Traci Lords
Acting
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.
Sharkansas Women's Prison Massacre
as Detective Kendra Patterson
Age 47 (now 58)
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
as Self
Age 52 (now 58)
Cemetery Tales: A Tale of Two Sisters
as Victoria Chastain
Age 50 (now 58)
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
as Self
Age 50 (now 58)
Sharkansas Women's Prison Massacre
as Detective Kendra Patterson
Age 47 (now 58)
X-Rated Ambition: The Traci Lords Story
as Self (archive footage)
Age 34 (now 58)
Traci Lords at Her Very Best
as (archive footage)
Age 32 (now 58)Max's Classics - Del 1: 1980-1987
as (archive footage)
Age 32 (now 58)
Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
as Norma
Age 25 (now 58)
Warm Up with Traci Lords
as Herself - Aerobics Workout Instructor
Age 22 (now 58)
Stallone's Knockouts
as Traci Lords, Ringside Commentator
Age 21 (now 58)
Electric Blue 26
as Miss Georgia (Helix music video) (archive footage)
Age 18 (now 58)
Deep Inside Tracey
as Traci (Original, Archived Footage)
Age 17 (now 58)
Electric Blue 21
as Jane / Suzy (segment "Night in Bangkok")
Age 17 (now 58)
The Adventures of Tracy Dick: The Case of the Missing Stiff
as Tracy Dick
Age 17 (now 58)
Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies 6
as Traci (Scene Cut For 1987 Reissue)
Age 17 (now 58)
Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies 5
as (Scene Cut For 1987 Reissue)
Age 16 (now 58)
The Reincarnation of Don Juan
as Girl In Red (archive footage)
Age 16 (now 58)
Red Hot Rock
as Miss Georgia (segment "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'") (uncredited)
Age 15 (now 58)
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
as Luscious Deluxe
Age 26 (now 58)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
Age 25 (now 58)
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Also Known As
Tracy Lords, Tracie Lords, Nora Louise Kuzma, Traci Elizabeth Lords
IMDB
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