John Travolta Biography
| john travolta wife | Kelly Preston |
| Nickname | John |
| Full Name | John Joseph Travolta |
| Profession | Actor, Film Producer, Dancer, Singer |
| Nationality | American |
| Birthplace | Englewood, New Jersey, United States |
| Children | Jett Travolta, Benjamin Travolta |
John Joseph Travolta (born February 18th 1954) is an American actor and singer. The actor first came to the public’s attention in the 1970s when he was a guest on the show”Welcome Back, Kotter (1975-1979) and was a part of the box-office successes Carrie (1976), Saturday Night Fever (1977), Grease (1978) as well as Urban Cowboy (1980). His acting career was waning in the 1980s, but his popularity resurfaced in the 1990s thanks to his appearance on the screen in Pulp Fiction (1994), and then went on to appear in films such as Get Shorty (1995), Broken Arrow (1996), Phenomenon (1996), Face/Off (1997), A Civil Action (1998) and Colors (1998), Primary Colors (1998), Hairspray (2007) along with Bolt (2008).
Travolta was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his roles on Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction. He received an award called the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in the field of Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for his performance in Get Shorty and has been awarded no less than six nominations, with the most recent of which was in the year 2011. He was honored in 2014 when he was awarded an IIFA Award for Outstanding Achievement in International Cinema.
John Travolta Early Life and career
John Travolta was born on February 18, 1954, in Englewood, New Jersey, where his father Salvatore was semi-professional American footballer who ran an repair shop for tires and his mother, Helen Cecilia was an actress and a singer.
The smallest of six siblings, his siblings were Joey, Ellen, Ann, Margaret, and Sam. He was a student at Dwight Morrow High School, but was dismissed in junior year at 17 in the year 1971.
John Travolta moved to New York City and was offered the role of an on-going touring production of the musical Grease as well as the Broadway smash, Over Here. Then he moved from New York City to Los Angeles for better prospects.
His first appearance on television was that of a victim of fall in the show, Emergency!, in 1972 However, his first notable film role was Billy Nolan, a bully in the horror film Carrie Four years later, he starred in the horror film Carrie.
His character as the flirtatious Vinnie Barbarino in the TV sitcom”Welcome Back, Kotter, aired on ABC from 1975 to 1979. was his first taste of fame.
He was a part of The Boy in the Plastic Bubble The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, a 1976 made-for-TV film, which aired on ABC TV network. It was based on the stories of David Vetter and Ted DeVita who had weak immune systems.
Urban Cowboy, a 1980 Western romantic drama film that explores the love-hate bond between Buford Uan Davis ‘ ‘Bud”Bud,” who was played by John Travolta and Sissy played by Debra Winger, embodied the popularity of the decade in country music.
Travolta had a hit song with the title “Let Her In”, reaching the top 10 spot in the Billboard Hot 100 chart in July 1976. The following few years, he was in the TV movie The Boy in the Plastic Bubble as well as two of his most acclaimed role on screen: Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Danny Zuko in Grease (1978).The films were among the top commercially successful movies of the decade , and helped propel Travolta into global stardom.Saturday Night Fever brought Travolta the Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
2000-present
in 2000 Travolta played a lead role and was part of the production team for the science-fiction movie Battlefield Earth, based on the book of the same title from L. Ron Hubbard, where he played the role of the villain in the lead character as the leader of an alien race who enslave humanity in a dark future Earth. It was an ardent long-term dream project for Travolta since the publication of the novel in 1982, and Hubbard approached him in an attempt to create an adaptation film.
Travolta was engaged to actor Diana Hyland, whom he was able to meet during making The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976). They were together until the time Hyland died of breast cancer the 27th of March 1977. In the year 1980, Travolta dated French actress Catherine Deneuve.
john travolta net worth 2022
The actress Travolta is thought to have an estimated net worth in the region of $150million!
As one of Hollywood’s top stars It’s acceptable that he’s got zeros in his salary. Given his long list of films that became box office hits, not to mention the popularity of the television series in which he appeared, John surely deserves all that money for all his long hours of work.