Birthday: Nov. 17, 1943
Birthplace: Charleston, S.C.
Occupation: Actress, model, producer, explorer and adventurer.
Current home: Manhattan.
Marital status: Single.
Working on: I play Linda Fairchild on “Central Park West” on CBS-TV; I host a syndicated talk show “Lauren Hutton And . . . “; I model and produce documentaries and public service announcements on issues I care about, such as breast cancer awareness and Martin Luther King Day.
I stay home to watch: “Absolutely Fabulous” and “Larry King Live.”
Favorite performers: Etta James and Aretha Franklin.
Prized possession: A book of letters written to me by my father during World War II.
Personal heroes: Tarzan, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and firemen.
People always think I’m: It used to be Jessica Lange, but that doesn’t happen much anymore.
If I could do it over I’d: Have had the brain I have now when I was 25.
I’d give anything to meet: Leonardo da Vinci.
My fantasy is: I’m in Africa, in the bush.
The worst advice my mother ever gave me: “Don’t go to New York. You’ll die.”
The worst part of my job: Keeping track of receipts for the IRS.
The one thing I can’t stand: Men assuming they’re not different from women but superior.
If I could change one thing about myself: I would have spent my adolescence studying instead of raising my half sisters.
My most irrational act: I’ve had a lifetime of them. It would be hard to pick out one.
Behind my back my friends say: “Strap her down, quick!”
Nobody would believe it if they saw me: Dancing the rumba.
The worst time of my life: My adolescence.
My friends like me: Because of my unpredictable humor.
Most humbling experience: My 40s.
Major accomplishment: Staying alive.
