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Amber Valletta
Birth at
9 February 1974
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American actress and model Amber Valletta was born in Phoenix, Arizona, on February 9, 1974. Her mother was a postal worker. Shortly after the birth of her daughter, she moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Amber graduated from Washington High School. At the age of fifteen, Valletta entered modeling school at the Linda Layman agency. Photos of the young model appeared on the covers of glossy magazines, and she began to be invited to star in advertising such famous brands as Versace, Calvin Klein, Louis
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American actress and model Amber Valletta was born in Phoenix, Arizona, on February 9, 1974. Her mother was a postal worker. Shortly after the birth of her daughter, she moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Amber graduated from Washington High School. At the age of fifteen, Valletta entered modeling school at the Linda Layman agency. Photos of the young model appeared on the covers of glossy magazines, and she began to be invited to star in advertising such famous brands as Versace, Calvin Klein, Louis Vuitton. Valletta and her friend Shalom Harlow later hosted the fashion show House of Style on MTV.
Soon Valletta starred in the film “Princess Diaries: Princess in the Spotlight” directed by Meg Cabot.
picture "The Spy Next Door" where her partners were Jackie Chan, Billy Ray Cyrus and George Lopez.
Valletta Amber is the official representative of Oceana’s Seafood Contamination, where she joined after poisoning one of her friends with mercury. Valletta devotes a lot of time to this organization and explains to people what danger they are exposed to by consuming mercury poisoned seafood.
At the end of the summer of 2006, one of the publications reported that Valletta Amber, due to alcohol addiction, is in The Meadow, a rehabilitation center located in Wikenburg, Arizona. In the same year, the New York Daily News reported that Valletta had completed treatment and that her stay in the hospital was not related to alcohol dependence.
Amber is married to Christian "Chip" McCau, an Olympic volleyball player. The couple are raising their son Auden. In 1998, Valletta had a romantic relationship with Leonardo DiCaprio. She first married in 1994 to Herv Le Bian, but in 1996 the couple separated. /