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{{Infobox actor
| name = John Travolta
| image = John_Travolta.jpg
| imagesize = 200px
| caption = John Travolta in Sweden, ]
| birthname = John Joseph Travolta
| birthdate = {{birth date and age|1954|2|18}}
| location = ], <br> {{USA}}
| spouse = ] (1991-)
| homepage =
| notable role = '''Vinnie Barbarino''' in '']''<br>'''Tony Manero''' in '']'' and '']''<br>'''Danny Zuko''' in '']''<br>''']''' in '']''<br>'''Chili Palmer''' in '']''<br>'''Sean Archer/Castor Troy''' in '']''
| academyawards = '''Nominated: ]''' <br>1977 '']'' <br>1994 '']''
| goldenglobeawards = ''']''' <br> 1996 '']''
}}
'''John Joseph Travolta''' (born ], ]) is an ]-nominated, ]-winning ] ], ] and entertainer. He became known during the late ], establishing a career as a leading ] actor, and has subsequently continued appearing in major films, including his ] roles in '']'' and '']''.

==Biography==
===Early life===
Travolta, youngest of six children, was born in ], to Salvatore Travolta, a second-generation ] semi-professional ] player turned tire salesman, and Helen Cecilia Burke, an ]<ref>http://www.showbizireland.com/news/july01/20-travolta01.shtml</ref> <ref>http://www.rd.com/content/openContent.do?contentId=26272&pageIndex=1</ref> actress and singer who had appeared in ''The Sunshine Sisters'', a radio vocal group, and acted and directed before becoming a high school drama teacher. She was 42 when Travolta was born. Travolta grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood<ref>http://www.beatboxbetty.com/celebetty/johntravolta/johntravolta2/johntravolta2/johntravolta2.htm</ref> and has said that his household was predominantly Irish in culture. His family was ].<ref>http://www.hollywoodauditions.com/Biographies/john_travolta.htm</ref>

===Career===

After dropping out of ] after his junior year, Travolta moved to ] to get a job as a performer. He landed roles in the touring company of '']'' and on ] in '']'' singing the ]' song "].'" Travolta also cut singles for a local record company, but the songs were quickly forgotten. But eventually, he moved to ] to further his career in show business.

Travolta gained his first major movie role as Billy Nolan, a ] bully who taunted ]'s ] in the horror film '']'' (1976). Around the same time he landed his star-making role as Vinnie Barbarino in the ] ] '']'' (1975&ndash;1979) in which his sister, ], also occasionally appeared (as Arnold Horshack's mother).

]'' (1976)]]

Around this time he also had a hit single entitled "Let Her In" peaking at number ten on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In the next few years, he appeared in some of his most memorable screen roles: Tony Manero in '']'' (1977) and as ] in '']'' (1978). His mother and his sister Ann appeared as extras in ''Saturday Night Fever'' and his sister Ellen appeared as a waitress in ''Grease''. Travolta performed several of the songs on the ''Grease'' soundtrack album, that eventually went on to sell more than 10 million copies. In 1980, Travolta inspired a nationwide country music craze that followed on the heels of his hit film, '']'', in which he starred with ].

After '']'' came a string of flops that sidelined his acting career. Some suggest that he was ] as a disco stud or 1970s icon, which could be the reason his agent intervened on several occasions to turn down acting roles. During that time he was offered, but turned down, lead roles in what would become box office hits, including '']'', '']'', '']'' and '']''. The first two films ultimately starred ] in the lead role and went to become box office successes. This was also the case much later in his career with the movie '']'' - the role of lawyer Billy Flynn was offered to Travolta, but ultimately was played by Gere; the film went on to become a highly commercial and critical success. His only hit film during this period was alongside ] and a baby voiced by ] in '']''. However, it wasn't until he played ] in ]'s hit '']'' (1994), for which he received an ] nomination, that his career was revived. The movie shifted him back onto the ], and he was inundated with offers. Coincidentally, before Travolta took the role he visited Tarantino, who was living in the same ramshackle apartment in Los Angeles that Travolta had inhabited when he got his start. Notable roles following ''Pulp Fiction'' include a movie-buff ] in '']'' (1995), an FBI agent in '']'' (1997), a desperate attorney in '']'' (1998) and a military detective in '']'' (]).

]
Travolta also starred in '']'' (2000) based on a work of ] by ], in which he played the leader of a group of aliens that enslaves humanity on a bleak future Earth. The film received almost universally negative reviews and did very poorly at the box office.<ref></ref> Travolta, who converted to ] in 1975 and endorses Hubbard's teachings, had hoped that the film would be well received and be the first in a series of Hubbard film adaptations. In fact, the film won a ] for Worst Film of the Year at the ].

Travola is currently starring as a workaholic with a bad hairpiece turned biker in '']'' 2007.

Travolta will play Edna Turnblad in the 2007 adaptation of '']''.

===Personal life===
Travolta married actress ] in 1991. They have a son named Jett, and a daughter named Ella Bleu. On ], ], ] of '']'' made a public plea to Travolta and Preston to have their son treated for ], alleging five reliable sources&mdash;including representatives from ] and ''The Autism Perspective''&mdash;who say that Jett suffers from ], and not from ] as stated by the parents.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.hollywoodinterrupted.com/archives/a_plea_from_hollywood_john_travolta_open_your_heart.phtml
|title = A Plea From Hollywood: John Travolta - Open Your Heart!
|publisher = Hollywood, Interrupted
|author =
|date = 10 April 2006
|accessdate = 2007-01-22
}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
|url = http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/408026p-345417c.html
|title = Travolta son's diagnosis: Science vs. Scientology?
|publisher = New York Daily News
|author = Jo Piazza, Chris Rovzar
|date=April 2006
|accessdate = 2007-01-22
}}
</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/kawasaki/index.htm
|title = Infectious Disease Information - Kawasaki Syndrome
|publisher = Centers for Disease Control
|author =
|date = January 2006
|accessdate = 2007-01-22
}}
</ref> His brother Joey Travolta recently produced a documentary about autism.
] at a ] dinner on ] ].]]
Travolta is a FAA licensed pilot and owns five airplanes, including an ex-Australian airliner, the ] ]. The plane bears the name ''Jett Clipper Ella'' in honor of his son Jett and his daughter Ella. ] was a large operator of the ] and used Clipper in their names. The 707 aircraft bears the marks of Qantas, as Travolta acts as an official goodwill ambassador for the airline wherever he flies. His US$4.9 million estate in the ] subdivision in ] is situated on ] with its own runway and taxiway right to the door.<ref>
{{cite web
|url = http://www.rapp.org/archives/2003/11/jumbolair/
|title = Jumbolair
|publisher = The House of Rapp
|author =
|date = 17 November 2003
|accessdate = 2007-01-22
}}</ref>

In 1992, he wrote and illustrated a short children's book entitled ''Propeller One-Way Night Coach'' about the fictional journey of an 8-year-old boy named Jeff across the USA in the 1950s.

{{Unreferenced|date=February 2007}}
Questions have also been raised regarding what kind of agreements were made between Travolta and then-] ], regarding how Travolta would portray Jack Stanton, a character based on Clinton, in the movie '']'' and whether Clinton would pressure the ] government to remove its ban on Scientology. Travolta was quoted about the issue in ] issue of '']'' magazine:
{{cquote|The next day, I met with Clinton. He told me: "Your program sounds great. More than that, I'd really love to help you with your issue over in Germany with Scientology." I was waiting for the seduction that I had heard so much about. I thought, "Well, how could he ever seduce me?" And after we talked, I thought, "Bingo!" He did it. Scientology is the one issue that really matters to me. }}

In another interview, Travolta said that his portrayal of Stanton was much more kind than that in the book ''Primary Colors''.<ref>
{{cite web
|url = http://www.factnet.org/Scientology/clinton_scientology.html
|title = Clinton helped Church of Scientology...
|publisher = FACT.net
|author =
|date=March 1998
|accessdate = 2007-01-22
}}
</ref> The next year, in November 1998, Clinton sent ] ] to urge ] ] to stop being intolerant toward Scientologists.<ref>
{{cite web
|url = http://www.pewid.ch/SCI/travolta.html
|title = John Travolta: Clinton unterstützte Scientology in Deutschland
|publisher = Pewid.ch
|language = English
|date = 1998
|accessdate = 2007-01-22
}}</ref>

Travolta was previously involved with actress ], who died of ] (reportedly in Travolta's arms) in 1977.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0405076/bio|title=biography of Diana Hyland|publisher=]|accessdate = 2007-03-28}}</ref>

==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes
|-
| ] || '']'' || Danny ||
|-
|rowspan="2"| ] || '']'' || Tod Lubitch ||
|-
| '']'' || Billy Nolan ||
|-
| ] || '']'' || Tony Manero ||
|-
|rowspan="2"| ] || '']'' || Strip Harrison ||
|-
| '']'' || Danny Zuko ||
|-
| ] || '']'' || Buford 'Bud' Uan Davis ||
|-
| ] || '']'' || Jack Terry ||
|-
|rowspan="2"| ] || '']'' || Tony Manero ||
|-
| '']'' || Zack ||
|-
| ] || '']'' || Adam Lawrence ||
|-
|rowspan="2"| ] || '']'' || James Ubriacco ||
|-
| '']'' || Travis ||
|-
| ] || '']'' || James Ubriacco ||
|-
|rowspan="2"| ] || '']'' || Jack Cabe ||
|-
| '']'' || Bobby ||
|-
| ] || '']'' || Himself || (cameo)
|-
| ] || '']'' || James Ubriacco ||
|-
| ] || '']'' || ] ||
|-
|rowspan="2"| ] || '']'' || Chili Palmer ||
|-
| '']'' || Louis Pinnock ||
|-
|rowspan="4"| ] || '']'' || Michael ||
|-
| '']'' || George Malley ||
|-
| '']'' || Himself || (short subject)
|-
| '']'' || Maj. Vic 'Deak' Deakins ||
|-
|rowspan="4"| ] || '']'' || Himself || (documentary)
|-
| '']'' || Sam Baily ||
|-
| '']'' || Sean Archer ||
|-
| '']'' || Joey ||
|-
|rowspan="4"| ] || '']'' || Jan Schlichtmann ||
|-
| '']'' || Brigadier General Quintard ||
|-
| '']'' || Himself || (documentary)
|-
| '']'' || Governor Jack Stanton ||
|-
| ] || '']'' || Warr. Off. Paul Brenner/Sgt. Frank White ||
|-
|rowspan="3"| ] || '']'' || Himself || (documentary)
|-
| '']'' || Russ Richards ||
|-
| '']'' || Terl ||
|-
|rowspan="2"| ] || '']'' || Frank Morrison ||
|-
| '']'' || Gabriel Shear ||
|-
| ] || '']'' || "Austinpussy" Johann van der Smut ||
|-
| ] || '']'' || Hardy ||
|-
|rowspan="3"| ] || '']'' || Captain Mike Kennedy ||
|-
| '']'' || Bobby Long ||
|-
| '']'' || Howard Saint ||
|-
|rowspan="2"| ] || '']'' || Himself || (narrator; documentary)
|-
| '']'' || Chili Palmer ||
|-
|rowspan="2"| ] || '']'' || Dave || (voice only; currently filming)
|-
| '']'' || Elmer C. Robinson ||
|-
|rowspan="3"| ] || '']'' || Edna Turnblad || (currently filming)
|-
| '']'' || Woody ||
|-
| '']'' || J.R. Ewing || (pre-production)
|-
| ] || '']'' || American Dog the Hound Dog || (voice only; pre-production)
|}

==Salary==
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*'']'' (2007) US$12 million including ''ca''. US$3 million ]
*''] (2004) US $20 million
*'']'' (1998) US$18 million
*'']'' (1997) US$17 million
*'']'' (1997) US$15 million

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*'']'' (1996) US$10 million
*'']'' (1996) US$8 million
*'']'' (1996) US$7 million
*'']'' (1995) US$3.5 million
*'']'' (1994) US$2 million

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==Television work==
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*'']'' (1975)
*'']'' (cast member from 1975 - 1978) &nbsp;
*'']'' (1976)

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*'']'' (1987)
*'']'' (1991) (also writer)
*'']'' (2004) (Uncredited)

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==Music career==

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===Discography===
*'']'' (Original Cast Album) (1974)
*''John Travolta'' (1976)
*''Can't Let You Go'' (1977)
*''Travolta Fever'' (1978)
*'']'' (movie soundtrack) (1978)
*''The Road to Freedom'' (Scientology album) (1986)
*''Let Her In: The Best of John Travolta'' (1996)
*''The Collection'' (2003)

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===Singles===
* "You Set My Dreams To Music" (1969)
* "Goodnight Mr. Moon" (1969)
* "Rainbows" (1969)
* "Settle Down" (1970)
* "Moonlight Lady" (1971)
* "Right Time Of The Night" (1972)
* "Big Trouble" (1972)
* "What Would They Say" (1973)
* "Back Doors Crying" (1973)
* "Dream Drummin'" (1974)
* "Easy Evil" (1975)
* "Can't Let You Go" (1975)
* "Let Her In" (1976)
* "Slow Dancin'" (1976)
* "It Had To Be You" (1976)
* "I Don't Know What I Like About You Baby" (1976)
* "Baby, I Could Be So Good At Lovin' You" (1977)
* "Razzamatazz" (1977)
* "Sandy" (1978)
* "Greased Lightnin'" (1978)
* "Never Gonna Fall In Love Again" (1980)

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==Footnotes==
{{reflist}}
== Literature ==
* Brigitte Tast (ed.) ''John Travolta'' (Hildesheim/Germany 1978) ISBN 3-88842-103-9.

==External links==
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* links about John Travolta at ] the open directory
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