Amber Valletta

Amber Valletta was born on February 9, 1974, Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Birth name: Amber Evangeline Valletta

Education: Booker T. Washington High School

Occupation: American model and actress

Nationality: American

Height: 5' 9" (1.75 m)

Hair color: Brown

Eye color: Green

Measurements: 34B-23-35

Dress size: 4

Shoe size: 8 1/2

Pictures: 1, 2, 3, 4,

Filmography:

Drop Back Ten (2000)
What Lies Beneath (2000)
The Family Man (2000)
Perfume (2001)
Max Keeble's Big Move (2001)
Duplex (2003)
Raising Helen (2004)
Hitch (2005)
Transporter 2 (2005)
Man About Town (2006)
The Last Time (2006)
Dead Silence (2007)
Premonition (2007)
My Sexiest Year (2007)
Days of Wrath (2008)
Game (2009)

Television:

Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story (2001) (TV) played Lorelei Shellist
Lucky" (2003)TV series played Sarah
Rock Me, Baby (2003) TV series played Summer
Punk'd (2003) TV series played herself

Biography:

Born on February 9th 1974, Big, despite her exotic name, is American, having been born in Tucson, Arizona. Her parents soon moved from Tucson to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Amber was raised.
Growing up, Amber wanted initially to become a sociologist and work in the social scope. But her life took a different, albeit blessed, turn and she ended up in a very different career. Knowing that her little girl's beauty stood out among the rest, her mother enrolled her in a modeling school at 15 years old.
A local agency soon sent the now 5'9" brunette to Milan where her first shoot was posing for Italian Vogue. Soon after that, Amber got her first big break; the cover shoot for French Elle magazine by Hans Feurer. Not too long after that, Amber, like most models began residing in Paris.
Amber immediately became a modeling sensation, having picked up where fellow supermodels Cindy Crawford and Claudia Schiffer had left off. Photographers and magazines alike couldn't get Amber's face pasted on billboards and magazine covers fast enough.
Big names such as Steven Meisel, Richard Avedon, Bruce Weber, Patrick Demarchelier, Herb Ritts, Nick Knight, Paolo Roversi, Irvin Penn, Mario Sorrenti and Peter Lindbergh were all scurrying to Amber for her photogenic face and svelte body.
Amber has since appeared in numerous prestigious advertising campaigns such as Versace, Calvin Klein's Escape, DKNY, Prada, Valentino, Jil Sander, Gucci and Chanel. She co-hosted MTV's House of Style with best friend and fellow model Shalom Harlow and she even became the face of Elizabeth Arden.
Although she didn't end up becoming the sociologist she wanted to be, Amber does use her position as a celebrity to support various charity events. In 1995, she organized a charity called Supermodels Stepping Out Against Hunger, a fashion show that took place in her hometown to benefit the Tulsa Community Food Bank.
On the personal front, Amber dated Leonardo DiCaprio, as did the majority of models in the free world. Unfortunately, their relationship didn't last (he's currently dating Gisele Bundchen). Amber was also married to Hervé Le Bihan, whom she met on a Calvin Klein photo shoot in 1994. Two years later, the couple divorced.
Amber finally ended up meeting renowned Olympic volleyball player Christian McCaw on a chance encounter and is currently pregnant with their child. So the beautiful vegetarian is saying good-bye to her flat-as-a-board tummy, for a little while anyway.
Over the summer, Amber appeared in What Lies Beneath, which starred Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer and also co-starred in an independent film entitled Drop Back Ten.
Although she's currently on hiatus anticipating the birth of her soon-to-be bouncing baby, Amber will be on magazine covers and hopefully in more films before mid-2001.

Trivia:

Born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, her first job was an editorial for Italian Vogue when she was first discovered by local agency.
As a child, she wanted to become a sociologist or work in a social field. She has used her position in the fashion world to support various charity events, and in November 1995, she organized Supermodels Stepping Out Against Hunger in her hometown, a fashion show to benefit the Tulsa Community Food Bank.
Amber has appeared in numerous prestigious advertising campaigns, such as Prada, Calvin Klein, DKNY, Valentino, Giorgio Armani, Alberta Ferretti, Jil Sander, Gucci, Versace and Chanel.
She is the face of Elizabeth Arden in an exclusive, world-wide campaign as of September 1996.
She and her best friend Shalom Harlow have picked up where Cindy Crawford left off and they are now co-hosting MTV's House of Style .
What she likes most about modelling : travel and the opportunity to meet people from all walks of life.
What she hates most: planes!
The birthday that appears on Madison Frank's missing persons' report is the actual birthday of the actress that portrays her (Amber Valetta) (WHAT LIES BENEATH (2000)).
Is a vegetarian.
Got her start when her mother enrolled her in modeling school at the age of 15.
As a child attended Catholic school.
Has three half-sisters and two half-brothers.
Met ex-husband Herve LeBihan at a Calvin Klein photo shoot in 1994.
Hair color: Light Brown
Eye color: Green
Her estimated worth in 2000 was $8.1 million.
Loves sweets
Smokes sparingly
For breakfast she eats, in New York, only orange juice and a cigarette and in Paris all she eats for breakfast is a croissant.