John Turturro "He Got Game" (1998), "Summer of Sam" (1999), "She Hate Me" (2004), and "Miracle at St. Anna" (2008). Turturro has appeared in both comedy and drama films, and engaged in an extended collaboration with the Coen Brothers—he appeared in their films "Miller's Crossing" (1990), "Barton Fink" (1991, in the lead role), "The Big Lebowski" (1998), and "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" (2000). Turtutto has also appeared in several of Adam Sandler's movies, such as "Mr. Deeds" (2002) and "You Don't Mess with the Zohan" (2008). He played a severely disturbed patient of Jack Nicholson's character in the comedy "Anger Management"
John Turturro 1944. 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. Turturro's first film appearance was a non-speaking extra role in Martin Scorsese's critically acclaimed "Raging Bull" (1980). He 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. He repeated it the following year Off-Broadway