Amber Evangeline Valletta was born on February 9,1974 and is an American model and actress.
24 Facts About Amber Valletta
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Amber Valletta began her career as a fashion model, landing her first of 17 American Vogue covers in February 1993.
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Amber Valletta had her first major film role as a poltergeist in Robert Zemeckis's supernatural thriller What Lies Beneath.
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Amber Valletta has since appeared in films such as Hitch, Transporter 2, Man About Town, Dead Silence, Gamer, and The Spy Next Door.
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Amber Evangeline Valletta was born in Phoenix, Arizona and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Amber Valletta's father is of Italian and Portuguese descent, and her mother identifies as having English and part Cherokee ancestry.
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Amber Valletta got her start in the fashion industry when her mother enrolled her in modeling school at the age of 15 at the Linda Layman Agency.
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Amber Valletta was presented on the November 1999 Millennium cover of American Vogue as one of the "Modern Muses".
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Amber Valletta has appeared on the cover of several international fashion magazines, such as Germany's Cosmopolitan and Glamour; Spain's Elle, Telva and Harper's Bazaar; UK's Esquire and Love and US' V, Porter, Interview, Ocean Drive, Shape, Allure, Marie Claire and i-D.
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Amber Valletta was the face of NARS Cosmetics' Spring 2010 Collection.
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In 2018, Amber Valletta appeared in advertisements for Mango, Blumarine, Escada, Chanel Watches, Prada and David Yurman.
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Amber Valletta appeared alongside Nicolas Cage in The Family Man.
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Amber Valletta had a role in Transporter 2, playing the mother of the kidnapped child.
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Amber Valletta played the female lead in the 2006 independent film The Last Time, co-starring alongside Michael Keaton and Brendan Fraser.
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In 2009, Amber Valletta starred alongside Gerard Butler in the science fiction action film Gamer.
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In 2011, Amber Valletta was cast in the recurring role as the socialite Lydia Davis on the ABC television prime time soap opera Revenge.
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Amber Valletta played Carla Briggs, the glamorous business partner and new wife of oil tycoon Hap Briggs.
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In 2016, Amber Valletta starred in the video for Keith Urban's song "Blue Ain't Your Color", directed by Carter Smith.
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Amber Valletta serves as the spokesperson for Oceana's Seafood Contamination Campaign, to raise awareness of the dangers of mercury poisoning in various kinds of seafood.
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Amber Valletta married Herve Le Bihan in 1994, divorcing in 1996.
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In 2000, Amber Valletta had a son with Olympic volleyball player Chip McCaw.
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Amber Valletta married McCaw, in September 2003, and they divorced in early 2015.
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Amber Valletta endorsed incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama for re-election in 2012.
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In July 2014, Amber Valletta spoke out about her battle with drug and alcohol addiction.