Traci Lords

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1968-05-07 (56 years old)

Place of Birth Steubenville, Ohio, USA

Also Known As Tracy Lords, Tracie Lords, Nora Louise Kuzma, Traci Elizabeth Lords

Traci Lords

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

Actor

The Farm

as Belle Gunness

2024
Greedy People

as Virginia

2022
Waking Up Dead

as Phyllis

2020
2018
2016
Hardcore to Horror

as (archive footage)

2016
Swedish Dicks

as Jane McKinney

2015
Sharkansas Women's Prison Massacre

as Detective Kendra Patterson

2015
Tag

as Ann

2015
2013
Skum Rocks!

as Self

2013
2012
Excision

as Phyllis

2012
EastSiders

as Valerie

2011
The Soccer Nanny

as Helen Hazleton

2009
Princess of Mars

as Dejah Thoris

2009
2008
2007
Point of Entry

as Brianna Fine

2007
The Chosen One

as Mrs. Sultry (voice)

2007
Head Case

as Self

2007
Andy Barker, P.I.

as Loretta Crispin

2006
Crazy Eights

as Gina Conte

2006
Novel Romance

as Max Normane

2005
Frostbite

as Naomi Bucks

2005
2003
Home

as Lorna

2003
Deathlands

as Lady Rachel Cawdor

2003
Manhood

as Actress

2003
X-Rated Ambition: The Traci Lords Story

as Herself (archive footage)

2003
You're Killing Me...

as Laura Engles

2000
Traci Lords at Her Very Best

as (archive footage)

2000
2000
Full Blast

as Lindsay Lord

2000
Epicenter

as Agent Amanda Foster

2000
2000
Gilmore Girls

as Natalie Zimmermann

1999
D.R.E.A.M. Team

as Lena Brant (as Traci Elizabeth Lords)

1999
In Bad Taste

as Self

1999
Me and Will

as Waitress

1999
Get Bruce!

as Self

1998
Blade

as Racquel

1998
Extramarital

as Elizabeth

1998
Boogie Boy

as Shonda Lee Bragg

1998
Playboy: The Story of X

as Self (archive footage)

1998
Will & Grace

as Rose

1998
First Wave

as Jordan Radcliffe

1997
Stir

as Kelly Bekins

1997
Nowhere

as Val-Chick 1

1996
Underworld

as Anna

1996
Dead Man's Island

as Miranda Prescott

1996
Blood Money

as Wendy Monroe

1995
Virtuosity

as Media Zone Singer

1995
As Good As Dead

as Nicole Grace

1995
Your Studio and You

as Traci Lords

1995
1994
Dragstrip Girl

as Blanche

1994
Ice

as Ellen Reed

1994
Serial Mom

as Carl's Date

1994
Viper

as Talia Massey

1993
1993
Skinner

as Heidi

1993
Laser Moon

as Barbara Fleck

1993
The Tommyknockers

as Nancy Voss

1992
Intent to Kill

as Vickie Stewart

1992
The Nutt House

as Miss Tress

1992
Melrose Place

as Rikki Abbott

1991
A Time to Die

as Jackie Swanson

1991
Raw Nerve

as Gina Clayton

1991
Murder in High Places

as Diane Cody

1991
Shock 'Em Dead

as Lindsay Roberts

1991
Hollywood Boulevard II

as Traci Lords

1990
Warm Up with Traci Lords

as Herself - Aerobics Workout Instructor

1990
Cry-Baby

as Wanda Woodward

1990
Stallone's Knockouts

as Traci Lords, Ringside Commentator

1989
Fast Food

as Dixie Love

1989
Tales from the Crypt

as Emma Conway

1988
Not of This Earth

as Nadine Story

1987
1987
Electric Blue 26

as Miss Georgia (Helix music video) (archive footage)

1987
Double Penetration 2

as (archive footage)

1987
1987
Married... with Children

as Vanessa Van Pelt

1986
Porn in the U.S.A.

as Miss Tatum (archive footage)

1986
Beverly Hills Copulator

as Michelle Leon

1986
1986
1986
Foxy Boxing

as Herself - Round Girl

1986
Girls of Paradise

as (archive footage)

1986
Deep Inside Traci

as Traci (Original, Archived Footage)

1986
Electric Blue 21

as Jane / Suzy (segment "Night in Bangkok")

1985
1985
Sex Shoot

as Tracy La Sorta

1985
The Sex Goddess

as Marilyn

1985
Sizzling Suburbia

as Helen Trent

1985
Tailhouse Rock

as Stacey

1985
1985
1985
1985
Pleasure Party

as Brad's Girlfriend

1985
Perfect Fit

as Diane Green

1985
1985
1985
Country Girl

as Billie jean

1985
Black Throat

as Debbie

1985
Aroused

as Allison Davis

1985
A Night For Legends

as Self - Presenter

1985
Adult 45

as (archive footage)

1985
Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies 6

as Traci (Scene Cut For 1987 Reissue)

1985
Love Bites

as Nurse

1985
Whore of the Worlds

as (archive footage)

1985
1985
Physical II

as Helen Highwater

1985
New Wave Hookers

as The Devil

1985
1985
Suzie Superstar II

as Barbara / Suzie Wilson

1985
Wild Things

as School Girl

1985
1985
Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies 5

as (Scene Cut For 1987 Reissue)

1985
Erotic Zones #1

as Liz (segment "Love Nest")

1985
Sex Waves

as Beverly

1985
It's My Body

as Maggie

1985
1985
Fallen Angels

as Herself

1985
Pony Girl

as Daphne (as Tracy Lords)

1985
Electric Blue 20

as Electric Blue Girl (archive footage)

1985
Electric Blue 17

as (segment "Hard Times")

1985
The Reincarnation of Don Juan

as Girl In Red (archive footage)

1985
MacGyver

as Jenny

1984
Pleasure Productions 9

as (archive footage)

1984
1984
Tracie Lords

as Tracie

1984
Open Up Tracy

as Traci

1984
Joys of Erotica 109

as (archive footage)

1984
1984
Bad Girls 3

as Cherry Sue

1984
Kinky Business

as Tracy (as Tracy Lords)

1984
Breaking It

as Jodie Brown

1984
Sister Dearest

as Vicky Jennings

1984
Talk Dirty to Me 3

as The Mermaid

1984
1984
1984
1984
Miss Passion

as Sassy Sizzle

1984
Red Hot Rock

as Miss Georgia (segment "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'") (uncredited)

1984
Hot Pink

as (archive footage)

Producer

2012
Excision

as Associate Producer

1998
Extramarital

as Executive Producer

1987
Traci, I Love You

as Producer

1986
1986
Traci Takes Tokyo

as Producer

1986

Sound

1996
Underworld

as Songs

1995
Mortal Kombat

as Songs

1995
Virtuosity

as Songs

1992

Costume & Make-Up

1986
Traci Takes Tokyo

as Makeup Artist