Birth Name John Joseph Travolta
Height 6' 2" (1.88 m)
Smaller than usual Bio (1)
John Joseph Travolta was conceived in Englewood, New Jersey, one of six offspring of Helen Travolta (née Helen Cecilia Burke) and Salvatore/Samuel J. Travolta. His dad was of Italian drop and his mom was of Irish family. His dad claimed a tire repair shop called Travolta Tires in Hillsdale, NJ. Travolta began acting showing up in a nearby generation of "Who'll Save the Plowboy?". His mom, herself an on-screen character and artist, selected him in a dramatization school in New York, where he concentrated on voice, moving and acting. He chose to consolidate every one of the three of these aptitudes and turn into a musical drama entertainer. At 16 he found his first expert occupation in a mid year stock generation of the musical "Bye Birdie". He quit school at 16 and moved to New York, and worked consistently in summer stock and on TV advertisements. At the point when work turned out to be rare in New York, he went to Hollywood and showed up in minor parts in a few arrangement. A part in the national visiting organization of the hit 1950s musical "Oil" took him back to New York. An opening in the New York generation of "Oil" gave him his first Broadway part at age 18. After "Oil", he turned into an individual from the organization of the Broadway show "Here", which featured The Andrews Sisters. Following ten months in "Here", he chose to attempt Hollywood by and by. Once back in Hollywood, he experienced little difficulty getting parts in various network shows. He was seen on The Rookies (1972), Emergency! (1972) and Medical Center (1969) furthermore made a motion picture, The Devil's Rain (1975), which was shot in New Mexico. The day he came back to Hollywood from New Mexico, he was called to a tryout for another circumstance comic drama arrangement ABC was wanting to deliver got back to Welcome, Kotter (1975). He got the piece of Vinnie Barbarino and the arrangement went reporting in real time amid the 1975 fall season.
He featured in various amazing movies, winning his first Oscar and Golden Globe selections for his part in the blockbuster Saturday Night Fever (1977), which dispatched the disco wonder in the 1970s. He went ahead to star in the extra large screen adaptation of the long-running musical Grease (1978) and the fiercely fruitful Urban Cowboy (1980), which additionally affected patterns in pop culture. Extra film credits incorporate the Brian De Palma thrillers Carrie (1976) and Blow Out (1981), and additionally Amy Heckerling's hit comic drama Look Who's Talking (1989) and Nora Ephron's comic hit Michael (1996). Travolta featured in Phenomenon (1996) and took a similarly particular turn as an activity star in John Woo's top-netting Broken Arrow (1996). He additionally featured in the great Face/Off (1997) inverse Nicolas Cage, and The General's Daughter (1999), co-featuring Madeleine Stowe. In 2005, Travolta repeated the part of ultra cool Chili Palmer in the Get Shorty (1995) continuation Be Cool (2005). Furthermore, he featured inverse Scarlett Johansson in the widely praised autonomous component film A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004), which was screened at the Venice Film Festival, where both Travolta and the movies won rave surveys. In February 2011, John was respected by Europe's driving week by week program magazine HORZU, with the prestigious Golden Camera Award for "Best Actor International" in Berlin, Germany. Other late component film credits incorporate film industry hit-satire "Wild Hogs," the activity thriller Ladder 49 (2004), the motion picture variant of the fruitful comic book The Punisher (2004), the show Basic (2003), the mental thriller Domestic Disturbance (2001), the hit activity picture Swordfish (2001), the scandalous science fiction motion picture Battlefield Earth (2000), based upon the top of the line novel by L. Ron Hubbard, and Lonely Hearts (2006).
Travolta has been regarded twice with Academy Award designations, the most recent for his arresting depiction of a philosophical hit-man in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994). He additionally got BAFTA and Golden Globe selections for this very acclaimed part and was named Best Actor by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, among other recognized grants. Travolta accumulated further acclaim as a Mafioso-turned-film maker in the drama sensation Get Shorty (1995), winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy. In 1998, Travolta was respected by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts with the Britanna Award: and in that same year he got the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Chicago Film Festival. Travolta additionally won the prestigious Alan J. Pakula Award from the US Broadcast Critics Association for his execution in A Civil Action (1998), in view of the top of the line book and coordinated by Steven Zaillian. He was selected again for a Golden Globe for his execution in Primary Colors (1998), coordinated by Mike Nichols and co-featuring Emma Thompson and Billy Bob Thornton, and in 2008, he got his 6th Golden Globe designation for his part asEdna Turnblad in the wide screen, film industry hit Hairspray (2007). As an aftereffect of this execution, the Chicago Film Critics and the Santa Barbara Film Festival chose to perceive Travolta with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his part.
Moreover, Travolta featured inverse Denzel Washington in Tony Scott's revamp The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009), and he gave the voice of the lead character in Walt Disney Pictures' energized hit _Bolt_, which was assigned for a 2009 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film and a Golden Globe for Best Animated Film, notwithstanding Best Song for John and Miley Cyrus' two part harmony titled, "I Thought I Lost You."
Next, Travolta featured in Walt Disney Pictures' Old Dogs (2009), alongside Robin Williams, Kelly Preston and Ella Bleu Travolta, trailed by the activity thriller From Paris with Love (2010), featuring inverse Jonathan Rhys Meyers. In 2012, John featured nearby Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Benicio Del Toro, Salma Hayek, Emile Hirsch and Demián Bichir in Oliver Stone's, Savages (2012). The film depended on Don Winslow's smash hit wrongdoing novel that was named one of The New York Times' Top 10 Books of 2010. John was most as of late found in Killing Season (2013) co-featuring Robert De Niro and coordinated by Mark Steven Johnson. John as of late finished generation on the Boston based film, The Forger (2014), close by Academy Award champ Christopher Plummer and Critic's Choice candidate Tye Sheridan. John plays a second era unimportant hoodlum who orchestrates to escape jail to invest energy with his debilitated child (Sheridan) by bringing on a vocation with his dad (Plummer) to pay back the syndicate that organized his discharge. John has gotten 2 prestigious flight recompenses: in 2003 the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Foundation Award for Excellence for his endeavors to advance business flying, and in 2007 The Living Legends Ambassador of Aviation honor.
John holds 11 plane licenses: 747, 707, Gulfstream II, Lear 24, Hawker 1251A, Eclipse Jet, Vampire Jet, Canadair CL-141 Jet, Soko Jet, Citation ISP and Challenger. Travolta is the Qantas Airways Global Goodwill "Minister everywhere" and steered the first Qantas 707 amid "Soul of Friendship" worldwide visit in July/August 2002. John is likewise a business air ship brand envoy for Learjet, Challenger and Global planes for the world's driving business air ship producer, Bombardier. John flew the 707 to New Orleans after the 2005 tropical storm catastrophe bringing nourishment and restorative supplies, and in 2010, again flew the 707, this opportunity to Haiti after the tremor, conveying supplies, specialists and volunteers.
John, alongside his better half, on-screen character Kelly Preston are additionally extremely included in their philanthropy, The Jett Travolta Foundation, which brings up cash for kids with instructive needs.
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