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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.
In this epic prequel to the iconic Godfather trilogy, it explores the rise of Vito Corleone, the legendary mob boss, from his humble beginnings to the pinnacle of power and founding of the Corleone family. When Vito was young, he lived in Sicily under his original name Vito Andollini, but as is customary in Sicily, one day his father fell out with the local mafia and got into a cross with the rule of Vendetta - and tasted the cartridges of the lupara's sawed-off shotgun. And because the local mafia was afraid that Vito would not want revenge when he was an adult, they decided to kill his other family members as well. And so Vito sailed to the USA and changed his name to Corleone after his home town. In the States, Vito ranked as a good, hardworking man with a sense for others. One day he meets his future business partners when they were stealing the carpet as thieves, they hid at his house. Vito later got to know them better, and together they decided to start a company to trade in olives. And he soon began to prosper. Vito Corleone sometimes helped himself a little illegally. At that time, the Fanucci mafia lived in the vicinity of Vito's house, who took the local Italian quarter as his territory and demanded income from every business - whoever refused had problems with his people. And that's why one day Vito Corleone waited for Fanucci and killed him in the dark streets of the city. Later he learned something he didn't expect - first Santino's son saw him doing it.
