John Joseph Travolta born February 181954 is an American actor film producer dancer and singer He first became known in the 1970s after appearing on the television series Welcome Back Kotter and starring in the box office successes Saturday Night Fever and Grease Travoltas career resurged in the 1990s with his role in Pulp Fiction and he has since continued starring in Hollywood films including FaceOff Ladder 49 and Wild Hogs Travolta has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor The first for his role in Saturday Night Fever and the second for Pulp Fiction He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his performance in Get Shorty He married actress Kelly Preston in 1991 The couple had a son Jett April 13 1992 January 2 2009 and have a daughter Ella Bleu born in 2000 They were married until Kellys untimely death at the age of 57 in 2020 from breast cancer He was previously involved with actress Diana Hyland whom he met while filming The Boy in the Plastic Bubble the relationship ended when she died of breast cancer in 1977 He is a certified pilot and owns five aircraft including an exAustralian Boeing 707138 airliner The plane bears the name Jett Clipper Ella in honor of his children His 49 million estate in the Jumbolair subdivision in Ocala Florida is situated on Greystone Airport with its own runway and taxiway right to his front door He has been a practitioner of Scientology since 1975 when he was given the book Dianetics while filming the movie The Devils Rain in Durango Mexico
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