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John Turturro

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.

Filmography

2025
The Cut

as Boz

Movie
2022
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

as Dottore (voice)

Movie
2022
The Batman

as Carmine Falcone

Movie
2017
Transformers: The Last Knight

as Agent Simmons

Movie
2011
Transformers: Dark of the Moon

as Simmons

Movie
2011
Cars 2

as Francesco Bernoulli (voice)

Movie
2009
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

as Simmons

Movie
2009
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

as Lt. Camonetti

Movie
2008
You Don't Mess with the Zohan

as Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah

Movie
2007
Transformers

as Agent Simmons

Movie
2003
Anger Management

as Chuck

Movie
1998
The Big Lebowski

as Jesus Quintana

Movie
2022
Severance

as Irving Bailiff

TV Show
2002
Monk

as Ambrose Monk

TV Show