by Michael Traversa

It's easy in Hollywood for an actor to be typecast according to his or her ethnicity. In his long-lasting career, which includes over ninety projects, John Turturro was able to both stay faithful to his Italian roots and avoid playing a specific kind of character.

Always interested in learning about his ancestry, he not only can speak perfect Italian but he knows a lot about Italian history too. His parents were both immigrants. John's dad, Nicola Turturro moved to the States from Giovinazzo, Bari when he was six years old; he fought as a Navy sailor on D-Day and later became a carpenter and construction worker. Katherine, John's mother, was from Aragona near Agrigento, Sicily. 

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Fonte: L'italo-Americano