Traci Lords
Acting
- Born:
- 1968-05-07
- Place of birth:
- Steubenville, Ohio, USA
Biography
Traci Lords (born Nora Louise Kuzma; May 7, 1968) is an American actress, singer, and former pornographic actress. She entered the adult film industry using a fake birth certificate to conceal that she was two years under the legal age of 18. Lords starred in adult films and was one of the most sought-after actresses in that industry during her career. When the FBI acted on an anonymous tip that Lords was a minor during her time in the industry, and that pornographers were distributing and selling these illegal images and videotapes, the resulting fallout led to prosecution of those responsible for creating and distributing the tapes. In addition, all but the last of her adult films were banned as child pornography. After leaving the pornography industry two days after turning the legal age of eighteen, Lords enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute, where she studied method acting with the intention of becoming a mainstream actress. She made her mainstream screen debut at age nineteen in a leading role in the 1988 remake of the 1957 Roger Corman science fiction film Not of This Earth. Lords followed with the role of Wanda Woodward in John Waters' teen comedy, Cry-Baby (1990). Her other acting credits included the television series MacGyver, Married... with Children, Tales from the Crypt, Roseanne, Melrose Place, Profiler, First Wave, Highlander: The Series, Gilmore Girls, and Will & Grace. She also appeared in films such as Skinner (1993), Virtuosity (1995), Blade (1998), Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008), and Excision (2012), which earned her a Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as a Fright Meter Award and a CinEuphoria Award. Lords also pursued music in addition to her film career. After her song "Love Never Dies" was featured on the soundtrack to the film Pet Sematary Two (1992), she was signed to Radioactive Records and subsequently released her debut studio album, 1000 Fires (1995) to generally positive reviews. Despite the poor sales of the album, the lead single "Control" had moderate commercial success. It peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart and was included on the soundtrack to the film Mortal Kombat (1995), which was eventually certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). In 2003, Lords published her autobiography, Traci Lords: Underneath It All, which received positive reviews from critics and debuted at number 31 on The New York Times Best Seller list.
Known For
Filmography
Boris Is Dead
Greedy People
The Farm
Johnny vs Amber: The US Trial
Waking Up Dead
Nicole, Her Ex & the Killer
Women Behind Bars
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
Manipulated
Steam Room Stories: The Movie
Cemetery Tales: A Tale of Two Sisters
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
Swedish Dicks
Hardcore to Horror
Sharkansas Women's Prison Massacre
Tag
Nightmare Nurse
Skum Rocks!
Devil May Call
EastSiders
Excision
The Soccer Nanny
Princess of Mars
Celebrity Ghost Stories
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
Official Rejection
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Your Name Here
Point of Entry
The Chosen One
Head Case
Andy Barker, P.I.
Crazy Eights
Celebrity Paranormal Project
Novel Romance
Wanted
Frostbite
Home
Deathlands
Manhood
X-Rated Ambition: The Traci Lords Story
Black Mask 2: City of Masks
They Shoot Divas, Don't They?
You're Killing Me...
Traci Lords at Her Very Best
Max's Classics - Del 1: 1980-1987
Gilmore Girls
Full Blast
Epicenter
Chump Change
D.R.E.A.M. Team
In Bad Taste
Me and Will
Get Bruce!
Will & Grace
First Wave
Blade
Extramarital
Boogie Boy
Playboy: The Story of X
Stir
Nowhere
Profiler
E! True Hollywood Story
Underworld
Dead Man's Island
Blood Money
Virtuosity
As Good As Dead
Your Studio and You
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
Dragstrip Girl
Ice
Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
Serial Mom
Bandit: Bandit's Silver Angel
Viper
Desperate Crimes
Skinner
Laser Moon
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Tommyknockers
Traci Lords: Advanced Jazzthetics
Highlander: The Series
Intent to Kill
The Nutt House
Melrose Place
A Time to Die
Raw Nerve
Murder in High Places
Shock 'Em Dead
Super Force
The Word
Warm Up with Traci Lords
Cry-Baby
Stallone's Knockouts
Tales from the Crypt
Fast Food
Hollywood Boulevard II
Roseanne
Not of This Earth
Wiseguy
Married... with Children
Traci, I Love You
Electric Blue 26
Double Penetration 2
Traci Lords Basta!
Porn in the U.S.A.
Traci's Fantasies
Beverly Hills Copulator
Traci Takes Tokyo
Traci Made in Japan
Foxy Boxing
Girls of Paradise
Deep Inside Tracey
Electric Blue 21
Lovely Young Tracy
Deep Inside Traci
We Love to Tease
Sex Shoot
The Sex Goddess
Sizzling Suburbia
Spermbusters
Tailhouse Rock
Two Timing Traci
Passion Pit
Peek a Boo Gang
Pleasure Party
Perfect Fit
Holly Does Hollywood
Hollywood Heartbreakers
Just Another Pretty Face
One Hot Night of Passion
Ladies in Lace
Harlequin Affair
Dirty Pictures
Country Girl
Black Throat
Aroused
A Night for Legends
Adult 45
The Adventures of Tracy Dick: The Case of the Missing Stiff
Another Roll in the Hay
Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies 6
MacGyver
Love Bites
Whore of the Worlds
Educating Mandy
Lovely Young Tracy 2
Physical II
New Wave Hookers
More than a Handful
The Grafenberg Spot
Suzie Superstar II
Wild Things
Portrait of Lust
Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies 5
Future Voyeur
Jean Genie
Erotic Zone
Sex Waves
Sex Fifth Avenue
Dream Lover
Young & Restless II
It's My Body
Battle of the Stars
Erotic Gold
Fallen Angels
Pony Girl
Tracy in Heaven
Electric Blue 20
Electric Blue 17
The Reincarnation of Don Juan
Swedish Erotica 56
Pleasure Productions 9
Sweet Little Things
Tracie Lords
Open Up Tracy
Joys of Erotica 109
Lust in the Fast Lane
Bad Girls 3
Kinky Business
Breaking It
Sister Dearest
Talk Dirty to Me 3
What Gets Me Hot!
Those Young Girls
Night of Loving Dangerously
Miss Passion
Swedish Erotica 57
Red Hot Rock
Hot Pink
Swedish Erotica 60
The Ramones Go to Heaven
Object of Desire