Kelly Preston died today her husband John Travolta has revealed. The 57-year old Twins and Jerry Maguire star passed away Sunday after a long fight against breast cancer. Hawaii-born Preston’…
Married in 1991, the couple have a 20-year old daughter Elia and a nine-year old son Benjamin. Travolta and Preston lost their 16-year old son Jet in 2006 from circumstances related to his autism and seizures.
Born Kelly Kamalelehua Smith in Honolulu Hawaii; Preston took on her current stage name when she began acting in 1984. She studied drama and theater and USC.
and of course, as the aggressive ex-girlfriend of Tom Cruise’s sports agent Jerry Maguire in Cameron Crowe’sRelated Storyand Kate Newell in the Eddie Murphy 1998 comedy opposite Kevin Spacey, Barry Pepper, and Jon Lovitz. She also had the lead in the ABC/20th Century Fox TV/21 Laps TV moviedirected by Gail Mancuso, in which played Karey, a clean-nosed black sheep in a family of drug addicts and petty thieves, who raises her brother’s kids when he’s sent to prison.
She would continue on to work with Travolta three more times, notably as the girlfriend of his character in the 2000 sci-fi movieand most recently, the mafia movieOff the Rails being in post-production. The pic directed by Jules Williamson stars Judi Dench and follows four friends in their ’50s who recreate an inter-rail journey across Europe. Preston was repped by CAA.
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