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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 in D-Day.
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Turturro originally thought that he was going to have a bigger role in the film but when he read the script, he realized that it was much smaller.
The character of Jesus Quintana was inspired, in part, by a performance the Coens had seen John Turturro give in 1988 at the Public Theater in a play called Mi Puta Vida in which he played a pederast-type character, " so we thought, let's make Turturro a pederast.
In 2004, Secret Window was released in theaters, starring Johnny Depp and John Turturro.
Martin was played by John Turturro in the 2007 ESPN mini-series The Bronx is Burning which follows the tumultuous summer of 1977 in New York City.
Turturro was raised a Roman Catholic and moved to the Rosedale section of Queens, New York with his family when he was six.
This movie was the first of a long-standing collaboration between the famous director and Turturro, which includes work together on a total of nine films — more than any other actor in the Lee oeuvre -- including Mo ' Better Blues ( 1990 ), Jungle Fever ( 1991 ), Clockers ( 1995 ), Girl 6 ( 1996 ), He Got Game ( 1998 ), Summer of Sam ( 1999 ), She Hate Me ( 2004 ), and Miracle at St. Anna ( 2008 ).
Turturro hosted Saturday Night Live in 1994, where he spoofed his recent 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 was actually backstage to witness Turturro's test.
In 2008 there was a brief revival staged at the Brooklyn Academy of Music that starred John Turturro as Hamm, Max Casella as Clov, Alvin Epstein as Nagg and Elaine Stritch as Nell.
Julian Krainin, who co-produced the film, also co-produced the 1994 feature film Quiz Show, in which Stempel was portrayed by John Turturro.
Aida Turturro was born in Brooklyn, New York, daughter of a Sicilian mother Dorothy, a homemaker, and an Italian-American father Domenick Turturro, an artist.
Most recently, she wrote the one-act play, George is Dead, which starred Marlo Thomas, and was performed on Broadway from 2011-12 as part of the anthology play, Relatively Speaking, directed by John Turturro.
Platt signed onto the project after John Turturro was confirmed as Billy Martin, because, " This thing lives or dies by that portrayal ...
The Giglio was the subject of a documentary, Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July, narrated by actors John Turturro and Michael Badalucco.
Leading man Howard Da Silva was replaced by the fictional " Aldo Silvano " ( John Turturro ).
The Man Who Cried ( starring Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett and John Turturro ), premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2000 and was followed by Yes ( 2004 ), with Joan Allen, Simon Abkarian and Sam Neill.
Turturro and born
John Michael Turturro ( born February 28, 1957 ) is an Italian-American actor, writer and director 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?
Aida Turturro ( born September 25, 1962 ) is an American actress probably best known for playing Janice Soprano, sister of New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano, on the HBO TV series The Sopranos ( 1999-2007 ).
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Turturro participates as a member of the Jury for the NYICFF, a local New York City Film Festival dedicated to screening films for children between the ages of 3 and 18.
* Barton Fink ( 1991 )— John Turturro plays a naïve New York playwright who comes to Hollywood with high hopes and great ambition.
Robert De Niro, Henry Winkler, Kelly Clarkson, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Ernest Borgnine, John Turturro, Kevin James and Vince Vaughn have all visited the New Haven location.
Turturro and son
His older son, Giuseppe, better known as Pino ( Turturro ), " detests the place like a sickness ", holds racial contempt for the neighborhood Blacks and attempts to make Mookie's life miserable.
Babe arrives, and reveals that Blake's butler, Emilio ( John Turturro ), is Preston Blake's illegitimate son ( at one point he had told Deeds that Blake treated him " like a son "), and the true heir.
* John Turturro as Emilio Lopez, Preston Blake's butler and illegitimate son ( therefore Deeds ' cousin and the heir to Blake Media ).
Turturro and Katherine
Turturro produced and directed, as well as acted in, the film Illuminata ( 1999 ), which also starred his wife Katherine Borowitz.
* Katherine Borowitz, American actress, wife of actor John Turturro
Turturro and singer
After their performance outside, they overhear a tenor inside singing " Je Crois Entendre Encore "; the voice belongs to Dante ( John Turturro ), an Italian opera singer who immediately catches Lola's eye.
Turturro and who
On the flight, he meets Dr. Bill Perlman ( John Turturro ), an airline-contracted psychiatrist who offers to counsel Max for post-traumatic stress disorder.
Daniel Stern, Richard Jenkins, Fred Melamed, Lewis Black, Joanna Gleason, John Turturro, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus all have minor roles, as do Tony Roberts and Sam Waterston, who have uncredited cameo appearances.
The evening's main attraction is Queens resident Herbert Stempel ( John Turturro ), the reigning champion, who answers question after question.
Depressed and suffering from writer's block, Mort is confronted one day by the mysterious John Shooter ( John Turturro ), a Mississippi dairy farmer who accuses him of plagiarism.
Turturro and worked
Turturro has worked to raise public awareness of rheumatoid arthritis.
Turturro and World
Fitzgerald appeared in a steady stream of independent feature films through the 1990s and 2000s, among them the all-star cast in A Man of No Importance ( 1994 ), the early Ewan McGregor film Brassed Off ( 1996 ), the Czech World War II fighter pilot drama Dark Blue World ( 2001 ), and a 2004 drama set in the Spanish Inquisition, Secret Passage ( UK title The Lion ’ s Mouth ) with John Turturro.
Turturro and Nicholas
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Turturro's brother is actor Nicholas Turturro and artist Ralph Turturro.
Actors John Turturro, Nicholas Turturro, and Natalie Turturro are her cousins.
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* Nicholas Turturro ( 1962 -)-Actor, grew up in Rosedale.
Nicholas Turturro, one of the stars of ABC's NYPD Blue, conducted interviews and served as a guest ring announcer.
It stars Matthew Modine, Elizabeth Berkley, Nicholas Turturro, and Robert Loggia.
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