John Turturro
Gender: Male
Born: 28th February 1957 (currently 55 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: The Bronx is Burning
Movies: Anger Management, Barton Fink, Brain Donors, Clockers, Do the Right Thing, Fear X, Fearless, Grace of My Heart, He Got Game, Jungle Fever, Miller's Crossing, Mr Deeds, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Quiz Show, Secret Window, She Hate Me, State of Grace, The Big Lebowski, To Live and Die in L.A., Men of Respect, Being Human, The Color of Money, The Sicilian, Quelques jours en septembre, Margot at the Wedding, Thirteen Conversations About One Thing, What Just Happened?, The Good Shepherd, Box of Moonlight, The Luzhin Defence, Transformers, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, Off Beat, Gung Ho, Cradle Will Rock, Rounders, Illuminata, Raging Bull, Desperately Seeking Susan, Search and Destroy, SugarTime, Collateral Damage, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, The Truce, The Man Who Cried, Unstrung Heroes, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, Five Corners, Monkeybone, Miracle at St. Anna, Mo' Better Blues, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Monday Night Mayhem, Slipstream, Mac, 2B Perfectly Honest, Hannah and Her Sisters, Company Man, Christmas Story, Girl 6, O.K. Garage, Cars 2, The Nutcracker in 3D, Secret Passage, Passione, 2B Perfectly Honest, Gods Behaving Badly, Exterminator 2, Animals with the Tollkeeper, Quelques jours en septembre, The Flamingo Kid, The Search for One-eye Jimmy, Catchfire, Two Thousand and None, Opopomoz, The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation, Romance & Cigarettes, Lesser Prophets, Summer of Sam, Somewhere Tonight
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 emigrated 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 drama at the State University of New York at New Paltz, and completed his MFA at the Yale School of Drama. He first appeared on film working as an extra in Martin Scorsese's critically acclaimed Raging Bull (1980).
Turturro created the title role of John Patrick Shanley's
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