John Michael Turturro is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his contributions to the independent film movement. He has appeared in over sixty feature films and has worked frequently with the Coen brothers, Adam Sandler, and Spike Lee. He began his acting career on-screen in the early 1980s, and received early critical recognition with the independent film
Five Corners (1987). Turturro's mainstream breakthrough came with Lee's
Do the Right Thing (1989) and the Coens'
Miller's Crossing (1990) and
Barton Fink (1991), for which he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival. His subsequent roles included Herb Stempel in
Quiz Show (1994), Jesus Quintana in both
The Big Lebowski (1998) and
The Jesus Rolls (2020), Pete in
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Seymour Simmons in the
Transformers film series (2007â2017) and Carmine Falcone in
The Batman (2022). In 2016, in a lead role, he portrayed a lawyer in the HBO miniseries
The Night Of. He had a recurring role in the miniseries
The Plot Against America in 2020. He currently stars as Irving on the Apple TV+ series
Severance.