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"
Nicholas Turturro and fought as a Navy serviceman on D-Day. In 1983, Turturro, then a struggling actor, was employed as a doorman for the apartment building where Billy Joel resided at the time. Turturro would rank all the women Joel brought home by holding up his fingers; Joel's soon-to-be wife, Christie Brinkley, was the only one to get ten fingers twice. He garnered an Emmy Award nomination for playing Officer/Det./Sgt. James Martinez on the television series "NYPD Blue" and was on the series for its first seven seasons. He also was a guest ring announcer at Wrestlemania XI for the main event