John Joseph Travolta is an American actor, singer, dancer, and pilot. rose to fame during the 1970s, appearing on the television sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter and starring in the box office successes Carrie and Grease. His acting career declined throughout the 1980s, but he enjoyed a resurgence in the 1990s with his role in Pulp Fiction. He has since starred in the films Get Shorty, Broken Arrow, FaceOff, Swordfish, The Punisher, Hairspray, Bolt, and The Taking of Pelham 123.
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John Joseph Travolta is an American actor, singer, dancer, and pilot. He rose to fame during the 1970s, appearing on the television sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter and starring in the box office successes Carrie and Grease. His acting career declined throughout the 1980s, but he enjoyed a resurgence in the 1990s with his role in Pulp Fiction. He has since starred in the films Get Shorty, Broken Arrow, FaceOff, Swordfish, The Punisher, Hairspray, Bolt, and The Taking of Pelham 123. In 2016, he received his first Primetime Emmy Award, as a producer of the first season of the anthology series American Crime Story, subtitled The People v. O. J. Simpson. He is also a private pilot and owns four aircraft. He was raised Roman Catholic, but converted to Scientology in 1975. His father was a second-generation Italian American with roots in Godrano, Sicily, and his mother was Irish American. His mother, Helen Cecilia, was an actress and singer who had appeared in The Sunshine Sisters, a radio vocal group, and acted and directed before becoming a high school drama and English teacher. His siblings Joey, Ellen, Ann, Margaret, and Sam were all inspired by their mother’s love of theatre and drama and became actors. He attended Dwight Morrow High School, but dropped out as a junior at age 17 in 1971.
After dropping out of school, he moved across the Hudson River to New York City and landed a role in the touring company of the musical Grease and on Broadway in Over Here!, singing the Sherman Brothers’ song \”Dream Drummin’ \” He then moved to Los Angeles for professional reasons. He starred in The Boy in the Plastic Bubble and two of his most noted screen roles: Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever and Danny Zuko in Grease. The films were among the most commercially successful pictures of the decade and catapulted him to international stardom. He won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for his performance in get Shorty and has received a total of six nominations, the most recent being in 2011. In 1980, he inspired a nationwide music craze with the country craze of Urban Cowboy, in which he starred with Debra Winger. He also starred in Two of a Kind, a romantic comedy reuniting him with Olivia Newton-John, and Perfect, co-starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Jamie Curtis. He lost 20 pounds for the film Staying Alive, which was a financial success, grossing over 65 million dollars. He had a hit single titled \”Let Her In,\” peaking at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in July 1976.
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