Saturday Night Fever (1977) catapulted John Travolta to global fame, and his star rose even higher with Grease. Born in 1954 in New Jersey, Travolta, the youngest of his family, left high school to pursue acting, a decision that ultimately paid off.
Over the years, Travolta has appeared in numerous films, including Two of a Kind (1983), Pulp Fiction (1994), Get Shorty (1995), Broken Arrow (1996), Wild Hogs (2007), and Gotti (2018).
In 1991, he married actress Kelly Preston, who later shared that she hadn’t been happy in her previous marriage. Travolta and Preston were together for nearly 30 years before Kelly passed away from breast cancer in 2020.
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