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Traci Lords 1968 57
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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2018 Cemetery Tales: A Tale of Two Sisters as Victoria Chastain
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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 Associate Producer
2011 The Soccer Nanny as Helen Hazleton
2009 Princess of Mars as Dejah Thoris
2009 I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell as Connie
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 Home as Lorna
2003 Deathlands as Lady Rachel Cawdor
2003 Manhood as Actress
2003 You're Killing Me... as Laura Engles
2003 X-Rated Ambition: The Traci Lords Story as Herself (archive footage)
2002 Black Mask 2: City of Masks as Chameleon
2002 They Shoot Divas, Don't They? as Mira
2000 Full Blast as Lindsay Lord
2000 Epicenter as Agent Amanda Foster
2000 Chump Change as Sam
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 Executive Producer
1998 Boogie Boy as Shonda Lee Bragg
1998 Playboy: The Story of X as Self (archive footage)
1997 Stir as Kelly Bekins
1997 Nowhere as Val-Chick 1
1996 Underworld as Anna Songs
1996 Dead Man's Island as Miranda Prescott
1996 Blood Money as Wendy Monroe
1995 Mortal Kombat Songs
1995 Virtuosity as Media Zone Singer Songs
1995 As Good as Dead as Nicole Grace
1995 Your Studio and You as Traci Lords
1994 Dragstrip Girl as Blanche
1994 Ice as Ellen Reed
1994 Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II as Norma
1994 Serial Mom as Carl's Date
1994 Bandit: Bandit's Silver Angel as Angel
1993 Desperate Crimes as Laura
1993 Skinner as Heidi
1993 Laser Moon as Barbara Fleck
1993 Traci Lords: Advanced Jazzthetics
1992 Intent to Kill as Vickie Stewart
1992 The Nutt House as Miss Tress
1992 Pet Sematary II Songs
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
1988 Not of This Earth as Nadine Story
1987 Electric Blue 26 as Miss Georgia (Helix music video) (archive footage)
1986 Traci Takes Tokyo as Traci Makeup Artist, Producer
1986 Foxy Boxing as Herself - Round Girl
1985 Fallen Angels as Herself
1985 Pony Girl as Daphne (as Tracy Lords)
1984 Red Hot Rock as Miss Georgia (segment "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'") (uncredited)