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John Turturro

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Also known as John Michael Turturro

American actor (born 1957)

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John Turturro is an American artist born in 1957. His professional career began in 1980. He has two children. Turturro is associated with the works *Fading gigolo*, *O brother, where art thou ?*, and *Romance & Cigarettes*.

He has authored three works according to Open Library records, while Crossref lists five works. His social media presence includes 29,485 followers. On Last.fm, his music has been played 368 times by 108 listeners. The subject is referenced by 753 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 16 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1957
Works
3

Top works

  • Fading gigolo
  • O brother, where art thou ?
  • Romance & Cigarettes

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1957-02-28

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
108
Total plays
368

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Turturro">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · John Turturro

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

    · 1996 · cited 204,183x

  2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 43,461x

  3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

    · 2000 · cited 36,858x

  4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

    · 2007 · cited 35,491x

  5. The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)

    · 1992 · cited 29,110x

via Crossref · CC0

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Encyclopedic overview

John Michael Turturro (/tərˈtʊəroʊ/ tər-TOOR-oh, Italian: [turˈturro]; born February 28, 1957) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his varied roles in independent films, as well as his frequent collaborations with the Coen brothers and Spike Lee. He has received a Primetime Emmy Award and nominations for three Golden Globe Awards.

He achieved his career breakthrough with Five Corners (1987). He acted in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo' Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), and Clockers (1995). He also starred in the Coens' Miller's Crossing (1990), Barton Fink (1991), for which he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, The Big Lebowski (1998), and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). He also starred in Fearless (1993), Quiz Show (1994), and Gloria Bell (2018); and portrayed Seymour Simmons in the Transformers film series (2007–2011, 2017) and Carmine Falcone in The Batman (2022).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “John Turturro” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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