Early years

Bertinelli was born in Wilmington, Delaware, to Nancy (née Carvin) and Andrew Bertinelli, a General Motors executive. Her father is of Italian descent and her mother is of English descent. She had an elder brother, Mark, who died at 17 months from an accidental poisoning before Valerie was born. Along with her other three brothers, one older and two younger, the family lived in Claymont, Delaware, and Clarkston, Michigan.

She and her family moved to Oklahoma City before moving to the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles, California, where Bertinelli studied acting at the Tami Lynn School of Artists. She attended Granada Hills High School. She was raised Roman Catholic.

Career

One Day at a Time

Following her appearance in an episode of Apple's Way, Bertinelli was approached by producer Norman Lear to audition for the role of cooperative daughter Barbara Cooper in a new sitcom called One Day at a Time. The show debuted in late 1975. For the show's first season, Bertinelli was 15 years old. Bertinelli appeared in 208 out of the 209 episodes before the show left the airwaves on May 28, 1984.

Two decades later, in 2005, during the One Day at a Time Reunion Special, Bertinelli was reunited with fellow cast members Franklin, Mackenzie Phillips, and Pat Harrington, Jr. to watch memorable clips from the original show's nine seasons. They talked about actors who had left the show as well as Phillips' drug problem, which had wreaked havoc on the set and caused Phillips to be fired from the show.

Post-One Day at a Time

After One Day at a Time, Bertinelli continued to act. In addition to starring in several made for TV movies and miniseries, she starred in two sitcoms in the 1990s: as private eye Sydney, with Matthew Perry and Craig Bierko, and Café Americain from the creators of Frasier. In 2001, she joined the cast of Touched by an Angel, opposite Roma Downey and Della Reese, for the show's last two seasons.

Bertinelli, who had some struggles with being overweight, lost a total of 50 lb (23 kg) as of March 2009, and became a spokesperson for the Jenny Craig weight-loss program. She appeared in several Jenny Craig commercials. Although Bertinelli is compensated for her Jenny Craig appearances, she considers herself a health and weight-loss activist rather than a hired weight-loss spokesperson. In 2008 she released the autobiography, Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time, which culminates in a description of her Jenny Craig experience. In 2009 she wrote a follow-up book Finding It: And Satisfying My Hunger for Life without Opening the Fridge.

On March 4, 2010, Bertinelli appeared as guest co-host on ABC's The View in the absence of Whoopi Goldberg. As of 2010 she stars in the TV Land series Hot in Cleveland (along with Betty White, Wendie Malick, and Jane Leeves), a situation comedy which debuted in June 2010. The show's second season aired in January 2011, and in February 2011 it was renewed for a third season. After a successful, six-season run, the final episode aired on June 3, 2015.

On August 22, 2012, Bertinelli received the 2,476th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Personal life

Bertinelli married Eddie Van Halen on April 11, 1981. They have a son, Wolfgang (born March 16, 1991). In her book Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time Bertinelli indicated the main reasons for her divorce were her husband's cocaine addiction and his refusal to quit smoking despite being diagnosed with tongue cancer and losing one-third of his tongue in the process of treatment for it.

In May 2010, Bertinelli announced her engagement to financial planner Tom Vitale, whom she had begun a relationship with in 2004. They were married on January 1, 2011, in Malibu, California. She wore a dress made especially for her by the designer David Meister.

Bertinelli ran in the April 2010 Boston Marathon to benefit the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute there, completing it in a time of 5:14:37.

Filmography

Film and television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1974	Apple's Way	Peggy	Episode: "The Flag"
1975-84	One Day at a Time	Barbara Cooper Royer	Won - Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or Television Film (1981, 1982) Nominated - Young Artist Award - Best Young Comedienne (1981) TV Land Award - Favorite Singing Siblings (2005)
1977	Battle of the Network Stars III	Herself on the CBS Team	ABC Special
1978	The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People	Mamie Dickens	Episode: "The Secret of Charles Dickens"
1978	The Hardy Boys	Wendy Chase/Gwynn	Episode: "Campus Terror"
1978	The Magic of David Copperfield	Herself	CBS special
1979	Young Love, First Love	Robin Gibson	TV movie
1979	C.H.O.M.P.S	Casey Norton
1979	The Magic of David Copperfield II	Herself	CBS special
1980	The Promise of Love	Kathy Wakeman	TV movie
1981	The Princess and the Cabbie	Joanna James	TV movie
1981-82	Fridays	Herself/host	2 episodes
1982	I Was a Mail Order Bride	Katarine "Kate" Tosconi	TV movie
1982	"PM Magazine"	Herself	Interview
1984	The Seduction of Gina	Gina Breslin	TV movie
1984	Shattered Vows	Mary Gilligan	TV movie
1985	Silent Witness	Anna Dunne	TV movie
1986	Ordinary Heroes	Maria
1986	Faerie Tale Theatre: Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp	Princess Sabrina	TV movie
1986	Rockabye	Susannah Bartok	TV movie
1987	Number One with a Bullet	Teresa Barzak
1987	I'll Take Manhattan	Maxime "Maxi" Amberville (Cipriani)
1988	Pancho Barnes	Pancho Barnes	TV movie
1989	Taken Away	Stephanie Monroe	TV movie
1990	Sydney	Sydney Kells	13 episodes
1991	In a Child's Name	Angela Cimarelli	TV movie
1992	What She Doesn't Know	Molly Kilcoin	a.k.a. Shades of Gray
1993	Murder of Innocence	Laurie Wade	TV movie
1993-94	Café Americain	Holly Aldridge	18 episodes
1995	The Haunting of Helen Walker	Helen Walker	TV movie
1996	A Case for Life	Kelly Porter	TV movie
1996	Two Mothers for Zachary	Jody Ann Shaffell	TV movie
1997	Night Sins	SBI Agent Megan O'Malley	TV movie
1997- 2003	Touched by an Angel	Gloria	59 episodes
2000	Personally Yours	Susannah Stanton	aka Wilderness Love
2001	Family Guy	Herself (as TV Bonnie)	Episode: "Ready, Willing and Disabled"
2003	Crazy Love	Wife	TV movie
2003	Finding John Christmas	Kathleen McAllister	TV movie
2004	Saved!	Cameo (as herself)
2007	Claire	Claire Bannion	TV movie
2008	True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet	Aunt Trudy	TV movie
2008	Boston Legal	Carol Hober	Episode: "Mad Cows"
2010-15	Hot in Cleveland	Melanie Moretti	Main role Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
2013	Hollywood Game Night	Herself	Episode: "Don't Kill My Buzz-er"
2013	Iron Chef America	Herself (as a judge)	Episode: "Battle Oktoberfest"
2014	Signed, Sealed, Delivered		2 episodes
2015	Cutthroat Kitchen	Herself/guest judge	Episode: "Who Tarted?"
2015-	Valerie's Home Cooking	Herself/host
2016	Food Network Star	Herself/guest judge	Episode 12.1

Commercials

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1972	J.C. Penney	Herself	at age 12
2007-	Jenny Craig

Production companies

• Tuxedo Limited
• Bertinelli, Inc.

Charities

Valerie Bertinelli supports the following charitable cause: Health Education.

[ Source: Wikipedia ]