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.
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| Full name at birth | John Michael Turturro
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| Claim to fame | Barton Fink, Five Corners
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| Date of birth | 28 February 1957
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| Place of birth | Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
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| Height | 6' 1" (185 cm)
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| Net worth | $24,000,000 USD
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- Son, Diego Turturro, was born in 2000.
- Is the second of three brothers.
- Based his character Bernie Bernbaum in Miller's Crossing (1990) on the real- life personae of Director Barry Sonnenfeld (Get Shorty (1995), Men in Black (1997)), the film's cinematographer.
- Has appeared in more films directed by Spike Lee than any other actor. They first worked together in Do the Right Thing (1989) and as of She Hate Me (2004) has appeared in eight of Lee's films.
- Son, Amedeo Turturro, was born in 1990.
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