Biography
Lauren Hutton was an American model and actress born on November 17, 1943 in Charleston, South Carolina. Born to Lawrence and Minnie Hutton, who divorced shortly after Lawrence returned from London and World War II, Hutton would never actually meet her father. He died in 1955 at age 36 while working as a reporter. She graduated from Chamberlain High School in Tampa, Florida in 1961, then briefly attended the University of South Florida. Hutton moved to New York for a time and worked in the Playboy Club, but returned to the South to attend Newcomb College, a coordinate school with Tulane University. She graduated with a bachelor of arts in 1964. But Hutton couldn't be kept away from New York, and went back in the late 1960s to begin a modeling career. She landed her first notable advertisement in 1968 for Chanel, photographed by Richard Avedon. The same year, Hutton made her film debut in "Paper Lion" (1968), a sports drama starring Alan Alda. Throughout the '70s and early '80s, she appeared in numerous films and TV movies while continuing to model. Hutton appeared in the Robert Redford-led "Little Fauss and Big Halsy" (1970) and made her television debut in TV movie "A Time for Love" (1973). She landed a massive contract with Revlon in 1973, the largest in the modeling industry to that point. It was worth $250,000 a year for 20 days' work. Hutton worked with Revlon in this capacity for ten years. Hutton continued to accumulate acting credits, starring in "The Gambler" with James Caan in 1974 and the Evel Knievel film "Viva Knievel!" in 1978. She also co-starred in Paul Schrader's "American Gigolo" (1980) with Richard Gere, and played recurring character Colette Ferrier on the short-lived soap opera "Paper Dolls" (ABC, 1984). Hutton starred as a vampiric countess seducing a young Jim Carrey (in one of his earliest film roles) in "Once Bitten" (1985) before appearing on film and television less frequently, besides a short-lived incarnation of her own talk show, "Lauren Hutton and " (1995-96). But Hutton modeled continued to model extensively through her seventies, appearing on the cover of Vogue a record 26 times and posing nude for the first time at age 61 for Big magazine to combat the shame women are made to feel. She made a notable return to television in a two-part appearance in "Nip/Tuck" (FX, 2003-10) in 2007 and played matriarch and makeup company head Lily LeClaire in the Amy Schumer-led "I Feel Pretty" (2018).
