Kelly Preston portrayed Joan Walden in The Cat in the Hat.
Kelly Kamalelehua Smith (October 13, 1962 – July 12, 2020), better known by her stage name Kelly Preston, was an American actress and model. She appeared in more than sixty television and film productions, including Mischief (1985), Twins (1988), Jerry Maguire (1996) and For Love of the Game (1999). She was married to John Travolta, with whom she collaborated on comedy film The Experts (1989), science fiction film Battlefield Earth (2000), and the biographical film Gotti (2018). She also starred in the films SpaceCamp (1986), The Cat in the Hat (2003), What a Girl Wants (2003), Sky High (2005) and Old Dogs (2009).
Death[]
On July 12, 2020, Preston died at the age of 57, two years after she had been diagnosed with breast cancer.[44][45][46][47] Her diagnosis had been kept quiet and was not widely publicized.[44] Preston had been receiving treatment at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas; she had also been treated at other medical centers.[48][49] Preston was at her home in Anthony, Florida when she died.[49][50] Her death was announced in an Instagram post under an account belonging to John Travolta and Ella Bleu.[51]