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John Travolta
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Biography
Height
6' 2"
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Mini biography
John Travolta first gained fame as the swaggering Vinnie Barbarino on the TV series "Welcome Back, Kotter" (1975). In 1977, he parlayed his teeny-bopper fame into a big-screen career with the disco blockbuster Saturday Night Fever (1977). He languished in light dramas and TV movies in the 1980s, but started a comeback in 1989 with Look Who's Talking (1989). He further resuscitated his career with an Oscar nomination for his role as a heavyset sympathetic hitman in in Pulp Fiction (1994) in 1994.
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Spouse
Kelly Preston (12 September 1991 - present); 1 son, 1 daughter
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Trivia
(October 1997) Ranked #21 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.
He appeared on the cover of "Rolling Stone" magazine 4 times, the most for any actor (through 1994).
He was named Man of the Year by Harvard's Hasty Pudding Club in 1981.
Richard Gere practically owes his film career to Travolta. Travolta turned down the leads for Days of Heaven (1978), 0080365 and Officer and a Gentleman, An (1982), all of which went to Gere.
Travolta married Kelly Preston twice. Their first wedding on 5 September 1991, by a French Scientologist minister, was declared illegal. The couple met during the filming of Experts, The (1989).
John is a member of the Church Of Scientology.
Travolta and Kelly Preston have a son, Jett - born 13 April 1992
Jet was conceived during a weekend at Demi Moore and Bruce Willis's house. (source: Premiere August 1996, p.60)
Brother of Joey Travolta, Ellen Travolta, Ann Travolta and Sam Travolta
was the youngest of six siblings - parents - Salvatore and Helen Travolta of Englewood, NJ
During the filming of _The Boy in the Plastic Bubble_ he fell in love with Diana Hyland 18 years his senior - she died of cancer in his arms in 1977
He was in Jermaine Jackson's "(The Closest Thing To) Perfect" music video.
He was in the Frank Stallone "Far From Over" music video.
Pilots a multitude of jet aricraft. Most notable aviation feat is succesful landing at Washington National of a Gulfstream IIB with complete electrical failure. Conditions at the time were night, IMC, icing. December of '93
Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1976" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 28.
In July 1978 he became the very first male to make the cover of "McCall's" magazine.
He pilots three Gulfstream jets and a Learjet. Also owns a Boeing 707.
Played Misfit on the Broadway stage in Over Here! with The Andrews Sisters, Ann Reinking, and Treat Williams.
Anti-Scientology group FactNet accusing the controversial church of hiding "subliminal messages" in the upcoming John Travolta flick Battlefield Earth. FactNet says the messages are an effort to recruit new Scientologists.
His second child with Kelly Preston, daughter Ella Bleu was born on 3rd April 2000, weighing in at 4.08 kilos (nine pounds).
Read for the Tom Hanks role in Splash (1984) and wanted to play the part but was discouraged by his agent to do the film.
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