker Johnson
	Two Thousand and None	Benjamin Kasparian
	The Luzhin Defence	Alexander Luzhin
2001	Monkeybone	Monkeybone (voice)
	Thirteen Conversations About One Thing	Walker
2002	Collateral Damage	Sean Armstrong
	Mr. Deeds	Emilio Lopez
2003	Fear X	Harry
	Anger Management	Chuck
	Opopomoz	John	Voice
2004	Secret Passage	Paolo Zane
	Secret Window	John Shooter
	She Hate Me	Don Angelo Bonasera
	2BPerfectlyHonest[17]	Sal / Roberto
2005	Romance and Cigarettes	Male Dancer & Singer	Also director, writer and producer
	The Moon and the Son	Son (voice)	Short film
2006	The Good Shepherd	Ray Brocco
	A Few Days in September	William Pound
2007	Transformers	Agent Seymour Simmons
	Margot at the Wedding	Jim
	Slipstream	Harvey Brickman
	Joulutarina	Iisakki	English dub
2008	What Just Happened	Dick Bell
	You Don't Mess With The Zohan	Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah
	Miracle at St. Anna	Detective Antonio 'Tony' Ricci
2009	The Taking of Pelham 123	Lieutenant Vincent Camonetti
	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen	Seymour Simmons
	Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy	Himself	Documentary; also writer and executive producer
2010	Passione	Himself / Narrator	Documentary; also director and co-writer
	The Nutcracker in 3D	The Rat King
2011	Cars 2	Francesco Bernoulli (voice)
	Transformers: Dark of the Moon	Seymour Simmons
	Somewhere Tonight	Leroy
2013	Fading Gigolo	Fioravante	Also director and writer
	Gods Behaving Badly	Hades
2014	God's Pocket	Arthur 'Bird' Capezio
	Exodus: Gods and Kings	Seti I
	Rio, I Love You	Homem	Segment "Quando não há Mais Amor"; also director and writer
2015	Mia madre	Barry Huggins
	Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells	Lombelli
	The Ridiculous 6	Abner Doubleday
2016	Hands of Stone	Frankie Carbo
2017	Landline	Alan Jacobs
	Hair	John Turturro	Short film; also director and writer
	Transformers: The Last Knight	Seymour Simmons
2018	Gloria Bell	Arnold
2019	The True Adventures of Wolfboy	Mr. Silk
	The Jesus Rolls	Jesus Quintana	Also director and writer[18]
2022	The Batman	Carmine Falcone
	Pinocchio	The Dottore	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985	Miami Vice	David Traynor	Episode: "Rites of Passage"
1988	The Fortunate Pilgrim	Larry	4 episodes
1994	Saturday Night Live	Himself / Host	Episode: "John Turturro/Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers"
1995	Sugartime	Sam Giancana	Television film
2001	Biography	Narrator	2 episodes
2002	Monday Night Mayhem	Howard Cosell	Television film
	Frasier	Grant (voice)	Episode: "Don't Go Breaking My Heart"
2004–08	Monk	Ambrose Monk	3 episodes
2007	The Bronx Is Burning	Billy Martin	8 episodes
	Flight of the Conchords	Credits Cop	Episode: "The Actor"
2016	The New Yorker Presents	Patient	Episode: "#1.8"
	The Night Of	John Stone	8 episodes
2017	Difficult People	'Dusty'	Episode: "Bernie and Blythe"
2019	The Name of the Rose	William of Baskerville	8 episodes; also writer and executive producer
	Green Eggs and Ham	Goat (voice)	6 episodes
2020	The Plot Against America	Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf	6 episodes
2022	Severance	Irving Bailiff	Main role[19]

Video games

Year	Title	Voice role	Notes
2011	Cars 2	Francesco Bernoulli

Audiobooks

Year	Title	Voice role	Notes
2007	World War Z	Serosha Garcia Alvarez

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Ref.
1998	Waiting for Godot	Estragon	Classic Stage Company, Off-Broadway	[20]
2003	Life x 3	Henry	Circle in the Square Theatre, Broadway
2007	A Spanish Play	Director	Classic Stage Company, Off-Broadway
2011	The Cherry Orchard	Yermolai Alekaseyevich Lopakhin	Classic Stage Company, Off-Broadway
2011–12	Relatively Speaking	Director	Brooks Atkinson Theatre, Broadway
2013	The Master Builder	Halvard Solness	Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn
2015	Zorba!	Zorba	New York City Center, Concert Staging

Awards and nominations

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Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1989	Independent Spirit Award	Best Supporting Actor	Five Corners	Nominated
1990	New York Film Critics Circle	Best Supporting Actor	Miller's Crossing	Nominated
1991	National Society of Film Critics	Best Supporting Actor		Nominated
1991	Cannes Film Festival	Best Actor	Barton Fink	Won
1991	Gotham Awards	Best Actor	Himself	Won
1992	Sundance Film Festival	Vision Award	Himself	Won
1992	Chicago Film Critics Association	Best Actor	Barton Fink	Nominated
1992	Cannes Film Festival	Caméra d'Or	Mac	Won
1994	Independent Spirit Award	Best First Feature		Nominated
		Best Director		Nominated
1995	Screen Actors Guild Award	Best Supporting Actor	Quiz Show	Nominated
1995	Golden Globe Award	Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture		Nominated
1995	Chicago Film Critics Association	Best Supporting Actor		Nominated
1998	Cannes Film Festival	Palme d'Or	Illuminata	Nominated
1998	Independent Spirit Award	Best Male	Box of Moonlight	Nominated
2003	Screen Actors Guild Award	Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie	Monday Night Mayhem	Nominated
2004	Primetime Emmy Award	Guest Actor in a Comedy Series	Monk: "Mr. Monk and the Three Pies"	Won
2005	Drama Desk Award	Best Actor in a Play	The Sound of Naples	Nominated	[21]
2005	Venice Film Festival	Golden Lion	Romance and Cigarettes	Nominated
2007	Berlin Film Festival	Silver Berlin Bear	The Good Shepherd	Won
2007	Gotham Awards	Best Ensemble Performance	Margot at the Wedding	Nominated
2010	Venice Film Festival	Award of the City of Rome	Passione	Won
2017	Primetime Emmy Award	Best Actor in a Limited Series or Movie	The Night Of	Nominated
	Golden Globe Award	Best Actor – Miniseries or TV Movie		Nominated
	Screen Actors Guild Award	Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie		Nominated
2021	Critics' Choice Television Awards	Best Supporting Actor in a Movie/Miniseries	The Plot Against America	Nominated
2022	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series	Severance	Nominated	[22]
	Saturn Awards	Best Supporting Actor in a Streaming Television Series		Nominated	[23]

References

External links

• John Turturro at IMDb
• John Turturro at the Internet Broadway Database
• John Turturro at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• John Turturro at AllMovie

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[de] John Turturro

John Michael Turturro (* 28. Februar 1957 in Brooklyn, New York) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler, Regisseur und Drehbuchautor.

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[es] John Turturro

John Michael Turturro (Brooklyn, Nueva York; 28 de febrero de 1957) es un actor y director estadounidense-italiano.[2] Su carrera abarca cinco décadas durante las cuales ha actuado en más de cien películas en roles cómicos y dramáticos, además ha trabajado ocasionalmente en el teatro y la televisión y dirigido seis largometrajes. Ha recibido diversos premios y nominaciones por su trabajo tanto delante como detrás de cámaras y es considerado una figura importante del cine independiente por su extensa trayectoria en filmes alejados del circuito comercial.[4][5][6]

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[ru] Туртурро, Джон

Джо́н Ма́йкл Турту́рро (англ. John Michael Turturro; род. 28 февраля 1957, Бруклин, Нью-Йорк, Нью-Йорк, США) — американский актёр, кинорежиссёр и сценарист.

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