John Turturro

Acting · Born 1957-02-28 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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,…

Filmography

• The Big Lebowski as Jesus Quintana
• O Brother, Where Art Thou? as Pete Hogwallop
• Barton Fink as Barton Fink
• Miller's Crossing as Bernie Bernbaum
• Do the Right Thing as Pino
• State of Grace as Nick
• Rounders as Joey Knish
• Hannah and Her Sisters as TV Writer
• Quiz Show as Herb Stempel
• To Live and Die in L.A. as Carl Cody

TV

• Monk as Ambrose Monk
• Flight of the Conchords as Credits Cop
• Frasier as Grant (voice)
• The Night Of as John Stone
• Severance as Irving Bailiff
• Finding Your Roots as Self
• The Bronx Is Burning as Billy Martin
• The Oscars as Self
• Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
• Green Eggs and Ham as Goat (voice)