Traci Lords (born
Nora Louise Kuzma; May 7, 1968), also known as
Traci Elizabeth Lords and
Tracy Lords, is an
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
film actressAn actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
,
producerA film producer or movie producer is someone who creates the scenes and conditions for making movies. The producer initiates, co-ordinates, supervises and controls matters such as fund-raising, hiring key personnel and arranging for distributors...
,
film directorA film director, or filmmaker is a person who directs the making or production of a film. Some also consider a film producer to be a filmmaker....
,
writerA writer is anyone who creates a written work, though the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, as well as those who have written in many different forms.-Profession:...
and singer. She first achieved notoriety for her
underageChild pornography refers to images or films depicting sexually explicit activities involving a child; as such, child pornography is a visual record of child sexual abuse...
appearances in
pornographicPornography or porn is the depiction of explicit sexual subject matter for the purposes of sexual excitement.Over the past few decades, an immense industry for the production and consumption of pornography has grown, with the increasing use of the VCR, the DVD, and the Internet, as well as the...
films and
Penthouse magazine (she was 15 years old in her first film), later becoming a television and
B-movieA B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture conceived neither as an arthouse film nor as pornography. In its original usage, during the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double...
actress.
Early life
Nora Louise Kuzma was born in
SteubenvilleSteubenville is a city located along the Ohio River in Jefferson County, Ohio on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border in the United States. It is the county seat of Jefferson County and is largely considered part of the Pittsburgh Tri-State area, unofficially as a suburb despite its own individual identity...
,
OhioOhio is a Midwestern state of the United States. The thirty-fourth largest state by area in the U.S., it is the seventh-most populous with nearly 11.5 million residents...
to Louis and Patricia Kuzma (
née Briceland). Her stage name is said to be in tribute to
Katharine HepburnKatharine Houghton Hepburn was an American actress of film, television and stage.Hepburn holds the record for the most Best Actress Oscar wins with four, from 12 nominations. Hepburn won an Emmy Award in 1976 for her lead role in Love Among the Ruins, and was nominated for four other Emmys, two...
's character Tracy Lord from
The Philadelphia StoryThe Philadelphia Story is a romantic comedy film directed by George Cukor, starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart. Based on a Broadway play of the same name by Philip Barry, with screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart and an uncredited Waldo Salt, the film is about a socialite whose...
(the same character played by
Grace KellyGrace Patricia Kelly was an American film and stage actress and fashion icon who later became Princess Grace of Monaco....
in
High Society), or from the first name of her high school best friend Traci and the last name of her favorite actor from
Hawaii Five-OHawaii Five-O is an American television series that starred Jack Lord in the lead role for a fictional Hawaii state police department. The show ran for 12 seasons, from 1968 to 1980. The twelfth season was repackaged into syndication under the title McGarrett.-Overview:The CBS television network...
,
Jack LordJohn Joseph Patrick Ryan , best known by his stage name Jack Lord, was an American television, film, and Broadway actor. He was best known for his starring role as Steve McGarrett in the American television program Hawaii Five-O from 1968 to 1980...
. She was raped at the age of ten. At twelve, she fled from her abusive alcoholic father to
LawndaleLawndale is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 31,711 according to the 2000 census.- History :From the 1780s onward, the area that is now Lawndale was part of the Rancho Sausal Redondo, a land grant given by the Spanish colonial government that includes much...
,
CaliforniaCalifornia is the most populous state in the United States, and the third largest by area. California is the second most populous sub-national entity in the Americas, behind only São Paulo, Brazil...
, with her mother and three sisters. Her mother's new boyfriend, Roger, was a cocaine dealer who molested her. In 1983, she began attending
Redondo Union High SchoolRedondo Union High School is a public high school in Redondo Beach, California.Redondo Union High School is a part of the Redondo Beach Unified School District....
.
Porn career
At age 15, she was living with her mother's ex-boyfriend, Roger. Posing as her stepfather, he helped her respond to classified ads requesting models. Using a fake ID provided by Roger that stated she was 20 rather than 15, she started in the porn industry with
Jim SouthJim South is a recruiter and agent in America’s pornography industry.South sold insurance in Dallas for a few years and moved to Los Angeles in 1968. He opened a fashion modeling agency first, then formed the World Modeling Talent Agency in Sherman Oaks, California in 1976...
at the
World Modeling Agency in Sherman Oaks, under the name Kristie Elizabeth Nussman.
Shortly after, she was modeling for widely distributed adult magazines, most notably
Penthouse, in the same September 1984 issue that exposed
Miss AmericaThe Miss America pageant is a long-standing competition which awards scholarships to young women from the 50 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands...
1984,
Vanessa WilliamsVanessa Lynn Williams is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Williams made history on September 17, 1983 when she became the first woman of African American descent to be crowned Miss America. Williams' reign as Miss America came to an abrupt end when scandal led to her subsequent...
. She quickly ventured into adult movies. Her first movie was
What Gets Me Hot!What Gets Me Hot! is the title of a 1984 pornographic film which featured Bunny Bleu, Susan Hart, Dorothy Onan, Marc Wallice, Sean Alexander, Tom Byron, Greg Rome, Herschel Savage , Maria Kay, Helga Sven, Leslie Thane and Traci Lords...
, followed by
Those Young Girls and
Talk Dirty To Me Part IIITalk Dirty to Me, part III was a 1984 pornographic movie and a spoof on the mainstream movie Splash. John Leslie had the lead role, while Traci Lords co-stars as the mermaid. Other cast members include Amber Lynn,Peter North, Jamie Gillis and Ginger Lynn. It won Best Film at the 1985 AVN Awards....
, all made in the first half of 1984. By the time she was 18, she had appeared in 100 adult films; however, Lords argued in her autobiography about 80 of those films were composed from leftover and re-edited footage from the original 21 films which were shot.
In May 1986, authorities discovered she had been underage while making pornographic movies and arrested her, as well as the owners of her movie agency and X-Citement Video, Inc. (See
United States v. X-Citement VideoUnited States v. X-Citement Video, Inc., 513 U.S. 64 was a lawsuit filed in the United States in Woodland Hills, California district court against X-Citement Video and its owner Rubin Gottesman. The charge was trafficking in child pornography, specifically videos featuring the underaged Traci Lords...
.) The ensuing prosecution against the agencies cost the pornographic film and distribution industry millions of dollars, as they were obliged by law to remove hundreds of thousands of her videotapes, films and magazines from store shelves to avoid the risk of prosecution for trafficking in
child pornographyChild pornography refers to images or films depicting sexually explicit activities involving a child; as such, child pornography is a visual record of child sexual abuse...
(the legality varies with countries: while it is illegal in France to produce a pornographic film involving an actor under 18, the film remains legal). In her book, Lords suggested hypocrisy on the part of the movie producers and the news media, arguing the porn industry actually got richer from the publicity of the scandal, even as they complained of losing money after destroying her illegal movies. Lords felt she was also exploited by the reporters, who used censored stills from her unlawful films. Lords herself was never charged with a crime, since as a minor she was unable to give
informed consentInformed consent is a legal condition whereby a person can be said to have given consent based upon a clear appreciation and understanding of the facts, implications and future consequences of an action. In order to give informed consent, the individual concerned must have adequate reasoning...
to perform sex acts on film for money. Instead, the agents and producers who accepted her fake IDs were charged and people affiliated with the films in question experienced legal troubles for years.
Like most starlets of the time, Lords received a salary for her appearances in X-rated movies and did not own the rights of those films. According to her
autobiographyAn autobiography is a book about the life of a person, written by that person.-Origin of the term:...
, she made $35,000 as total salary for all of those movies, including the $5,000 she received for her appearance in
Penthouse.
For her last few films, she and another much older boyfriend formed the
Traci Lords Company, where he co-produced and directed the movies. Lords received a smaller salary, but also received part of the rights of these movies.
Only one of these films,
Traci, I Love YouTraci, I Love You was Traci Lords's final adult film and also the only legal film to be made while she was over the age of 18. It was produced in Cannes, France, two days after her 18th birthday, making it the only one legally available in the United States, due to child pornography laws.This...
, was produced after her eighteenth birthday, making it the only one legally available in the United States. (However, in non-US jurisdictions where the age of consent is lower, as well as over the Internet, her earlier films continue to be distributed).
After her arrest, Lords sold her rights to this film for $100,000. This action led to claims that Lords herself had tipped off the authorities to gain immunity from prosecution, while profiting from the movie. No proof has ever surfaced to substantiate this claim. Lords denies this notion in her autobiography, and claims she was reluctant to sell the rights, since at that time she was trying to become a mainstream actress and didn't want any older movies still available. Also, she wrote she knew nothing of people's real names or who produced which film, and did not provide such information to the FBI. The FBI agents, "appeared annoyed" when she could not provide the information they wanted. She said the agents claimed to have monitored her for three years.
Government prosecutors declared Lords was a victim of a manipulative industry, maintaining she was drugged and made to do non-consensual acts. But industry insiders, like
Ron JeremyRonald Jeremy Hyatt , usually called Ron Jeremy, is an American pornographic actor. Nicknamed "The Hedgehog", he was ranked by AVN at number one in their "The 50 Top Porn Stars of All Time" list...
,
Ginger LynnGinger Lynn is an American pornographic actress, prominent in 1980s adult videos. She also had occasional roles in low budget B-movies. AVN has ranked her at #7 in a list of the 50 greatest pornstars of all time. After ending her porn career, she began using her full name of Ginger Lynn Allen and...
and
Tom ByronTom Byron is an American pornographic actor and director. He is of Italian descent...
, say they never saw her use drugs, and she was fully aware of her actions, even if, as a minor, she could not legally consent. One of her co-workers from that time,
Christy CanyonChristy Canyon is a retired American pornographic actress and current radio personality.- Adult film career :...
, has gone so far as to say about Lords' autobiography: "I think her book could have been fabulous, except that she was lying throughout the whole thing."
While Lords decries the pornographic film industry, she continues to use the
stage nameA stage name, also called a showbiz name or screen name, is a pseudonym used by performers and entertainers such as actors, comedians, and musicians.-Motivation to use a stage name:...
she gave herself as a minor, and ultimately made it her
legal nameLegal name is often the name which an individual is called at birth or which appears on their birth certificate or marriage certificate ....
. She wrote, "I chose to stop running from it. Instead, I won it, legally changing my name to Traci Elizabeth Lords. That's who I was, and that's who I was going to be." Lords stated she is not trying to deny her past, telling
Oprah WinfreyOprah Gail Winfrey is an American media personality, actress, television producer, literary critic and magazine publisher, best known for her self-titled, multi-award winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history...
: "I found you can run but you cannot hide".
Post porn career
Lords moved into mainstream films, and has appeared in a number of movies. At 18, Lords began studying at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, and soon after, starred in a remake of
Roger CormanRoger William Corman , sometimes nicknamed "King of the Bs" for his output of B-movies , is an American producer and director of low-budget movies, some of which have an established critical reputation: his cycle of films derived from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe for example...
's film
Not of This EarthNot Of This Earth was a 67-minute, 1957 American black-and-white science fiction film co-written by Charles B. Griffith and Mark Hanna and produced and directed by Roger Corman via Los Altos Productions, on contract for distribution by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation.-Synopsis:The film starred...
. Then in 1990, she appeared in
John WatersJohn Samuel Waters, Jr. is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, journalist, visual artist and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films...
'
Cry-BabyCry-Baby is a teen-musical film directed by John Waters. It stars Johnny Depp as 1950s teen rebel "Cry-Baby" Wade Walker, and also features an expansive ensemble cast that includes Iggy Pop, Traci Lords, Ricki Lake, David Nelson, Susan Tyrrell and Patty Hearst...
, playing the role of Wanda Woodward. Other movies on her resume include
BladeBlade is a 1998 vampire action film starring Wesley Snipes and Stephen Dorff, loosely based on the published stories of the fictional Marvel Comics character Blade. It was directed by Stephen Norrington and written by David S. Goyer. Snipes plays the titular character, a vampire hunter who is...
,
TommyknockersThe Tommyknockers is a 1993 television miniseries, based on the novel The Tommyknockers by Stephen King. It was directed by John Power, and starred Marg Helgenberger and Jimmy Smits in the two lead roles.-Plot:...
,
Black Mask 2: City of MasksBlack Mask 2: City of Masks is a 2002 action film directed by Tsui Hark. Andy On took over the role of Black Mask when original actor Jet Li opted not to return. The film also starred Tobin Bell, Jon Polito, Tyler Mane, Rob Van Dam, and Traci Lords and Scott Adkins-Overview:Black Mask 2 is the...
, and
Chump ChangeChump Change is a 2001 comedy film, written and directed by and starring Stephen Burrows. The film is based on Burrows' experiences as a screen writer.-Casting:Cast members include:* Stephen Burrows ... Milwaukee Steve...
. The latter won her a Best Actress Award at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival. She has also made cameo appearances in
Serial MomSerial Mom is an American satirical comedy written and directed by John Waters, starring Kathleen Turner as the titular character, Sam Waterston as her husband, and Ricki Lake and Matthew Lillard as her daughter and son. Despite statements to the contrary in the movie, the story is completely...
,
NowhereNowhere is a 1997 film by director and screenwriter Gregg Araki. It stars James Duval and Rachel True as Dark and Mel, a bisexual teen couple who are both sexually promiscuous....
and
VirtuosityVirtuosity is a 1995 American science fiction film directed by Brett Leonard. The movie tells the story of a virtual villain's successful attempt to escape into the "real world". SID 6.7, the villain program portrayed by Russell Crowe, is eventually transplanted into an android body and escapes...
, and "Panic Button" in 2007 (made for TV).
In addition to movies, Lords has also made many appearances in TV shows, including
Married... with ChildrenMarried... with Children or Married with Children is an American sitcom about a dysfunctional family living in Chicago that lasted 11 seasons. The show, notable for being the first prime time television series to air on Fox, debuted on April 5, 1987, and aired its final first-run broadcast on June...
,
MacGyverMacGyver is an American action/adventure television series created by Lee David Zlotoff and executively produced by Henry Winkler and John Rich that aired on ABC. Seven seasons were produced, all of which were broadcast by American Broadcasting Company Network in the United States and various...
,
Highlander: The SeriesHighlander: The Series is an English language fantasy/sci-fi television series featuring Duncan MacLeod , of the Scottish Clan MacLeod, as the Highlander of the title. An offshoot of the Highlander movies, Highlander: The Series centered on the life of Duncan, who is a clansman to the main...
,
Tales from the CryptTales from the Crypt, sometimes titled HBO's Tales from the Crypt, is a horror anthology American TV series that ran from 1989 to 1996 on the premium cable channel HBO...
,
HerculesHercules is the Roman name for the mythical Greek demigod Heracles, son of Zeus and the mortal Alcmena. Early Roman sources suggest that the imported Greek hero supplanted a mythic Italic shepherd called "Recaranus" or "Garanus", famous for his strength, who dedicated the Ara Maxima that became...
,
Gilmore GirlsGilmore Girls is an American comedy drama series created by Amy Sherman-Palladino and starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel. The series made its debut on The WB on October 5, 2000, and ended on May 15, 2007, in its seventh season, which aired on The CW. Time magazine named Gilmore Girls to their...
, and
Will & GraceWill & Grace is an American television sitcom that was originally broadcast on NBC from 1998 to 2006. The show takes place in New York City and focuses on Will Truman, a gay lawyer, and his best friend Grace Adler, a straight Jewish woman who runs her own interior design firm...
among others, along with recurring roles in
ProfilerProfiler was an American crime drama that aired on NBC from 1996 to 2000. The series follows the exploits of a criminal profiler working with the fictional Violent Crimes Task Force based in Atlanta, Georgia....
,
RoseanneRoseanne is an American sitcom broadcast on ABC from 1988 to 1997 starring Roseanne Barr.The series reached #1 in the Nielsen Ratings becoming the most watched television show in the United States from 1989 to 1990, and remained in the top four for six of its nine seasons, and in the top twenty for...
, and
Melrose Place.
From late in 2000 to 2001, Lords appeared in the
Francis Ford CoppolaFrancis Ford Coppola is an Italian-American film director, producer and screenwriter. Away from showbusiness, Coppola is also a vintner, magazine publisher and hotelier. He is a graduate of Hofstra University where he studied theatre. He earned an M.F.A. in film directing from the UCLA Film School...
produced sci-fi series
First Wave, playing Jordan Radcliffe, the newest member of a group called Raven Nation that combats extraterrestrial aliens.
In the 1990s, Lords began developing a career as a singer, performing vocals on the
Manic Street PreachersManic Street Preachers are an alternative rock band from Blackwood, Wales, formed in 1986. They are James Dean Bradfield , Nicky Wire and Sean Moore...
U.K. Top 40 hit, "
Little Baby Nothing"Little Baby Nothing" was the sixth single taken from the debut full-length album — Generation Terrorists — by the Welsh group the Manic Street Preachers. It features vocals by former porn star Traci Lords....
", and also appearing in the
music videoA music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music/song. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings. Although the origins of music videos go back much further, they came into their own in the...
s of other performers and groups. In 1995, Lords made her solo debut, in collaboration with
Juno ReactorJuno Reactor are a musical and performing act known for the cinematic fusion of electronic, orchestral and global music. Central to the project is Ben Watkins, and his collaborations with a constantly changing ensemble of musicians from across the world, including percussionist Mabi Thobejane from...
and
Jesus JonesJesus Jones is a British rock group. The London-based group recorded and performed in the late 1980s, throughout the 1990s, and into the 2000s.-Formation and Liquidizer :...
' Mike Edwards, called
1000 Fires1,000 Fires is the only music album by singer and multi-instrumentalist, Traci Lords which was released in 1995. It became a surprise hit album after the #1 hit, "Control" became popular in both the U.S. and the U.K. An Instrumental version of the song "Control" was used in 1995 as part of the...
. The Juno Reactor-produced first single "Control" reached #2 on the Billboard Dance Charts. The song "Control" was featured in the
1995 movie adaptationMortal Kombat is a 1995 action film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson that was based on Mortal Kombat series of fighting games. The movie was filmed in Los Angeles and on location in Thailand....
of the game
Mortal KombatMortal Kombat is a best-selling series of fighting games created by Ed Boon and John Tobias in 1992. Mortal Kombat began as a series of arcade games, which were picked up by Acclaim Entertainment for the home console versions. Then Midway Games exclusively created home versions of Mortal Kombat....
, which played as an instrumental.
Lords returned to the music scene in 2004 with a new, independently produced recording, the double A-side "Sunshine".
In 2003 she published her autobiography,
Traci Lords: Underneath It All (ISBN 0-06-050820-5), which made the
New York Times bestseller list. In December 2003, Lords wrote and directed a short film with Fox Searchlab entitled
Sweet Pea, released and shown at film festivals in 2005. The film is loosely inspired by an experience recounted in her autobiography: a teenage girl finds herself overcome with doubt after being
rapeRape, also referred to as sexual assault, is an assault by a person involving sexual intercourse with or without sexual penetration of another person without that person's consent....
d by her boyfriend.
Lords' most recent film appearance is in
Zack and Miri Make a PornoZack and Miri Make a Porno is a 2008 comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith, and distributed by The Weinstein Company. It is Smith's second film not to be set within the View Askewniverse and the first not set in New Jersey...
, 2008.
Upcoming film works are:
- Angels There Attend (2009) (in production) .... Ruth
- Go Straight to Hell (2010) (pre-production) .... The Guide
- Au Pair, Kansas (2010) (post-production) .... Helen
- I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (2009) (completed)
Personal life
On October 7, 2007, Lords gave birth to a son, Joseph Gunnar, her first child with husband of five years, Jeff Lee.
Film
- I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell is a 2009 American comedy film loosely based on the work and persona of writer Tucker Max, who also co-wrote the screenplay. The film is directed by Bob Gosse and stars Matt Czuchry as Tucker Max...
(2009)
- Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Zack and Miri Make a Porno is a 2008 comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith, and distributed by The Weinstein Company. It is Smith's second film not to be set within the View Askewniverse and the first not set in New Jersey...
(2008) - Bubbles
- Crazy Eights
Crazy Eights is an American horror film that was one of the films aired in 2007's 8 Films to Die For.The film starred Traci Lords, Frank Whaley, Dan DeLuca, and Dina Meyer.-Plot:...
(2006) – Gina Conte
- Novel Romance
Novel Romance is an art-house romantic comedy 2006 film directed by Emily Skopov in her feature film directorial debut. It stars Traci Lords, Paul Johansson and Sherilyn Fenn...
(2005) – Max
- Frostbite
Frostbite is a 2005 film, starring Peter Jason, Traci Lords, Adam Grimes, and Phil Morris. Its main character Billy Wagstaff, played by Adam Grimes, has just been accepted to the notorious snowboarding school in the town Schittsville...
(2005) – Naomi Bucks
- Home
A home is a place of residence or refuge and comfort. It is usually a place in which an individual or a family can rest and be able to store personal property. Most modern-day households contain sanitary facilities and a means of preparing food. Animals have their own homes as well, either living...
(2003) – Lorna
- Black Mask 2: City of Masks
Black Mask 2: City of Masks is a 2002 action film directed by Tsui Hark. Andy On took over the role of Black Mask when original actor Jet Li opted not to return. The film also starred Tobin Bell, Jon Polito, Tyler Mane, Rob Van Dam, and Traci Lords and Scott Adkins-Overview:Black Mask 2 is the...
(2002) – Chameleon
- You're Killing Me... (aka: The Killing Club) (2001) – Laura Engles
- Chump Change
Chump Change is a 2001 comedy film, written and directed by and starring Stephen Burrows. The film is based on Burrows' experiences as a screen writer.-Casting:Cast members include:* Stephen Burrows ... Milwaukee Steve...
(2001) (as Traci Elizabeth Lords) – Sam
- Certain Guys (2000) – Kathleen
- Epicenter
The epicenter or epicentre is the point on the Earth's surface that is directly above the hypocenter or focus, the point where an earthquake or underground explosion originates...
(2000) (as Traci Elizabeth Lords) – Amanda Foster
- Extramarital (1999) – Elizabeth
- Me and Will (1999) – Waitress
- Stir
- Formation and major label signing :Stir was founded in 1994 as a three piece band at the University of Missouri, and consisted of lead vocalist and guitarist Andy Schmidt, bassist Kevin Gagnepain, and drummer Brad Booker...
(1998) – Kelly Bekins
- Blade
Blade is a 1998 vampire action film starring Wesley Snipes and Stephen Dorff, loosely based on the published stories of the fictional Marvel Comics character Blade. It was directed by Stephen Norrington and written by David S. Goyer. Snipes plays the titular character, a vampire hunter who is...
(1998) – Racquel
- Boogie Boy
Boogie Boy is a 1998 film featuring Traci Lords as Shonda. It was written and directed by Craig Hamann and produced by Braddon Mendelson. It also stars Mark Dacascos, Emily Lloyd, Jaimz Woolvett, Frederic Forrest and Joan Jett.-External links:***...
(1998) – Shonda Lee Bragg
- Nowhere
Nowhere is a 1997 film by director and screenwriter Gregg Araki. It stars James Duval and Rachel True as Dark and Mel, a bisexual teen couple who are both sexually promiscuous....
(1997) – Valley Chick #1
- Underworld
Underworld is a 1997 comedy/thriller film. It was directed by Roger Christian and stars Denis Leary, Joe Mantegna and Annabella Sciorra. Rated R for pervasive strong language and violence, and for sexuality.- Plot :...
(1996) – Anna
- Blood Money (1996) – Wendy Monroe
- Virtuosity
Virtuosity is a 1995 American science fiction film directed by Brett Leonard. The movie tells the story of a virtual villain's successful attempt to escape into the "real world". SID 6.7, the villain program portrayed by Russell Crowe, is eventually transplanted into an android body and escapes...
(1995) – Media Zone Singer
- Skinner (1995) – Heidi
- Your Studio and You
Your Studio and You is a comedy short film created in 1995 by Matt Stone and Trey Parker and commissioned by comedic filmmaker David Zucker. It was to be played at a party Seagram threw for its employees acquired as a result of its Universal Studios take-over. It parodies the style of 1950s...
(1995) - Herself
- Ice
Ice is a solid phase, usually crystalline, of a non-metallic substance that is liquid or gas at room temperature, such as carbon dioxide ice , ammonia ice, or methane ice. However, the predominant use of the term ice is for water ice, technically restricted to one of the 15 known crystalline phases...
(1994) – Ellen Reed
- Serial Mom
Serial Mom is an American satirical comedy written and directed by John Waters, starring Kathleen Turner as the titular character, Sam Waterston as her husband, and Ricki Lake and Matthew Lillard as her daughter and son. Despite statements to the contrary in the movie, the story is completely...
(1994) – Carl's Date
- Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II (1994) – Norma
- Desperate Crimes (1993) – Laura
- Intent to Kill (1993) – Vickie Stewart
- Laser Moon (1992) – Barbara Fleck
- The Nutt House
The Nutt House is a short-lived situation comedy that aired on NBC as part of its 1989 Fall lineup.-Overview:The Nutt House was the creation of executive producers Mel Brooks and Alan Spencer and was a broad farce about a once-prestigious New York City hotel which had of late fallen on hard times,...
(1992) – Miss Tress
- Raw Nerve (1991) – Gina Clayton
- A Time to Die (1991) – Jackie
- Shock 'Em Dead (1991) – Lindsay Roberts
- Cry-Baby
Cry-Baby is a teen-musical film directed by John Waters. It stars Johnny Depp as 1950s teen rebel "Cry-Baby" Wade Walker, and also features an expansive ensemble cast that includes Iggy Pop, Traci Lords, Ricki Lake, David Nelson, Susan Tyrrell and Patty Hearst...
(1990) – Wanda Woodward
- Fast Food
Fast Food is a 1989 comedy film starring Clark Brandon and Jim Varney.Auggie Hamilton is always looking for ways to earn a quick buck. When he learns that his friend Samantha is going to sell her garage to fast food king Wrangler Bob he comes up with one more scheme, to turn the garage into a...
(1989) – Dixie Love
- Not of This Earth
Not of This Earth is a 1988 remake of the 1957 sci-fi-horror Not of This Earth. This remake of the 1957 version of Not Of This Earth directed by Roger Corman, was directed by Jim Wynorsky...
(1988) – Nadine Story
Television
- Panic Button
Panic Button is a 2007 TV movie which was released on 3 November 2007.-Synopsis:The movie relates the life of a small Alden family which comprises a young mother Kathy , her husband Richard and their son Sam who moved together to a new neighbourhood.After a wife is the victim of a violent crime,...
- 2007
- Andy Barker, P.I. - (2007) - Loretta Crispin
- Celebrity Paranormal Project
Celebrity Paranormal Project, , is a reality show which debuted on VH1 on October 22, 2006 and was last aired on November 1, 2007. The show is currently on hiatus, so it is unknown if VH1 will re-air the show and begin with a second season...
(2006) (as herself)
- Gilmore Girls
Gilmore Girls is an American comedy drama series created by Amy Sherman-Palladino and starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel. The series made its debut on The WB on October 5, 2000, and ended on May 15, 2007, in its seventh season, which aired on The CW. Time magazine named Gilmore Girls to their...
(2003) (as Traci Elizabeth Lords) – Natalie Zimmermann
- Deathlands
The Deathlands is a series of novels published by Gold Eagle Publishing. The first novel 'Pilgrimage to Hell' was first published in 1986. This series of novels was first written by Christopher Lowder, under the pen name 'Jack Adrian'. Mr. Lowder became ill after developing the plot and writing...
(2003) – Lady Rachel Cawdor
- They Shoot Divas, Don't They? (2002) (as Traci Elizabeth Lords) – Mira
- First Wave (2000-01) (as Traci Elizabeth Lords) – Jordan Radcliffe
- Hercules - The Legendary Journeys (1 episode, 1999)
- D.R.E.A.M. Team (1999) (as Traci Elizabeth Lords) – Lena Brant
- Profiler
Profiler was an American crime drama that aired on NBC from 1996 to 2000. The series follows the exploits of a criminal profiler working with the fictional Violent Crimes Task Force based in Atlanta, Georgia....
(1997-1998) – Sharon Lesher
- Nash Bridges
Nash Bridges is an American television police drama that was created by Carlton Cuse. The show starred Don Johnson and Cheech Marin as two detectives with the San Francisco Police Department. The show ran for six seasons on CBS from March 29, 1996 to May 4, 2001 with a total of 122 episodes being...
(1997) - as Sean Collins
- Dead Man's Island
Dead Man's Island is a television film made in 1996 starring William Shatner and Barbara Eden. In it, a journalist is called to a mysterious island by her old friend who fears that someone is trying to kill him. It shares similarities with Agatha Christie's famous novel And Then There Were None....
(1996) – Miranda Prescott
- As Good as Dead
As Good as Dead is the breakthrough release from Illinois-based rock band Local H. It was released in April 1996 on Island Records. This album is notable for including some of Local H's most recognizable songs, including "High-Fiving MF," "Fritz's Corner," and "Eddie Vedder," as well as the hit "...
(1995) – Nicole Grace
- Melrose Place (1995) – Rikki
- Dragstrip Girl (1994) – Blanche
- Roseanne
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(1994) – Stacy
- Bandit: Bandit's Silver Angel (1994) – Angel Austin
- Highlander: The Series
Highlander: The Series is an English language fantasy/sci-fi television series featuring Duncan MacLeod , of the Scottish Clan MacLeod, as the Highlander of the title. An offshoot of the Highlander movies, Highlander: The Series centered on the life of Duncan, who is a clansman to the main...
(1993) – Greta
- Tales from the Crypt
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(1993) - Emma Conway
- The Tommyknockers
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(1993) – Nancy Voss
- Murder in High Places (1991) – Diane
- Married...With Children (1991) – Vanessa Van Pelt
- MacGyver
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Jenny (1 episode, 1990)
Video games
- True Crime: New York City
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(2005) – Cassandra Hartz
- Ground Control II: Operation Exodus
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(2004) – Dr. Alice McNeil
- Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2004) – Pestilence
- Defender
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(2002) – Commander Kyoto
Music
- "Come Alive
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" (2007) (single)
- "You Burn Inside Me" (2005 - used for Duprey Cosmetics commercial)
- "Walking in L.A." (2004) (single)
- "Sunshine" (2004) (single)
- 1000 Fires
1,000 Fires is the only music album by singer and multi-instrumentalist, Traci Lords which was released in 1995. It became a surprise hit album after the #1 hit, "Control" became popular in both the U.S. and the U.K. An Instrumental version of the song "Control" was used in 1995 as part of the...
(1995) (CD)
- "Fallen Angel" (1995) (CD single and vinyl LP)
- "Control (Juno Reactor Instrumental)" - used for Reptile's
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- "Control" (1994) (CD single)
- Acid Eaters
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(1993 RamonesThe Ramones were an American rock band often regarded as the first punk rock group. Formed in Forest Hills, Queens, New York in 1974, all of the band members adopted pseudonyms ending with the surname 'Ramone', though none of them were actually related. They performed 2,263 concerts, touring...
album) (background vocals on "Somebody to LoveSomebody to Love may refer to:* "Somebody to Love" , released in 1967 on the album Surrealistic Pillow* "Somebody to Love" , released in 1976 on the album A Day at the Races...
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- Generation Terrorists
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album) (vocals on "Little Baby Nothing"Little Baby Nothing" was the sixth single taken from the debut full-length album — Generation Terrorists — by the Welsh group the Manic Street Preachers. It features vocals by former porn star Traci Lords....
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Notable adult videos
- What Gets Me Hot!
What Gets Me Hot! is the title of a 1984 pornographic film which featured Bunny Bleu, Susan Hart, Dorothy Onan, Marc Wallice, Sean Alexander, Tom Byron, Greg Rome, Herschel Savage , Maria Kay, Helga Sven, Leslie Thane and Traci Lords...
(1984) – Lannie (her first adult movie; credited as Tracy Lords)
- Talk Dirty To Me Part III
Talk Dirty to Me, part III was a 1984 pornographic movie and a spoof on the mainstream movie Splash. John Leslie had the lead role, while Traci Lords co-stars as the mermaid. Other cast members include Amber Lynn,Peter North, Jamie Gillis and Ginger Lynn. It won Best Film at the 1985 AVN Awards....
(1984) – Mermaid
- Those Young Girls (1984) – Traci
- Sister Dearest (1984)
- Educating Mandy (1985) – Mandy (scenes are used in the comedy From Beijing with Love
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, as the "painkiller" when he was undergoing the operation for bullet removal)
- Holly Does Hollywood (1985) – Tracy
- Black Throat
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(1985) – Debbie
- Electric Blue 28 (1985) – Nikki (scenes deleted)
- Future Voyeur (1985)
- Hollywood Heartbreakers
Hollywood Heartbreakers is a 1985 pornographic film featuring Amber Lynn, Beverly Bliss, Gina Valentino, Nicole West, Traci Lords, Craig Roberts, David Sanders, Greg Rome, Peter North, Rick Savage, Ron Jeremy, and Tony Martino....
(1985)
- Kinky Business
Kinky Business is a pornographic movie takeoff the mainstream film Risky Business. It stars Tom Byron in the Tom Cruise role, and Tanya Lawson in the Rebecca De Mornay part. Others stars include Ginger Lynn, Misty Mallory, Laurie Smith, Lois Ayres, Jerry Butler, Raven, Crystal Breeze, Cynthia...
(1985)
- It's My Body
It's My Body is a 1985 American pornographic movie. The film is notable for starring Traci Lords, who was underaged at the time of production. While the American version was re-edited, the original is available in Europe...
(1985) – Maggie
- New Wave Hookers
New Wave Hookers is a famous 1985 pornographic film. It featured a cast of well-known performers from the era, and would be followed by several sequels and a remake. It starred Ginger Lynn, Desiree Lane, Kristara Barrington, Kimberly Carson, Brooke Fields, Gina Carrera, Jamie Gillis, Jack Baker,...
(1985) – (playing the Devil; later reissued with Lords' scenes replaced by new scenes featuring Ginger LynnGinger Lynn is an American pornographic actress, prominent in 1980s adult videos. She also had occasional roles in low budget B-movies. AVN has ranked her at #7 in a list of the 50 greatest pornstars of all time. After ending her porn career, she began using her full name of Ginger Lynn Allen and...
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- The Grafenberg Spot (aka The G-Spot) (1985) – credited as Tracy Lords
- Traci Takes Tokyo
Traci Takes Tokyo is a pornographic movie released in 1986 which starred an underaged Traci Lords who also served as co-producer. It was the first project from the Traci Lords Company and filmed in Tokyo...
(1986) – Traci
- Beverly Hills Copulator
Beverly Hills Copulator pornographic movie made and released in 1986. It starred Kristara Barrington and Traci Lords as the two main cop characters. Nikki Randall, Buddy Love, Rocco Balboa, Steve Drake and Bunnie Blake. It also features Kyoko Izoma, in a recycled lesbian scene she and Lords made...
(1986) – Michelle Leon (credited as Tracy Lords)
- Traci, I Love You
Traci, I Love You was Traci Lords's final adult film and also the only legal film to be made while she was over the age of 18. It was produced in Cannes, France, two days after her 18th birthday, making it the only one legally available in the United States, due to child pornography laws.This...
(1987) – Traci
Literature
- Nicolas Barbano: Verdens 25 hotteste pornostjerner (Rosinante, Denmark 1999) ISBN 87-7357-961-0: Features a chapter on Traci Lords.
- Steve Rag (= Tim Greaves): Norma K. nr. 1-2 and Nora K. nr. 3-6 (England 1990-1992): Traci Lords-fanzine
- Steve Rag (= Tim Greaves): The Nora K. Kompendium (Media Publications, England 1996): The best from Norma K./Nora K.
- Brad Linaweaver
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(pub): Traci Lords - Incomparable (Mondo Cult, 2009) Interview and article.
- Suzanne Sommers (ed): Wednesday's Children: Adult Survivors of Abuse Speak Out (Putnam Adult, 1992)): Features a chapter on Traci Lords.
- Frank C. Naylor "El cine X underground. Llevándolo al límite", 2009 Ed.: Lulu
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