Interesting Facts About John Travolta

Actor John Travolta is known for playing characters who are cool and tough, yet enormously appealing. As a rising young star in the 1970s, he made his reputation by dancing and singing as much as by acting. Travolta's popularity declined in the 1980s, but he came back stronger than ever in the 1990s with films that showcased his acting talents in a range of roles.

John Joseph Travolta began performing as a teenager. He appeared in summer stock, on Broadway, and on television. In 1975, he was picked to play Vinnie Barbarino, the dim-witted but lovable "Sweathog" on the television series Welcome Back, Kotter. The show was a hit; it led to leading roles in two movies that made Travolta a star. In Saturday Night Fever (1977), he played a Brooklyn youth caught up in the 1970s disco scene. In the musical Grease (1978), set in the 1950s, he was a high-school punk who finds romance with a clean-cut girl.
 
Several poor films almost ended Travolta's career in the 1980s. But he began a comeback with Look Who's Talking in 1989. His portrayal of a hit man in the 1994 film Pulp Fiction firmly reestablished his star status. Then Travolta played a variety of characters in a string of hits: a hoodlum in Get Shorty (1995); a man suddenly gifted with extraordinary intelligence in Phenomenon (1996); and a criminal who exchanges identities with another man in Face/Off (1997). In 1998, he portrayed a U.S. presidential candidate patterned after Bill Clinton in Primary Colors. In Be Cool (2005), the sequel to Get Shorty, Travolta played a former mobster who tries his hand as a producer in the music industry. In 2007, Travolta continued to demonstrate his acting versatility; he starred as the plus-sized mother of a plus-sized young dancer in the film musical Hairspray.

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