Kelly Kamalelehua Smith, known professionally as Kelly Preston, was an American actress.
24 Facts About Kelly Preston
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Kelly Preston appeared in more than 60 television and film productions, including Mischief, Twins, Jerry Maguire, and For Love of the Game.
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Kelly Preston married John Travolta in 1991, and collaborated with him on the comedy film The Experts and the biographical film Gotti.
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Kelly Preston starred in the films SpaceCamp, The Cat in the Hat, What a Girl Wants, Sky High, and Old Dogs.
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Kelly Preston's mother, Linda, was an administrator of a mental health center.
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Kelly Preston's mother subsequently married Peter Palzis, a personnel director.
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Kelly Preston adopted her, and she used his name at the start of her acting career.
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Kelly Preston then attended Punahou School in Honolulu, graduating in 1980, and studied drama and theater at the University of Southern California.
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Kelly Preston arranged her first film audition for the role of Emmeline in The Blue Lagoon, which she lost to the younger Brooke Shields.
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Kelly Preston played the girlfriend of her husband John Travolta's character Terl in the film Battlefield Earth, for which she received "Worst Supporting Actress" at the 21st Golden Raspberry Awards.
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Kelly Preston appeared as the protagonist's flying, superhero mother in the film Sky High.
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Kelly Preston appeared in the crime thriller Death Sentence, in which she played Helen Hume, the wife of Kevin Bacon's character Nick.
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Kelly Preston starred in the Lifetime television film The Tenth Circle, directed by Peter Markle.
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Kelly Preston was a spokeswoman for Neutrogena, appearing in its print and television ads.
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Kelly Preston was married to actor Kevin Gage from 1985 until their divorce in 1987.
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Kelly Preston had a relationship with George Clooney in the late 1980s.
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Kelly Preston was briefly engaged to Charlie Sheen in 1990, but ended the relationship shortly after he allegedly shot her in the arm.
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Kelly Preston met John Travolta in 1987 while filming The Experts.
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In 2003, Preston appeared on The Montel Williams Show to promote L Ron Hubbard's Purification Rundown, which she credited with helping her son.
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In September 2009, Travolta and Kelly Preston confirmed longstanding speculations when they testified that their son had autism and suffered regular seizures.
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On January 23,2009, three people were arrested in the Bahamas in connection with a multimillion-dollar extortion plot against Travolta and Kelly Preston concerning the circumstances of their son's death.
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On July 12,2020, Kelly Preston died at the age of 57 at her home in Clearwater, Florida, two years after she had been diagnosed with breast cancer.
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Kelly Preston had been receiving treatment at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston; she had been treated at other medical centers.
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Kelly Preston's death was announced in an Instagram post under an account belonging to John Travolta and Ella Bleu.