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Amber Valletta

Amber Valletta's photoGETTY

Nationality:
American
Birthday:
February 9, 1974
Born in:
Phoenix, AZ
Lives now:
Los Angeles, CA
Agencies:
DNA, Marilyn Agency
Known for:
My eyes
Status:
Cover girl, established, retired (mostly)
Dated:
Leonardo DiCaprio
Married:
Hervé Le Bihan, Christian McCaw
Children:
Auden
Friends with:
Angie Harmon, Carla Bruni, Helena Christensen, Karen Mulder, Niki Taylor, Shalom Harlow, Yasmeen Ghauri
Model turned…
Actress (Unzipped, 1995; Hitch, 2005; My Sexiest Year, 2007), tv personality (MTV’s House of Style), activist (Oceana’s Seafood Contamination Campaign)

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Off the Runway

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Career

Harper's Bazaar, 1996

Feb 9, 1974
Born in Phoenix, Arizona
1989
Enrolls at the Linda Layman Agency modeling school
1991
Signs contract with Calvin Klein’s Eternity fragrance
1993
Becomes the face of Giorgio Armani
1993
Walks the Valentino couture show in Paris
1993
Lands on the covers of Elle, Vogue, and Harper's Bazaar
1994
Marries male model Hervé Le Bihan
1994
Appears in Calvin Klein Escape ad campaign with husband Hervé Le Bihan
Dec 1994
Appears on the cover of British Vogue
1995
Becomes the face of Gucci and Versace
1995
Organizes charity fashion-show Supermodels Stepping Out Against Hunger
Aug 11, 1995
Makes film debut as herself in fashion film Unzipped
Sep 1995
Lands on the cover of Vogue alongside Shalom Harlow
1996
Divorces Hervé Le Bihan
Jan 1996
Lands on cover of Italian Vogue, photographed by Steven Meisel
1996
Lands on the cover of British Vogue three times (February, May, December)
1996
Appears in print ads for Versace
1996
Co-hosts MTV’s House of Style with friend and model Shalom Harlow
1997
Face of Elizabeth Arden in an exclusive worldwide campaign
Mar 1997
Lands on the cover of Vogue alongside Amber Valletta
Apr 1997
Lands on the cover of Vogue alongside Carolyn Murphy and Shalom Harlow
Sep 1997
Lands on the cover of British Vogue, photographed by Mario Testino
1998
Appears in Prada, Armani, Calvin Klein, and Fendi campaigns
Jul 1998
Appears on cover of British Vogue
1999
Appears in an editorial for Italian Vogue dressed as Edith Bouvier Beale in Grey Gardens
1999
Gives up alcohol
Mar 1999
Lands on the cover of i-D, photographed by Richard Burbridge
2000
Pregnant with first child, takes modeling hiatus
Jul 21, 2000
Plays role of the ghost that haunts a Vermont lakeside home in What Lies Beneath
Feb 2001
Opens and closes the Anna Sui fall show in New York
Jul 2001
Opens and closes the Versace fall couture show in Paris
2003
Begins dating Christian McCaw
May 28, 2004
Plays Martina alongside Kate Hudson in Raising Helen
2005
Gets punked when a choking man in a restaurant threatens to sue her after she tries to save him
2005
Becomes the spokesperson for Oceania’s Seafood Contamination Campaign after a friend gets mercury poisoning
Aug 2006
Goes to Meadows rehab center in Arizona for stress-related problems
2007
Signs on to play anchorwoman in Days of Wrath
2007
Cast as a top international model in My Sexiest Year
Jul 2007
Walks in the epic Dior couture 60th-anniversary collection in Paris
Aug 25, 2007
Named Vogue's third best dressed of the week in a navy Ossie Clark dress Photo »
2008
Renews contract with Stella McCartney
Mar 2008
Appears in a W editorial, March 2008. Photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott.
May 2008
Escorts David Yurman to the Costume Institute Gala
Jun 2008
Appears in British Vogue editorial, photographed by Tom Craig
2008
Steven Meisel photographs Valletta for DSqaured2 with Boyd Holbrook
2008
Replaces Mischa Barton as the face of Iceberg for fall, photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott
Aug 2008
Appears in Vogue editorial, photographed by Steven Klein

Quoted

“I really want to work with some great actresses. I'm tired of working with all these guys. I'm tired of playing all these love interests and wives and whatever. ”

People magazine (February 16, 2005)

“I wish the word supermodel would just fall off the face of the Earth. Anyone can be a supermodel now.”

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