Amber Evangeline Valletta (born February 9, 1974) is an American model and actress.
Valletta was born in Phoenix, Arizona. Her mother worked at the post office. Shortly after her birth, her family moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma. She attended Booker T. Washington High School. 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.
Valletta has gone on to act in several f...
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Amber Evangeline Valletta (born February 9, 1974) is an American model and actress.
Valletta was born in Phoenix, Arizona. Her mother worked at the post office. Shortly after her birth, her family moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma. She attended Booker T. Washington High School. 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.
Valletta has gone on to act in several films, been on the cover of magazines and in advertisements for Louis Vuitton, Calvin Klein and Versace and hosted MTV's House of Style with friend and fellow model Shalom Harlow. Her next movie is The Spy Next Door, starring Jackie Chan, George Lopez, and Billy Ray Cyrus. She plays the mother of a child who accidentally downloads a CIA code from the internet.
Valletta is married to Olympic volleyball player Christian "Chip" McCaw with whom she has a son, Auden. Her first marriage, in 1994, was to Hervé Le Bihan. They divorced in 1996.
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