JOHN TRAVOLTA'S WIFE 'KELLY PRESTON' PAST AWAY,AT THE AGE OF 57.{PHOTOS}.#RIP.

     Kelly Preston, an actress best known for her role as a hardhearted fiancée of the Tom Cruise character in the 1996 film “Jerry Maguire,” died on Sunday in Florida. She was 57.
  Her husband, the actor John Travolta, said in an Instagram post on Monday that the cause was breast cancer. She had been treated for the cancer for two years, he said, something she had kept largely to herself.

“She fought a courageous fight with the love and support of so many,” Mr. Travolta said. The post did not say specifically where she died.

Ms. Preston broke into film and television in the early 1980s, often playing a young and sexy character, as she did in the 1985 comedy “Mischief,” where she was “the shallow charmer the nerd dreams about,” Jay Carr wrote in The Boston Globe.

She met Mr. Travolta in 1988, when they worked on the comedy “The Experts,” released the next year. They married in 1991. She had a cameo with Mr. Travolta in the 2000 sci-fi flop “Battlefield Earth,” and the couple worked together in the 2018 film “Gotti,” in which Mr. Travolta played the mafia boss John Gotti and Ms. Preston his wife, Victoria Gotti.

Ms. Preston said that to help prepare for the role, she met Ms. Gotti, and the two ended up forming a relationship. “We sat there for hours, just talking and eating,” Ms. Preston said at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, Vanity Fair reported. “I also had an email relationship with her, and she would tell me everything''.

Ms. Preston was born on Oct. 13, 1962, in Honolulu and grew up in Hawaii, although the family spent some time overseas, including a year in Iraq when she was 5. In a 2018 interview with Us magazine called “25 Things You Don’t Know About Me,” Ms. Preston said, “When I was 17, I did a chocolate commercial for Japan with ‘the Japanese John Travolta''.

In the interview, she also revealed that she had once met the actor Jack Lord in a supermarket in Hawaii and, in 1980, starred in an episode of the police drama “Hawaii Five-O” with him. It was her first television credit.

Other early TV credits included “Quincy M.E.” and “CHiPs.” She later had recurring roles in “Fat Actress” in 2005 and “Medium” in 2008.

Ms. Preston’s marriage to the actor Kevin Gage in 1985 ended in divorce two years later. She was engaged for a time to the actor Charlie Sheen.

In addition to Mr. Travolta, survivors include their children, Ella Bleu and Benjamin. Their eldest son, Jett, 16, died in 2009 after having a seizure.One more photo below.