Amber Valletta first appeared on the big screen as herself in Douglas Keeve's documentary about Isaac Mizrahi entitled Unzipped. She then landed the female lead opposite James LeGros in Stacy Cochran's Drop Back Ten, which screened at this year's Sundance Film Festival and will be released in fall 2000. Presently, she is in production on Brett Ratner's Family Man, in which she co-stars with Nicolas Cage. A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Valletta has been one of the leading models in the world since her first trip to Europe at the age of 15. She has appeared on hundreds of magazine covers, and can currently be seen in advertising campaigns for Elizabeth Arden and Versace.

Valletta recently returned to her hometown of Tulsa to produce a fashion show that raised money for the community food bank. She is also active in charity work on behalf of St. Jude Research Hospital and the Nina Hyde Foundation, which supports women with breast cancer.