Amber Valletta, born Amber Evangeline Valletta on February 9, 1974, in Tucson, Arizona, is an American model and actress. She began her career as a fashion model, landing her first of 17 American Vogue covers in February 1993.

During the 1990s, she reached the status of supermodel, working as the face of Giorgio Armani, Chanel, Escada, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Valentino, Gucci, and Versace, and signing multimillion-dollar cosmetics contracts with Calvin Klein and Elizabeth Arden.

From 1995 to 1996, Amber Valletta and her friend and fellow model Shalom Harlow hosted the MTV show House of Style. In the 2000s, she began to focus on her career as an actress. She had her first major film role as a poltergeist in Robert Zemeckis's supernatural thriller What Lies Beneath (2000).

She has since appeared in films such as Hitch (2005), Transporter 2 (2005), Man About Town (2006), Dead Silence (2007), Gamer (2009), and The Spy Next Door (2010). In 2011, she moved to television, appearing in a recurring role as the fallen socialite Lydia Davis on ABC's drama television series Revenge.

In 2015, Amber Valletta starred as the scheming Carla Briggs in another ABC soap opera, Blood & Oil. Amber Evangeline Valletta was born in Tucson, Arizona and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Her mother, Theresa Malaby, worked at the post office. Her grandmother is Portuguese. Amber Valletta is a Cherokee Nation citizen. Her half-brother is actor and producer Robert Parks-Valletta. She got her start in the fashion industry when her mother enrolled her in modeling school at the age of 15 at the Linda Layman Agency.

Amber Valletta, along with the likes of Kate Moss, Eva Herzigová, Tyra Banks, Carolyn Murphy, and Shalom Harlow, was one of the most recognizable faces of the generation immediately subsequent to the original supermodels.

During the 1990s she appeared 13 times on the cover of American Vogue, second only to Claudia Schiffer's sixteen. She was presented on the November 1999 Millennium cover of American Vogue as one of the "Modern Muses." She has appeared on the cover of several international fashion magazines, such as Germany's Cosmopolitan and Glamour; Spain's Elle, Telva, and Harper's Bazaar; UK's Esquire and Love and US's V, Porter, Interview, Ocean Drive, Shape, Allure, Marie Claire, and i-D.

Amber Valletta has walked in fashion shows for Versace, Lanvin, Louis Vuitton, Balenciaga, Gucci, Valentino, Prada, Michael Kors, Alberta Ferretti, Claude Montana, Dolce & Gabbana, Pierre Balmain, Sonia Rykiel, Versus, Yohji Yamamoto, Anna Molinari, Calvin Klein, Christian Dior, and Tom Ford.

Amber Valletta was married to Olympic volleyball player Chip McCaw with whom she has a son, Auden McCaw, born on October 18, 2000. She later married French hairstylist Teddy Charles.

She has been open about her battle with drug and alcohol addiction, speaking out about it in July 20142. She is quite private about her personal life but has shared that she is passionate about sustainability and the environment.

Amber Evangeline Valletta has appeared in several notable films, including What Lies Beneath (2000), Hitch (2005), Transporter 2 (2005), Man About Town (2006), Dead Silence (2007), Gamer (2009), and The Spy Next Door (2010).

She has been recognized for her contributions to both fashion and film. She has received numerous awards and nominations throughout her career, including being named one of the "Modern Muses" by American Vogue in 1999.