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John Travolta
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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.
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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
Medical Center
Golden Globe Awards
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 Princess
Austin Powers in Goldmember
American Crime Story
Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles
The Thin Red Line
Mr. T and Tina
In a Valley of Violence
Wild Hogs
Look Who's Talking Too
Hairspray
Die Hart
Rona Barrett Looks at 1978
The Punisher
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
Grease
Die Hart
I Am Wrath
Domestic Disturbance
Battlefield Earth
Gotti
Mob Land
Bolt
Lucky Numbers
Get Shorty
White Man's Burden
The General's Daughter
Old Dogs
Mr. Saturday Night
From Paris with Love
Saturday Night Fever
Cash Out
The Experts
Phenomenon
Broken Arrow
A Civil Action
The Forger
Urban Cowboy
Pulp Fiction
Look Who's Talking
Staying Alive
Look Who's Talking Now!
Be Cool
Paradise City
Two of a Kind
Face/Off
Production Credits
Battlefield Earth
American Crime Story
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