The great Kelly Preston, star of films like JERRY MAGUIRE, TWINS, SKY HIGH, and longtime wife of John Travolta has passed away after what’s been revealed as a long battle with breast cancer. She was only fifty-seven. Travolta himself made the announcement via an Instagram post late last night. Preston, who was consistently underrated as an actress, leaves behind a rich legacy of roles that we pay tribute to here.
She started off as kind of an eighties dream girl in movies like MISCHIEF, SECRET ADMIRER, and the cult horror flick SPELLBINDER. She had a great role in 1988’s TWINS as the love interest who memorably deflowers Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Julius and also starred opposite Patrick Dempsey in a b-action flick from 1991 that I loved as a kid called RUN. Her best roles came in the nineties when she starred opposite Tom Cruise in JERRY MAGUIRE, Meg Ryan in ADDICTED TO LOVE, and had a really good part opposite Kevin Costner in FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME. In the 2000’s she popped up in a cameo opposite her husband in BATTLEFIELD EARTH, before appearing in the cult Disney superhero flick SKY HIGH. Her last onscreen appearance was opposite her husband in GOTTI.
