John Turturro Highlights

  • 2009: Co-starred with Denzel Washington and John Travolta in the remake of "The Taking of Pelham 123"
  • 2009: Re-teamed with director Michael Bay for "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen"
  • 2008: Co-starred with Adam Sandler in the comedy film "You Don't Mess with the Zohan"
  • 2007: Portrayed Billy Martin, an All-Star second baseman with the NY Yankees in “The Bronx is Burning” (ESPN); earned a SAG nomination for Outstanding Male Actor in a Miniseries
  • 2007: Cast in director Michael Bay's live action film "Transformers"
  • 2006: Played a blue-collar assistant opposite Matt Damon in Robert De Niro's "The Good Shepherd"
  • 2005: Helmed "Romance & Cigarettes" a big-screen musical about a two-timing husband (James Gandolfini) who must choose between his mistress (Kate Winslet) and his beleaguered wife (Elaine Stritch); film released theatrically in 2007
  • 2004: Guest-starred on the USA comedy series "Monk"
  • 2004: Co-starred with Johnny Depp in the thriller "The Secret Window"
  • 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"
  • 2000: Reteamed with wife Katherine Borowitz in "Two Thousand and None"
  • 2000: Had featured role in "The Man Who Cried"; screened at Venice Film Festival; released in USA in 2001
  • 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: Portrayed Estragon opposite Tony Shalhoub's Vladimir in Classic Stage Company revival of "Waiting for Godot" in NYC
  • 1998: Produced, directed, co-wrote (with Cole) and starred in "Illuminata"; Borowitz played his onscreen wife
  • 1998: Reteamed with the Coen brothers for "The Big Lebowski," as a flamboyant Latin sex offender
  • 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: Portrayed 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: Played defeated game show champ Herbert Stempel in Robert Redford's "Quiz Show"
  • 1994: Provided a voice for Ken Burns' acclaimed PBS documentary "Baseball"
  • 1992: Made directorial and screenwriting (with Brandon Cole) debut with "Mac"; also co-starred; 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 a titular, befuddled screenwriter in the Coen brothers' "Barton Fink"; role loosely modeled on Clifford Odets
  • 1991: Portrayed a gangster whose rise parallels Hitler in the Off-Broadway production of Bertolt Brecht's "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui"; wife also in cast
  • 1990: Played 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"
  • 1987: First major film role, courted Jodie Foster with purloined penguins in "Five Corners"
  • 1986: Reteamed with director Martin Scorsese for "The Color of Money"
  • 1984: Off-Broadway debut in John Patrick Shanley's "Danny and the Deep Blue Sea"; first created the role at the Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center in 1983
  • 1984: Broadway debut, "Death of a Salesman" (understudy for roles of Biff and Happy)
  • 1980: Made film debut in "Raging Bull"; Turturro and friend Michael Badalucco wrote their own scene and auditioned for director, Martin Scorsese and actor, Robert De Niro, who cast the two as extras for their trouble
  • 1963: Moved to Rosedale, Queens at age six
  • Spent early childhood in Hollis, Queens, NY
  • Taught history at a Harlem high school, tended bar at the Right Bank on New York's Upper East Side and mounted off-off Broadway productions with friends at rented halls and at the Westbeth Theater

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