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He became famous for his appearance in Saturday Night Fever and Grease at the height of the disco era, as well as for his portrayal of Vinnie Barbarino on the television sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter. After that, his career more or less slumped until he played Vincent Vega in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, for which he received an Academy Award nomination.
Travolta also played a lead role in the panned [1] Battlefield Earth, in which he plays the leader of a group of aliens that enslave humanity in a bleak future Earth. The film received almost universally negative reviews and did not do well at the box office. Travolta, who is a ScientologistScientology is a system of beliefs and teachings, originally established as a secular philosophy in 1952 by author L. Ron Hubbard, and subsequently reoriented from 1953 as an "applied religious philosophy. It is most prominently represented by the Church (converted 1975Events January January 1 Watergate scandal: John N. Mitchell, H. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up and are sentenced to 30 months to 8 years in jail on February 21 January 5 The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, i) and idolizes the late L. Ron HubbardLafayette Ronald Hubbard ( March 13, 1911 January 24, 1986), better known as L. Ron Hubbard was a prolific and controversial American writer of fiction in all genres, science fiction, religious works, technical, educational and management texts, and misce, had hoped that the film would be well-received and be the first in a series of Hubbard film adaptations.
He is married to actress Kelly PrestonKelly Preston (born October 13, 1962), is an American actress. She was born in Hawai'i. Preston had a modeling career when she was a teenager. She was discovered at the age of 16 by a photographer. In 1991, Preston married John Travolta, to whom she remai and father of two children.
Travolta is a qualified pilot, and owns five airplanes, including a former QantasQantas is Australia's oldest and largest airline, and the world's third oldest airline (after KLM and Avianca). Its IATA designator is QF. History The company was founded on 16 November 1920 as " Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited", Boeing 707The Boeing 707 is a four engined commercial passenger jet aircraft developed by Boeing in the early 1950s. Although it was not the first commercial jetliner in service (that distinction belongs to the De Havilland Comet), it was the first one to be commer-138. His house in FloridaFlorida is a southern state in the United States. It is known as the Sunshine State. Florida" is a Spanish adjective which means "flowery". It was discovered by Spanish explorers during the Easter season, which is called Pascua Florida in Spanish. Postal has its own runway and taxiway right to the door. In 19931993 is a common year starting on Friday and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003 Events January January 1 Czechoslovakia divides. Establishment of independent Slovakia and Czech Republic. Travolta successfully performed an emergency landing of a plane with electric trouble.
Travolta has always been accessible to his public and loves to sign autographs.