
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

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Tony Awards

Saturday Night Live

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Medical Center

Golden Globe Awards

Emergency!

The Rookies

The Early Show

Entertainment Tonight

The Jay Leno Show

Fear Factor

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

Wild Hogs

Look Who's Talking Too

Look Who's Talking

Die Hart

Rona Barrett Looks at 1978

Grease

The Punisher

Hairspray

In a Valley of Violence

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

A Civil Action

Staying Alive

Pulp Fiction

The Forger

Paradise City

Broken Arrow

Phenomenon

Gotti

Look Who's Talking Now!

Lucky Numbers

Two of a Kind

Saturday Night Fever

Be Cool

I Am Wrath

Face/Off

White Man's Burden

From Paris with Love

The Experts

The General's Daughter

Old Dogs

Urban Cowboy

Mob Land

Mr. Saturday Night

Battlefield Earth

Domestic Disturbance

Get Shorty

Cash Out

Bolt
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