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Born on Feb. 9, 1974 in Tucson, AZ, Valletta was raised in Tulsa, OK, where she attended Booker T.
Washington High School. Initially wanting to be a social worker as a teenager, her mother – who
worked at a post office – recognized her striking beauty and enrolled the 15-year-old in modeling
school at the Linda Layman Agency instead. Valetta had her earliest experience at a local mall where
she did runway work. Not long after she signed a contract with Calvin Klein’s Eternity fragrance. In
1993, she became the face of Giorgio Armani, while two years later she became the face of Gucci and
Versace. Also at this time, She traveled to Milan, where she landed a job with Vogue, which was
quickly followed by a cover shoot for French Elle in 1996, all of which assured her status as a
supermodel in the making. Meanwhile, Valletta’s film and television career was launched in 1995 when
- like Cindy Crawford before her – she and close friend and fellow model Shalom Harlow co-hosted
MTV’s “House of Style” (1995-2000) during the 1995-96 season.
In her personal life, Valetta took at stab at marriage in 1994 with fellow model Herve Le Bihan, but the
couple wound up divorced two years later. In the late 1990s, Valetta famously dated Leonardo
DiCaprio, but the union proved fleeting at best. At the same time, Valletta finally attained supermodel
status thanks to countless magazine shoots and advertising campaigns for the likes of DKNY, Prada,
Chanel and Valentino circa 1999-2002, while frequenting the runways of Europe and America for
designers like Chanel, Gaultier, Christian Dior, and Dolce and Gabbana. Wanting to expand her
palette, Valetta transitioned to acting with her feature debut in the festival-bound indie comedy “Drop
Back Ten” (2000), playing an abused wife cheating on her husband with a muckracking ex-sports
reporter (James LeGros). That same year, she had a key role as a young woman whose
disappearance leads Michelle Pfeiffer to question the innocence of her renowned scientist husband
(Harrison Ford) in Robert Zemeckis’ Hitchcockian thriller “What Lies Beneath” (2000). From
supernatural thriller to fantasy, Valletta had a small role in “The Family Man” (2000), a Christmasthemed comedy where Nicolas Cage played a successful workaholic bachelor offered the chance to
step into the life he left behind. She followed up with a small part as a sympathetic teacher to Alex
Linz’s new kid in school in “Max Keeble’s Big Move” (2001), and basically played herself in “Perfume”
(2001), an indie drama centered around the fashion industry.
Despite being a supermodel-turned-actress, Valletta had the chops to be taken seriously by her acting
peers, unlike Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell, among others. She took on a small supporting role
in Danny DeVito’s woeful indie comedy “Duplex” (2003) and appeared opposite Kate Hudson and
Joan Cusack in Garry Marshall’s vanilla romantic comedy “Raising Helen” (2004). Meanwhile, Valletta
married long time beau and Olympic volleyball player Christian “Chip” McCaw, whom she met after
dating DiCaprio in 1998. The two had a son in 2000 named Auden, but waited another three years to
tie the knot. Though her modeling career was on hold, Valletta returned to features with her first
prominent role, playing the boss of a meek-and-mild employee (Kevin James) smitten with her in the
romantic comedy, “Hitch” (2005), which starred Will Smith as his professional dating coach. She
followed that mild success by playing the mother of a kidnapped child in the Jason Stratham action
thriller, “Transporter 2″ (2005), only to drop out of public view in 2006 to spend time at The Meadows
rehabilitation facility in Wickenburg, AZ. According to the actress, her stay was not drug or alcohol
related, but instead a result of work stress, image issues and non-substance addiction.
After emerging from treatment later in the year, Valletta returned to features with a small role in the
direct-to-DVD dramedy “Man About Town” (2006), starring Ben Affleck, and played the fiancée of a
Midwestern businessman (Brendan Fraser) struggling to adapt to the big city while fending off his lovestruck boss (Michael Keaton) in “The Last Time” (2006). She impressed audiences and critics with
performances as fragile women in danger in the thrillers, “Dead Silence” (2007) and “Premonition”
(2007), though neither film did well at the box office. After playing a swimsuit model in the little-seen
romantic comedy “My Sexiest Year” (2007), Valletta co-starred opposite Gerard Butler in the over-thetop sci-fi thriller “Gamer” (2009), which depicted a near future where video gamers control the
movement and actions of other humans. The film was both a critical and commercial failure. Valletta
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