Amber Valletta

Amber Valletta
Born: Feb 9, 1974
Tuscon, AZ
Career: 2000-2010
Countries: USA
Genre/Type: Comedy Drama
Comedy
Drama
Thriller
Biography by Nathan Southern
Supermodel-cum-Hollywood actress Amber Valletta hit the runway in her late teens, and, though a frequent presence in fashion ads for several years prior, first made national headlines in July 1993. That summer, under representation by Boss Models, the svelte 19-year-old Oklahoman blonde upstaged heavyweight Cindy Crawford as the primary spokeswoman for Capezio handbags -- and turned more than a few heads in the process. Not long after, Valletta also signed on as the chief spokeswoman for Elizabeth Arden. In 1996, Valletta succeeded Crawford -- this time as the co-host (alongside Shalom Harlow) of MTV's hit documentary series House of Style. The by-now-familiar program found Valletta and Harlow carrying viewers behind the scenes of the fashion world, and (in the process) covered everything from runway preparation to before-the-camera apparel to anorexia nervosa. In 1999, Valletta's modeling intersected with social work when she helped raise over 350,000 dollars for the St. Jude Royal Gala Benefit in Monte Carlo, and later parlayed that effort into a promotional tour for Elizabeth Arden Splendor perfume that had Valletta and other company reps giving terminally ill children heartstring-tugging "moments of splendor."
Although hosting duties on House of Style represented Valletta's first broad leap into filmed entertainment, she delayed her work for another four years. In 2000, the model debuted onscreen as the spirit of a murdered coed in Robert Zemeckis' Hitchcock retread, What Lies Beneath, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford. Valletta's roles -- given the actress' off-camera motherhood and intermittent magazine work -- accumulated slowly over the next several years (in films such as the Nicolas Cage holiday vehicle The Family Man and the Danny DeVito-directed black comedy Duplex); as a result, Valletta only ascended gradually to top billing. In 2005, however, she attained her highest-profile exposure to date (and gained much-deserved respect as an actress) in the Andy Tennant-directed romantic comedy Hitch. As Allegra Cole, the city's most eligible bachelorette, who falls for the least likely candidate (overweight and self-conscious klutz Kevin James), Valletta played an admirable straight man to both James and "date doctor" Alex "Hitch" Hitchens (Will Smith).After a noticeable onscreen absence in 2006, Valletta returned to cinemas the following year, with two back-to-back roles in supernatural thrillers. She first received second billing as a nubile young bride in the James Wan-directed Saw follow-up Dead Silence -- a slasher picture about a quiet little town plagued by the spirit of an evil ventriloquist. And later that year, Valletta portrayed Claire in the Mennan Yapo-directed Premonition, starring Sandra Bullock.

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Filmography

Movie/Film Released Rating Role Buy
The Spy Next Door 2010 Actor [Starring]
Gamer 2009 Actor [Starring]
Days of Wrath 2008 Actor [Starring]
Dead Silence 2007 Actor [Starring]
Moonlight [TV Series] 2007 Actor [Starring]
My Sexiest Year 2007 Actor [Starring]
Premonition 2007 Actor [Starring]
The Last Time 2007 Actor [Starring]
Hitch 2005 Actor [Starring]
Man About Town 2005 Actor [Starring]
Transporter 2 2005 Actor [Starring]
Raising Helen 2004 Actor [Starring]
Duplex 2003 Actor [Starring]
Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story 2001 Actor [Starring]
Max Keeble's Big Move 2001 Actor [Starring]
Perfume 2001 Actor [Starring]
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