
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 Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Tony Awards

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

El hormiguero

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 Oscars

The Grand Knockout Tournament

The Princess

Austin Powers in Goldmember

American Crime Story

The Thin Red Line

Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles

Mr. T and Tina

Look Who's Talking Too

Grease

Wild Hogs

Die Hart

Hairspray

Saturday Night Fever: The Ultimate Disco Movie

In a Valley of Violence

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

The Punisher

Die Hart

Rona Barrett Looks at 1978

Urban Cowboy

Primary Colors

Mob Land

From Paris with Love

Get Shorty

Gotti

A Civil Action

Lucky Numbers

Be Cool

The Forger

Mr. Saturday Night

Battlefield Earth

Domestic Disturbance

Two of a Kind

Look Who's Talking

I Am Wrath

Staying Alive

Phenomenon

The Experts

Pulp Fiction

Broken Arrow

Bolt

Cash Out

White Man's Burden

Paradise City

Face/Off

Look Who's Talking Now!

Saturday Night Fever

Old Dogs

The General's Daughter
Production Credits
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