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John Travolta

John Travolta

Acting

Born February 18, 1954, 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.

Filmography

Appearances as themselves (92)
  • 2026Buscando a Travolta — Self
  • 2025The Kick That United A Nation — Self
  • 2023Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • The Playboy Murders — Self (archive footage)
  • 2022American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective — Self
  • Il était une fois Champs-Élysées — Self (archive footage)
  • Hart to Heart — Self - Interviewee
  • 2021Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend — Self (archive footage)
  • The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
  • 2018Studio 54 — Self (archive footage)
  • 2017Pattern Recognition — Self (archive footage)
  • 2017Saturday Night Fever: The Ultimate Disco Movie — Self
  • 2017Stayin' Alive: A Grammy Salute to the Music of the Bee Gees — Self - Host
  • 2017The Fabulous Allan Carr — Self (archive footage)
  • The True Story of... — Self (archive footage)
  • 2016Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond — Self
  • 2016David Blaine: Beyond Magic — Self
  • Jay Leno's Garage — Self
  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
  • 2015Urban Cowboy: The Rise and Fall of Gilley's — Self
  • The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self - Guest
  • Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
  • 2013Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of Filmmaking — Self
  • 2012Casting By — Self
  • 2012Close Up — Self (archive footage)
  • 2010I'm Still Here — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • The Jay Leno Show — Self - Guest
  • 2008Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History — Self
  • 2007Brando — Self
  • 2007Hairspray: The Search for Tracy Turnblad — Self
  • 2007Hairspray: Transforming Travolta to Turnblad — Self
  • 2007The Light and The Dark: The Making of Face/Off — Self
  • 2007You Can’t Stop the Beat: The Long Journey of "Hairspray" — Self
  • El hormiguero — Self - Guest
  • 2006The Time, the Place, the Motion: Remembering Grease — Self – Danny Zuko (archive footage)
  • 2006Tony Bennett: An American Classic — Self
  • 2005Be Cool, Very Cool — Self
  • 2005Bio. — Self
  • 2005Nos Bastidores de Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
  • The Reichen Show — Self
  • 2004John Travolta: The Inside Story — Self
  • Parkinson — Self - Guest (archive footage)
  • 2004War Journal: On the Set of The Punisher — Self
  • 2003ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration — Self
  • Celebrities Uncensored — Self
  • Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
  • 2003John Travolta Remembers James Cagney — Self
  • The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
  • Fifth Gear — Self
  • 2002Heart of the Festival — Self (archive footage)
  • 2002Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s — Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
  • 2002Pulp Fiction: The Facts — Self (archive footage)
  • Good Day Live — Self
  • 1999Forever Hollywood — Self
  • Rove — Self
  • The Early Show — Self
  • Where Are They Now? — Self
  • 1998Bee Gees: One Night Only — Self - Tony Manero/Self - Danny Zuko (archive footage)
  • 1998Junket Whore — Self
  • 1998Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's — Self
  • 1997Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life — Self
  • The View — Self
  • 1996Orientation: A Scientology Information Film — Self
  • Inside the Actors Studio — Self
  • 1992Boris and Natasha — Self
  • 1990Seriously... Phil Collins — Self
  • LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self - Guest
  • Sacrée soirée — Self
  • 1987Scientology: The Road to Total Freedom? — Self
  • 1987The Grand Knockout Tournament — Self
  • 1985That's Dancing! — Self (archive footage)
  • Goldene Kamera — Self
  • MTV Video Music Awards — Self
  • Harty — Self
  • 1983James Bond: The First 21 Years — Self
  • Champs-Elysées — Self
  • Entertainment Tonight — Self
  • Wetten, dass..? — Self
  • 1979Rona Barrett Looks at 1978 — Self
  • 1978Grease Day USA — Self
  • The Captain and Tennille — Self - Guest
  • Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self
  • Saturday Night Live — Self - Host
  • Film '72 — Self
  • Great Performances — Self
  • The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
  • The Mike Douglas Show — Self - Guest
  • Tony Awards — Self - Performer
  • Panorama — Himself (archive footage)
  • The Oscars — Self
  • Sanremo Music Festival — Self - Special Guest
  • Golden Globe Awards — Self - Presenter, Self - Nominee / Presenter, Self - Presenter / Nominee
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