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Lauren Hutton as "The Countess"
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Lauren Hutton (born Mary Laurence Hutton; November 17, 1943) is an American model and actress. Born and raised in in Charleston, South Carolina, to Lawrence Bryan Hutton and Minnie (Behrens) Hutton, Lauren relocated to New York City in her early adulthood to begin a modeling career. She 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. Hutton eventually retained this "imperfection" and the All Movie Guide stated that it "gave her on-camera persona a down-home sensibility that other, more ethereal models lacked." She continued to book modeling jobs, and appeared in a Chanel advertisement in 1968, photographed by Richard Avedon. Hutton signed a modeling contract with Revlon in 1973, which at the time was the biggest contract in the history of the modeling industry.
Over her career, 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. Next was James Toback's The Gambler (1974), opposite James Caan. She also starred in John Carpenter's TV movie Someone's Watching Me! (1978) and played the female lead in American Gigolo (1980). She went on to appear in Lassiter (1984), and Guilty as Charged (1992). In 1984, Hutton joined the cast of the short-lived primetime soap drama, Paper Dolls, which co-starred Lloyd Bridges and Countess-wanna-be Morgan Fairchild. She also made an uncredited cameo appearance as a celebrity party guest in the 1985 film Perfect. The same year she starred in this film, which makes her not only the best-looking vampiress of all time, but also the first to be gap-fanged.
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