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Amber Smith
Date of birth	March 2, 1972 (1972-03-02) (age 36)
Place of birth	Tampa, Florida, United States
Height	5 ft 9.4 in (1.76 m)
Hair color	Blonde
Eye color	Grey
Measurements	(US) 34-25-36 (EU) 86.5-63-91
Dress size	(US) 6 (EU) 36
Shoe size	(US) 8 (EU) 40
Official website

Amber Smith (born March 2, 1972, several sources claim 1971) is an American actress and fashion model.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life and modeling career 1.2 Film career 1.3 Axium case 1.4 Celebrity Rehab 2 Filmography 3 Footnotes 4 External links

Biography

Early life and modeling career

Smith began modeling at age 16. As a teen, she traveled to Paris, France, where she worked as a model throughout Europe for four years. Her breakthrough came when her naturally blonde hair was dyed red, giving her a strong resemblance to 1940s and '50s movie star Rita Hayworth.¹

Smith appeared in back-to-back issues of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, and became Esquire magazine's first Vargas Girl of the 1990s. She also became the first model of the Wonderbra campaign. She later posed for photographer Helmut Newton for a Wolford advertising campaign, and was the model for the 2002 lingerie campaign for Venus Victoria, the European sister company to Victoria's Secret.²

Smith has appeared on the covers of the fashion magazines and women's magazines Vogue, Elle, Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire, among others, and was the cover girl for the March 1995 issue of Playboy. She has appeared in advertising for L'Oreal makeup, Buffalo Jeans, Camel cigarettes, Kahlua liqueur, Volkswagen automobiles, and Panama Jack, among others, and has walked the runway for such fashion designers as Chanel and Jean Paul Gaultier.³

Film career

Smith was cast in her first film role in Paul Mazursky's Faithful, on a referral from Robert DeNiro that stemmed from her Casino auditions.⁴ She also appeared in The Funeral, directed by Abel Ferrara, and Barbra Streisand's The Mirror Has Two Faces. She played Susan Lefferts, a Rita Hayworth lookalike, in Curtis Hanson's L.A. Confidential. Smith's resemblance to Hayworth came into play again with a role in HBO's cable telefilm The Rat Pack.

Axium case

Smith's name surfaced in connection with the January 2008 bankruptcy of the entertainment payroll firm Axium. A lawsuit alleged the company's partners misused funds by renting a Los Angeles, California apartment for Smith, paying for her car and issuing "numerous large payments to Smith, which they explained by calling her a 'consultant" to the company.⁵⁶

Celebrity Rehab

On the June 26, 2008 broadcast of Loveline, Dr. Drew Pinsky confirmed Smith's participation in the VH1 television show Celebrity Rehab. On the October 23 episode, it was revealed that Smith was in fact being treated for an opiate addiction from various painkillers.

Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1996	Faithful	Debbie
	The Funeral	Bridgette
	The Mirror Has Two Faces	Felicia on video
1997	Laws of Deception	Elise Talbot
	Lowball	Paula
	Sleeping Together	Cathy
	Red Shoe Diaries 7: Burning Up	Alia	Segment: "Runway"
	Private Parts	Julie
	L.A. Confidential	Susan Lefferts
	Def Jam's How to Be a Player	Amber
1998	Mars	Sheila
1999	American Beauty	Christy Kane
2000	Deception	Vanessa Rio
	The Midnight Hour	Alex	Alternative titles: In the Midnight Hour & Tell Me No Lies
	Dirk and Betty	Beautiful Canyon Girl
2001	Reasonable Doubt	Charlie	Alternative titles: Crime Scene & The Baptist
	Tomcats	Gorgeous Redhead
	How High	Professor Garr
2002	New Suit	Jennifer
2003	Dead End	Lady in White
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	Inferno		Television movie
1993-1995	Red Shoe Diaries	The Model	2 episodes
1997	Head Over Heels	Rachel	1 episode
	Friends	Maria the Gym Lady	Episode: "The One with the Ballroom Dancing"
1998	The Rat Pack	Broad at casino	Television movie
	V.I.P.	Davina	Episode: "Beats Working at a Hot Dog Stand"
	Pacific Blue	Diane Verne	1 episode
1999	Silk Stalkings	Virginia	2 episodes
2007	Sin City Diaries	Angelica	13 episodes

Footnotes

External links

• Amber Smith Official Site
• Amber Smith at the Internet Movie Database
• Amber Smith at TV.com
• Amber Smith in the Fashion Model Directory
• Amber Smith at MySpace

Persondata
NAME	Smith, Amber
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actress, model
DATE OF BIRTH	March 2, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tampa, Florida, United States
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH