John Travolta

Acting · 6.9 popularity

Age

Movies

140

Born: February 18, 1954
From: Englewood, New Jersey, USA
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Biography

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.

Works

140 films

Pulp Fiction

19948.5

The Punisher

20046.4

The Gentleman Thief

20266.1

Bolt

20086.6

Grease

19787.4

Face/Off

19977.1

From Paris with Love

20106.4

Carrie

19767.3

Broken Arrow

19966.1

Swordfish

20016.3

Staying Alive

19835.8

The Thin Red Line

19987.4

Austin Powers in Goldmember

20026.0

Wild Hogs

20076.0

Saturday Night Fever

19776.7

Propeller One-Way Night Coach

20266.4

Hairspray

20076.7

Get Shorty

19956.5

Blow Out

19817.4

High Rollers

20256.5

Be Cool

20055.5

Ladder 49

20046.5

Phenomenon

19966.5

I Am Wrath

20165.8

Die Hart

20235.9

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

20096.4

Old Dogs

20095.6

Savages

20126.4

Cash Out

20246.2

Killing Season

20135.5

Battlefield Earth

20003.3

Look Who's Talking

19896.3

The Poison Rose

20194.7

Look Who's Talking Now!

19935.4

Basic

20036.5

Paradise City

20225.4

A Civil Action

19986.5

Lonely Hearts

20066.1

The General's Daughter

19996.4

Mob Land

20235.5

I'm Still Here

20106.0

Domestic Disturbance

20015.8

In a Valley of Violence

20166.1

Life on the Line

20165.8

Look Who's Talking Too

19905.5

Michael

19965.7

Speed Kills

20185.4

Primary Colors

19986.3

Welcome to Hollywood

20004.2

November 1963

2026

Gotti

20185.3

Mad City

19976.2

The Fanatic

20194.4

The Forger

20145.8

The Shepherd

20236.9

Urban Cowboy

19806.5

Junket Whore

19985.0

Criminal Activities

20155.9

She's So Lovely

19975.9

Bio.

20057.0

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

20127.5

Trailer Camp

19953.7

Trading Paint

20195.3

2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift

20106.1

Studio 54

20186.5

A Love Song for Bobby Long

20046.8

The Devil’s Rain

19755.0

Perfect

19855.6

Two of a Kind

19835.9

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

200510.0

David Blaine: Beyond Magic

20167.1

Lucky Numbers

20005.2

The Experts

19894.6

Forever Hollywood

19998.3

John Travolta, le miraculé d'Hollywood

20177.3

Shout

19915.8

James Bond: The First 21 Years

19836.7

ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration

20038.0

White Man's Burden

19955.1

2026

Eyes of an Angel

19917.2

The Boy in the Plastic Bubble

19765.6

Our Friend, Martin

19997.1

That's Dancing!

19856.9

Pattern Recognition

2017

The Fabulous Allan Carr

20174.5

'Hairspray' Extentions

2007

War Journal: On the Set of The Punisher

20045.0

John Travolta: The Inside Story

20048.3

The Kick That United A Nation

20258.0

Bee Gees: One Night Only

19988.1

Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of Filmmaking

20136.7

Close Up

20129.5

Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon

20055.8

Be Cool, Very Cool

2005

The Grand Knockout Tournament

19876.8

Brando

20076.8

Scientology: The Road to Total Freedom?

1987

Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend

20215.0

Pulp Fiction: The Facts

20025.0

The Light and The Dark: The Making of Face/Off

2007

You Can’t Stop the Beat: The Long Journey of "Hairspray"

20076.0

Basements

19876.8

Hairspray: Inside the Recording Booth

2007

Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's

19987.5

The Time, the Place, the Motion: Remembering Grease

2006

Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life

19977.3

Casting By

20126.9

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History

20088.0

Tony Bennett: An American Classic

20067.7

Moment by Moment

19783.6

That's Amore!

2026

Seriously... Phil Collins

19908.0

Syndicate

2026

Grease Day USA

19788.3

Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond

20166.9

Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles

20238.1

The Grease Story

20178.4

Pulp Fiction: Behind The Scenes Montages

2002

American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective

20224.8

Boris and Natasha

19924.5

Chains of Gold

19915.5

Rona Barrett Looks at 1978

1979

Nightmare

19747.0

Stayin' Alive: A Grammy Salute to the Music of the Bee Gees

20177.6

Black Tides

2026

The Tenth Level

19765.3

Urban Cowboy: The Rise and Fall of Gilley's

20157.8

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies

20048.3

It's 'Hairspray'!

2007

America's Flying Aces: The Blue Angels 50th Anniversary

19969.0

HBO First Look: Swordfish

2001

Saturday Night Fever: The Ultimate Disco Movie

20177.7

Hairspray: Transforming Travolta to Turnblad

2007

Hairspray: The Search for Tracy Turnblad

2007

Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s

200210.0

John Travolta Remembers James Cagney

2003

Orientation: A Scientology Information Film

19963.0

Everyday Heroes: Real Stories from Real Firefighters

2005

Buscando a Travolta

2026