John Joseph Travolta ( Englewood , New Jersey, United States, February 18, 1954 ) is an actor , singer , dancer and pilot aviator American , known for her performances in films such as Saturday Night Fever , Grease, Urban Cowboy , experts , Look Who's Talking , Pulp Fiction , Face / Off , The Punisher , among others. He has developed many different roles in many genres , which has given him the reputation of extremely histrionic and versatile actor.
He has worked with many renowned artists , including names such as Uma Thurman , Olivia Newton John , Nicolas Cage, Nancy Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kirstie Alley, Denzel Washington, Danny DeVito, Brian de Palma , Christian Slater , Halle Berry, Samuel L Jackson , Bruce Willis, Robin Williams , Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro among many others.
His career spans over four decades , covering the prolific amount of over forty films , concentrating multiple nominations for the Academy Award , BAFTA Award and Screen Actors Guild Screen Actors Guild . He has won a Golden Globe for Best Actor and is considered an icon of cinema and entertainment .
It began with performances in various plays of considerable success. Among them, the stage version of the musical Grease, who later starred in the movies. But his manager had the attention focused elsewhere: New York may be the right place for the theater, but where was Hollywood film and television was.
