John Travolta
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Biography
John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an American actor, film producer, dancer, and singer. He first became known in the 1970s, after appearing on the television series Welcome Back, Kotter and starring in the box office successes Saturday Night Fever and Grease. Travolta's career re-surged in the 1990s, with his role in Pulp Fiction, and he has since continued starring in Hollywood films, including Face/Off, Ladder 49 and Wild Hogs. Travolta has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. The first, for his role in Saturday Night Fever and the second for Pulp Fiction. He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his performance in Get Shorty.
He married actress Kelly Preston in 1991. The couple had a son, Jett, (April 13, 1992 - January 2, 2009), and have a daughter, Ella Bleu, born in 2000. They were married until Kelly's untimely death at the age of 57 in 2020 from breast cancer.
He was previously involved with actress Diana Hyland, whom he met while filming The Boy in the Plastic Bubble; the relationship ended when she died of breast cancer in 1977.
He is a certified pilot and owns five aircraft, including an ex-Australian Boeing 707–138 airliner. The plane bears the name Jett Clipper Ella in honor of his children. His $4.9 million estate in the Jumbolair subdivision in Ocala, Florida, is situated on Greystone Airport with its own runway and taxiway right to his front door.
He has been a practitioner of Scientology since 1975 when he was given the book Dianetics while filming the movie The Devil's Rain in Durango, Mexico.
Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Tony Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Emergency!
The Rookies
The Early Show
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Jay Leno Show
Fear Factor
Medical Center
Celebrities Uncensored
Fat Actress
Panorama
Hart to Heart
Waking Sleeping Beauty
The Oscars
The Princess
American Crime Story
Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles
The Thin Red Line
Hairspray
The Punisher
Wild Hogs
In a Valley of Violence
Rona Barrett Looks at 1978
Grease
Die Hart
Look Who's Talking
Look Who's Talking Too
Paradise City
The General's Daughter
Look Who's Talking Now!
Cash Out
Phenomenon
Get Shorty
Old Dogs
White Man's Burden
Mob Land
Two of a Kind
The Forger
Bolt
Mr. Saturday Night
From Paris with Love
Urban Cowboy
I Am Wrath
Lucky Numbers
Pulp Fiction
Gotti
Battlefield Earth
The Experts
Domestic Disturbance
Broken Arrow
A Civil Action
Staying Alive
Saturday Night Fever
Face/Off
Production Credits
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