John Travolta

Known for ActingBorn 1954-02-18 (age 72)Englewood, New Jersey, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Scrat Show

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s

Everyman

Close Up

Behind Closed Doors with Natalie Morales

America's Flying Aces: The Blue Angels 50th Anniversary

The Grease Story

The True Story of...

Pulp Fiction

John Travolta: The Inside Story

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

Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles

Forever Hollywood

The Kick That United A Nation

Bee Gees: One Night Only

Grease Day USA

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History

Urban Cowboy: The Rise and Fall of Gilley's

Seriously... Phil Collins

Saturday Night Fever: The Ultimate Disco Movie

Harty

The Playboy Murders

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

Tony Bennett: An American Classic

American Crime Story

MTV Video Music Awards

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

Emergency!

Rove

Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's

Jay Leno's Garage

Sanremo Music Festival

The Thin Red Line

Hart to Heart

John Travolta, le miraculé d'Hollywood

David Blaine: Beyond Magic

The Captain and Tennille

The Shepherd

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Eyes of an Angel

Grease

Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life

Blow Out

Carrie

Our Friend, Martin

Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond

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