Traci Lords
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
Gilmore Girls
Natalie Zimmermann
Married... with Children
Assistant
Married... with Children
Vanessa Van Pelt
MacGyver
Jenny
Will & Grace
Rose
Melrose Place
Rikki Abbott
Highlander: The Series
Greta
Tales from the Crypt
Emma Conway
Fast Food
Dixie Love
First Wave
Jordan Radcliffe
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
Luscious Deluxe
Wiseguy
Viper
Talia Massey
Profiler
Sharon Lesher / Jill of All Trades
Blade
Racquel
Extramarital
Elizabeth
Frostbite
Naomi Bucks
Nightmare Nurse
Barb
Greedy People
Virginia
Excision
Phyllis
Official Rejection
Self
Manhood
Actress
Nowhere
Val-Chick 1
Boogie Boy
Shonda Lee Bragg
Novel Romance
Max Normane
Raw Nerve
Gina Clayton
As Good As Dead
Nicole Grace
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
Connie
Skinner
Heidi
A Time to Die
Jackie Swanson
Shock 'Em Dead
Lindsay Roberts
Intent to Kill
Vickie Stewart
Black Mask 2: City of Masks
Chameleon
Skum Rocks!
Self
Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
Norma
Dragstrip Girl
Blanche
Not of This Earth
Nadine Story
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Bubbles
Bandit: Bandit's Silver Angel
Angel
Traci Takes Tokyo
Traci
Deathlands
Lady Rachel Cawdor
Princess of Mars
Dejah Thoris
Sharkansas Women's Prison Massacre
Detective Kendra Patterson
Point of Entry
Brianna Fine
Get Bruce!
Self
Super Force
Underworld
Anna
Hollywood Boulevard II
Traci Lords
D.R.E.A.M. Team
Lena Brant (as Traci Elizabeth Lords)
Stir
Kelly Bekins
The Nutt House
Miss Tress
Serial Mom
Carl's Date
EastSiders
Valerie
Blood Money
Wendy Monroe
Electric Blue 20
Electric Blue Girl (archive footage)
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
Self
They Shoot Divas, Don't They?
Mira
Devil May Call
Val
In Bad Taste
Self
Red Hot Rock
Miss Georgia (segment "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'") (uncredited)
Head Case
Self
Epicenter
Agent Amanda Foster
Roseanne
Cry-Baby
Wanda Woodward
Your Name Here
Julie
Me and Will
Waitress
Waking Up Dead
Phyllis
Dead Man's Island
Miranda Prescott
Boris Is Dead
Angie
You're Killing Me...
Laura Engles
Cemetery Tales: A Tale of Two Sisters
Victoria Chastain
Murder in High Places
Diane Cody
The Chosen One
Mrs. Sultry (voice)
Virtuosity
Media Zone Singer
Women Behind Bars
Gloria
Your Studio and You
Traci Lords
Swedish Dicks
Jane McKinney
Wanted
Bartender
The Tommyknockers
Nancy Voss
Electric Blue 26
Miss Georgia (Helix music video) (archive footage)
Steam Room Stories: The Movie
Sally Fay
Electric Blue 21
Jane / Suzy (segment "Night in Bangkok")
Stallone's Knockouts
Traci Lords, Ringside Commentator
Playboy: The Story of X
Self (archive footage)
Crazy Eights
Gina Conte
The Farm
Belle Gunness
Foxy Boxing
Self - Round Girl
The Soccer Nanny
Helen Hazleton
Full Blast
Lindsay Lord
Andy Barker, P.I.
Loretta Crispin
Pony Girl
Daphne (as Tracy Lords)
Manipulated
Traci Made in Japan
Traci
E! True Hollywood Story
The Ramones Go to Heaven
Angel
Johnny vs Amber: The US Trial
Self
Celebrity Paranormal Project
Self
Traci Lords: Advanced Jazzthetics
X-Rated Ambition: The Traci Lords Story
Herself (archive footage)
Ice
Ellen Reed
Fallen Angels
Self
Hardcore to Horror
(archive footage)
Home
Lorna
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
Self
Laser Moon
Barbara Fleck
Tag
Ann
Object of Desire
Desperate Crimes
Laura
Chump Change
Sam
Nicole, Her Ex & the Killer
Mother
Warm Up with Traci Lords
Herself - Aerobics Workout Instructor
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Self
Young & Restless II
Educating Mandy
Mandy
It's My Body
Maggie
Battle of the Stars
Traci
Suzie Superstar II
Barbara / Suzie Wilson
Traci, I Love You
Traci
Erotic Gold
Deep Inside Tracey
Traci (Original, Archived Footage)
Talk Dirty to Me 3
The Mermaid
New Wave Hookers
The Devil
Sister Dearest
Vicky Jennings
The Grafenberg Spot
Tracy
Bad Girls 3
Cherry Sue
Traci's Fantasies
Adult 45
(archive footage)
The Adventures of Tracy Dick: The Case of the Missing Stiff
Tracy Dick
Another Roll in the Hay
Candi
Breaking It
Jodie Brown
Harlequin Affair
Tracy
Aroused
Allison Davis
Beverly Hills Copulator
Michelle Leon
Holly Does Hollywood
Tracy
Hollywood Heartbreakers
Joys of Erotica 109
(archive footage)
Just Another Pretty Face
Traci
Max's Classics - Del 1: 1980-1987
(archive footage)
Lust in the Fast Lane
Jackie
One Hot Night of Passion
Dawn
Open Up Tracy
Traci
Passion Pit
Jan
Peek a Boo Gang
Tracy
Pleasure Party
Brad's Girlfriend
Perfect Fit
Diane Green
Pleasure Productions 9
(archive footage)
Porn in the U.S.A.
Miss Tatum (archive footage)
The Sex Goddess
Marilyn
Sizzling Suburbia
Helen Trent
Spermbusters
Sweet Little Things
Traci
Tailhouse Rock
Stacey
Those Young Girls
Traci
Traci Lords at Her Very Best
(archive footage)
Tracie Lords
Tracie
Tracy in Heaven
Two Timing Traci
Traci
What Gets Me Hot!
Lannie
Swedish Erotica 56
We Love to Tease
Tracy
Sex Shoot
Tracy La Sorta
Black Throat
Debbie
Country Girl
Billie jean
Dirty Pictures
Love Bites
Nurse
Wild Things
School Girl
Sex Fifth Avenue
Dream Lover
Sex Waves
Beverly
Miss Passion
Sassy Sizzle
Night Of Loving Dangerously
Janice O'Hara
Portrait of Lust
Mirage
Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies 5
(Scene Cut For 1987 Reissue)
Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies 6
Traci (Scene Cut For 1987 Reissue)
Future Voyeur
Jean Genie
Erotic Zones #1
Liz (segment "Love Nest")
Girls of Paradise
(archive footage)
A Night For Legends
Self - Presenter
Hot Pink
(archive footage)
Lovely Young Tracy 2
Tracy
Whore of the Worlds
(archive footage)
Physical II
Helen Highwater
Kinky Business
Tracy
Ladies in Lace
Linda
Electric Blue 17
(segment "Hard Times")
The Reincarnation of Don Juan
Girl In Red (archive footage)
Lovely Young Tracy
Double Penetration 2
(archive footage)
Swedish Erotica 57
Traci Lords Basta! - Max's Film
herself