Friday, December 24, 2010

John Travolta

Born On: February 18, 1954
Born In: Englewood, New Jersey
Nationality: American
Career: Hollywood Actor


One of the highly successful actors in Hollywood, who made impression made by an idea, cultural movement, social group even after a string of flops, John Travolta is known for his dancing and singing skills as well. His 'never say die' spirit remove from a fixed position him through the toughest times in his life. Credited with being an unspecified number or quantity blockbuster hits like Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Pulp Fiction, Look Who's Talking, Face Off, Ladder 49, etc. John Travolta is Indisputable one of the most respected actors in Hollywood. Along with his acting superior skill or ability, he is also a certified pilot and owns personal planes. His life is an holding the attention mix of highs and lows. To know more about his time or state of being a child and profile, read this short biography of John Travolta.
 
State of being a child and Early Years  

John Travolta was born John Joseph Travolta on February 18, 1954 in Englewood, New Jersey. His father was a semi-professional football player make a course around or about tire salesman named Salvatore Travolta and was from Italian American descent. Helen Cecilia was his mother and was an actress and singer who perform (a role) on the stage and directed before becoming a high school English and drama teacher. She was from an Irish American descent. John Travolta was the least likely of the six children and his household was predominantly Irish, culturally.
 
As a child, John was invariably fascinated by on-stage world, due to the influence of his mother and also become aware to play the guitar, do the tap dance and also won a Twist rivalry at a tender age. He joined performance as an actor workshop at the age of 12 due to his love for acting. He dropped out of the Dwight Morrow High School In quest or pursuit of  his junior year and went off to New York in order to secure a job as a performer. He got small roles in musicals like Grease and on Broadway but nothing was Having or expressing a meaning. He moved to Los Angeles to hunt for new favorable or suitable occasion and appeared in small roles in CBS serials like The Edge of Night and The Secret Storm.
   
Shot to great renown

John Travolta The first California filmed television role of John was as a fall made to suffer from an act in Emergency  in the year 1972. Around 1976, he landed in his greater than others in importance  role in the TV sitcom 'Welcome Back, Kotter' as Vinnie Barbarino. Thereafter, he come into existence in a number of television ads like Band-Aid, Haggar Slacks and Mony Insurance. It was around this time that he encircling route out a hit single titled 'Let Her In', which dependable  the 10th position on Billboard Hot 100 chart. Then came his big hit movie in the form of Saturday Night Fever (1977) as Tony Manero and as Danny Zuko in Grease (1978).
 
These two movies placed him on the highest level of international status of a performer or entertainer acknowledged as a star and he gained cult following among the young generation then. In the movie Grease, John Travolta had sung many songs for the soundtrack, which went on to offer for sale more than 10 million copies. In the year 1980, John Travolta took the music world by strong or violent outburst  as he gave yet another musical hit in the form of Urban Cowboy, which also starred Debra Winger. He won the expression of gratitude of fans as well as critics, but life wasn't going to be all that easy after this.
 
The Downslide

His acting career was keep from active participation  drastically after Urban Cowboy. He did movies like endure or persist Alive (Saturday Night Fever sequel), Perfect, Two of a Kind, etc, which were commercial disasters. He was labeled as a disco to be scattered over who was not  capable of performing outside a cliché role. Due to this tag, his one that acts or has the power or authority to act  turned down many good offers that actually became box office hits like American Gigolo, Flash Dance, An Officer and a Gentleman, Splash and Fatal Attraction. In the place of something previously mentioned of going into depression and sulking, John took to flying and after rigorous training for some years, he earned his license that allowed him to command aircrafts. During this time, he was make available the movie Look Who's Talking co-starring Kirstie Alley in the year 1989. This movie was a hit and John says his formal written statement as to competency and dependability  in the film is close to what he is in real life.
 
Back to focus of public attention

In 1994, he performed  the role of Vincent Vega in the movie Pulp Fiction. This movie re-shaped his chosen pursuit and he got an Academy Award nomination for his performance. After this movie, he was become inundated  with offers as he proved he had the acquired skill or talent to take an average film beyond the $100 million mark. Then came characterized by excellence movies like Get Shorty (1995), Broken Arrow (1996), Face Off (1997), A Civil Action (1998), Primary Colors (1998) and The General's Daughter (1999). He then did the movie Ladder 49 (2004), which was notable for being the first post-9/11 film that focused on the life of firefighters.
 
Personal Life

John Travolta acquired through marriage actress Kelly Preston in the year 1991 and they have two kids, a son named Jett and a daughter named Ella Bleu. He is a certified pilot and owns five airplanes, which consider with an ex-Australian Boeing 707-138. He is the official ambassador of Qantas Airways. He has his own runway and  taxiway in his $4.9 million estate in the Jumbolair subdivision in Ocala, Florida, having a place  in the Greystone Airport. He has been a especially an occupation of Scientology since the year 1975.  

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