1. John Turturro is known for his varied roles in independent films, and has worked frequently with the Coen brothers and Spike Lee.
32 Facts About John Turturro
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John Turturro has received a Primetime Emmy Award and nominations for three Golden Globe Awards.
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John Turturro achieved his career breakthrough with Five Corners.
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John Turturro acted in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, Mo' Better Blues, Jungle Fever, and Clockers.
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John Turturro starred in Fearless, Quiz Show, and Gloria Bell ; and portrayed Seymour Simmons in the Transformers film series and Carmine Falcone in The Batman.
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John Turturro has starred in the HBO thriller miniseries The Night Of, the HBO miniseries The Plot Against America, and the Apple TV+ thriller series Severance.
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John Turturro has directed five films, Mac, Illuminata, Romance and Cigarettes, Fading Gigolo, and The Jesus Rolls.
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John Turturro was born on February 28,1957, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, New York, the middle son of Katherine Florence and Nicholas Turturro.
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John Turturro's mother was born in the US to parents with roots in Sicily, and was an amateur jazz singer who had worked in a naval yard during World War II.
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John Turturro's father had emigrated at age six from Giovinazzo, Italy to the United States, and later worked as a carpenter and construction worker before joining the US Navy.
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John Turturro was raised as a Catholic and moved to the Rosedale section of Queens, New York, with his family when he was 6.
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John Turturro graduated from the State University of New York at New Paltz in 1979 with a Bachelor of Arts in theater studies.
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John Turturro later did graduate study at the Yale School of Drama, receiving a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1983.
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John Turturro's first film appearance was a non-speaking extra role in Raging Bull.
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John Turturro 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.
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John Turturro repeated it the following year Off-Broadway and won an Obie Award.
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John Turturro has appeared in several of Adam Sandler's movies, such as Mr Deeds and You Don't Mess with the Zohan.
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John Turturro played a severely disturbed patient of Jack Nicholson's character in the comedy Anger Management and played Johnny Depp's character's antagonist in Secret Window.
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John Turturro hosted Saturday Night Live in 1994, where he spoofed his then-recently made 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 witnessed John Turturro's test.
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John Turturro won an Emmy Award for his portrayal of Adrian Monk's brother Ambrose in the USA Network series Monk, and reprised the role on numerous occasions.
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John Turturro has been nominated and won many awards from film organizations such as Screen Actors Guild, Cannes Film Festival, Golden Globes and others.
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John Turturro produced and directed, as well as acted in, the film Illuminata, which starred his wife, actress Katherine Borowitz.
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John Turturro wrote and directed the film Romance and Cigarettes.
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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.
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John Turturro starred in the 2016 miniseries The Night Of and received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
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In 2019 John Turturro played William of Baskerville in a television adaptation of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose.
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Since 2022, John Turturro has portrayed Irving Bailiff on the television series Severance.
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Composer and film director Richard Termini and actress Aida John Turturro are his cousins.
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John Turturro has two children with his wife, actress Katherine Borowitz, who moved on to a social work career in 2016.
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John Turturro participates as a member of the Jury for the New York International Children's Film Festival, which is dedicated to screening films for children between the ages of 3 and 18.
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John Turturro holds dual Italian and American citizenship as of January 2011.
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John Turturro has lived in Park Slope in Brooklyn, New York since 1988.