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John Turturro
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Miami Vice Character
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Born
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February 28, 1957, Brooklyn, New York
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Active
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1980-present
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Spouse/Children
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Katherine Borowitz (1985-present), two children
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John David Turturro (born February 28, 1957) is an American actor. He made his first TV appearance in the show Miami Vice as David Traynor, who ran a high-priced call girl service with his partner Lile (played by David Thornton), taking on Diane Gordon (played by Tery Ferman), and killed by Diane's sister Valerie (played by Pam Grier) in the episode "Rites of Passage".
Early Life/Career[]
Turturro was born in Brooklyn, New York. He began his movie career with an uncredited role in 1980's Raging Bull. In 1983 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. He repeated it the following year off-Broadway and won an Obie Award.
His extensive movie career includes the following:
- The Flamingo Kid (1984)
- Desperately Seeking Susan (with Madonna, Mark Blum and Giancarlo Esposito) (1985)
- To Live And Die In L.A. (with Debra Feuer and Dean Stockwell) (1985)
- Off Beat (with Cleavant Derricks, Julie Bovasso, and Penn Jillette) (1986)
- The Fortunate Pilgrim (with Edward James Olmos and Pepe Serna) (1988)
- Do The Right Thing (with Richard Edson (1989)
- Mo' Better Blues (with Wesley Snipes and Giancarlo Esposito) (1990)
- Quiz Show (with Paul Guilfoyle) (1994)
- The Big Lebowski (with Steve Buscemi) (1998)
- He Got Game (with Lonette McKee and Michele Shay) (1998)
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2001)
- Collateral Damage (with John Leguizamo and Jsu Garcia) (2002)
- You Don't Mess With The Zohan (2008)
- Transformers (2007), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) and Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011, all directed by Michael Bay)
- Cars 2 (2011)
- Somewhere Tonight (2011, with Katherine Borowitz)
- Gods Behaving Badly (2013, with Oliver Platt)
- Gloria Bell (2019, most recent movie appearance)
His TV appearances include playing "Billy Martin" in The Bronx Is Burning and "Ambrose Monk", the brother of the title character in Monk, for which he won an Emmy. His most recent TV appearance is in the 2019 series The Name of the Rose.
Personal Life[]
Turturro is the older brother of actor Nicholas Turturro, and cousin of actress Aida Turturro. John is married to fellow Miami Vice alum Katherine Borowitz (Rita Amato from "No Exit") and they have two sons, Amadeo (born 1990) & Diego (born 2000).