HAMPTONS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: A CONVERSATION WITH JOHN TURTURRO

JOHN TURTURRO (actor, director, writer, producer) has appeared in such films as Spike Lee’s DO THE RIGHT THING, Martin Scorsese’s THE COLOR OF MONEY, and Robert Redford’s QUIZ SHOW. A frequent collaborator with Joel and Ethan Coen, Turturro won the Best Actor Award at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival for his role in BARTON FINK. He also appeared in the Coens’ O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?, MILLER’S CROSSING, and THE BIG LEBOWSKI. On television, Turturro won an Emmy Award for his guest appearance on Monk, and was nominated for an Emmy Award, Golden Globe and SAG Award for The Night Of. He was also nominated for SAG Awards for Monday Night Mayhem and The Bronx is Burning and Emmy Awards® for Mr. & Mrs. Smith and Severance. Turturro received the Camera D’Or Award at the Cannes Film Festival for MAC, his directorial debut. His other films as writer and director include ILLUMINATA, ROMANCE & CIGARETTES, PASSIONE, and FADING GIGOLO. Turturro studied at SUNY New Paltz and the Yale School of Drama. In his stage debut, he played the title role in John Patrick Shanley’s Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, for which he won an OBIE Award and a Theater World Award. He starred as Mickey Sabbath in his and Ariel Levy’s stage adaptation of Philip Roth’s novel Sabbath’s Theater. John Turturro stars in THE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK, screening on October 10 and 11.