
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

MTV Video Music Awards

The Oscars

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Tony Awards

Golden Globe Awards

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Saturday Night Live

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Medical Center

The Rookies

Emergency!

The Early Show

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Entertainment Tonight

The Jay Leno Show

Fear Factor

Celebrities Uncensored

Fat Actress

Panorama

Hart to Heart

Waking Sleeping Beauty

The Grand Knockout Tournament

The Princess

Austin Powers in Goldmember

American Crime Story

Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles

The Thin Red Line

Mr. T and Tina

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

Hairspray

In a Valley of Violence

Rona Barrett Looks at 1978

The Punisher

Wild Hogs

Saturday Night Fever: The Ultimate Disco Movie

Grease

Die Hart

Look Who's Talking Too

Die Hart

Battlefield Earth

Broken Arrow

Primary Colors

Mr. Saturday Night

Staying Alive

Gotti

Pulp Fiction

Paradise City

Domestic Disturbance

Face/Off

Phenomenon

Get Shorty

Saturday Night Fever

Lucky Numbers

I Am Wrath

A Civil Action

Look Who's Talking Now!

Urban Cowboy

Old Dogs

Mob Land

Cash Out

Look Who's Talking

Two of a Kind

White Man's Burden

The Forger

Bolt

Be Cool

The General's Daughter

The Experts

From Paris with Love
Production Credits
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