Fame wasn’t a stranger to Amber Smith with her father being professional American football player, Russell Conway Smith.

Amber’s modeling career had taken off by the time she was 16 when she traveled to Paris and continued her modeling career throughout Europe.

But it was her resemblance to the 1940’s movie star, Rita Heyworth, that finally brought her to the attention of the big guns in the modeling world when she died her blonde locks to red!

Amber really hit the big time when Hugh Hefner saw her beauty and potential as a Playboy model and her grace the cover of his March 1995 issue of Playboy magazine.

Appearing as the cover girl for several other magazines and gaining recognition as a Victoria’s Secret model also led to Amber being cast in her first film role in Faithful, with Cher and Ryan ONeal, Casino with Robert De Niro, The Funeral with Christopher Walken and in Barbra Streisand’s The Mirror Has Two Faces. She played Susan Lefferts, a Rita Hayworth lookalike, L.A. Confidential and she also had a role in American Beauty.

Amber’s biggest movie role to date has been as the star of the Cinemax TV. series Sin City Diaries, which debuted in 2007. Amber played Angelica, a Las Vegas entertainment consultant who plans activities for casinos’ high-roller guests. Overall, she has played various roles in several 1990’s feature films and TV. series. Since 2000, she has appeared primarily in films.

Not someone instantly associated with beauty, glamour and a sexy body, but Barbra Streisand still managed to make it the cover of Hugh Hefner’s Playboy magazine in October 1977 following her success in the movie, A Star is Born which won Barbra her second Academy Award for Best Original Song as composer of the song “Evergreen”.

Barbra’s mother, Diana Ida had discouraged her daughter from pursuing a show business career, stating that she was not attractive enough, and encouraged her to learn to type instead. Clearly Streisand herself remained undeterred by the comments and her mother was proved wrong when her daughter graced the cover of the world’s most iconic men’s magazine, Playboy.

Along with her appearance as a Playboy model, Barbra also holds the accolade of being in a group of best selling artists which includes, The Beatles, Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson. She has won two Oscars, been nominated for numerous other awards and has appeared in several blockbuster movies such as, The Way We Were, with Robert Redford, with Kris Kristofferson in A Star is Born, The Prince of Tides, with Nick Nolte and Meet the Fockers with Dustin Hoffman and another Playboy model, Teri Polo.