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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.
Born in 1982 to the magician Giovanni Zatara and the homo magi Sindella, Zatanna's mother died upon her birth, leaving Giovanni to raise their daughter alone. He did so with difficulty, always doing his best. Giovanni taught his daughter the ways of being a stage magician, traveling the world with her, until the day he disappeared on Zatanna's twenty-sixth birthday. On that day, the sorceress Allura was trapped in Paracelsus' Sword by Zatara as a form of revenge. In return, Allura cast a spell on Zatara: if his daughter approached him, she would lose her life. Zatara then left Earth to find a way to break the curse, Kent Nelson and Xanadu being unable to assist him. Seven years later, Zatanna, still puzzled by her father's disappearance, embarked on a quest to find him. With the help of the Book of Eternity stolen from Xanadu, Zatanna discovered a way to locate her father. Allura, learning that Zatanna was close to finding her father, trapped the magician to force her to free her. Allura led Zatanna to the realm of Kharma where Zee reunited with her father who avoided her without explanation. Allura used this as a form of vengeance against Giovanni. Zatara eventually risked reuniting with his daughter by reversing the curse, allowing the father-daughter duo to defeat Allura. Giovanni lost his life after the battle, having stayed in contact with his daughter for too long. Before dying, he expressed his love for Zatanna and apologized for his absence, leaving her in tears.
