John Travolta Biography

- He was nicknamed Bone as a child.

- Ranked #21 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]

- Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1976" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 28.

- In July 1978 he became the very first male to make the cover of "McCall's" magazine.

- Read for the Tom Hanks’ role in Splash (1984) but was discouraged by his agent from doing the film.

- Did yoga and boxing to reduce his love handles for the film Swordfish (2001).

- His favourite film is Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942).

- Owns homes in Santa Barbara; California; Florida; Maine and in his wife's home state of Hawaii.

- Main residence is in Ocala, Florida where he owns a large home, complete with airstrip for his planes.

- While filming the movie Blow Out (1981), he started to suffer from insomnia, which he had since he was a child waiting up for his mother to come home from late acting jobs.

- He learned to play the violin to calm his nerves.

- He was voted the 64th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly.

- Is Oprah Winfrey's favourite movie star.

- His best female friend is Kirstie Alley.

- He frequently eats at Denny's in the middle of the night. Which is where he ate through the movie Lucky Numbers (2000).

- Got the role of Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction (1994) because Michael Madsen, the actor whom the part was written for, was unavailable due to a prior film commitment.

- Vincent was the brother of Michael Madsen's character Vic Vega (AKA: Mr. Blonde in Reservoir Dogs (1992)) and the role jump-started his career after a long slump.

- Was among the guests at Tom Cruise's and Katie Holmes' wedding ceremony in Italy.