John Travolta
John Travolta was born February 18, 1954, in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.
He was the youngest of six siblings.
He's a member of the Church of Scientology, which he says has helped him maintain a normal life despite his fame and success.
He's married to actress Kelly Preston, which he has married twice. Their first wedding on September 5, 1991, by a French scientologist minister, was declered illegal. They re-married legally a week later, September 12, 1991.
The couple have a son, Jett, born April 13, 1992. Jett was concieved during a weekend at Demi Moore and Bruce Willis's house.
- He got payed $15,000,000 for the John Woo movie "Face/Off"
- In October-97 he was 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 of any actor.
- He was named Man of the Year by Harvard's Hasty Pudding Club in 1981.
- He has been in two music videos - Jermaine Jackson's "(The Closest Thing To) Perfect" and Frank Stallone's "Far From Over".
- Richard Gere practically owes his film career to John. Travolta turned down the leads for "Days of Heaven", "American Gigolo" and "An Officer and a Gentleman", all of which went to Gere.
Mini Biography
John Travolta first gained fame as the swaggering Vinnie Barbario on the TV-series "Welcome Back, Kotter" from 1975. In 1977, he parlayed his teeny-bopper fame into a big screen career with the disco-blockbuster "Saturday Night Fever". He languished in light dramas and TV-movies in the 1980s, but started a comeback in 1989 with "Look Who's Talking". He further resuscitated his career with an Oscar-nomination for his role as a heavyset sympathetic hitman in "Pulp Fiction" in 1994.
Poster picture from the exellent movie "Face/Off"
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