
John Travolta
Born: 1954-02-18
Place of Birth: Englewood, New Jersey, USA
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.
Known For

High Rollers

Pulp Fiction

Grease

Face/Off

Carrie

Bolt

Austin Powers in Goldmember

Cash Out

The Punisher

From Paris with Love

Perfect

Primary Colors

Mob Land

Wild Hogs

The Thin Red Line

Phenomenon

Savages

Swordfish

The Fanatic

Michael

Get Shorty

Speed Kills

I Am Wrath

Studio 54

Paradise City

Be Cool

Lonely Hearts

Hairspray

Broken Arrow

Saturday Night Fever

Urban Cowboy

Casting By

Battlefield Earth

Killing Season

Domestic Disturbance

Lucky Numbers

The Shepherd

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

Die Hart

Look Who's Talking

The Poison Rose

Junket Whore

The Grease Story

Blow Out

I'm Still Here

Bio.

Look Who's Talking Now!

Basements

She's So Lovely

The General's Daughter

A Civil Action

Old Dogs

Pattern Recognition

Forever Hollywood

Gotti

Shout

Staying Alive

Basic

Look Who's Talking Too

Mad City

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

Ladder 49

Our Friend, Martin

In a Valley of Violence

Life on the Line

Moment by Moment

Trading Paint

A Love Song for Bobby Long

The Forger

Two of a Kind

The Boy in the Plastic Bubble

Criminal Activities

Eyes of an Angel

The Devil's Rain

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

That's Dancing!

Welcome to Hollywood

The Experts

David Blaine: Beyond Magic

Boris and Natasha

Brando

White Man's Burden

Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon

Pulp Fiction: The Facts

The Kick That United A Nation

James Bond: The First 21 Years

Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's

The Tenth Level

2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift

Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles

Saturday Night Fever: The Ultimate Disco Movie

Grease Day USA

Chains of Gold

John Travolta: The Inside Story

Seriously... Phil Collins

Close Up

Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of Filmmaking

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

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History

American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective

Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond

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

Nightmare

John Travolta, le miraculé d'Hollywood

Tony Bennett: An American Classic

Trailer Camp

Urban Cowboy: The Rise and Fall of Gilley's

Rona Barrett Looks at 1978

Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s
