John Turturro
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Turturro at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival
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| Born |
John Michael Turturro February 28, 1957 New York City, U.S. |
| Citizenship | United States Italy |
| Alma mater |
SUNY New Paltz Yale School of Drama |
| Occupation | Actor, writer, director, producer |
| Years active | 1980–present |
| Spouse(s) | Katherine Borowitz (m. 1985) |
John Michael Turturro (Italian pronunciation: [turˈturro]; born February 28, 1957) is an Italian-American actor, writer and filmmaker 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 first three films in the Transformers film series (2007–2011), a role which he will be reprising for The Last Knight (2017). He has appeared in over sixty films and has worked frequently with the Coen brothers, Adam Sandler and Spike Lee.
An Emmy Award winner, Turturro has also been nominated for four Screen Actors Guild Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.
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 on 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.
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