Lauren Hutton

Lauren Hutton
Hutton attending the premiere of The Union at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival
Born	Mary Laurence Hutton November 17, 1943 (1943-11-17) Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.
Occupation	Model/Actress
Years active	1963–present

Lauren Hutton (born November 17, 1943) is an American model and actress. She is best known for her starring roles in the movies American Gigolo and Lassiter, and also for her fashion modeling career.

Personal life

Hutton was born Mary Laurence Hutton in Charleston, South Carolina. Known as Mary Hall in high school, she graduated from Chamberlain High School in Tampa, Florida in 1961.^{[citation needed]} She was among the first students to attend the University of South Florida in Tampa in 1960,^{[citation needed]} but she later transferred to Tulane University, where she graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in 1964.^{[citation needed]}

Modelling

Hutton was a Playboy Bunny at age 20. The statuesque Hutton became a top fashion model, cover girl and commercial spokesperson. Though advised to correct the slight gap in her teeth, she retained this 'imperfection,' which gave her on-camera persona a down-home sensibility that other, "more ethereal models lacked." In her heyday, Hutton was known as "the fresh American face of fashion." In 1974, Hutton signed a million-dollar contract as the face of Revlon cosmetics. At age 40, Hutton was fired by Revlon, but made an unprecedented comeback as a model several years later.^{[citation needed]}

Acting career

As an actress, Hutton made her film debut in the Paper Lion (1968), and she won notices for her performances in James Toback's The Gambler (1974), opposite James Caan.^{[citation needed]} She also starred in John Carpenter's TV movie Someone's Watching Me! (1978) and played the wealthy adventurous adulteress in American Gigolo (1980). Important roles in major films were relatively few, however, and her acting career diminished during the 1980s,^{[citation needed]} with most of her appearances being in minor European features or American films that fizzled at the box office, such as Lassiter (1984), Once Bitten (1985), and Guilty as Charged (1992).

In 1984, she was offered a role for a TV series Paper Dolls.^{[citation needed]} MGM decided to produce a weekly series based on the TV movie for ABC, recasting several of the original roles from the 1982 production. However, the series was short-lived and was canceled after 13 episodes.^{[citation needed]} In the spring of 1987, Hutton had a starring role opposite William Devane in a sci-fi themed ABC Movie of the Week titled Time Stalkers, that did well with both the critic's reviews and the TV ratings.

1995 was a notable year for Hutton, as she was cast in the CBS soap-opera Central Park West, playing the wealthy socialite Linda Fairchild.^{[citation needed]} Also, her late-night talk show Lauren Hutton and ... debuted. However, both were short-lived and canceled the following year.^{[citation needed]} She was presented on the November 1999 Millennium cover of American Vogue as one of the "Modern Muses".

A motorcycle enthusiast, Hutton made headlines in October 2000 when, at the age of 56, she was involved in a serious motorcycle accident. She was on a 100-mile (160 km) ride near Las Vegas with various motorbikers, including actors Dennis Hopper and Jeremy Irons, to celebrate a planned motorcycle exhibit at the Hermitage-Guggenheim museum. Irons reportedly had given Hutton a full-face helmet just minutes before she crashed. Losing control on a curve, she skidded about 100 feet (30 m) and then went airborne, ultimately suffering multiple leg and arm fractures, broken ribs, a punctured lung, cuts, and bruises. Following her recovery, she became the spokeswoman for her own signature brand of cosmetics, Good Stuff, sold primarily via Lauren Hutton Good Stuff in the USA, as well as through numerous secondary distribution channels throughout Europe and South America.

In October 2005, at the age of 61, Hutton agreed to pose nude for Big magazine. "I want them (women) not to be ashamed of who they are when they're in bed", Hutton told ABC's Good Morning America.

She is signed to IMG Models in New York City, Paris, and London.^{[citation needed]} She has never married.^{[citation needed]}

Selected filmography

• Paper Lion (1968)
• Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970)
• Pieces of Dreams (1970)
• My Name Is Rocco Papaleo (1971)           
• The Gambler (1974)
• Gator (1976)
• Welcome To L.A. (1976)
• Viva Knievel! (1977)
• A Wedding (1978)
• Someone's Watching Me! (1978)
• American Gigolo (1980)
• Zorro, The Gay Blade (1981)
• Paternity (1981)
• Hécate (1982)
• Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land (1983)
• Paper Dolls (1984) (4 episodes)
• Lassiter (1984) Kari
• Perfect (1985) (as herself)
• Once Bitten (1985)
• Scandal Sheet (1985)
• The Snow Queen (1985)
• Sins (1986)
• From Here to Maternity (1986)
• Monte Carlo (1986)
• Malone (1987)
• Timestalkers (1987)
• Falcon Crest (1987) (4 episodes)           
• Scandalous (1988)
• Forbidden Sun (1989)
• Fear (1990)
• Millions (1991)
• Missing Pieces (1991)
• Guilty as Charged (1992)
• Central Park West (1995–96)
• My Father the Hero (1994)
• We the Jury (1996)
• 54 (1998)
• A Rat's Tale (1998)
• Beautopia (1999)
• Caracara (1999)
• Just A Little Harmless Sex (1999)
• Loser Love (1999)
• High Fidelity (deleted scene, 2000)           
• Nip/Tuck (2007) (2 episodes)
• The Joneses (2009)

External links

• Lauren Hutton at the Internet Movie Database
• Lauren Hutton Interview
• Lauren Hutton Cosmetics
• Hutton profile in the Fashion Model Directory
• The Block interview with Hutton