Valerie Bertinelli
Actress & Jenny Craig Brand Ambassador
Valerie Bertinelli
Actress & Jenny Craig Brand Ambassador
Biography
Valerie Bertinelli's long and celebrated career includes being an equally beloved actress, Emmy Award-winning host, New York Times Best-selling author, spokesperson, and entrepreneur. Valerie starred in her own show on Food Network entitled Valerie's Home Cooking, where she shared her passion for preparing delicious meals for her friends and family. She received two Daytime Emmy nominations for 'Outstanding Culinary Program' and 'Outstanding Culinary Host' for the show. Valerie also starred in Kids Baking Championship alongside Duff Goldman, where she sought to find the most impressive and creative young baker in the country. Valerie has also served as a correspondent for The Today Show, The Rachael Ray Show and as co-host of The Talk. Valerie has also expanded her presence on The Drew Barrymore Show as a regular lifestyle expert contributor throughout 2025, sharing her expertise and authentic perspective on topics ranging from cooking to relationships.
Valerie's New York Times best-selling cookbook titled Indulge, released in April 2024. Valerie, who has been open about her struggles and triumphs with body positivity, says that Indulge is a labor of love for herself and her fans. Inside is filled with 100 recipes to nourish the body and soul, from fancy tea sandwiches and chocolate peanut butter dates to baby kale with crispy garlic.
Valerie most recently made her debut as a game show host with Bingo Blitz on Game Show Network, which premiered April 14, 2025. She has also expanded her presence on The Drew Barrymore Show as a regular lifestyle expert contributor throughout 2025, sharing her expertise and authentic perspective on topics ranging from cooking to relationships. Additionally, Valerie continues her voice acting career as Chef Polly in Disney Jr's animated series RoboGobo alongside Cynthia Erivo and Alan Cumming.
In 2022, Valerie released her best-selling book Enough Already: Learning to Love the Way I Am Today. Through a collection of essays, she explores her marriage with rocker Eddie Van Halen, her relationship with food, her journey of self-love, and more. The book was #1 on the New York Times Best Seller Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list and #2 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list. In October 2017, Valerie released a cookbook titled Valerie's Home Cooking, which hit #1 on Amazon for Celebrity Cookbooks. In October 2012, she released a cookbook called One Dish At A Time, a play on the name of the TV show that first made her a household name. In 2007, she authored the NY Times #1 bestseller Losing It, and inspired millions of people to become their best and healthiest selves. In 2009, she wrote a follow-up to her first book titled Finding It: And Satisfying My Hunger for Life without Opening the Fridge. Valerie also released a fitness DVD entitled Losing It at the end of that same year.
Valerie made her QVC debut on September 17, 2017, during QVC's In the Kitchen with David® with her cookbook Valerie's Home Cooking. She introduced her signature Chocolate Love Cake, which sold out, along with additional food items, cookware, bakeware and her delicious crustless Quiches. Her Bertinelli Estate award-winning wines are currently available on HSN.
For six seasons, Valerie starred as Melanie Moretti in TV Land's hit sitcom Hot in Cleveland. The show followed three fabulous friends from Los Angeles (Bertinelli, Jane Leeves and Wendie Malick) whose plane, bound for Paris, was forced to make an emergency landing in Cleveland. In 2011, Hot in Cleveland was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award® for 'Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.' In June of that same year, Valerie – along with co-stars Leeves, Malick, and Betty White – was presented with the key to the city of Cleveland by the mayor. In August 2012, she received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
As one of Hollywood's brightest young talents, Valerie helped develop, produce, and star in many highly rated TV movies and stayed extremely busy as one of primetime's go-to actresses for movies and mini-series. Her television credits include Shattered Vows, Judith Krantz's I'll Take Manhattan, Rockabye, Murder of Innocence, In a Child's Name, What She Doesn't Know, Pancho Barnes, Ultimate Betrayal, Two Mothers for Zachary, I Was a Mail Order Bride, The Seduction of Gina, Silent Witness, and Night Sins. She guest-starred on Boston Legal in a part David E. Kelly wrote especially for her. Her other forays into the television series world include starring for two years on the hit series Touched by an Angel, Café Americain, and Sydney, which she also executive produced.
Now a two-time Golden Globe® winner, Valerie made her acting debut in TV commercials, public service announcements, and the TV series Apple's Way before landing her big break at age 14 as Barbara Cooper on One Day At A Time, Norman Lear's 1975 acclaimed series about a divorced mother raising her two daughters. The series ran on CBS for nine years, ending in 1984.
Valerie's best and favorite production is her son, Wolfgang, who achieved his own fame as the bassist for the legendary rock group Van Halen on its 2007-2008 North American Tour and for his own Grammy-nominated band, Mammoth WVH.
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