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John Turturro

1957-02-28

The 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.

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The Batman

7.665 average rating
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Transformers: The Last Knight

6.1 average rating
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Cars 2

6.1 average rating
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The Room Next Door

7.3 average rating
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Exodus: Gods and Kings

5.87 average rating
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The Big Lebowski

7.8 average rating
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You Don't Mess with the Zohan

5.7 average rating
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Mr. Deeds

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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

8.084 average rating
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Raging Bull

7.9 average rating
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The Nutcracker: The Untold Story

5.056 average rating
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Rounders

7 average rating
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Transformers

6.81 average rating
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Hands of Stone

6.6 average rating
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?

7.325 average rating
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Anger Management

6.144 average rating
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The Color of Money

6.854 average rating
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The Ridiculous 6

5.209 average rating
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

6.2 average rating
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The Good Shepherd

6.3 average rating