Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

February 17, 1954 (71 years old)

Place of Birth

Englewood, New Jersey, USA

John Travolta

Biography

John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an American actor. He began acting on television before transitioning into a leading man in film. His accolades include a Primetime Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and nominations for two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. Travolta came to prominence starring in the sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter (1975–1979), followed by leading roles in Carrie (1976), Grease (1978), Urban Cowboy (1980), and Blow Out (1981). He earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his roles in Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Pulp Fiction (1994). His other notable films include Get Shorty (1995), Broken Arrow (1996), Michael (1996), Face/Off (1997), A Civil Action (1998), Primary Colors (1998), The General's Daughter (1999), The Punisher (2004), Wild Hogs (2007), Hairspray (2007), Bolt (2008), and Savages (2012). Travolta returned to television, portraying lawyer Robert Shapiro in the series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story. He received an Emmy Award as a producer and nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. He was also Emmy-nominated for his role in the action-comedy web series Die Hart (2021). Travolta has released nine albums outside of acting, including four singles that charted on the Billboard Hot 100's Top 40. His albums typically accompanied films he starred in, such as Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture (1978), which topped the Billboard 200. Travolta is also a private pilot. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Travolta, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon

American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective

Orientation: A Scientology Information Film

Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life

Stayin' Alive: A Grammy Salute to the Music of the Bee Gees

Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of Filmmaking

Saturday Night Fever: The Ultimate Disco Movie

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History

Urban Cowboy: The Rise and Fall of Gilley's

Everyday Heroes: Real Stories from Real Firefighters

Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies

The Light and the Dark: The Making of 'Face/Off'

Behind Closed Doors with Natalie Morales

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