Traci Lords
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1968-05-07 (57 years old)
Place of Birth
Steubenville, Ohio, USA
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.
Acting
Boris Is Dead
as Angie
The Farm
as Belle Gunness
The Ramones Go to Heaven
as Angel
(2024)
Greedy People
as Virginia
(2022)
Waking Up Dead
as Phyllis
(2022)
Nicole, Her Ex & the Killer
as Mother
(2020)
(2020)
Women Behind Bars
as Gloria
(2019)
Steam Room Stories: The Movie
as Sally Fay
(2019)
(2018)
King Cohen
as Self
(2018)
Cemetery Tales: A Tale of Two Sisters
as Victoria Chastain
(2016)
Hardcore to Horror
as (archive footage)
(2015)
Sharkansas Women's Prison Massacre
as Detective Kendra Patterson
(2015)
Tag
as Ann
(2015)
Nightmare Nurse
as Barb
(2013)
Skum Rocks!
as Self
(2013)
Devil May Call
as Val
(2012)
Excision
as Phyllis
(2011)
The Soccer Nanny
as Helen Hazleton
(2009)
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
as Connie
(2009)
Princess of Mars
as Dejah Thoris
(2009)
Official Rejection
as Self
(2008)
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
as Bubbles
(2008)
Your Name Here
as Julie
(2007)
Point of Entry
as Brianna Fine
(2007)
The Chosen One
as Mrs. Sultry (voice)
(2006)
Crazy Eights
as Gina Conte
(2006)
Novel Romance
as Max Normane
(2005)
Frostbite
as Naomi Bucks
(2003)
X-Rated Ambition: The Traci Lords Story
as Herself (archive footage)
(2003)
Manhood
as Actress
(2003)
Deathlands
as Lady Rachel Cawdor
(2003)
Home
as Lorna
(2003)
You're Killing Me...
as Laura Engles
(2002)
Black Mask 2: City of Masks
as Chameleon
(2002)
(2000)
Epicenter
as Agent Amanda Foster
(2000)
Chump Change
as Sam
(2000)
Full Blast
as Lindsay Lord
(2000)
Max's Classics - Del 1: 1980-1987
as (archive footage)
(2000)
Traci Lords at Her Very Best
as (archive footage)
(1999)
Me and Will
as Waitress
(1999)
Get Bruce!
as Self
(1999)
D.R.E.A.M. Team
as Lena Brant (as Traci Elizabeth Lords)
(1999)
In Bad Taste
as Self
(1998)
Blade
as Racquel
(1998)
Extramarital
as Elizabeth
(1998)
Playboy: The Story of X
as Self (archive footage)
(1998)
Boogie Boy
as Shonda Lee Bragg
(1997)
Nowhere
as Val-Chick 1
(1997)
Stir
as Kelly Bekins
(1996)
Underworld
as Anna
(1996)
Blood Money
as Wendy Monroe
(1996)
Dead Man's Island
as Miranda Prescott
(1995)
Virtuosity
as Media Zone Singer
(1995)
Your Studio and You
as Traci Lords
(1995)
As Good as Dead
as Nicole Grace
(1994)
Serial Mom
as Carl's Date
(1994)
Dragstrip Girl
as Blanche
(1994)
Ice
as Ellen Reed
(1994)
(1994)
Bandit: Bandit's Silver Angel
as Angel
(1993)
Skinner
as Heidi
(1993)
Desperate Crimes
as Laura
(1993)
(1993)
Laser Moon
as Barbara Fleck
(1992)
Intent to Kill
as Vickie Stewart
(1992)
The Nutt House
as Miss Tress
(1991)
Murder in High Places
as Diane Cody
(1991)
Hollywood Boulevard II
as Traci Lords
(1991)
A Time to Die
as Jackie Swanson
(1991)
Raw Nerve
as Gina Clayton
(1991)
Shock 'Em Dead
as Lindsay Roberts
(1990)
Cry-Baby
as Wanda Woodward
(1990)
Warm Up with Traci Lords
as Herself - Aerobics Workout Instructor
(1990)
Stallone's Knockouts
as Traci Lords, Ringside Commentator
(1990)
(1989)
Fast Food
as Dixie Love
(1988)
Not of This Earth
as Nadine Story
(1987)
Electric Blue 26
as Miss Georgia (Helix music video) (archive footage)
(1987)
Traci, I Love You
as Traci
(1987)
Double Penetration 2
as (archive footage)
(1987)
Traci Lords Basta! - Max's Film
as herself
(1986)
Electric Blue 21
as Jane / Suzy (segment "Night in Bangkok")
(1986)
Traci Made in Japan
as Traci
(1986)
Traci Takes Tokyo
as Traci
(1986)
Foxy Boxing
as Self - Round Girl
(1986)
Deep Inside Tracey
as Traci (Original, Archived Footage)
(1986)
(1986)
Beverly Hills Copulator
as Michelle Leon
(1986)
Porn in the U.S.A.
as Miss Tatum (archive footage)
(1986)
Girls of Paradise
as (archive footage)
(1986)
(1986)
(1985)
Electric Blue 20
as Electric Blue Girl (archive footage)
(1985)
Pony Girl
as Daphne (as Tracy Lords)
(1985)
Fallen Angels
as Herself
(1985)
(1985)
Educating Mandy
as Mandy
(1985)
It's My Body
as Maggie
(1985)
Battle of the Stars
as Traci
(1985)
Suzie Superstar II
as Barbara / Suzie Wilson
(1985)
(1985)
New Wave Hookers
as The Devil
(1985)
The Grafenberg Spot
as Tracy
(1985)
Adult 45
as (archive footage)
(1985)
(1985)
Another Roll in the Hay
as Candi
(1985)
Harlequin Affair
as Tracy
(1985)
Aroused
as Allison Davis
(1985)
(1985)
Holly Does Hollywood
as Tracy
(1985)
Just Another Pretty Face
as Traci
(1985)
One Hot Night of Passion
as Dawn
(1985)
Perfect Fit
as Diane Green
(1985)
Passion Pit
as Jan
(1985)
Pleasure Party
as Brad's Girlfriend
(1985)
Peek a Boo Gang
as Tracy
(1985)
The Sex Goddess
as Marilyn
(1985)
(1985)
Sizzling Suburbia
as Helen Trent
(1985)
Tailhouse Rock
as Stacey
(1985)
(1985)
Two Timing Traci
as Traci
(1985)
We Love to Tease
as Tracy
(1985)
Sex Shoot
as Tracy La Sorta
(1985)
Black Throat
as Debbie
(1985)
Country Girl
as Billie jean
(1985)
(1985)
Love Bites
as Nurse
(1985)
Wild Things
as School Girl
(1985)
(1985)
(1985)
Sex Waves
as Beverly
(1985)
Portrait of Lust
as Mirage
(1985)
(1985)
Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies 5
as (Scene Cut For 1987 Reissue)
(1985)
Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies 6
as Traci (Scene Cut For 1987 Reissue)
(1985)
(1985)
Erotic Zones #1
as Liz (segment "Love Nest")
(1985)
A Night For Legends
as Self - Presenter
(1985)
Lovely Young Tracy 2
as Tracy
(1985)
Whore of the Worlds
as (archive footage)
(1985)
Physical II
as Helen Highwater
(1985)
Ladies in Lace
as Linda
(1985)
Electric Blue 17
as (segment "Hard Times")
(1985)
The Reincarnation of Don Juan
as Girl In Red (archive footage)
(1985)
(1984)
Red Hot Rock
as Miss Georgia (segment "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'") (uncredited)
(1984)
Talk Dirty to Me 3
as The Mermaid
(1984)
Sister Dearest
as Vicky Jennings
(1984)
Bad Girls 3
as Cherry Sue
(1984)
Breaking It
as Jodie Brown
(1984)
Joys of Erotica 109
as (archive footage)
(1984)
Lust in the Fast Lane
as Jackie
(1984)
Open Up Tracy
as Traci
(1984)
Pleasure Productions 9
as (archive footage)
(1984)
Those Young Girls
as Traci
(1984)
Sweet Little Things
as Traci
(1984)
What Gets Me Hot!
as Lannie
(1984)
Tracie Lords
as Tracie
(1984)
(1984)
Miss Passion
as Sassy Sizzle
(1984)
Night Of Loving Dangerously
as Janice O'Hara
(1984)
Hot Pink
as (archive footage)
(1984)
Kinky Business
as Tracy
Crew
(2012)
Excision
Associate Producer
(1998)
Extramarital
Executive Producer
(1996)
Underworld
Songs
(1995)
Mortal Kombat
Songs
(1995)
Virtuosity
Songs
(1992)
Pet Sematary II
Songs
(1987)
Traci, I Love You
Producer
(1986)
Beverly Hills Copulator
Producer
(1986)
Traci Takes Tokyo
Makeup Artist, Producer
(1986)
Traci Made in Japan
Producer