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Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an Oscar-nominated and
Golden Globe Award-winning American actor, dancer, and singer,
best known for his leading roles in films such as Saturday Night
Fever, Grease, Pulp Fiction, and Hairspray. Travolta is a
certified pilot and owns five airplanes, including an
ex-Australian Boeing 707-138 airliner. It was not until he played
Vincent Vega in Quentin Tarantino's hit Pulp Fiction (1994), for
which he received an Academy Award nomination, that his career was
revived. The movie shifted him back onto the A-list, and he was
inundated with offers. Coincidentally, before Travolta took the
role he visited Tarantino, who was living in the same ramshackle
apartment in Los Angeles that Travolta had inhabited when he got
his start. Notable roles following Pulp Fiction include a
movie-buff loan shark in Get Shorty (1995), an FBI agent in
Face/Off (1997), a desperate attorney in A Civil Action (1998), a
Bill Clinton-esque presidential candidate in Primary Colors (1998)
and a military detective in The General's Daughter (1999). In
2004, Travolta played Deputy Chief Mike Kennedy in the Ladder 49.
This film was notable for being the first post 9/11 film that
focused on the life of a crew of firefighters. Travolta starred as
a successful businessman gone broke/biker in 2007's Wild Hogs.
Travolta plays Edna Turnblad in the remake of Hairspray, his first
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