John Travolta
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.
186 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 186
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Saturday Night Live
1975
Top of the Pops
1964
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The View
1997
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Great Performances
1971
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
El hormiguero
2006
Pulp Fiction
1994
Emergency!
1972
Tony Awards
1956
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Champs-Elysées
1982
MTV Video Music Awards
1984
American Crime Story
2016
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Medical Center
1969
Sacrée soirée
1987
Panorama
1953
Wetten, dass..?
1981
The Rookies
1972
The Oscars
1953
Good Day Live
2001
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
The Reichen Show
2005
Sanremo Music Festival
1951
The Punisher
2004
Goldene Kamera
1984
The Jay Leno Show
2009
Face/Off
1997
From Paris with Love
2010
Fifth Gear
2002
Grease
1978
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1971
Where Are They Now?
1999
Rove
1999
Fear Factor
2001
Jay Leno's Garage
2015
Entertainment Tonight
1981
Bolt
2008
Carrie
1976
Austin Powers in Goldmember
2002
Die Hart
2020
The Thin Red Line
1998
High Rollers
2025
Swordfish
2001
Hart to Heart
2021
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
2022
Broken Arrow
1996
Harty
1983
Welcome Back, Kotter
1975
Get Shorty
1995
Wild Hogs
2007
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
2009
Phenomenon
1996
Hairspray
2007
The Captain and Tennille
1976
Fat Actress
2005
Battlefield Earth
2000
Saturday Night Fever
1977
Kirstie
2013
The Playboy Murders
2023
Be Cool
2005
Eyes of an Angel
1991
Cash Out
2024
The General's Daughter
1999
Michael
1996
The True Story of...
2017
Savages
2012
I Am Wrath
2016
Behind Closed Doors with Natalie Morales
2015
Blow Out
1981
Die Hart
2023
Basic
2003
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
The Early Show
1999
Staying Alive
1983
Look Who's Talking Now!
1993
The Poison Rose
2019
Paradise City
2022
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021
Primary Colors
1998
Urban Cowboy
1980
Old Dogs
2009
Lonely Hearts
2006
Propeller One-Way Night Coach
2026
Look Who's Talking Too
1990
Mob Land
2023
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
2005
I'm Still Here
2010
Ladder 49
2004
Look Who's Talking
1989
Life on the Line
2016
A Civil Action
1998
Mad City
1997
Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life
1997
Killing Season
2013
Close Up
2012
Gotti
2018
Perfect
1985
In a Valley of Violence
2016
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
Domestic Disturbance
2001
John Travolta, le miraculé d'Hollywood
2017
The Forger
2014
The Fanatic
2019
Oprah's Big Give
2008
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
A Love Song for Bobby Long
2004
Two of a Kind
1983
Criminal Activities
2015
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
2004
Lucky Numbers
2000
November 1963
2026
Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's
1998
Speed Kills
2018
She's So Lovely
1997
American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective
2022
Mr. T and Tina
1976
Trading Paint
2019
The Shepherd
2023
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
2008
Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of Filmmaking
2013
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
1976
Our Friend, Martin
1999
Brando
2007
Casting By
2012
Studio 54
2018
Junket Whore
1998
The Grand Knockout Tournament
1987
James Bond: The First 21 Years
1983
The Experts
1989
Basements
1987
Orientation: A Scientology Information Film
1996
Boris and Natasha
1992
White Man's Burden
1995
Shout
1991
Stayin' Alive: A Grammy Salute to the Music of the Bee Gees
2017
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
2010
David Blaine: Beyond Magic
2016
The Devil’s Rain
1975
Welcome to Hollywood
2000
That's Dancing!
1985
The Fabulous Allan Carr
2017
The Gentleman Thief
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John Travolta: The Inside Story
2004
Saturday Night Fever: The Ultimate Disco Movie
2017
Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond
2016
Black Tides
2026
The Grease Story
2017
Seriously... Phil Collins
1990
Urban Cowboy: The Rise and Fall of Gilley's
2015
Bee Gees: One Night Only
1998
Forever Hollywood
1999
Tony Bennett: An American Classic
2006
That's Amore!
—
Chains of Gold
1991
The Scrat Show
2012
Pulp Fiction: The Facts
2002
The Tenth Level
1976
ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration
2003
Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles
2023
Be Cool, Very Cool
2005
Nightmare
1974
Syndicate
—
Celebrities Uncensored
2003
Scientology: The Road to Total Freedom?
1987
Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s
2002
Bio.
2005
Trailer Camp
1995
Moment by Moment
1978
War Journal: On the Set of "The Punisher"
2004
Grease Day USA
1978
Pulp Fiction: Behind The Scenes Montages
2002
ED
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Rona Barrett Looks at 1978
1979
Pattern Recognition
2017
Everyday Heroes: Real Stories from Real Firefighters
2005
America's Flying Aces: The Blue Angels 50th Anniversary
1996
John Travolta Remembers James Cagney
2003
The Kick That United A Nation
2025
The Time, the Place, the Motion: Remembering Grease
2006