"John Turturro"
John Michael Turturro (born February 28, 1957) is an American actor, writer and director known for his roles in the films Do the Right Thing (1989), Miller's Crossing (1990), Barton Fink (1991), Quiz Show (1994), The Big Lebowski (1998), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) and the Transformers film series. He has appeared in over sixty films, and has worked frequently with the Coen brothers, Adam Sandler and Spike Lee.
Turturro was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Katherine, an amateur jazz singer who worked in a Navy yard during World War II, and Nicholas Turturro, a carpenter and construction worker who fought as a Navy sailor in D-Day. Turturro's mother was Sicilian (from Aragona near Agrigento) and his father immigrated from Giovinazzo, Bari, Italy at the age of six. Turturro was raised a Roman Catholic and moved to the Rosedale section of Queens, New York with his family when he was six. 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.
Turturro's first film appearance was a non-speaking extra role in Martin Scorsese's critically acclaimed Raging Bull (1980). Turturro then 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.
Spike Lee liked Turturro's performance in Five Corners so much that he cast him in Do the Right Thing. 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—more than any other actor in the Lee oeuvre-- 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—he appeared in their films Miller's Crossing (1990), Barton Fink (1991), The Big Lebowski (1998), and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). He 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 in the comedy Anger Management and played Johnny Depp's antagonist in Secret Window. Turturro hosted Saturday Night Live in 1994, where he spoofed his recent 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 has 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 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 Simmons in three 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.
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. In 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." In March 2014, John 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.
Turturro's brother is actor Nicholas Turturro. Artist Ralph Turturro and actress Aida Turturro are his cousins. He has two children, Amedeo (born 1990) and Diego (born 2000), with his wife, actress Katherine Borowitz.
Turturro participates as a member of the Jury for the NYICFF, a local New York City Film Festival dedicated to screening films for children between the ages of 3 and 18. He and his brother Nicholas are avid New York Yankees fans.
In January 2011, Turturro received his Italian passport and now has dual Italian and American citizenship.
| Title | Year | Role | Notes |
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| Raging Bull | 1980 | Man at table | Uncredited |
| Exterminator 2 | 1984 | Guy #1 | |
| The Flamingo Kid | 1984 | Ted from Pinky's | |
| Desperately Seeking Susan | 1985 | Ray | |
| To Live and Die in L.A. | 1985 | Carl Cody | |
| Hannah and Her Sisters | 1986 | Writer | |
| The Color of Money | 1986 | Julian | |
| Gung Ho | 1986 | Willie | |
| Off Beat | 1986 | Neil Pepper | |
| Five Corners | 1987 | Heinz Zabantino | Nominated—Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male |
| The Sicilian | 1987 | Pisciotta | |
| Do the Right Thing | 1989 | Pino | |
| Catchfire | 1990 | Pinella | |
| State of Grace | 1990 | Nick | |
| Mo' Better Blues | 1990 | Moe Flatbush | |
| Miller's Crossing | 1990 | Bernie Bernbaum | Nominated—National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor (3rd place) Nominated—New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor (3rd place) |
| Men of Respect | 1991 | Mike Battaglia | |
| Jungle Fever | 1991 | Paulie Carbone | |
| Barton Fink | 1991 | Barton Fink |
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| Mac | 1992 | Niccolò Vitelli |
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| Brain Donors | 1992 | Roland T. Flakfizer | |
| Being Human | 1993 | Lucinnius | |
| Fearless | 1993 | Bill Pearlman | |
| Quiz Show | 1994 | Herb Stempel |
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| The Search for One-eye Jimmy | 1994 | Disco Bean | |
| Search and Destroy | 1995 | Ron | |
| Unstrung Heroes | 1995 | Sidney Lidz | |
| Clockers | 1995 | Det. Larry Mazilla | |
| Sugartime | 1995 | Sam Giancana | TV film |
| Girl 6 | 1996 | Murray | |
| Box of Moon Light | 1996 | Al Fountain | Nominated—Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Male |
| Grace of My Heart | 1996 | Joe Milner | |
| The Truce | 1997 | Primo Levi | |
| The Last Bet | 1997 | Leon | |
| Illuminata | 1998 | Tuccio |
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| Rounders | 1998 | Joey Knish | |
| He Got Game | 1998 | Billy Sunday | |
| O.K. Garage | 1998 | Jonny | |
| The Big Lebowski | 1998 | Jesus Quintana | |
| Summer of Sam | 1999 | Demon | Voice role |
| Cradle Will Rock | 1999 | Aldo Silvana | |
| O Brother, Where Art Thou? | 2000 | Pete | Nominated—MTV Movie Award for On-Screen Team (with George Clooney and Tim Blake Nelson) |
| The Man Who Cried | 2000 | Dante Dominio | |
| Company Man | 2000 | Crocker Johnson | |
| Two Thousand and None | 2000 | Benjamin Kasparian | |
| The Luzhin Defence | 2001 | Alexander Luzhin | |
| Monkeybone | 2001 | Monkeybone | Voice role |
| Thirteen Conversations About One Thing | 2001 | Walker | Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cast |
| Collateral Damage | 2002 | Armstrong | |
| Monday Night Mayhem | 2002 | Howard Cosell | Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie |
| Mr. Deeds | 2002 | Emilio Lopez | |
| Fear X | 2003 | Harry |
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| Anger Management | 2003 | Chuck | |
| Opopomoz | 2003 | Voice role | |
| Secret Passage | 2004 | Paolo Zane | |
| Secret Window | 2004 | John Shooter | Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| She Hate Me | 2004 | Don Angelo Bonasera | |
| The Good Shepherd | 2006 | Ray Brocco | |
| Quelques jours en septembre | 2006 | William Pound | |
| Romance and Cigarettes | 2006 | Male dancer and singer |
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| The Bronx is Burning | 2006 | Billy Martin | Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie |
| Transformers | 2007 | Agent Seymour Simmons | |
| Margot at the Wedding | 2006 | Jim | Nominated—Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Cast |
| Slipstream | 2007 | Harvey Brickman | |
| What Just Happened | 2008 | Dick Bell | |
| You Don't Mess With The Zohan | 2008 | Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah | |
| Miracle at St. Anna | 2008 | Detective Antonio 'Tony' Ricci | Nominated—Black Reel Award for Best Ensemble |
| The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 | 2009 | Camonetti | |
| Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | 2009 | Seymour Simmons | |
| Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy | 2009 | Himself | Producer, screenwriter |
| Passione | 2010 | Himself/Narrator | Director, co-screenwriter |
| The Nutcracker in 3D | 2010 | The Rat King | |
| Cars 2 | 2011 | Francesco Bernoulli | |
| Transformers: Dark of the Moon | 2011 | Seymour Simmons | |
| Fading Gigolo | 2013 | Director, screenwriter | |
| Gods Behaving Badly | 2013 | Hades | |
| God's Pocket | 2014 | ||
| Exodus | 2014 | Seti |
Audiobook
- World War Z, 2007, as Serosha Garcia Alvarez
Television
- Miami Vice, episode 1x16, 1985
- Monk, as Ambrose Monk
- Mr. Monk and the Three Pies (2004) He won an Emmy Award for his guest appearance in this episode.
- Mr. Monk Goes Home Again (2005)
- Mr. Monk's 100th Case (2008)
- The Bronx is Burning, 2007, as Billy Martin
- Flight of the Conchords, 2007, as himself
Commercials
- NBA on TNT, as Claude X
Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/
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