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 Oscars
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Tony Awards
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Emergency!
The Rookies
The Early Show
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Fear Factor
Medical Center
Celebrities Uncensored
Fat Actress
Hart to Heart
Waking Sleeping Beauty
The Jay Leno Show
The Princess
American Crime Story
Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles
Wild Hogs
Rona Barrett Looks at 1978
Hairspray
Look Who's Talking Too
In a Valley of Violence
Die Hart
The Punisher
Look Who's Talking
Broken Arrow
The Experts
A Civil Action
Gotti
From Paris with Love
Lucky Numbers
Mob Land
Paradise City
Bolt
Staying Alive
The General's Daughter
Domestic Disturbance
White Man's Burden
Urban Cowboy
Look Who's Talking Now!
Pulp Fiction
I Am Wrath
Phenomenon
Mr. Saturday Night
Saturday Night Fever
Old Dogs
Cash Out
Face/Off
Grease
Production Credits
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