John Turturro - Milestones

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• 2004: Guest-starred on the USA comedy series "Monk"
• 2004: co-starred with Johnny Depp in the thriller "The Secret Window"
• 2004: Starred in the Spike Lee comedy "She Hate Me"
• 2002: Starred as Howard Cosell in the TNT movie "Monday Night Mayhem"; received a SAG nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
• 2002: Played a snooty butler in "Mr. Deeds", starring Adam Sandler
• 2001: Had featured role in "13 Conversations About One Thing"; screened at Toronto; shown at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival
• 2000: Had featured role in "The Man Who Cried"; screened at Venice Film Festival; released in USA in 2001
• 2000: Reteamed with wife Katherine Borowitz in "Two Thousand and None"
• 2000: Co-starred with George Clooney and Tim Blake Nelson as a trio of escapees from a Southern chain gang in the Coen brothers' "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
• 1999: Acted in Tim Robbins' "Cradle Will Rock"
• 1998: Sixth collaboration with Spike Lee, "He Got Game"
• 1998: Reteamed with the Coen brothers for "The Big Lebowski", delivering an astonishingly brilliant cameo as a flamboyant Latin sex offender
• 1998: Produced, directed, co-wrote (with Cole) and acted in "Illuminata"; film debuted in competition at Cannes; Borowitz played his onscreen wife
• 1998: Portrayed Estragon opposite Tony Shalhoub's Vladimir in Classic Stage Company revival of "Waiting for Godot" in NYC
• 1997: Acted in Cole's directing debut, "OK Garage"
• 1997: Stepped into writer Primo Levi's tattered shoes in Francesco Rosi's restrained post-Holocaust drama "The Truce"
• 1996: Brought vulnerability and heart to his performance as a buttoned-down clock-watching enginer who goes AWOL in Tom DiCillo's "Box of Moonlight"
• 1995: Starred as mobster Sam Giancana opposite Mary-Louise Parker as Phyllis McGuire in the acclaimed HBO movie "Sugartime"
• 1995: Portrayed nutty inventor father in Diane Keaton's feature directing debut, "Unstrung Heroes"
• 1994: Provided a voice for Ken Burns' acclaimed PBS documentary "Baseball"
• 1994: Played defeated game show champ Herbert Stempel in Robert Redford's "Quiz Show"
• 1992: Directorial and screenwriting (with Brandon Cole) debut, "Mac"; also co-starred; premiered at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival's Directors' Fortnight; second film with Borowitz
• 1991: First starring film role, "Men of Respect", a pretentious modern version of "Macbeth"; first film with wife Katherine Borowitz
• 1991: Starred as titular, befuddled screenwriter in the Coen brothers' "Barton Fink"; role loosely modeled on Clifford Odets
• 1991: Had titular role of a gangster whose rise parallels Hitler in the Off-Broadway production of Bertolt Brecht's "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui" at the Classic Stage Company; marked the play's first NYC production in 25 years; wife also in cast
• 1990: Role of Bernie 'The Schmatte' Bernbaum in "Miller's Crossing" written specially for him by the Ethan and Joel Coen
• 1989: First film with writer-director Spike Lee, "Do the Right Thing"; his tightly-wound Pino helped create the idea of Turturro-as-volcano
• 1987: In first major film role, courted Jodie Foster with purloined penguins in "Five Corners", written by Shanley
• 1986: Reteamed with Scorsese for "The Color of Money"
• 1984: Broadway debut, "Death of a Salesman" (as understudy for roles of Biff and Happy), with Dustin Hoffman
• 1984: Off-Broadway debut in John Patrick Shanley's "Danny and the Deep Blue Sea"; had first created the role at the Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center in 1983
• 1980: Film debut, "Raging Bull"; Turturro and friend Michael Badalucco wrote their own scene and auditioned for director Martin Scorsese and star Robert De Niro, getting cast as extras for their trouble
• 1963: Moved to Rosedale, Queens at age six (date approximate)
• Worked as a history teacher at a Harlem high school for a year and tended bar at the Right Bank on New York's Upper East Side while mounting off-off Broadway productions with friends at rented halls and at the Westbeth Theater
• Spent early childhood in Hollis, Queens, New York
• Appeared in Lee's "Clockers" (1995) and "Girl 6" (1996)