Name
Traci Lords
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1968-05-07 (58 years old)
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.
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- 2008 Zack and Miri Make a Porno as Bubbles
- 2009 I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell as Connie
- 1994 Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II as Norma
- 1994 Serial Mom as Carl's Date
- 1990 Cry-Baby as Wanda Woodward
- 2003 X-Rated Ambition: The Traci Lords Story as Self (archive footage)
- 1988 Not of This Earth as Nadine Story
- 1991 Shock 'Em Dead as Lindsay Roberts
- 2009 Princess of Mars as Dejah Thoris
- 1998 Blade as Racquel
- 2006 Crazy Eights as Gina Conte
- 1999 Me and Will as Waitress
- 2013 Skum Rocks! as Self
- 2005 Frostbite as Naomi Bucks
- 1999 Get Bruce! as Self
- 1985 Young & Restless II
- 2000 Epicenter as Agent Amanda Foster
- 1985 Educating Mandy as Mandy
- 2003 You're Killing Me... as Laura Engles
- 2006 Novel Romance as Max Normane
- 1985 It's My Body as Maggie
- 1991 A Time to Die as Jackie Swanson
- 2012 Excision as Phyllis
- 1993 Skinner as Heidi
- 1994 Ice as Ellen Reed
- 1996 Underworld as Anna
- 1985 Battle of the Stars as Traci
- 2003 Deathlands as Lady Rachel Cawdor
- 1993 Laser Moon as Barbara Fleck
- 2022 Waking Up Dead as Phyllis
- 1993 Traci Lords: Advanced Jazzthetics
- 1995 As Good As Dead as Nicole Grace
- 2000 Full Blast as Lindsay Lord
- 2008 Your Name Here as Julie
- 1985 Suzie Superstar II as Barbara / Suzie Wilson
- 1987 Traci, I Love You as Traci
- 1999 D.R.E.A.M. Team as Lena Brant (as Traci Elizabeth Lords)
- 1985 Erotic Gold
- 1986 Deep Inside Tracey as Traci (Original, Archived Footage)
- 1994 Dragstrip Girl as Blanche
- 2000 Chump Change as Sam
- 1996 Dead Man's Island as Miranda Prescott
- 1993 Desperate Crimes as Laura
- 2020 Women Behind Bars as Gloria
- 1995 Your Studio and You as Traci Lords
- 2019 Manipulated
- 1992 Intent to Kill as Vickie Stewart
- 1992 The Nutt House as Miss Tress
- 1998 Extramarital as Elizabeth
- Soon The Ramones Go to Heaven as Angel
- 1991 Raw Nerve as Gina Clayton
- 2002 Black Mask 2: City of Masks as Chameleon
- 1991 Murder in High Places as Diane Cody
- 2015 Sharkansas Women's Prison Massacre as Detective Kendra Patterson
- 1984 Talk Dirty to Me 3 as The Mermaid
- 1989 Fast Food as Dixie Love
- 1985 New Wave Hookers as The Devil
- 2024 Greedy People as Virginia
- 2002 They Shoot Divas, Don't They? as Mira
- 1984 Sister Dearest as Vicky Jennings
- 2015 Nightmare Nurse as Barb
- 1986 Foxy Boxing as Self - Round Girl
- 1985 The Grafenberg Spot as Tracy
- 2011 The Soccer Nanny as Helen Hazleton
- 1995 Virtuosity as Media Zone Singer
- 1998 Boogie Boy as Shonda Lee Bragg
- 2007 Point of Entry as Brianna Fine
- Soon Object of Desire
- 2013 Devil May Call as Val
- 1989 Hollywood Boulevard II as Traci Lords
- 2007 The Chosen One as Mrs. Sultry (voice)
- 1994 Bandit: Bandit's Silver Angel as Angel
- 1997 Nowhere as Val-Chick 1
- 1985 Fallen Angels as Self
- 1997 Stir as Kelly Bekins
- 2003 Home as Lorna
- 1996 Blood Money as Wendy Monroe
- 1985 Pony Girl as Daphne (as Tracy Lords)
- 1984 Red Hot Rock as Miss Georgia (segment "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'") (uncredited)
- 1984 Bad Girls 3 as Cherry Sue
- 1986 Traci's Fantasies
- 1985 Adult 45 as (archive footage)
- 1985 Another Roll in the Hay as Candi
- 1985 The Adventures of Tracy Dick: The Case of the Missing Stiff as Tracy Dick
- 1984 Breaking It as Jodie Brown
- 1985 Harlequin Affair as Tracy
- 1985 Aroused as Allison Davis
- 1986 Beverly Hills Copulator as Michelle Leon
- 1985 Hollywood Heartbreakers
- 1985 Holly Does Hollywood as Tracy
- 1985 Just Another Pretty Face as Traci
- 1984 Joys of Erotica 109 as (archive footage)
- 2000 Max's Classics - Del 1: 1980-1987 as (archive footage)
- 1984 Lust in the Fast Lane as Jackie
- 1985 One Hot Night of Passion as Dawn
- 1984 Open Up Tracy as Traci
- 1985 Passion Pit as Jan
- 1985 Perfect Fit as Diane Green
- 1985 Pleasure Party as Brad's Girlfriend
- 1985 Peek a Boo Gang as Tracy
- 1984 Pleasure Productions 9 as (archive footage)
- 1986 Porn in the U.S.A. as Miss Tatum (archive footage)
- 1985 The Sex Goddess as Marilyn
- 1985 Sizzling Suburbia as Helen Trent
- 1985 Spermbusters
- 1984 Sweet Little Things as Traci
- 1985 Tailhouse Rock as Stacey
- 1984 Those Young Girls as Traci
- 2000 Traci Lords at Her Very Best as (archive footage)
- 1984 What Gets Me Hot! as Lannie
- 1985 Tracy in Heaven
- 1984 Tracie Lords as Tracie
- 1985 Two Timing Traci as Traci
- 1985 We Love to Tease as Tracy
- 1984 Swedish Erotica 56
- 1985 Sex Shoot as Tracy La Sorta
- 1985 Black Throat as Debbie
- 1985 Country Girl as Billie jean
- 1985 Dirty Pictures
- 1998 Playboy: The Story of X as Self (archive footage)
- 2009 Official Rejection as Self
- 2015 Tag as Ann
- 2018 King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen as Self
- 1985 Love Bites as Nurse
- 1985 Wild Things as School Girl
- 1985 Sex Fifth Avenue
- 1985 Dream Lover
- 1985 Sex Waves as Beverly
- 1984 Miss Passion as Sassy Sizzle
- 1985 Portrait of Lust as Mirage
- 1985 Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies 5 as (Scene Cut For 1987 Reissue)
- 1984 Night of Loving Dangerously as Janice O'Hara
- 1985 Future Voyeur
- 1985 Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies 6 as Traci (Scene Cut For 1987 Reissue)
- 1985 Erotic Zones #1 as Liz (segment "Love Nest")
- 1985 Jean Genie
- 1986 Girls of Paradise as (archive footage)
- 1985 A Night for Legends as Self - Presenter
- 1984 Hot Pink as (archive footage)
- 2016 Hardcore to Horror as (archive footage)
- 2018 Cemetery Tales: A Tale of Two Sisters as Victoria Chastain
- 1985 Lovely Young Tracy 2 as Tracy
- 1986 Traci Takes Tokyo as Traci
- 2019 Steam Room Stories: The Movie as Sally Fay
- 1985 Whore of the Worlds as (archive footage)
- 1985 Physical II as Helen Highwater
- 1984 Kinky Business as Tracy
- 1985 Ladies in Lace as Linda
- 2022 Nicole, Her Ex & the Killer as Mother
- 1990 Stallone's Knockouts as Traci Lords, Ringside Commentator
- 1990 Warm Up with Traci Lords as Herself - Aerobics Workout Instructor
- 1999 In Bad Taste as Self
- 1986 Electric Blue 21 as Jane / Suzy (segment "Night in Bangkok")
- 1985 Electric Blue 20 as Electric Blue Girl (archive footage)
- 1987 Electric Blue 26 as Miss Georgia (Helix music video) (archive footage)
- 1985 Electric Blue 17 as (segment "Hard Times")
- 2020 Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies as Self
- 1985 The Reincarnation of Don Juan as Girl In Red (archive footage)
- 1986 Lovely Young Tracy
- 1987 Double Penetration 2 as (archive footage)
- 2023 The Farm as Belle Gunness
- 1984 Swedish Erotica 57
- 1987 Traci Lords Basta! as herself
- 1986 Traci Made in Japan as Traci
- 2003 Manhood as Actress
- 2026 Boris Is Dead as Angie
- 1986 Deep Inside Traci
- 1985 More than a Handful as (archive footage)
- 1984 Swedish Erotica 60
- 1985 American Babylon
- 1989 Tales from the Crypt ( 1 episode ) as Emma Conway
- 1996 E! True Hollywood Story ( 1 episode )
- 1988 Roseanne ( 1 episode )
- 1985 MacGyver ( 1 episode ) as Jenny
- 1996 Profiler ( 17 episodes ) as Jill of All Trades
- 2006 Celebrity Paranormal Project ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1992 Melrose Place ( 5 episodes ) as Rikki Abbott
- 2007 Andy Barker, P.I. ( 1 episode ) as Loretta Crispin
- 1998 Will & Grace ( 1 episode ) as Rose
- 1987 Wiseguy ( 1 episode )
- 2000 Gilmore Girls ( 1 episode ) as Natalie Zimmermann
- 2005 Wanted ( 2 episodes ) as Bartender
- 1994 Viper ( 1 episode ) as Talia Massey
- 1993 The Tommyknockers ( 2 episodes ) as Nancy Voss
- 2007 Head Case ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1987 Married... with Children ( 1 episode ) as Assistant
- 2009 Celebrity Ghost Stories ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2022 Johnny vs Amber: The US Trial ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2012 EastSiders ( 6 episodes ) as Valerie
- 1992 Highlander: The Series ( 1 episode ) as Greta
- 1987 Married... with Children ( 1 episode ) as Vanessa Van Pelt
- 1995 Hercules: The Legendary Journeys ( 1 episode ) as Luscious Deluxe
- 1998 First Wave ( 17 episodes ) as Jordan Radcliffe
- 1990 Super Force ( 1 episode ) as Alien #2
- 2016 Swedish Dicks ( 8 episodes ) as Jane McKinney
- 1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 1990 The Word ( 2 episodes )
