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Traci Lords

Acting

25.6 Popularity May 07, 1968 (57 years old) Steubenville, Ohio, USA

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 soug...

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.

Filmography 203

2024
Greedy People Movie

as Virginia

2022
Waking Up Dead Movie

as Phyllis

2022
2020
Women Behind Bars Movie

as Gloria

2019
2019
2018
Cemetery Tales: A Tale of Two Sisters Movie

as Victoria Chastain

2016
Swedish Dicks TV

as Jane McKinney

2016
Hardcore to Horror Movie

as (archive footage)

2015
Sharkansas Women's Prison Massacre Movie

as Detective Kendra Patterson

2015
Tag Movie

as Ann

2015
Nightmare Nurse Movie

as Barb

2013
Skum Rocks! Movie

as Self

2013
Devil May Call Movie

as Val

2012
EastSiders TV

as Valerie

2012
Excision Movie

as Phyllis

2012
Excision Movie

Associate Producer

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Personal Details

Known For Acting
Gender Female
Birthday May 07, 1968 (57 years old)
Place of Birth Steubenville, Ohio, USA
Also Known As Tracy Lords, Tracie Lords, Nora Louise Kuzma and 1 more
Years Active 1984 - 2024
Popularity 25.6
Career Stats
203 Total Credits
168 Movie Roles
25 TV Roles
2 Photos