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Amber Valletta
View off-the-runway photos- Nationality
- American
- Birthday
- February 9, 1974
- Born In
- Phoenix, AZ
- Lives Now
- Los Angeles, CA
- Agencies
- DNA, Marilyn Agency
- Known For
- Eyes, Legs
- Status
- Established, retired (mostly), cover girl
- Dated
- Leonardo DiCaprio
- Friends
- Shalom Harlow, Karen Mulder, Yasmeen Ghauri, Niki Taylor, Helena Christensen, Carla Bruni, Angie Harmon
- Married
- Hervé Le Bihan, Christian McCaw
- Children
- Auden (born 10/00)
- Model Turned...
- actress, TV personality, activist
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Quoted
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“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 -
“I wish the word supermodel would just fall off the face of the Earth. Anyone can be a supermodel now.”
—AskMen.com
Amber Valletta's Career Highlights
- 9 FEB, 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
- 11 AUG, 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
- 21 JUL, 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
- 28 MAY, 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
- 25 AUG, 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
- 2008
- Sebastian Faena photographs Valletta for the fall cover of POP
- SEP 2008
- Appears in Vogue editorial, photographed by Steven Meisel
- 2008
- Sebastian Faena photographs Valletta for the winter issue of Pop
- 2009
- Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott photographs Valletta for Iceberg
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