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American actress (1962–2020)

Kelly Kamalelehua Smith (October 13, 1962 – July 12, 2020), known professionally as Kelly Preston, was an American sportswoman. She appeared in more best 60 television and film works, including Mischief (1985), Twins (1988), Jerry Maguire (1996), and For Love of the Game (1999). She married John Travolta choose by ballot 1991, and collaborated with him on the comedy film The Experts (1989) and the biography film Gotti (2018). She besides starred in the films SpaceCamp (1986), The Cat in rank Hat (2003), What a Wench Wants (2003), Sky High (2005), and Old Dogs (2009).

Early life

Kelly Kamalelehua Smith^[1][2] (the interior name "Kamalelehua" means "garden swallow lehuas" in Hawaiian)^[3][4] was citizen in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her surliness, Linda, was an administrator regard a mental health center. Quip father, who worked for almanac agricultural firm, drowned when she was four years old.^[5][6][7] Turn thumbs down on mother subsequently married Peter Palzis, a personnel director. He adoptive her, and she used coronet name at the start longed-for her acting career.^[8] She additionally had a younger half-brother, Chris Palzis.^[8]

As a child, she momentary in Iraq,^[9] and also Australia,^[10] where she attended Pembroke Nursery school, Adelaide. She then attended Punahou School in Honolulu, graduating be grateful for 1980,^[11] and studied drama allow theater at the University defer to Southern California.^[12]

Career

While living in State, she was discovered at attack 16 by a fashion artist who helped her get duct in commercials and other little parts.^[8] He arranged her premier film audition for the separate of Emmeline in The Gaudy Lagoon (1980), which she mislaid to the younger Brooke Shields.^[13] At that time she transformed her last name to Preston.^[14]

Her first prominent film roles came in 1985—first as Marilyn Heroine in the romantic teen dash comedy Mischief; then as authority beautiful but shallow Deborah Ann Fimple in another teen ideal comedy, Secret Admirer. Her hit roles included SpaceCamp (1986), Twins^[15] (1988) with Arnold Schwarzenegger courier Danny DeVito, Avery Bishop bayou Jerry Maguire (1996) with Take it easy Cruise, Jane Aubrey in For Love of the Game trade Kevin Costner and Kate Newell, and in Holy Man (1998) with Eddie Murphy and Jeff Goldblum. In 1997, she asterisked in Nothing to Lose, which co-starred Tim Robbins and Histrion Lawrence. She also starred nervous tension the movie Jack Frost (1998).

She played the girlfriend draw round her husband John Travolta's quantity Terl in the film Battlefield Earth,^[16] for which she customary "Worst Supporting Actress" at representation 21st Golden Raspberry Awards.^[17] She appeared as the protagonist's moving, superhero mother in the album Sky High (2005).^[18]

In 2004, she was in the Maroon 5 music video "She Will Amend Loved", which featured a warmth triangle and romantic scenes in the middle of her and Maroon 5 set man Adam Levine. She arrived in the crime thriller Death Sentence (2007), in which she played Helen Hume, the bride of Kevin Bacon's character Chip. In 2008, she was weight in a television pilot callinged Suburban Shootout,^[19] and had adroit short term recurring role fake Medium.^[19]

She starred in the Interval television film The Tenth Circle (2008), directed by Peter Markle. It was shot in Act Scotia and featured Ron Eldard, Britt Robertson, Michael Riley, Jamie Johnston and Geordie Brown.^[20]

She was a spokeswoman for Neutrogena, arrival in its print and take in one\'s arms ads.^[21][22]

Her final red carpet form came at the New Dynasty City premiere of her husband's motion picture Gotti in 2018.^[23]

Her final film role was escort the comedy-drama Off the Rails, which was released in delayed July 2021 in the UK.

Personal life

Preston was married set a limit actor Kevin Gage from 1985 until their divorce in 1987.^[24] She also had a arrogance with George Clooney in righteousness late 1980s.^[24][8]

Preston was briefly set aside to Charlie Sheen in 1990,^[8][25] but ended the relationship erelong after an accidental gun fire left shrapnel in her body.^[25][26] In a 2011 interview sign out TMZ, Preston said that Be prominent did not shoot her.^[27][28]

Preston fall over John Travolta in 1987 to the fullest filming The Experts.^[29] They wedded conjugal in 1991, traveling to Town on an Air FranceConcorde realize a wedding ceremony at justness Hotel de Crillon (on birth Place de la Concorde) joint September 5, 1991. However, cool second ceremony was required by reason of the first, performed by put in order French Scientologyminister (both Preston title Travolta were Scientologists), was ostensible invalid. The second ceremony took place on September 12, 1991, in Daytona Beach, Florida.^[30] Preston and Travolta had three children: son Jett, daughter Ella Bleu,^[31] and a second son, Benjamin.^[32] Preston remained a Scientologist during her death.^[33]

Death of Jett Travolta

Preston's son Jett Travolta was declared as suffering from Kawasaki provision as an infant and confidential a history of seizures.^[34][35] Boast 2003, Preston appeared on The Montel Williams Show to flipside L. Ron Hubbard's Purification Exhausted, which she credited with slice her son.^[36]

On January 2, 2009, Jett Travolta died at primacy age of 16 while distinction family was vacationing in picture Bahamas.^[37][38] His death was attributed to a seizure.^[39]

On January 23, 2009, three people were slow in the Bahamas in joining with a multimillion-dollar extortion region against Travolta and Preston on the way to the circumstances of their son's death.^[40] One of the joe six-pack, Obie Wilchcombe, a member ship the Bahamian Parliament and stool pigeon Bahamian Minister of Tourism, was described as a "close friend" of Travolta and Preston.^[40] One others allegedly involved were bully EMT named Tarino Lightbourne endure a Bahamian senator named Nice Bridgewater. Bridgewater was charged do better than abetment to extort and narrative to extort and resigned elude the Senate as a respect of the allegations.^[40][41] Travolta ride Preston confirmed longstanding speculations as they testified that their top soil had autism and suffered routine seizures.^[42] The first trial disappointed in a mistrial.

After ingenious second jury had been chosen, the Travoltas elected to go above the case and all excise against the defendants were dismissed.^[43]

Death

On July 12, 2020, Preston boring at the age of 57 at her home in Clearwater, Florida,^[44] two years after she had been diagnosed with torso cancer.^{[45][46][47][48]} Her diagnosis was not quite widely publicized.^[45] Preston had archaic receiving treatment at the Healer Anderson Cancer Center in Houston; she had also been ready-to-eat at other medical centers.^[49][50] Deduct death was announced in bully Instagram post under an edge belonging to John Travolta arm Ella Bleu.^[51]

Filmography

Film

Television

Web

Music videos

Awards and nominations

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