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.
Movies (162)
Boris Is Dead
2026
Greedy People
2024
The Farm
2023
Waking Up Dead
2022
Nicole, Her Ex & the Killer
2022
Women Behind Bars
2020
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
2020
Manipulated
2019
Steam Room Stories: The Movie
2019
Cemetery Tales: A Tale of Two Sisters
2018
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
2018
Hardcore to Horror
2016
Sharkansas Women's Prison Massacre
2015
Tag
2015
Nightmare Nurse
2015
Skum Rocks!
2013
Devil May Call
2013
Excision
2012
The Soccer Nanny
2011
Princess of Mars
2009
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
2009
Official Rejection
2009
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
2008
Your Name Here
2008
Point of Entry
2007
The Chosen One
2007
Crazy Eights
2006
Novel Romance
2006
Frostbite
2005
Deathlands
2003
Manhood
2003
X-Rated Ambition: The Traci Lords Story
2003
You're Killing Me...
2003
Black Mask 2: City of Masks
2002
They Shoot Divas, Don't They?
2002
Traci Lords at Her Very Best
2000
Full Blast
2000
Epicenter
2000
Chump Change
2000
D.R.E.A.M. Team
1999
In Bad Taste
1999
Me and Will
1999
Get Bruce!
1999
Blade
1998
Extramarital
1998
Boogie Boy
1998
Playboy: The Story of X
1998
Stir
1997
Nowhere
1997
Underworld
1996
Dead Man's Island
1996
Blood Money
1996
Virtuosity
1995
As Good As Dead
1995
Your Studio and You
1995
Dragstrip Girl
1994
Ice
1994
Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
1994
Serial Mom
1994
Bandit: Bandit's Silver Angel
1994
Desperate Crimes
1993
Skinner
1993
Laser Moon
1993
Traci Lords: Advanced Jazzthetics
1993
Intent to Kill
1992
The Nutt House
1992
A Time to Die
1991
Raw Nerve
1991
Murder in High Places
1991
Shock 'Em Dead
1991
Hollywood Boulevard II
1991
Warm Up with Traci Lords
1990
Cry-Baby
1990
Stallone's Knockouts
1990
Fast Food
1989
Not of This Earth
1988
Traci, I Love You
1987
Electric Blue 26
1987
Double Penetration 2
1987
Traci Lords Basta!
1987
Porn in the U.S.A.
1986
Traci's Fantasies
1986
Beverly Hills Copulator
1986
Traci Takes Tokyo
1986
Traci Made in Japan
1986
Foxy Boxing
1986
Girls of Paradise
1986
Electric Blue 21
1986
Lovely Young Tracy
1986
Deep Inside Traci
1986
We Love to Tease
1985
Sex Shoot
1985
The Sex Goddess
1985
Spermbusters
1985
Sizzling Suburbia
1985
Tailhouse Rock
1985
Two Timing Traci
1985
Perfect Fit
1985
Passion Pit
1985
Pleasure Party
1985
Peek a Boo Gang
1985
Hollywood Heartbreakers
1985
Holly Does Hollywood
1985
Just Another Pretty Face
1985
One Hot Night of Passion
1985
Ladies in Lace
1985
Harlequin Affair
1985
Dirty Pictures
1985
Country Girl
1985
Black Throat
1985
Aroused
1985
A Night for Legends
1985
Adult 45
1985
The Adventures of Tracy Dick: The Case of the Missing Stiff
1985
Another Roll in the Hay
1985
Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies 6
1985
Love Bites
1985
Whore of the Worlds
1985
Educating Mandy
1985
Lovely Young Tracy 2
1985
Physical II
1985
New Wave Hookers
1985
More than a Handful
1985
The Grafenberg Spot
1985
Suzie Superstar II
1985
Wild Things
1985
Portrait of Lust
1985
Future Voyeur
1985
Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies 5
1985
Jean Genie
1985
Erotic Zones #1
1985
Sex Waves
1985
Sex Fifth Avenue
1985
Dream Lover
1985
Young & Restless II
1985
It's My Body
1985
Battle of the Stars
1985
Fallen Angels
1985
Pony Girl
1985
Tracy in Heaven
1985
Electric Blue 20
1985
Electric Blue 17
1985
The Reincarnation of Don Juan
1985
Swedish Erotica 56
1984
Sweet Little Things
1984
Tracie Lords
1984
Open Up Tracy
1984
Joys of Erotica 109
1984
Lust in the Fast Lane
1984
Bad Girls 3
1984
Kinky Business
1984
Breaking It
1984
Sister Dearest
1984
Talk Dirty to Me 3
1984
What Gets Me Hot!
1984
Those Young Girls
1984
Night of Loving Dangerously
1984
Miss Passion
1984
Red Hot Rock
1984
Hot Pink
1984
Swedish Erotica 60
1984
Object of Desire
TV Shows (26)
Johnny vs Amber: The US Trial
2022
Swedish Dicks
2016
EastSiders
2012
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009
Head Case
2007
Andy Barker, P.I.
2007
Celebrity Paranormal Project
2006
Wanted 2005
2005
Gilmore Girls
2000
Will & Grace
1998
First Wave
1998
Profiler
1996
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
1995
Viper
1994
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
The Tommyknockers
1993
Highlander: The Series
1992
Melrose Place
1992
Super Force
1990
Tales from the Crypt
1989
Roseanne
1988
Wiseguy
1987
Married... with Children
1987
Married... with Children
1987
MacGyver
1985