Also in 2007, Valletta played the leading role in the independent coming-of-age film, My Sexiest Year. In 2007, she had supporting roles in the horror film Dead Silence, as Ella Ashen, and as Claire in Premonition, starring Sandra Bullock. She played the female lead in the 2006 independent film The Last Time, co-starring alongside Michael Keaton and Brendan Fraser. She also had a role in Transporter 2, playing the mother of the kidnapped child. The film was released on Februand was a box office and critical success. Valletta's first major film role was as Allegra Cole in Andy Tennant's romantic comedy Hitch. In 2003, she played Celine in Danny DeVito's Duplex, starring Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore, and in 2004, she played Martina in Raising Helen, opposite Kate Hudson, Hayden Panettiere, Abigail Breslin, and Helen Mirren. She appeared alongside Nicolas Cage in The Family Man. Later that year, she played a supporting role in the thriller film What Lies Beneath, starring Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer and directed by Robert Zemeckis. Valletta's first role was in the comedy film Drop Back Ten (2000). Valletta continues to work as a fashion model, most recently closing the Atelier Versace Spring/Summer 2015 fashion show. She was presented on the November 1999 Millennium cover of American Vogue as one of the "Modern Muses". During the 1990s she appeared thirteen times on the cover of American Vogue, second only to Claudia Schiffer's sixteen. Valletta, along with Kate Moss, Eva Herzigová, Carolyn Murphy and Shalom Harlow, was one of the most recognizable faces of the generation immediately subsequent to the original supermodels. She got her start in the fashion industry when her mother enrolled her in modeling school at the age of fifteen at the Linda Layman Agency. Her father is of Italian and Portuguese descent, and her mother is of part Cherokee ancestry. Her mother, Theresa Malaby, worked at the post office. Valletta was born in Phoenix and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 2015, Valletta starred as villainous Carla Briggs in another ABC soap opera, Blood & Oil. In 2011, she moved to television, appearing in a recurring role as the fallen socialite Lydia Davis on the ABC prime time soap opera, Revenge. She has since appeared in films such as Transporter 2 (2005), Man About Town (2006), Dead Silence (2007), Gamer (2009), and The Spy Next Door (2010). She then starred in the hit film Hitch (2005). She made her acting debut in Drop Back Ten (2000). In the 2000s, Valletta began to focus on her career as an actress. During the 1990s, Valletta reached the status of supermodel, working as the face of Giorgio Armani, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Valentino, Gucci and Versace, and signing multimillion-dollar cosmetics contracts with Calvin Klein and Elizabeth Arden.įrom 1995 to 1996, Valletta and her friend and fellow model Shalom Harlow hosted the MTV show, House of Style. She began her career as a fashion model, landing her first of sixteen American Vogue covers at age eighteen. Amber Evangeline Valletta (born February 9, 1974) is an American fashion model and actress.
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