
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.
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as Harry

as Dr. David Rose
as Boz
as Damian
as Eric Shane · 1 episode

as Paulo Santana · 1 episode
as Dottore (voice)

as Elia Kazan (voice)
as Mr. Silk
as Goat (voice) · 6 episodes
as Jesus Quintana
as Arnold
as William of Baskerville · 8 episodes
as Alan Jacobs
as Agent Simmons
as Frankie Carbo

as Simmons
as Lt. Camonetti
as Dick Bell
as Detective Antonio Ri
as Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah
as Jim
as Billy Martin · 8 episodes
as Aldo Silvano
as Harvey the Black Dog (voice)
as Allen Ginsberg
as Joey Knish
as Tuccio
as Billy Sunday

as Johnny Candellano
as Jesus Quintana
as Pino

as Larry · 2 episodes
as Pisciotta
as Heinz Sabatino
as Julian
as Neil Pepper
as Willie
as TV Writer
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