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John Travolta was born in New Jersey and dropped out of high school by age 16 to pursue acting. After a significant lull, Travolta made a career comeback in with Pulp Fiction , earning his second acting Oscar nomination and going on to star in an array of projects that included Get Shorty , Primary Colors , Battlefield Earth , Wild Hogs and American Crime Story.

The youngest of six children born into a family of entertainers, Travolta dropped out of high school by age 16 to pursue a career in acting. He made his debut in an off-Broadway production of Rain and then joined the Broadway cast of Grease as a replacement cast member in the role of Doody.

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He was later part of the original cast for the hit musical Over Here! He and actress Diana Hyland, who portrayed his mother in the film, entered into a romantic relationship that was cut short when she passed away from cancer. Portraying the white suit-clad Tony Manero, Travolta earned an Oscar nod for his boogeying, hip swiveling role, becoming an enduring icon for disco nightlife and s culture.

An even more mammoth hit followed the next year in the form of Grease. For his reunion with the musical, Travolta took on the lead role of cool guy Danny opposite suffering love interest Sandy, as played by Olivia Newton-John. The audience for Grease was massive. While it seemed Travolta could do no wrong with his run of TV and film successes, the actor saw his star power wane with forthcoming projects.

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After co-starring with Lily Tomlin in the romantic drama Moment by Moment , he did have another hit with the romantic drama Urban Cowboy. But this was followed by a series of misses such as the Saturday Night Fever sequel Staying Alive , directed by Sylvester Stallone and featuring a longer-maned Manero aiming to make it on Broadway. By the end of the s, despite a brief comeback with the Look Who's Talking series, featuring Kirstie Alley , Travolta's lackluster films landed him in the has-been actor category.

In , Travolta made a monumental career comeback when he starred in Quentin Tarantino 's classic film Pulp Fiction.