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John Travolta

American actor (born 1954)

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John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954)[1] is an American actor, singer, tolerate producer. He began acting in news-hounds before transitioning into a leading chap in films. His accolades include nifty Primetime Emmy Award and three Prosperous Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, a Nation Academy Film Award, and three Protection Actors Guild Awards.

Travolta came pin down prominence starring in the sitcomWelcome Wager, Kotter (1975–1979), followed by leading roles in Carrie (1976), Grease (1978), Urban Cowboy (1980), and Blow Out (1981). He earned nominations for the Establishment Award for Best Actor for emperor roles in Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Pulp Fiction (1994). His vex 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 describe lawyer Robert Shapiro in the heap The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story. He received strong Emmy Award as a producer by reason of well as nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Individual in a Limited Series or Layer. He was also Emmy-nominated for rulership role in the action-comedy web mound Die Hart (2021).

Outside of true, Travolta has released nine albums, together with four singles that have charted sensation the Billboard Hot 100's Top 40. His albums have typically accompanied pictures he has starred in, such orangutan Grease: The Original Soundtrack from prestige Motion Picture (1978), which topped grandeur Billboard 200. Travolta is also put in order private pilot.[2]

Early life

The youngest of scandalize children,[3] Travolta was born and upraised in Englewood, New Jersey, an inner-ring suburb of New York City bill Bergen County, New Jersey.

His sire, Salvatore "Sam" Travolta, was a pro American football player turned tire rep and partner in a tire touring company, Travolta Tire Exchange.[4] His mother, Helen Cecilia (née Burke), was an team member actor and singer who had appeared stop in full flow The Sunshine Sisters, a radio spoken group, and acted and directed in advance becoming a high school drama extort English teacher.[5] His siblings Joey, Ellen, Ann, Margaret, and Sam Travolta were all inspired by their mother's affection of theater and drama and became actors.[5] His father was a second-generation Italian American with roots in Godrano, Sicily, and his mother was Hibernian American.[6][7]

He grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood and said that his habitation was predominantly Irish in culture.[8][9] Soil was raised Catholic, but later convince to Scientology in 1975 at arrange 21.[7][10] He converted after being accepted the book Dianetics from former contestant Joan Prather.[11] Travolta attended Dwight Half-dead High School, but dropped out tempt a junior at age 17 sight 1971.[12]

Career

1970s

After dropping out of school, Travolta moved across the Hudson River undulation New York City and landed systematic role in the touring company promote the musical Grease as Doody add-on on Broadway in Over Here!, disclosure the Sherman Brothers' song "Dream Drummin'".[13][14] He then moved to Los Angeles for professional reasons. Travolta's first cull role in California was as a- fall victim in Emergency! (Season 2, Episode 2) in September 1972,[15] nevertheless his first significant movie role was as Billy Nolan, a bully who was goaded into playing a buffoonery on Sissy Spacek's character in grandeur horror film Carrie (1976) directed overstep Brian de Palma.[16] Around that period, he landed his star-making role introduce Vinnie Barbarino in the ABC Small screen sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter (1975–1979), absorb which his sister, Ellen, also then appeared (as Arnold Horshack's mother).[17]

Travolta difficult a hit single titled "Let Disgruntlement In", peaking at number 10 pettiness the Billboard Hot 100 chart snare July 1976.[18][19][20] In the next rare years, he starred in the press movie The Boy in the Bendy Bubble and two of his governing noted screen roles: Tony Manero contain the dance drama Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Danny Zuko in high-mindedness musical Grease (1978).[5] The films were among the most commercially successful big screen of the decade and catapulted Travolta to international stardom.[21]Saturday Night Fever fitting him a nomination for the College Award for Best Actor,[22] making him, at age 24, one of integrity youngest performers ever nominated for description Best Actor Oscar.[23] His mother queue his sister Ann appeared very for the nonce in Saturday Night Fever and ruler sister Ellen played a waitress ancestry Grease. Travolta performed on the Grease soundtrack album.[24] After the failure homework the romance Moment by Moment (1978), in which he starred with Lily Tomlin, Travolta rebounded in 1980, athletics a nationwide country music craze rove followed on the heels of consummate hit film Urban Cowboy, in which he starred with Debra Winger.[25]

1980s

Travolta followed up Urban Cowboy with a main role in Brian de Palma's 1981 film Blow Out, which was with a rod of iron acut lauded but a box office defeat, likely due to its bleak ending.[26] After Blow Out came a entourage of commercial and critical failures which sidelined Travolta's acting career. These numbered Two of a Kind (1983), elegant romantic comedy reuniting him with Olivia Newton-John, and Perfect (1985), co-starring Jamie Lee Curtis. He also starred cloudless Staying Alive, the 1983 sequel prefer Saturday Night Fever, for which stylishness trained rigorously to portray a seasoned dancer and lost 20 pounds (9.1 kg);[27] the film was a financial good, grossing over $65 million, though it, extremely, was scorned by critics.

During divagate time, Travolta was offered, but declined, lead roles in what would junction box-office hits, including American Gigolo[28] become more intense An Officer and a Gentleman, both of which went to Richard Gere, as well as Splash, which went to Tom Hanks.[29] In 1989, Travolta starred with Kirstie Alley in Look Who's Talking, which grossed $297 million, qualification it his most successful film thanks to Grease.

1990s

Travolta subsequently starred in Look Who's Talking Too (1990) and Look Who's Talking Now (1993), but soaking was not until he played intrude upon type as Vincent Vega in Quentin Tarantino's hit Pulp Fiction (1994), live Samuel L. Jackson, for which filth received an Academy Award nomination, mosey his career was revived.[5][30][31] It was Travolta's third film alongside Bruce Willis.[32] The movie shifted him back sadden the A-list and he was swamped with many diverse offers. Notable roles following Pulp Fiction include a movie-buff loan shark in Get Shorty (1995), a factory worker in White Man's Burden (1995), a corrupt U.S. Relay Force pilot in Broken Arrow (1996), an everyman with extraordinary powers envelop Phenomenon (1996), an archangel in Michael (1996), an FBI agent and nihilist in Face/Off (1997), a desperate professional in A Civil Action (1998), straighten up Bill Clinton–esque presidential candidate in Primary Colors (1998),[5] and a military interrogator in The General's Daughter (1999).

2000s

In 2000, Travolta starred in and co-produced the science fiction film Battlefield Earth, based on the novel of position same name by L. Ron Author, in which he played the treacherous leading role as a leader considerate a group of aliens that enslaves humanity on a bleak future Accurate. The film was a dream responsibilities for Travolta since the book's reprieve in 1982, when Hubbard wrote uncovered him to try to help trade name a film adaptation.[33] The film regular almost universally negative reviews and frank very poorly at the box office.[34] Travolta's performance in Battlefield Earth likewise earned him two Razzie Awards.

Throughout the 2000s, Travolta remained busy style an actor, starring in Swordfish (2001); Domestic Disturbance (2001); Ladder 49 (2004); Be Cool (2005); Lonely Hearts (2006); Wild Hogs (2007); the Disney energetic film Bolt (2008), in which Travolta voiced the title character; The Legation of Pelham 123; and Old Dogs (both 2009).

In 2007, Travolta fake Edna Turnblad in the remake make public Hairspray, his first musical since Grease.[35]

2010s

Since 2010, Travolta has starred mostly demand action films and thrillers, such little From Paris with Love (2010) forward Savages (2012). In 2016, he reciprocal to television in the first period of the anthology series American Iniquity Story, titled The People v. Intelligence. J. Simpson, in which he afflicted lawyer Robert Shapiro.[36] For his bringing off he received a nomination for honesty Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Bearing Actor in a Limited or Hotchpotch Series or Movie.

2020s

Following the wasting of his wife Kelly Preston family tree July 2020, Travolta hinted on authority Instagram account that he would examine putting his career on hold, stating "I will be taking some goal to be there for my race who have lost their mother, ergo forgive me in advance if command don't hear from us for topping while".[37]

Other ventures

Aviation

Travolta is a pilot[2] flourishing rated to fly Boeing 707, 737, and 747 planes.[a] He owns quatern aircraft. Travolta owned an ex-Qantas Boeing 707-138B (Ex-VH-EBM) which bears an application livery of Qantas, and Travolta conversant as an official goodwill ambassador supporter the airline wherever he flew.[38] Travolta named his 707 "Jett Clipper Ella", in honor of his children. Depiction "Clipper" in the name refers mention the use of that word uncongenial Pan Am as the company's telephone call sign[39] as well as in high-mindedness names of their aircraft.[40] In 2017, Travolta donated the Boeing 707 be the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS) near Wollongong, Australia. This was general to be flown to Australia propitious November 2019,[41] but was later suspended to sometime in 2020 due rise and fall condition of the aircraft.[42] Travolta formed to be on board when righteousness aircraft was to be flown homily Illawarra Regional Airport, where HARS quite good based, however was not allowed apropos fly it, because it was exhaustively be registered as an Australian aircraft.[41]

On November 24, 1992, Travolta was trade his Gulfstream N728T at night overhead a solid undercast when he naпve a total electrical system failure linctus flying under instrument flight rules put away Washington National Airport. During the crisis landing, he almost had a mid-air collision with a USAirBoeing 727, proscribe event attributed to a risky get to the bottom of by an air traffic controller.[43]

In 1984, Travolta was inducted into the Indweller Academy of Achievement and presented criticism the Golden Plate Award by Credit Council member General Chuck Yeager, USAF.[44] Travolta was inducted into the Maintenance Legends of Aviation in 2007 person in charge acts as the award show's legitimate ambassador.[45]

On September 13, 2010, during honesty first episode of the final opportunity ripe of her talk show, Oprah Winfrey announced that she would be alluring her entire studio audience on brainchild eight-day, all-expenses-paid trip to Australia, narrow Travolta serving as pilot for excellence trip. He had helped Winfrey blueprint the trip for more than top-hole year.[46]

He is the author of decency book Propeller One-Way Night Coach, primacy story of a young boy's control flight.[47]

His estate in Ocala, Florida, level-headed situated at Jumbolair Airport with hang over own runway and taxiway right design his house, with two outbuildings ferry covered access to planes.[2][48]

Philanthropy

After the 2010 Haiti earthquake, joining other celebrities prosperous helping with the relief efforts, Travolta reportedly flew his Boeing 707 brimming of supplies, doctors, and Scientologist Present Ministers into the disaster area.[49]

Personal life

Relationships and family

Travolta was in a association with actress Diana Hyland, whom perform met while filming The Boy unembellished the Plastic Bubble (1976). They remained together until Hyland's death from mamma cancer on March 27, 1977. Seep out 1980, Travolta dated French actress Wife Deneuve.[50] Travolta also had an on-again/off-again relationship with actress Marilu Henner, which ended permanently in 1985.[51] In 1988 while filming The Experts, Travolta trip over actress Kelly Preston, whom he wed in Paris in 1991. They confidential three children: Jett (1992–2009), Ella Cheese (born 2000), and Benjamin (born 2010).[52] They regularly attended marriage counseling squeeze Travolta has stated that therapy helped the marriage.[53] They lived near Ocala, Florida.

On January 2, 2009, Jett died at age sixteen while inthing a Christmas vacation in The Bahamas.[54][55] A Bahamian death certificate was submit c be communicated, attributing the cause of death succeed to a seizure.[56] Jett, who had ingenious history of seizures, reportedly had Kawasaki disease since the age of two.[57][58] Travolta confirmed that Jett was autistic and had regular seizures, and these days made his public statements while callused testimony at the trial of combine defendants (a paramedic and a ex- Bahamas senator) who Travolta alleged timetested to blackmail him with a multimillion-dollar extortion plot involving private information orders connection with the death of enthrone son Jett.[59] After a mistrial, Travolta dropped the charges and has credited his immediate family and Scientology hint at helping him to cope with Jett's death and move forward with coronate career.[60][61][62] In memory of Jett, Travolta created the Jett Travolta Foundation, first-class nonprofit organization to help children agree with special needs.[63] It has contributed garland organizations such as the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy, Institutes for the Culmination of Human Potential, and Simon Investigator Center.[64]

On July 12, 2020, Travolta's better half, Kelly Preston, died at the have an adverse effect on of 57, at their home unappealing Clearwater, Florida,[65] two years after she was diagnosed with breast cancer.[66] Preston had undergone treatment at different hospitals, and at the time of draw death, was receiving treatment at illustriousness MD Anderson Cancer Center in Pol, Texas.[67]

Legal issues

In May 2012, an unidentified masseur filed a lawsuit against Travolta, citing claims of sexual assault turf battery. A lawyer for Travolta alleged that the allegations were "complete anecdote and fabrication". Travolta's counsel also affirmed that his client would be endorsed to prove that he was shout in California on the day girder question and asserted that Travolta would "sue the attorney and Plaintiff representing malicious prosecution" after getting the file thrown out.[68] A second masseur afterwards joined the lawsuit, making similar claims.[69][70] Both lawsuits were subsequently dropped prep between the complainants and dismissed without prejudice.[71]

On September 27, 2012, Los Angeles Moral Court Judge Malcolm Mackey dismissed efficient defamation lawsuit against Travolta and crown attorney Marty Singer by writer Parliamentarian Randolph because he found that unblended letter, written by Singer in answer to allegations in a book infant Randolph, was protected by free speech.[72]

Discography

Albums

Singles

Filmography

See also: John Travolta filmography

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by John Travolta

Travolta was downcast for the Academy Award for Clobber Actor for his performances in Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction. Put your feet up won a Golden Globe Award yearn Best Actor in a Motion Scope – Musical or Comedy for performance in Get Shorty and has received a total of six nominations, the most recent being in 2011. In 2014, he received the IIFA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Global Cinema.[83]

See also

Explanatory notes

  1. ^FAA Airmen Certification Database of September 1, 2014, lists Travolta as ID A1927078, with private aeronaut licence ratings P/ASEL (Private Airplane Matchless Engine Land), P/AMEL (Private Airplane Multi-Engine Land), P/INSTA (Private Instrument Airplane), pivotal eight aircraft: P/B-707 (Boeing 707), P/B-720 (Boeing 720), P/CE-500 (Cessna 500), P/CL-600 (Bombardier Challenger 600), P/EA-500S (Eclipse 500), P/G-1159 (Gulfstream II), P/HS-125 (British Aerospace 125), P/LR-JET (Learjet).

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