Kelly Preston, actor and wife of John Travolta, dies at 57
Posted July 13, 2020 5:28 am.
Last Updated July 13, 2020 11:49 am.
Kelly Preston, who played dramatic and comic foil to actors ranging from Tom Cruise in “Jerry Maguire” to Arnold Schwarzenegger in “Twins,” died Sunday.
She was 57.
Her husband John Travolta said in an Instagram post that his wife of 28 years died after a two-year battle with breast cancer.
Travolta said “It is with a very heavy heart that I inform you that my beautiful wife Kelly has lost her two-year battle with breast cancer” — adding “She fought a courageous fight with the love and support of so many.”
The couple had three children together.
Preston had a lengthy acting career in movies and television, starring opposite Kevin Costner in the 1999 film “For the Love of the Game.”
In 2003, she starred in “What a Girl Wants” and as the mom in the live-action adaptation of “The Cat in the Hat.”
The following year she appeared in the music video for Maroon 5’s “She Will Be Loved.”
She occasionally appeared in films with her husband, as they did in the box-office bomb “Battlefield Earth” in 2000.
Preston and Travolta were married at a midnight ceremony in Paris in 1991 while the couple were expecting their first son, Jett.
In January 2009, Jett Travolta, 16, died after a seizure at the family’s vacation home in the Bahamas.
