Travolta was natural inside Englewood, New Jersey, the son of Italian-American Salvatore Travolta, a semi-semipro football player, off tyre salesman & Irish-American Helen Cecilithe Burke, an actress & singer world health organization experienced appeared inside radio vocal class action A Sunshine Sisters, & acted and directed prior to becoming a high school drama teacher.

Travolta gained his number 1 major picture role when Billy Nolan a taunter of Sissy Spacek's Carrie White in the horror film Carrie (1976). He wwhen too easily known at a instance for his role as Vinnie Barbarino in the TV sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter (1975-1979) in which his real-life sister Ellen Travolta also occasionally appeared (when "Horshack's mother"). His virtually all memorable roles come inside 1977 and 1978 as Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever, (1977) and when Danny Zuko in Grease at the height of the disco era. When that, his career close to slouching until he played Vincent Vega in Quentin Tarantino's cult hit Pulp Fiction, for which he received an Academy Award nomination.

Travoltthe as well played a lead role in the panned Battlefield Earth (which, oddly enough, is depending inside the act of pulp fiction), in which he plays the leader of the class actiin of aliens that enslave humanity on a bleak first Globe. A film received virtually always veto reviews & did ill at a pack professional. Travolta, world health organization occurs as Scientologist (converted 1975) and idolizes a late L. Ron Hubbard, had hoped that the film would be well-received and be the first in a series of Hubbard film adaptations.

His affiliation using Scientology has stimulated a bit of arguing. Around 1998 he was named within the case involving the previous member of the Church that claims that he was promised per Church that his homosexuality could be cured. the causa alleged that a organization oft cited Travolta when proof that a organization can in point of fact vary a individual's sexual orientation. An attorney for Travolta replied, "This looks like complete hogwash. Travolta is a happily married man, which proves he isn't gay." [http://www.lermanet.com/cos/FABMagazine.htm]. Despite his attorney's contention, rumour of Travolta's homosexuality persist.

He is married to fellow Scientologist & actress Kelly Preston and the father of 2 youngsters. Antecedently he was required using actress Diana Hyland, who died of breast cancer (reportedly within Travolta's arms) inside 1977.

Travoltthe occurs as proven pilot, & owns 5 plane, including a previous Qantas Boeing 707-138. A plane bears a title "Jett Clipper Ella". Pan Am was a big operator of the 707 and used Clipper in their list. A plane is known as for his boy Jett & girl Ella. His home inside Ocala, Florida has its own runway & taxi strip best to the door. Around 1993 Travoltthe successfully performed an forced landing of a plane by having electrical condition at Washington Reagan National Airport.

Filmography

''The Devil's Rain (1975) Carrie (1976) Saturday Night Fever (1977) Grease (1978) Moment by Moment (1978) Urban Cowboy (1980) Blow Out (1981) Two of a Kind (1983) Staying Alive (1983) Perfect (1985) The Experts (1989) Look Who's Talking (1989) Look Who's Talking Too (1990) Eyes of an Angel (1991) Shout (1991) Boris and Natasha (1992) (Cameo) Look Who's Talking Now (1993) Pulp Fiction (1994) White Man's Burden (1995) Get Shorty (1995) Broken Arrow (1996) Orientation: A Scientology Information Film (1996) (short subject) Phenomenon (1996) Michael (1996) She's So Lovely (1997) (also executive producer) Face/Off (1997) Mad City (1997) Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1997) (documentary) Primary Colors (1998) Junket Whore (1998) (documentary) The Thin Red Line (1998) A Civil Action (1998) The General's Daughter (1999) Battlefield Earth (2000) Lucky Numbers (2000) Welcome to Hollywood (2000) (documentary) Swordfish (2001) Domestic Disturbance (2001) Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) (Cameo) Basic (2003) The Punisher (2004) A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004) Ladder 49 (2004) Be Cool (2005) 2004: A Light Knight's Odyssey (2006) (voice) (currently filming) Lonely Hearts (2006) (currently filming)

TV work
The Tenth Level (1975) Welcome Back, Kotter (cast member from 1975-1978) The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976) Basements (1987) Chains of Gold'' (1991) (also writer)