Joseph "Joey" Travolta (born October 14, 1950) is an American actor, producer, director and writer. His brother is actor John Travolta.
Travolta, one of six children, was born and raised in Englewood, New Jersey, an inner-ring suburb of New York City. His father, Salvatore Travolta, was a semi-professional football player turned tire salesman and partner in a tire company. His mother, Helen Cecilia (1912–1978) (née Burke), who was 38 when Travolta was born, was an actress and singer who had appeared in The Sunshine Sisters, a radio vocal group, and acted and directed before becoming a high school drama and English teacher. His father was a second-generation Italian American and his mother was Irish American.
He attended Shepherd University in West Virginia while rooming with future West Virginia historian and special education vanguard, Dave Lind. Travolta also graduated from Paterson State College, now William Paterson University of New Jersey, with a degree in special education.
Travolta began a singing career in 1978 as a recording artist on Casablanca Records. The following year he made his acting debut starring in the feature film Sunnyside for Filmways Productions. He then
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