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Preston was born '''Kelly Kamalelehua Smith'''<ref name="yahoo" /> in [[Honolulu]], Hawaii. Her mother, Linda,<ref>Donnelly, Dave. [http://archives.starbulletin.com/1999/05/17/features/donnelly.html "Hawaii."] ''Honolulu Star-Bulletin''. May 17, 1999.</ref> was an administrator of a mental health center, and her father, who worked for an agricultural firm, drowned when Preston was three years old.<ref name="eonline" /> Her mother married Peter Palzis, a personnel director, who subsequently adopted her; she used his name when she first began her acting career.<ref name="yahoo" /><ref name="FilmReference" /> She has a younger maternal half-brother, Chris Palzis.<ref name="yahoo"/> As a child, she spent time living in Iraq and Australia. While living in Australia, she attended [[Pembroke School, Adelaide|Pembroke School]] in [[Adelaide |
Preston was born '''Kelly Kamalelehua Smith'''<ref name="yahoo" /> in [[Honolulu]], Hawaii. Her mother, Linda,<ref>Donnelly, Dave. [http://archives.starbulletin.com/1999/05/17/features/donnelly.html "Hawaii."] ''Honolulu Star-Bulletin''. May 17, 1999.</ref> was an administrator of a mental health center, and her father, who worked for an agricultural firm, drowned when Preston was three years old.<ref name="eonline" /> Her mother married Peter Palzis, a personnel director, who subsequently adopted her; she used his name when she first began her acting career.<ref name="yahoo" /><ref name="FilmReference" /> She has a younger maternal half-brother, Chris Palzis.<ref name="yahoo"/> As a child, she spent time living in Iraq and Australia. While living in Australia, she attended [[Pembroke School, Adelaide|Pembroke School]] in [[Adelaide, South Australia]]. She later attended [[Punahou School]] and studied drama and theater at the [[University of Southern California]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kellypreston.com/ |title=About Kelly |publisher=Kelly Preston.com |accessdate=February 26, 2008}}</ref> |
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== Career == |
== Career == |
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While living in Australia, Preston was discovered at 16 by a fashion photographer who helped her get work in commercials and other small parts,<ref name="yahoo" /> |
While living in Australia, Preston was discovered at 16 by a fashion photographer who helped her get work in commercials and other small parts,<ref name="yahoo" /> and organised Preston's first film audition in 1980 for the role of Emmeline in [[The Blue Lagoon]] (1980), which she lost to [[Brooke Shields]].<ref name=imdb>[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000593/bio IMDB Biography of Kelly Preston]</ref> At that time she changed her last name to Preston.<ref>[http://www.askmen.com/celebs/women/actress/38_kelly_preston.html Kelly Preston Vitals] at Ask Men.com</ref> Her first prominent film roles came in 1985 romantic comedy [[teen flick]]s as Marilyn McCauley in ''[[Mischief (film)|Mischief]]'' and then Deborah Ann Fimple in ''[[Secret Admirer]]''. Other notable roles included ''[[SpaceCamp]]'' (1986), ''[[Twins (1988 film)|Twins]]'' (1988) with [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] and [[Danny DeVito]], Avery Bishop in ''[[Jerry Maguire]]'' (1996) with [[Tom Cruise]] and Kate Newell in ''[[Holy Man]]'' (1998) with [[Eddie Murphy]]. |
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She played the girlfriend of her husband, [[John Travolta]]'s, character "Terl" in the 2000 film ''[[Battlefield Earth (film)|Battlefield Earth]]'',<ref name="bobgraham0119">{{cite news |last=Graham |first=Bob |title=Travolta's Demolition Derby: Comic-book nuttiness lifts 'Battlefield Earth' |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/01/19/DD162654.DTL |work=San Francisco Chronicle |publisher=[[Hearst Communications]] |date=January 19, 2001| accessdate=June 12, 2008}}</ref> and received "Worst Supporting Actress" at the [[21st Golden Raspberry Awards]] for her role in the film.<ref>{{cite book |last=Grant |first=John |title=Sci-Fi Movies: Facts, Figures & Fun |publisher=Sterling Publishing Company |year=2006 |pages=87 |isbn=1-904332-35-8}}</ref> In 2005 she appeared as the flying, superheroine mother of the protagonist in the film ''[[Sky High (2005 film)|Sky High]]''. |
She played the girlfriend of her husband, [[John Travolta]]'s, character "Terl" in the 2000 film ''[[Battlefield Earth (film)|Battlefield Earth]]'',<ref name="bobgraham0119">{{cite news |last=Graham |first=Bob |title=Travolta's Demolition Derby: Comic-book nuttiness lifts 'Battlefield Earth' |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/01/19/DD162654.DTL |work=San Francisco Chronicle |publisher=[[Hearst Communications]] |date=January 19, 2001| accessdate=June 12, 2008}}</ref> and received "Worst Supporting Actress" at the [[21st Golden Raspberry Awards]] for her role in the film.<ref>{{cite book |last=Grant |first=John |title=Sci-Fi Movies: Facts, Figures & Fun |publisher=Sterling Publishing Company |year=2006 |pages=87 |isbn=1-904332-35-8}}</ref> In 2005 she appeared as the flying, superheroine mother of the protagonist in the film ''[[Sky High (2005 film)|Sky High]]''. |
Revision as of 02:32, 21 February 2012
Kelly Preston | |
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Born | Kelly Kamalelehua Smith October 13, 1962 Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. |
Occupation(s) | model, actress |
Years active | 1976-1983 (model) 1983–present (actress) |
Spouse(s) | Kevin Gage (1985–1987, divorced) John Travolta (m. 1991–present) |
Children | Jett Travolta (1992–2009) Ella Bleu Travolta (b. 2000) Benjamin Hunter Kaleo Travolta (b. 2010) |
Website | http://www.kellypreston.com/ |
Kelly Preston (born October 13, 1962) is an American actress and former model.
Early years
Preston was born 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 mother married Peter Palzis, a personnel director, who subsequently adopted her; she used his name when she first began her acting career.[1][4] She has a younger maternal half-brother, Chris Palzis.[1] As a child, she spent time living in Iraq and Australia. 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
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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] and organised Preston's first film audition in 1980 for the role of Emmeline in The Blue Lagoon (1980), which she lost to Brooke Shields.[6] At that time she changed her last name to Preston.[7] Her first prominent film roles came in 1985 romantic comedy teen flicks as Marilyn McCauley in Mischief and then Deborah Ann Fimple in Secret Admirer. Other notable roles included SpaceCamp (1986), Twins (1988) with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito, Avery Bishop in Jerry Maguire (1996) with Tom Cruise and Kate Newell in Holy Man (1998) with Eddie Murphy.
She played the girlfriend of her husband, John Travolta's, character "Terl" in the 2000 film Battlefield Earth,[8] and received "Worst Supporting Actress" at the 21st Golden Raspberry Awards for her role in the film.[9] In 2005 she appeared as the flying, superheroine mother of the protagonist in the film Sky High.
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.[10] She had a short term recurring role on Medium.[10]
In 2008, Preston starred in the Lifetime 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.[11]
She is a spokeswoman for Neutrogena since 2005 and appears in print and television advertisements.[12]
Preston is set to play Victoria Gotti in the upcoming John Gotti biopic Gotti: In The Shadow of my Father.[citation needed]
Personal life
Preston was married to actor Kevin Gage from 1985 to 1987.[13] She also had a relationship with George Clooney,[1] who gave her Max, a pet pig that he kept after the couple split up.[14] She was briefly engaged to Charlie Sheen in 1990,[1][15] but ended the relationship shortly after he accidentally shot her in the arm.[15][16]
John Travolta
Preston first met John Travolta in 1987 while filming The Experts.[17] They married in 1991. Both traveled to Paris on an Air-France Concorde for a wedding ceremony at the Hotel de Crillon (close to the Place de la Concorde), celebrated on September 5, 1991. However, a second ceremony had to be conducted because the first, performed by a French Scientology minister (both Preston and Travolta are Scientologists), was regarded as invalid. The second ceremony took place a week later, on September 12, in Daytona Beach, Florida.[18] They have since had three children: Jett (born April 13, 1992), Ella Bleu (born April 3, 2000) and Benjamin Hunter Kaleo (born November 23, 2010).
On January 2, 2009, their son Jett died while the family was on a holiday vacation in The Bahamas.[19][20] The cause of his death was attributed to a seizure.[21] Jett reportedly suffered from Kawasaki disease as an infant and had a history of seizures.[22][23] On September 24, 2009, [24] Travolta and Preston confirmed longstanding speculations when they testified that their son had autism and suffered regular seizures. This revelation came during their testimony at the trial resulting from an extortion attempt related to their son's death.[25]
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.[26] 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.[26] Two others allegedly involved were an EMT named Tarino Lightbourne and a Bahamian senator named Pleasant Bridgewater. Bridgewater was charged with abetment to extort and conspiracy to extort and resigned from the Senate as a result of the allegations.[26][27]
In May 2010 Travolta and Preston announced that she was pregnant with the couple's third child.[28] At age 48 Preston delivered a healthy son, Benjamin Hunter Kaleo, on November 23, 2010.[29][30]
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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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" |
10 to Midnight | Doreen | ||
CHiPs | Anna | Episode: "Things That Go Creep in the Night" | |
Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn | Dhyana | ||
Christine | Roseanne | ||
Lone Star | Redhead | TV movies | |
For Love and Honor | Mary Lee | 1983–1984 (12 episodes) | |
1984 | Riptide | Sherry Meyers | Episode: "The Hardcase" |
Blue Thunder | Amy Braddock | Episode: "The Long Flight" | |
1985 | Mischief | Marilyn McCauley | |
Secret Admirer | Deborah Anne Fimple | ||
1986 | SpaceCamp | Tish Ambrosei | |
52 Pick-Up | Cini | ||
1987 | Love at Stake | Sara Lee | |
A Tiger's Tale | Shirley Butts | ||
Amazon Women on the Moon | Violet | Segment, "Titan Man" | |
1988 | Twins | Marnie Mason | |
The Experts | Bonnie | ||
Spellbinder | Miranda Reed | ||
1990 | Tales from the Crypt | Linda | Episode: "The Switch" |
1991 | Run | Karen Landers | |
The Perfect Bride | Laura | TV movie | |
1992 | Only You | Amanda Hughes | |
1993 | The American Clock | Diana Marley | TV movie |
1994 | Love Is a Gun | Jean Starr | |
Double Cross | Vera Blanchard | ||
Cheyenne Warrior | Rebecca Carver | TV movies | |
1995 | Little Surprises | Ginger | |
Mrs. Munck | Young Rose | ||
Rachel | |||
1996 | From Dusk till Dawn | Kelly Hogue | |
Curdled | |||
Jerry Maguire | Avery Bishop | ||
1997 | Addicted to Love | Linda | |
Nothing to Lose | Ann Beam | ||
1998 | Holy Man | Kate Newell | |
Jack Frost | Gabby Frost | ||
1999 | For Love of the Game | Jane Aubrey | |
2000 | Bar Hopping | Bebe | TV movie |
Battlefield Earth | Chirk | Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress | |
2001 | Daddy and Them | Rose | |
2002 | Fear Factor | Herself | |
2003 | View from the Top | Sherry | |
What a Girl Wants | Libby Reynolds | ||
The Cat in the Hat | Joan Walden | ||
2004 | Eulogy | Lucy Collins | |
Return to Sender | Susan Kennan | ||
Joey | Donna Di Gregorio | Episodes: "Joey and the Dream Girl: Parts 1 and 2" | |
2005 | Fat Actress | Quinn Taylor Scott | 4 episodes |
Sky High | Josie Stronghold / Jetstream | ||
2006 | Broken Bridges | Angela Dalton | |
2007 | Death Sentence | Helen Hume | |
2008 | Struck | Trista | |
Medium | Meghan Doyle | 4 episodes | |
The Tenth Circle | Laura Stone | TV movie | |
Suburban Shootout | Camilla Diamond | TV series | |
2009 | Old Dogs | Vicki | |
2010 | Casino Jack | Pam Abramoff | |
The Last Song | Kim | ||
From Paris with Love | Woman on Eiffel tower | uncredited cameo | |
2013 | Gotti: In The Shadow of my Father | Victoria "Vicki" Gotti | post-production |
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Kelly Preston Biography". movies.yahoo.com. Yahoo! Movies. Retrieved August 22, 2010.
- ^ Donnelly, Dave. "Hawaii." Honolulu Star-Bulletin. May 17, 1999.
- ^ "Kelly Preston Profile". uk.eonline.com. E! Online. Retrieved August 22, 2010.
- ^ "Kelly Preston Biography (1962–)". FilmReference.com. NetIndustries, LLC. Retrieved August 22, 2010.
- ^ "About Kelly". Kelly Preston.com. Retrieved February 26, 2008.
- ^ IMDB Biography of Kelly Preston
- ^ Kelly Preston Vitals at Ask Men.com
- ^ Graham, Bob (January 19, 2001). "Travolta's Demolition Derby: Comic-book nuttiness lifts 'Battlefield Earth'". San Francisco Chronicle. Hearst Communications. Retrieved June 12, 2008.
- ^ Grant, John (2006). Sci-Fi Movies: Facts, Figures & Fun. Sterling Publishing Company. p. 87. ISBN 1-904332-35-8.
- ^ a b Trechak, Brad (May 16, 2008). "Kelly Preston in new HBO series". TV Squad. Retrieved June 12, 2008.
- ^ "The Tenth Circle". IMDB. Retrieved July 4, 2010.
- ^ "Kelly Preston Fronts Neutrogena" January 20, 2005, Monsters and Critics
- ^ "For Kelly Preston, life is more than 'Sky High'", Chicago Tribune, July 30, 2005
- ^ "Grunt in peace, the pig that won George's heart". The Daily Mail. UK. December 4, 2006. Retrieved January 4, 2009.
- ^ a b Faber, Judy (August 24, 2006). "Charlie Sheen". CBS. Retrieved October 30, 2009.
- ^ "Charlie Sheen Biography", Biography Channel website. Retrieved 26 October 2010.
- ^ Bob and Sheri Stritof. "Kelly Preston and John Travolta Marriage Profile." about.com. Retrieved January 4, 2009.
- ^ "John Travolta Biography". Enewsreference.com. Retrieved August 4, 2009.
- ^ "Jett Travolta, son of actors, dies at 16". CNN. January 2, 2009. Retrieved January 2, 2009.
- ^ "John Travolta's teenage son dies". BBC News. BBC. January 2, 2009. Retrieved January 2, 2009.
- ^ "Death Certificate: John Travolta's Son Died of a Seizure". ABC News. January 5, 2009. Retrieved January 5, 2009.
- ^ "John Travolta's 16-Year-Old Son Dies". People. January 2, 2009. Retrieved January 4, 2009.
- ^ Errico, Marcus (January 2, 2009). "John Travolta's Son Jett Dead at 16". E! Online. Retrieved January 2, 2009.
- ^ Heureux, Steve L. (September 24, 2009). "Travolta finally admits that son had Autism". The Examiner. Retrieved September 24, 2009. [dead link]
- ^ Abraham, Mary Rose (September 23, 2009). "From John Travolta: I Ran Down the Stairs To Help My Son". ABC News. Retrieved September 23, 2009.
- ^ a b c Harlow, John (January 25, 2009). "Senator 'tried to extort cash' from Travolta over son's death". The Sunday Times. UK. Retrieved January 25, 2009.
- ^ "Travolta Suspect Resigns". TMZ.com. January 24, 2009. Retrieved January 25, 2009.
- ^ "John Travolta and Kelly Preston Are Expecting!". People. May 18, 2010. Retrieved May 18, 2010.
- ^ "John Travolta and Kelly Preston Welcome Son Benjamin". People. November 24, 2010. Retrieved November 24, 2010.
- ^ "Kelly Preston’s Post-Baby Body Secret? Breastfeeding" April 13, 2011, People
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