Amber Valletta Biography

Name : Amber Valletta

Date of Birth : 9 February 1974, Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Birth Name : Amber Evangeline Valletta

Height : 5' 9" (1.75 m)

Profession : Model, Actress

Amber Valletta was born on February 9, 1974, in Phoenix Arizona. At a young age her family moved to Tulsa Oklahoma where she grew up. At age 15, Amber's mother enrolled her in a modeling school and that was the beginning of her career. Shortly after that she was asked to be in the Italian Vogue magazine. Following this she was in Elle magazine and then finally moved to Paris fulltime.

Valletta is 5'8" tall and measures 34B-23-35. Her photogenic appeal has been sought by countless photographers around the world and has given her plenty of work. She has modeled fashions for the top designers such as Calvin Klein, Versace, Prada, Chanel, and Gucci. Additionally, she was chosen as the co-host of MTV's fashion show "House of Style."

Subsequent movie roles required Valletta to do little more than look attractive and give her leading men a chance to act out Tex Avery-style reactions of lust - she was Nicolas Cage's fantasy girlfriend in the dreary "Family Man" (2000), and the sole teacher on the side of Alex Linz's new kid in school in "Max Keeble's Big Move" (2001). Knowing she was lucky she was being taken seriously at all as a supermodel-turned-actress, Valletta took smaller roles opposite Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore in the woeful Danny DeVito comedy "Duplex" and alongside Kate Hudson in Garry Marshall's comedy "Raising Helen" (2004) - if for nothing more than continuing to fine tune her acting skills.

She returned to the movies the following year with her best role to date - as the beautiful celebrity and love object of nebbish Kevin James in the charming comedy, "Hitch" (2005). This was followed by the supporting role of a mother of a kidnapped child in the action film "Transporter 2" (2005). Valletta dropped out of public view again in 2006 to spend time at The Meadows, a rehabilitation facility in Arizona.

She emerged from treatment that year and returned to movie work in two supernatural thrillers - "Dead Silence" (2007) from "Saw" (2004) director James Wan, and the Sandra Bullock picture "Premonition" (2007).