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John Michael Turturro (born February 28, 1957) is an Italian-American businessman, entrepreneur, actor, writer and filmmaker, known for his association with the independent film movement. He has appeared in over sixty feature films and has worked frequently with the Coen brothers, Adam Sandler and Spike Lee. He began his acting career on-screen in the early 1980s, and received early critical recognition with the independent film Five Corners (1987). Turturro's mainstream breakthrough came with Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989) and the Coens' Miller's Crossing (1990) and Barton Fink (1991), for which he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival. His subsequent roles included Herb Stempel in Quiz Show (1994), Jesus Quintana in The Big Lebowski (1998) and The Jesus Rolls (2020), Pete Hogwallop in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Seymour Simmons in the Transformers film series and is set to play Carmine Falcone in The Batman. In 2016, in a lead role, he portrayed a lawyer in the HBO miniseries The Night Of and had a recurring role in the miniseries The Plot Against America in 2020. An Emmy Award winner, Turturro has also been nominated for four Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and four Independent Spirit Awards. He directed Mac (1992), which won the Golden Camera Award at the Cannes Film Festival, Illuminata (1998), and Romance and Cigarettes (2005). Description above from the Wikipedia article John Turturro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Mexico, 1821. A masked and romantic folk hero known as El Zorro bravely fights against Spanish colonial rule in Alta California. However, on the eve of Mexico's liberation, the despotic governor Don Rafael Montero discovers that El Zorro is Don Diego de la Vega. An attack on the rebel's home results in his capture, the death of his wife, the kidnapping of his only daughter, Elena, and the destruction of his property. Twenty years later, Montero returns from exile with Elena, who is unaware of her father's identity, and sets out to purchase California from the President of Mexico, General Santa Anna. When Don Diego de la Vega finds out, he escapes from prison determined to take revenge on Montero. Part of the plan is to train and transform Alejandro Murrieta, a bandit with a tortuous past, into the new Zorro, to help him thwart Montero's plans once and for all. Murrieta poses as a wealthy Spanish landowner determined to gain Montero's trust.
