John Travolta

Acting

Born 1954-02-18 Englewood, New Jersey, USA 198 credits Golden Globe Awards 1 Cannes Film Festival 1 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor 1 David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actor 2 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 IAS Freedom Medal 1

Awards

Nominated for 2 Academy Awards

Academy Awards 2 nominated

1995 Best Actor Nominated Pulp Fiction
1978 Best Actor Nominated Saturday Night Fever

Golden Globe Awards 1 won

1996 Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Won Get Shorty

Cannes Film Festival 1 won

2026 Honorary Palme d'Or Won

Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor 1 won · 2 nominated

2000 Worst Actor Won Battlefield Earth
1986 Worst Actor Nominated Perfect
1984 Worst Actor Nominated Two of a Kind

David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actor 2 won

1995 Best Foreign Actor Won Pulp Fiction
— Best Foreign Actor Won

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won

— star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won

IAS Freedom Medal 1 won

— IAS Freedom Medal Won

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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.