Amber Valletta facts

  • Amber Evangeline Valletta was born on February 9, 1974.
  • Amber is a supermodel and an actress.
  • Amber Valletta started her career in the fashion world at the age of 15 and her success came when she moved to Europe.
  • Amber Valletta is best known for her roles in the movies Hitch, Transporter 2 and Gamer.
  • Valletta was born in Tucson, Arizona.
  • Her mother worked at the post office.
  • Amber Valletta attended Booker T. Washington High School, where she won prom queen when she was a senior.
  • Amber Valletta 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 many 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 fellow model Shalom Harlow.
  • In 2010, Amber Valletta appeared in The Spy Next Door, starring Jackie Chan, George Lopez, and Billy Ray Cyrus; she played the mother of a child who accidentally downloads a CIA code from the internet.
  • Amber Valletta is married to Olympic volleyball player Christian "Chip" McCaw.
  • Amber Valletta has a son, named Auden.
  • In August 2006, the New York Daily News reported that Valletta completed a stint at The Meadow rehabilitation facility in Wickenburg, Arizona, for stress and non-substance-related issues.
  • Her breakdown was allegedly precipitated by reports of her being a drug mule (husband Christian McCaw had a prior arrest for drug smuggling), and a subsequent investigation by law enforcement.