Traci Lords
Nora Louise Kuzma (born May 7, 1968), better known as Traci Elizabeth Lords and Tracy Lords, is an actress previously working in pornographic films, but who is now persuing a mainstraim carreer.
She began her career in porn in 1983, at age fifteen by using false identification (US law states that those appearing in porn must be of legal adult age [18]) . At this age she modeled for Penthouse. These pictures were published in the September 1984 issue (which is the same issue that exposed Miss America 1984, Vanessa Williams). In 1986, it was revealed that she had been under the age of consent during almost her entire career. The ensuing chaos cost the adult industry millions of dollars as they were forced to pull hundreds of thousands of video tapes and magazines from store shelves and destroy them. Many people affiliated with her films suffered legal troubles as a result.
This scandal still gives rise to debate. Lords and her fans claim she is a victim. Abused in her youth, ran away from home an fallen in the wrong hands. She separated herself from porn and spoke out against the industry. Lords complains that the movie world seems unable to forget about her past, while they can for example forgive drug crimes.
On the other hand, industry veterans claim she refused to accept responsibility for her own actions. According to them, she came out with the details of her underage films when she started to produce her own movies. By making her old movies illegal, she gained an unfair advantage with her new films. They claim that Lords is hypocritical for having made movies after she claimed to be abused by the industry.
Lords has since attempted to move into mainstream films with limited success. She has played roles in a number of B-movies. Some of her more notable films include Things from Other Worlds (1988), John Waters Cry Baby, (1990) and Blade, (1998).
Lords also appeared in continuing roles in several television series, including Married with Children (1987), Roseanne (1988), and Melrose Place (1992), with single appearances in MacGyver (1985), Highlander (1992), Tales from the Crypt (1989), Hercules (1995), and Profiler (1996), among others.
In the 1990s, she began developing a career as a singer, also appearing in the music videos of other performers and groups, and has become an active gay rights advocate.
In 2003 she published a book: "Traci Lords: Underneath It All".
Acting Credits
- Film
- Black Mask 2: City of Masks (2001) - Chameleon
- Chump Change (2000) (as Traci Elizabeth Lords) - Sam
- Epicenter (2000) (as Traci Elizabeth Lords) - Amanda Foster
- You're Killing Me... (2001) - Laura Engles
- Blade (1998 movie)|Blade (1998) - Racquel
- Extramarital (1997) - Elizabeth
- Me and Will (1998) - Waitress
- Stir (1997) - Kelly Bekins
- Boogie Boy (1997) - Shonda
- Underworld (1996) - Anna
- Blood Money (1996) - Wendy Monroe
- Virtuosity (1995) - Media Zone singer
- Ice (1993) - Ellen
- Serial Mom (1994) - Carl's Date
- Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II (1994) - Norma
- Laser Moon (1992) - Barbara Fleck
- Nutt House, The (1992) - Miss Tress
- Raw Nerve (1991) - Gina Clayton
- Time to Die, A (1991) - Jackie
- Cry-Baby (1990) - Wanda Woodward
- Shock 'Em Dead (1991) - Lindsay Roberts
- Fast Food (1989) - Dixie Love
- Not of This Earth (1988) - Nadine
- Televison
- D.R.E.A.M. Team (1999) (as Traci Elizabeth Lords) - Mira
- Deathlands (2003) - Lady Rachel Cawdor
- They Shoot Divas, Don't They? (2002) (as Traci Elizabeth Lords) - Mira
- As Good as Dead (1995) - Nicole Grace
- Dragstrip Girl (1994) - Blanche
- Tommyknockers, The (1993) - Nancy Voss
- Murder in High Places (1991) - Diane
- Video
- Adult 45 (1985)
- Adventures of Tracy Dick: The Case of the Missing Stiff (1985) - Tracy Dick
- Another Roll in the Hay (1985)
- Aroused (1985) - Allison
- Black Throat (1985) (scenes deleted on re-release) - First Whore
- Country Girl (1985) - Billie Jean
- Diamond Collection 69 (1985)
- Diamond Collection 73 (1985)
- Dirty Pictures (1985)
- Dream Lover (1985)
- Educating Mandy (1985) - Mandy
- Electric Blue 20 (1985)
- Electric Blue 21 (1985) - Suzy/Jane
- Electric Blue 28 (1985) - Nikki (scenes deleted)
- Erotic Gold (1985)
- Erotic Zones Vol. 1 (1985) (as Tracy Lords)
- Future Voyeur (1985)
- Grafenberg Spot, The (1985)
- Harlequin Affair (1985) - Tracy
- Holly Does Hollywood (1985) - Tracy
- Hollywood Heartbreakers (1985)
- Huge Bras 3 (1985)
- It's My Body (1985) - Maggie
- Jean Genie (1985)
- Just Another Pretty Face (1985)
- Ladies in Lace (1985) - Linda
- Love Bites (1985) - Nurse
- New Wave Hookers (1985) - Devil
- Peek a Boo Gang (1985) - Tracy
- Perfect Fit (1985) - Diane
- Porn in the USA (1985) (as Tracy Lords)
- Portrait of Lust (1985) (as Tracy Lords) - Mirage
- Sex Shoot (1985) (as Tracy Lords)
- Sex Waves (1985)
- Sister Dearest (1985)
- Sizzling Suburbia (1985)
- Tailhouse Rock (1985) - Stacey
- Tracy in Heaven (1985) - Monika Hart
- Two-Timing Tracie (1985)
- We Love to Tease (1985)
- Bad Girls III (1984)
- Breaking It (1984) - Jodie Brown
- Lust in the Fast Lane (1984) (as Tracy Lords) - Jackie
- Miss Passion (1984)
- Night of Loving Dangerously, The (1984) (as Tracy Lords)
- Sex Goddess, The (1984) - Marilyn West
- Sexy Shorts (1984) (uncredited) - Miss Georgia (segment "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'")
- Those Young Girls (1984) (as Tracy Lords) - Tracy Lords
- Tracy Lords (1984) (as Tracy Lords)
- What Gets Me Hot! (1984) (as Tracy Lords) - Lannie