34 Facts About Lauren Hutton

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Lauren Hutton was born on Mary Laurence Hutton; November 17,1943 and is an American model and actress.

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Over her career, Lauren Hutton has worked both as a model and an actress, making her film debut in the sports drama Paper Lion in 1968, opposite Alan Alda.

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Lauren Hutton's father was a native of Mississippi, where he grew up next-door to William Faulkner, and was stationed in England, during World War II when Lauren was born.

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Lauren Hutton spent the remainder of her early life in Tampa, not knowing her father, who died June 24,1956 from a heart attack at age 37.

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Lauren Hutton was working as a Farm Editor for The Cotton Trade Journal, living in Shelby, Tennessee with his second wife, Mary Elizabeth Hutton.

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Lauren Hutton is buried at Oxford Memorial Cemetery, in Oxford, Mississippi.

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Lauren Hutton graduated from Chamberlain High School in Tampa in 1961 and was among the first students to attend the University of South Florida in 1961.

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Lauren Hutton later relocated with former Tampa disc jockey Pat Chamburs, a war veteran 19 years her senior who had lost a leg in a kamikaze attack, to New York City, where she worked as a "Bunny" waitress at the Playboy Club, at which time she made her first appearance on camera as a decoy contestant on To Tell The Truth in 1963.

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Hutton returned to New York by herself in the mid 1960s, changed her name to "Lauren Hutton", and embarked on a career as a model.

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Lauren Hutton was advised by agents to hide the gap in her teeth and tried using morticians' wax to cover the gap; she later used a cap to hide it, which she would often swallow, laugh out, or misplace.

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In 1973, Lauren Hutton signed a contract with Revlon cosmetics, worth US$250,000 a year for 20 days' work, a professional relationship that lasted for 10 years.

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In 1982, Lauren Hutton appeared in two Pepsi Light commercials, one where she strips down to her one-piece swimsuit and dives into a swimming pool and one where she gets all wet when the shower turns on by itself.

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Lauren Hutton was presented on the November 1999 Millennium cover of American Vogue as one of the "Modern Muses".

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In October 2005, Lauren Hutton was interviewed on ABC's Good Morning America program in relation to the future release of an edition of Big magazine that was entirely dedicated to Lauren Hutton's career and included eight pages of nude photos.

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Lauren Hutton, who is supposedly one of four women offered US$1 million by Larry Flynt to pose nude, explained that she first sought permission from her 14 godchildren, who told her the photographs would be "inspirational".

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Alongside celebrity models such as Iman and Paulina Porizkova, Lauren Hutton was one of the panel members in a roundtable discussion for the "Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion" gala, an annual event organized by the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute.

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In 2011, Lauren Hutton walked the runway for Tom Ford's spring 2012 collection, and was selected as the house model for the Alexis Bittar jewelry brand.

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Designer Alexis Bittar, a recipient of the CFDA Accessory Designer of the Year award, personally selected Lauren Hutton after choosing Joan Collins for the previous year.

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Lauren Hutton then appeared alongside people such as actress Shuya Chang and Annie Lennox's daughter Tali Lennox in the spring 2011 ad campaign for the Club Monaco retail brand.

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Lauren Hutton appeared in a campaign title "Do Something" by designer Alexander Wang, alongside Rod Stewart and Kate Moss in 2015, and was featured in Tod's Timeless Icons retrospective in 2016.

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In 2016 for Milan Fashion Week, Lauren Hutton walked the runway for Bottega Veneta's Spring 2017 show.

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Lauren Hutton went on to appear in Lassiter, Once Bitten, a modest hit, and Guilty as Charged.

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Lauren Hutton made an uncredited cameo appearance as a celebrity party guest in the 1985 film Perfect.

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In 1984, Lauren Hutton joined the cast of the short-lived primetime soap drama, Paper Dolls, which co-starred Lloyd Bridges and Morgan Fairchild.

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In 1995, Lauren Hutton was cast in the CBS soap opera Central Park West, playing the wealthy socialite Linda Fairchild until the show was canceled the following year.

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Lauren Hutton appeared in her first feature film in two decades with the 2009 release of The Joneses, in which she starred alongside David Duchovny and Demi Moore.

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Lauren Hutton was involved in a 27-year-long relationship with her manager Bob Williamson, who died in 1997.

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In October 2000, Hutton joined a motorbike group, which included actors Dennis Hopper, Laurence Fishburne and Jeremy Irons, to celebrate "The Art of the Motorcycle" exhibit at the Hermitage-Guggenheim museum in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Lauren Hutton is the original vice-president of the Guggenheim Museum Motorcycle Club, and, in 2003, was a board member of the National Museum of Women in Arts in Washington, DC, US.

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Lauren Hutton has lived in NoHo in Manhattan in New York City.

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Lauren Hutton was inducted into the Women Divers Hall of Fame in 2007 as a conservationist and scuba advocate.

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Lauren Hutton started scuba diving in the 1960s, and has dived worldwide.

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Lauren Hutton used her status as a celebrity to promote marine conservation, particularly of sharks, and supports the Shark Research Institute.

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Lauren Hutton has supported the recreational activity of scuba diving in interviews, articles and personal appearances at dive shows.