Kelly Preston

Kelly Preston

Preston talks with Navy family members at the USO holiday party at Rockwell Hall Gym on Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek, Virginia, December 3, 2005.
Born Kelly Kamalelehua Smith
October 13, 1962 (1962-10-13) (age 48)
, U.S.
Alma mater University of Southern California
Occupation Actress/Model
Years active 1976–1983 (model)
1983–present (actress)
Spouse Kevin Gage (1985–1987)
John Travolta (m. 1991–present, 2 children)
Website
http://www.kellypreston.com/

Kelly Preston Travolta (born October 13, 1962) is an American actress and former model.

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Early years

Preston was born as Kelly Kamalelehua Smith[1] in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her mother, Linda,[2] was an administrator of a mental health center, and her father, who worked for an agricultural firm, drowned when Preston was three years old.[3] Her adoptive father was Peter Palzis, a personnel director, with whose name she began her acting career, and her stepfather was Lee Carlson.[1][4] As a child, she spent time living in Iraq and Australia as a result of her biological father's work. While living in Australia, she attended Pembroke School in Adelaide, South Australia. She later attended Punahou School and studied drama and theater at the University of Southern California.[5]

Career

While living in Australia, Preston was discovered at 16 by a fashion photographer who helped her get work in commercials and other small parts,[1] which eventually developed into a successful movie career. Her first prominent role in a film came as the "popular girl" in 1985's Secret Admirer opposite C. Thomas Howell.

She played the girlfriend of her husband, John Travolta's, character "Terl" in the 2000 film Battlefield Earth,[6] and received "Worst Supporting Actress" at the 21st Golden Raspberry Awards for her role in the film.[7]

Preston was featured in the chart-topping Maroon 5 music video, "She Will Be Loved" in 2004. The video features a love triangle and romantic scenes between Preston and Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine. In 2008, she was cast in a television pilot for a potential show called Suburban Shootout.[8] She had a short term recurring role on Medium.[8]

In 2008, Preston starred in the Lifetime Original Movie "The Tenth Circle", directed by Peter Markle. The film was shot in Nova Scotia and featured Ron Eldard, Brittany Robertson, Michael Riley, Jamie Johnston, and Geordie Brown.[9]

She is a spokeswoman for Neutrogena and appears in print and television ads.

Relationships

Kevin Gage and Charlie Sheen

Preston was married to actor Kevin Gage from 1985 to 1987.[10] She also had relationships with George Clooney and Charlie Sheen.[1] Clooney's pet pig, Max, was a gift for Preston that Clooney kept after the couple split up.[11] Sheen presented Preston with a 2.5 carat pink diamond engagement ring when he proposed to her in 1989, although they never married.[1] After living with Sheen for one year, she ended the relationship in 1990, shortly after an incident in which Sheen accidentally shot her in the leg.[12]

John Travolta

Preston first met John Travolta in 1987 while filming The Experts.[13] The pair married in 1991. Both came on board of Air-France flight Concorde in September 1991 before their wedding at Hotel de Crillon, Paris, close to Place de la Concorde. Two ceremonies had to be conducted because the first, performed in Paris on September 5, 1991 by a French Scientologist minister (both Preston and Travolta are Scientologists), was legally invalid. The second ceremony took place a week later, on September 12, in Daytona Beach, Florida.[14] The couple had a son in 1992, Jett, followed by a daughter Ella Bleu (2000). On May 18, 2010, Travolta and Preston announced, Kelly is pregnant with the couple's third child,[15] later confirmed to be a boy.[16]

On January 2, 2009, their oldest child, Jett, died while the family was on holiday in The Bahamas.[17][18] The cause of death was attributed to a seizure.[19] Jett reportedly suffered from Kawasaki disease in early childhood and had a history of seizures.[20][21] Long a source of speculation,[22] in September 2009, Travolta and Preston testified that their son had autism and suffered regular seizures. Their revelation occurred as part of testimony they gave at a trial which resulted after an extortion attempt related to their son's death.[23] On January 23, 2009, three people were arrested in the Bahamas in connection with a multi-million dollar extortion plot against Travolta and Preston around the circumstances of their son's death.[24] 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.[24] Two others allegedly involved were an EMT named Tarino Lightbourne and a Bahamian senator named Pleasant Bridgewater. The senator was charged with abetment to extort and conspiracy to extort and she resigned from the Senate as a result of the allegations.[24][25]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1980 Hawaii Five-O Wendy Episode: "For Old Times Sake"
1982 Capitol Gillian McCandless TV series
1983 Quincy M.E. Ginger Reeves Episode: "On Dying High"
1983 10 to Midnight Doreen
1983 CHiPs Anna Episode: "Things That Go Creep in the Night"
1983 Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn Dhyana
1983 Christine Roseanne
1983 Lone Star Redhead TV movies
1983 For Love and Honor Mary Lee 1983–1984 (12 episodes)
1984 Riptide Sherry Meyers Episode: "The Hardcase"
1984 Blue Thunder Amy Braddock Episode: "The Long Flight"
1985 Mischief Marilyn McCauley
1985 Secret Admirer Deborah Anne Fimple
1986 SpaceCamp Tish Ambrosei
1986 52 Pick-Up Cini
1987 Love at Stake Sara Lee
1987 Tiger's Tale, AA Tiger's Tale Shirley Butts
1987 Amazon Women on the Moon Violet Segment, "Titan Man"
1988 Twins Marnie Mason
1988 Experts, TheThe Experts Bonnie
1988 Spellbinder Miranda Reed
1990 Tales from the Crypt Linda Episode: "The Switch"
1991 Run Karen Landers
1991 Perfect Bride, TheThe Perfect Bride Laura TV movie
1992 Only You Amanda Hughes
1993 American Clock, TheThe American Clock Diana Marley TV movie
1994 Love Is a Gun Jean Starr
1994 Double Cross Vera Blanchard
1994 Cheyenne Warrior Rebecca Carver TV movies
1995 Little Surprises Ginger TV movies
1995 Mrs. Munck Young Rose
1995 Waiting to Exhale Kathleen (uncredited)
1996 Citizen Ruth Rachel
1996 From Dusk till Dawn Kelly Hogue
1996 Curdled Kelly Hogue
1996 Jerry Maguire Avery Bishop
1997 Addicted to Love Linda
1997 Nothing to Lose Ann Beam
1998 Holy Man Kate Newell
1998 Jack Frost Gabby Frost
1999 For Love of the Game Jane Aubrey
2000 Bar Hopping Bebe TV movie
2000 Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 Chirk
2001 Daddy and Them Rose
2003 View from the Top Sherry
2003 What a Girl Wants Libby Reynolds
2003 Cat in the Hat, TheThe Cat in the Hat Mom
2004 Eulogy Lucy Collins
2004 Return to Sender Susan Kennan
2004 Joey Donna Di Gregorio Episodes: "Joey and the Dream Girl: Parts 1 and 2"
2005 Fat Actress Quinn Taylor Scott 4 episodes
2005 Sky High Josie Stronghold / Jetstream
2006 Broken Bridges Angela Dalton
2007 Death Sentence Helen Hume
2008 Struck Trista
2008 Medium Meghan Doyle 4 episodes
2008 Tenth Circle, TheThe Tenth Circle Laura Stone TV movie
2008 Suburban Shootout Camilla Diamond TV series
2009 Old Dogs Vicki
2010 Bagman Pam Abramoff
2010 From Paris with Love Woman on Eiffel Tower (uncredited)
2010 Last Song, TheThe Last Song Kim

References

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  2. ↑ Donnelly, Dave. "Hawaii." Honolulu Star-Bulletin. May 17, 1999.
  3. ↑ "Kelly Preston Profile". uk.eonline.com. E! Online. http://uk.eonline.com/uberblog/celebs/c113179_kelly_preston.html. Retrieved 2010-08-22. 
  4. ↑ "Kelly Preston Biography (1962-)". FilmReference.com. NetIndustries, LLC. http://www.filmreference.com/film/45/Kelly-Preston.html. Retrieved 2010-08-22. 
  5. ↑ "About Kelly". Kelly Preston.com. http://www.kellypreston.com/. Retrieved 2008-02-26. 
  6. ↑ Graham, Bob (2001-01-19). "Travolta's Demolition Derby: Comic-book nuttiness lifts 'Battlefield Earth'". San Francisco Chronicle (Hearst Communications). http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/01/19/DD162654.DTL. Retrieved 2008-06-12. 
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  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Trechak, Brad (2008-05-16). "Kelly Preston in new HBO series". TV Squad. http://www.tvsquad.com/2008/05/16/kelly-preston-in-new-hbo-series/. Retrieved 2008-06-12. 
  9. ↑ "The Tenth Circle". IMDB. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1132288/. Retrieved 4 Jul 2010. 
  10. ↑ "For Kelly Preston, life is more than 'Sky High'", Chicago Tribune, 2005-07-30
  11. ↑ "Grunt in peace, the pig that won George's heart". Mail Online. 2006-12-04. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-420499/Grunt-peace-pig-won-Georges-heart.html. Retrieved 2009-01-04. 
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  13. ↑ Bob and Sheri Stritof. "Kelly Preston and John Travolta Marriage Profile." about.com. Retrieved 4 January 2009.
  14. ↑ "John Travolta Biography". Enewsreference.com. http://www.enewsreference.com/actors/john_travolta.html. Retrieved 2009-08-04. 
  15. ↑ "John Travolta and Kelly Preston Are Expecting!". People. May 18, 2010. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20386272,00.html. Retrieved May 18, 2010. 
  16. ↑ "Kelly Preston, John Travolta expecting a boy". CNN. August 25, 2010. http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/08/25/kelly.preston.john.travolta.ppl/. Retrieved August 25, 2010. 
  17. ↑ "Jett Travolta, son of actors, dies at 16". CNN. 2009-01-02. http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/02/obit.jett.travolta/. Retrieved 2009-01-02. 
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  19. ↑ "Death Certificate: John Travolta's Son Died of a Seizure". ABC News. 2009-01-05. http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/MindMoodNews/story?id=6576215&page=1. Retrieved 2009-01-05. 
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  21. ↑ Errico, Marcus (2009-01-02). "John Travolta's Son Jett Dead at 16". E! Online. http://uk.eonline.com/uberblog/b77259_john_travoltas_son_jett_dead_16.html. Retrieved 2009-01-02. 
  22. ↑ Heureux, Steve L. (2009-09-24). "Travolta finally admits that son had Autism". The Examiner. http://www.examiner.com/x-17410-Toledo-Autism--Parenting-Examiner~y2009m9d24-Travolta-finally-admits-that-son-had-Autism. Retrieved 2009-09-24. 
  23. ↑ Abraham, Mary Rose (2009-09-23). "From John Travolta: I Ran Down the Stairs To Help My Son". ABC News. http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/john-travolta-bahamas-testify-extortion-case/story?id=8649816. Retrieved 2009-09-23. 
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 Harlow, John (2009-01-25). "Senator ‘tried to extort cash’ from Travolta over son’s death". The Sunday Times. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5581456.ece. Retrieved 2009-01-25. 
  25. ↑ "Travolta Suspect Resigns". TMZ.com. 2009-01-24. http://www.tmz.com/2009/01/24/travolta-suspect-resigns/. Retrieved 2009-01-25. 

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