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| birth_place = New York City, U.S.United States|Italy}}State University of New York at New Paltz (Bachelor of Arts>BA)Yale University (Master of Fine Arts>MFA)}}Actorproducer|screenwriter}}| years_active = 1980–presentKatherine Borowitz|1985}}| children = 2Nicholas Turturro (brother)Aida Turturro (cousin)>Richard Termini (cousin)}}}}John Michael Turturro ({{IPAc-en|t|ər|ˈ|t|ʊər|oʊ}}{{YouTube|E2YcZGqVSqE|"John Turturro's 'Passione': Going Behind the Lens With "The Big Lebowski" Actor Turned Director"}} {{IPA-it|turˈturro}}; born February 28, 1957) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his varied complex roles in independent films. He has appeared in over sixty feature films and has worked frequently with the Coen brothers, Adam Sandler, and Spike Lee. He has received a Primetime Emmy Award and nominations for four Screen Actors Guild Awards and three Golden Globe Awards.He received his career breakthrough with Five Corners (1987). He acted in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), and Clockers (1995). He also starred in Coens' Miller's Crossing (1990), Barton Fink (1991), for which he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, The Big Lebowski (1998), and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). He also starred in Fearless (1993), Quiz Show (1994), and Gloria Bell (2018). He portrayed Seymour Simmons in the Transformers film series (2007–2017) and Carmine Falcone in The Batman (2022).For playing the role of Ambrose Monk, Adrian Monk's brother, in the USA Network series Monk Turturro received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. He starred in the HBO miniseries The Night Of (2016) earning a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie nomination. He had a recurring role in the Showtime series The Plot Against America (2020), and he currently stars in the Apple TV+ series Severance (2022–present), for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Television Series.He has directed five films, Mac (1992), Illuminata (1998), Romance and Cigarettes (2005), Fading Gigolo (2013), and The Jesus Rolls (2020).

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 Sicilian parents with roots in Sicily, and was an amateur jazz singer who had worked in a naval yard during World War II.NEWS, TURTURRO BURNS THROUGH THREE VERSIONS OF REALITY IN 'LIFE (X) 3', Saint Paul Pioneer Press, June 1, 2003,weblink March 27, 2009, WEB,weblink John Turturro Biography - Yahoo! Movies, Movies.yahoo.com, February 28, 1957, March 14, 2010, Stated on Finding Your Roots, October 31, 2017 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.NEWS,weblink My grandmother's botched abortion transformed three generations, 2022-07-08, John Turturro, The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., 0190-8286, 1330888409, 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. 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

File:John Turturro 2009 a.jpg|thumb|left|160px|Turturro at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2009]]Turturro's first film appearance was a non-speaking extra role in Martin Scorsese's critically acclaimed Raging Bull (1980). 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{{mdash}}more than any other actor in the Lee oeuvreNEWS, Akers, W.M., The Long and the Short of It, The New York Observer -Fall Arts Preview, September 19, 2011, {{mdash}}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).Turturro has appeared in both comedy and drama films, and engaged in an extended collaboration with the Coen Brothers{{mdash}}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.{{IMDb name|1806}}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.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.NEWS, Scott, A. O., 2011-06-21, Soaring From Poverty All the Way to Ecstasy, en-US, The New York Times,weblink 2022-01-28, 0362-4331, 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.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".NEWS, John Turturro on nuns, Woody Allen and middle-aged sex,weblink September 13, 2013, The Guardian, September 12, 2013, Catherine, Shoard, 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.WEB, Morgenstern, Hans, John Turturro Receives Career Tribute Award at Miami International Film Festival,weblink 2022-01-28, Miami New Times, en, Turturro starred in the 2016 miniseries The Night Of and received 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.WEB, Ryden, Scarnato, 2020-03-28, The Batman: John Turturro Opens Up About His Role As Carmine Falcone,weblink 2022-03-06, Heroic Hollywood, en-US, In 2023 he starred as Mickey Sabbath in the off-Broadway adaptation of Philip Roth's novel Sabbath's Theater by The New Group at the Pershing Square Signature Center.Sabbath's TheaterAlexis Soloski, "'Sabbath’s Theater' Review: John Turturro Embodies a Life and a Libido", The New York Times, November 3, 2023.

Personal life

Turturro's brother is actor Nicholas Turturro. Composer and film director Richard Termini and actress Aida Turturro are his cousins.WEB,weblink Ralph Turturro, Bergen Museum of Art and Science, 2014, February 23, 2018, He has one son and one daughter with his wife, actress Katherine Borowitz, who moved on to a social work career in 2016.WEB, Pfefferman, Naomi,weblink Far Beyond Tears, The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, April 19, 1998, April 7, 2017, 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.WEB,weblink NYICFF Jury, Gkids.com, March 14, 2010, Turturro holds dual Italian and American citizenship as of January 2011.Archived at Ghostarchive{{cbignore}} and the weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130729181545weblink">Wayback Machine{{cbignore}}: WEB, John Turturro and His New Italian Passport, YouTube, January 27, 2011,weblink August 15, 2012, {{cbignore}}He has lived in Park Slope in Brooklyn, New York since 1988.NEWS, Hettich, Colter, John Turturro talks about Brooklyn's past and future while riding the B train,weblink March 14, 2019, AM NY, April 25, 2017,

Filmography

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! Year! Title! Role! Notes| 1980| Raging Bull| Man at table| Uncredited| 1984| Exterminator 2| Guy #1| 1984| The Flamingo Kid| Ted From Pinky's|1985| Desperately Seeking Susan| Ray|To Live and Die in L.A. (film)>To Live and Die in L.A.| Carl Cody|1986| Hannah and Her Sisters| Writer|| The Color of Money| Julian|Gung Ho (film)>Gung Ho| Willie|Off Beat (1986 film)>Off Beat| Neil Pepper|1987Five Corners (film)>Five Corners| Heinz Zabantino| The Sicilian (film)>The Sicilian| Pisciotta|| 1989| Do the Right Thing| Pino| 1990| Catchfire| Pinella|State of Grace (1990 film)>State of Grace| Detective Nick Richardson|| Mo' Better Blues| 'Moe' Flatbush| | Miller's Crossing| Bernie 'The Shamata Kid' Bernbaum| 1991| Men of Respect| Mike Battaglia|| Jungle Fever| Paulie Carbone| | Barton Fink| Barton Fink| 1992Mac (film)>Mac| Niccolò Vitelli| Also director and writer| Brain Donors| Roland T. Flakfizer|1993Being Human (1994 film)>Being Human| Lucinnius|Fearless (1993 film)>Fearless| Bill Pearlman|1994Quiz Show (film)>Quiz Show| Herb Stempel|| The Search for One-eye Jimmy| Disco Bean|1995Search and Destroy (1995 film)>Search and Destroy| Ron|| Unstrung Heroes| Sidney Lidz|Clockers (film)>Clockers| Detective Larry Mazilli|1996| Girl 6| Murray|| Box of Moonlight| Al Fountain|| Grace of My Heart| Joel Milner|1997| Lesser Prophets| Leon|The Truce (1997 film)>The Truce| Primo Levi|1998Illuminata (film)>Illuminata| Tuccio| Also director, writer and producerRounders (film)>Rounders| Joey Knish|| He Got Game| Billy Sunday|| OK Garage| Jonny|| The Big Lebowski| Jesus Quintana|Animals (1998 film)>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 (2000 film)>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|2002Collateral Damage (2002 film)>Collateral Damage| Sean Armstrong|| Mr. Deeds| Emilio Lopez|2003| Fear X| Harry|Anger Management (film)>Anger Management| Chuck|| Opopomoz| John| Voice2004| Secret Passage| Paolo Zane|| Secret Window| John Shooter|| She Hate Me| Don Angelo Bonasera|2BPerfectlyHonestSCHEIBTITLE=REVIEW: '2B PERFECTLY HONEST'WEBSITE=VARIETY (MAGAZINE)>ACCESS-DATE=FEBRUARY 28, 2017, May 25, 2004, | Sal / Roberto|2005| Romance and Cigarettes| Male Dancer & Singer| Also director, writer and producer| (The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation)| Son|Voice; Short film2006The Good Shepherd (film)>The Good Shepherd| Ray Brocco|| A Few Days in September| William Pound|2007Transformers (film)>TransformersList of Transformers film series cast and characters#Humans>Agent Seymour Simmons|| Margot at the Wedding| Jim|Slipstream (2007 film)>Slipstream| Harvey Brickman|| Joulutarina| Iisakki | Voice; English dub2008What Just Happened (2008 film)>What Just Happened| Dick Bell|| You Don't Mess With The Zohan| Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah|| Miracle at St. Anna| Detective Antonio 'Tony' Ricci|2009The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009 film)>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 producer2010Passione (2010 film)>Passione| Himself / narrator| Documentary; also director and co-writer| The Nutcracker in 3D| The Rat King| 2011| Cars 2List of Cars characters#Francesco Bernoulli>Francesco Bernoulli| Voice| (Transformers: Dark of the Moon)| Seymour Simmons|| Somewhere Tonight| Leroy|2013| Fading Gigolo| Fioravante| Also director and writerGods Behaving Badly (film)>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 writer2015| Mia Madre| Barry Huggins|| Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells| Lombelli| | The Ridiculous 6| Abner Doubleday| | 2016| Hands of Stone| Frankie Carbo| 2017Landline (film)>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 QuintanaPUBLISHER=INDIEWIRE.COM ACCESS-DATE=AUGUST 17, 2016, 2022The Batman (film)>The Batman| Carmine Falcone| | Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio| Dottore| VoiceForty Winks (2022 film)>Forty Winks| Milo|| TBA| The Room Next Door| | Filming">

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! Year! scope="col" width="200px" | Title! scope="col" width="200px" | Role! Notes| 1985| Miami Vice| David TraynorList of Miami Vice episodes>Rites of Passage"| 1988The Fortunate Pilgrim (miniseries)>The Fortunate Pilgrim| Larry| 4 episodes| 1994| Saturday Night Live| Himself / host| Episode: "John Turturro/Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers"| 1995Sugartime (film)>Sugartime| Sam Giancana| Television film| 2001Biography (TV series)>Biography| Narrator | 2 episodes2002| Monday Night Mayhem| Howard Cosell| Television film| Frasier| Grant (voice)List of Frasier episodes>Don't Go Breaking My Heart"| 2004–08Monk (TV series)>Monk| Ambrose Monk| 3 episodes2007| The Bronx Is Burning| Billy Martin| 8 episodesFlight of the Conchords (TV series)>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"2019The Name of the Rose (miniseries)>The Name of the Rose| William of Baskerville| 8 episodes; also writer and executive producerGreen Eggs and Ham (TV series)>Green Eggs and Ham| Goat (voice)| 6 episodes| 2020The Plot Against America (miniseries)>The Plot Against America| Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf| 6 episodes| 2022–presentSeverance (TV series)>Severance| Irving Bailiff| Main role‘Severance’: John Turturro To Star In Apple Drama Series| 2024Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2024 TV series)>Mr. & Mrs. Smith| Eric ShaneDATE=29 JUNE 2022 MR. AND MRS. SMITH AMAZON SERIES >WORK=VARIETY (WEBSITE) >URL=HTTPS://VARIETY.COM/2022/TV/NEWS/MICHAELA-COEL-JOHN-TURTURRO-PAUL-DANO-MR-MRS-SMITH-DONALD-GLOVER-MAYA-ERSKINE-AMAZON-1235306014/, 4 January 2023, ">

Video games{| class"wikitable

! Year! Title! Voice role! Notes| 2011Cars 2 (video game)>Cars 2List of Cars characters#Francesco Bernoulli>Francesco Bernoulli|">

Audiobooks{| class"wikitable

! Year! Title! Voice role! Notes| 2007| World War Z| Serosha Garcia Alvarez|">

Theatre {| class"wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"

! Year! Title! Role! Venue! class="unsortable"| Ref.Danny and the Deep Blue Sea >Circle in the Square Theatre, Off-Broadway >HTTP://WWW.ABOUTTHEARTISTS.COM/ARTISTS/282873-JOHN-TURTURRO >TITLE=JOHN TURTURRO ACCESS-DATE=AUGUST 31, 2021, Waiting for Godot >| Classic Stage Company, Off-Broadway Life x 3 >| Circle in the Square Theatre, BroadwayA Spanish Play >| Classic Stage Company, Off-BroadwayThe Cherry Orchard >| Classic Stage Company, Off-BroadwayRelatively Speaking (play anthology)>Relatively Speaking Director Brooks Atkinson Theatre, BroadwayThe Master Builder >| Brooklyn Academy of Music, BrooklynZorba (musical)>Zorba! Zorba New York City Center, Concert Staging Sabbath's Theatre >Signature Theatre Company, Off-Broadway >HTTPS://THENEWGROUP.ORG/PRODUCTION/SABBATHS-THEATER/ >TITLE=SABBATH'S THEATER,

Awards and nominations

{{BLP sources section|date=January 2021}}{| class="wikitable sortable"! Year! Award! Category! Nominated work! Result! class="unsortable" | {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference(s)}}Independent Spirit Award >Five Corners (film)>Five Corners {{nom}} New York Film Critics Circle >Miller's Crossing {{nom}} 1991 National Society of Film Critics Best Supporting Actor {{nom}} Cannes Film Festival >Barton Fink >| Gotham Awards >Gotham Awards>Best Actor Himself {{won}} 1992 Sundance Film Festival Vision Award Himself {{won}} Chicago Film Critics Association >Barton Fink >| Cannes Film Festival >Caméra d'Or >''Mac (film)'' >| 1994 rowspan=2Independent Spirit Award >| | 1995 Screen Actors Guild Award Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role >''Quiz Show (film)'' >| Golden Globe Award >Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture>Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture {{nom}} Chicago Film Critics Association >| 1998 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or ''Illuminata (film)'' >| Independent Spirit Award >Box of Moonlight >| Screen Actors Guild Award >Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie>Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie Monday Night Mayhem {{nom}} Primetime Emmy Award >Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series>Guest Actor in a Comedy Series ''Monk (TV series)'': "Mr. Monk and the Three Pies" >| 2005 Drama Desk Award Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play >The Sound of Naples >WEBSITE=PLAYBILL, August 31, 2021, Venice Film Festival >Golden Lion >Romance and Cigarettes >| 2007 Berlin International Film Festival >Berlin International Film Festival>Silver Berlin Bear ''The Good Shepherd (film)'' >| Gotham Awards >Margot at the Wedding >| Venice Film Festival >Venice Film Festival>Award of the City of Rome ''Passione (2010 film)'' >| 2017 Primetime Emmy Award Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie >The Night Of {{nom}} Golden Globe Award >Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film>Best Actor – Miniseries or TV Movie {{nom}} Screen Actors Guild Award >Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie>Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie {{nom}} Critics' Choice Television Awards >Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Movie/Miniseries>Best Supporting Actor in a Movie/Miniseries ''The Plot Against America (miniseries)'' >| 2022 Primetime Emmy Awards Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series >''Severance (TV series)'' >WEBSITE= EMMY AWARDS, July 14, 2022, Saturn Awards >Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Streaming Television Series>Best Supporting Actor in a Streaming Television Series {{nom}} TINOCO >FIRST=ARMANDO TITLE=SATURN AWARDS NOMINATIONS: 'THE BATMAN', 'NIGHTMARE ALLEY', 'SPIDER-MAN', 'BETTER CALL SAUL' TOP LIST ACCESS-DATE=SEPTEMBER 22, 2022 DEADLINE HOLLYWOOD >LANGUAGE=EN-US, 2023|Golden Globe AwardGolden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film>Best Supporting Actor - Television Series|{{Nominated}}ACCESS-DATE=2022-12-13 LANGUAGE=EN, |Screen Actors Guild AwardScreen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series>Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series|{{Nominated}}|

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