Kelly Preston

Kelly Kamalelehua Smith and also Australia, where she attended Pembroke School, Adelaide. She then attended Punahou School in Honolulu, graduating in 1980, and studied drama and theater at the University of Southern California. ==Career==

While living in Australia, she was discovered at age 16 by a fashion photographer who helped her get work in commercials and other small parts. At that time she changed her last name to Preston. Her first prominent film roles came in 1985—first as Marilyn McCauley in the romantic teen flick comedy Mischief; then as the beautiful but shallow Deborah Ann Fimple in another teen romantic comedy, Secret Admirer. Her other roles included SpaceCamp (1986), Twins (1988) with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito, Avery Bishop in Jerry Maguire (1996) with Tom Cruise, Jane Aubrey in For Love of the Game with Kevin Costner and Kate Newell, and in Holy Man (1998) with Eddie Murphy and Jeff Goldblum. In 1997, she starred in Nothing to Lose, which co-starred Tim Robbins and Martin Lawrence. She also starred in the movie Jack Frost (1998). She played the girlfriend of her husband John Travolta's character Terl in the film Battlefield Earth, and had a short term recurring role in Medium. She was a spokeswoman for Neutrogena, appearing in its print and television ads.{{cite web Her final red carpet appearance came at the New York City premiere of her husband's motion picture Gotti in 2018.{{cite news |url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/how-kelly-preston-spent-her-final-years Her final film role was in the comedy-drama Off the Rails, which was released in late July 2021 in the UK. ==Personal life==

Preston was married to actor Kevin Gage from 1985 until their divorce in 1987. She also had a relationship with George Clooney in the late 1980s. but ended the relationship shortly after an accidental gun discharge left shrapnel in her body. In a 2011 interview with TMZ, Preston said that Sheen did not shoot her. Preston met John Travolta in 1987 while filming The Experts. In 2003, Preston appeared on The Montel Williams Show to promote L. Ron Hubbard's Purification Rundown, which she credited with helping her son. On January 2, 2009, Jett Travolta died at the age of 16 while the family was vacationing in the Bahamas. His death was attributed to a seizure. On January 23, 2009, three people were arrested in the Bahamas in connection with a multimillion-dollar extortion plot against Travolta and Preston concerning the circumstances of their son's death. One of the men, Obie Wilchcombe, a member of the Bahamian Parliament and former Bahamian Minister of Tourism, was described as a "close friend" of Travolta and Preston. Travolta and Preston confirmed longstanding speculations when they testified that their son had autism and suffered regular seizures. The first trial ended in a mistrial. After a second jury had been selected, the Travoltas elected to drop the case and all charges against the defendants were dismissed. ==Death==

On July 12, 2020, Preston died at the age of 57 at her home in Clearwater, Florida, two years after she had been diagnosed with breast cancer.{{cite web |date=July 12, 2020| access-date=July 13, 2020 |last=Seemayer |first=Zach |url=https://www.etonline.com/kelly-preston-actress-and-wife-of-john-travolta-dead-at-57-149535 ==Filmography==

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