Celebrity Biographies
Kelly Preston
He demonstrated his talent in feature films such as “Jerry Maguire”, or “Between love and the game”. Kelly Preston passed away on July 12, 2020, at age 57, after she was diagnosed with breast cancer two years earlier. Her husband of twenty-nine years, the popular John Travolta, took it upon himself to report her death. “It is with a broken heart that I tell you that my beautiful wife Kelly has lost her battle against the disease. She fought bravely, with the support and love of many. I will take time to be with my children who have lost their mother, so forgive me if you haven’t heard from me for a while. All my love.”
Born in Honolulu (Hawaii), on October 13, 1962, Kelly Kamalelehua Smith -her real name- lost her father, who drowned when she was three years old. She debuted as an actress in the popular series Hawaii 5-0, in 1980. In cinema, she had a small role in Christine , an adaptation of a Stephen King novel , before appearing in titles such as Twins Strike Twice or From Dusk Till Dawn .
He lived his most popular time in the mid-90s, when he gave life to Tom Cruise ‘s fiancée in Jerry Maguire , and starred with Kevin Costner in the film Between love and play .
Divorced in 1986 from actor Kevin Gaye, Kelly Preston joined John Travolta , with whom she starred in The Experts , a flop even if it changed both their lives. “Suddenly I saw him walk towards me with an attitude and with his two dogs. I fell in love,” she recounted in an interview. “Many years before, when I was very young, I saw a poster for Greaseand I had a premonition that I would marry him.” The couple had three children, but in 2009 one of them died, the teenager Jett, who suffered from a rare disease. “When something like this happens or complicates the couple or your It helps to get ahead,” he said in an interview. “I think we both tried to deal with the pain as best we could. It was a moment in which it was very difficult to look at each other, because if one was wrong, the other would collapse, but the strength of our relationship helped us.”
Along with Travolta, he starred in Battlefield: Earth , based on a novel by the creator of the Church of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard , to which both belonged, but the film was a great commercial failure. The actress was last seen in theaters as the wife of mobster John Gotti, Victoria, with her real-life husband, in Gotti . She is leaving the comedy Off the Rails , in which she stars with Judi Dench , pending .