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.