Acting
Traci Lords
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
Boris Is Dead
Film · 2026
Greedy People
Film · 2024
The Farm
Film · 2023
Waking Up Dead
Film · 2022
Nicole, Her Ex & the Killer
Film · 2022
Johnny vs Amber: The US Trial
Series · 2022
Women Behind Bars
Film · 2020
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
Film · 2020
Manipulated
Film · 2019
Steam Room Stories: The Movie
Film · 2019
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
Film · 2018
Cemetery Tales: A Tale of Two Sisters
Film · 2018
Hardcore to Horror
Film · 2016
Swedish Dicks
Series · 2016
Sharkansas Women's Prison Massacre
Film · 2015
Nightmare Nurse
Film · 2015
Tag
Film · 2015
Skum Rocks!
Film · 2013
Devil May Call
Film · 2013
Excision
Film · 2012
EastSiders
Series · 2012
The Soccer Nanny
Film · 2011
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
Film · 2009
Princess of Mars
Film · 2009
Official Rejection
Film · 2009
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Series · 2009
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Film · 2008
Your Name Here
Film · 2008
Point of Entry
Film · 2007
The Chosen One
Film · 2007
Andy Barker, P.I.
Series · 2007
Head Case
Series · 2007
Crazy Eights
Film · 2006
Novel Romance
Film · 2006
Celebrity Paranormal Project
Series · 2006
Frostbite
Film · 2005
Wanted
Series · 2005
X-Rated Ambition: The Traci Lords Story
Film · 2003
Deathlands
Film · 2003
Home
Film · 2003
Manhood
Film · 2003
Black Mask 2: City of Masks
Film · 2002
They Shoot Divas, Don't They?
Film · 2002
You're Killing Me...
Film · 2001
Epicenter
Film · 2000
Full Blast
Film · 2000
Chump Change
Film · 2000
Max's Classics - Del 1: 1980-1987
Film · 2000
Traci Lords at Her Very Best
Film · 2000
Gilmore Girls
Series · 2000
Me and Will
Film · 1999
Get Bruce!
Film · 1999
D.R.E.A.M. Team
Film · 1999
In Bad Taste
Film · 1999
Blade
Film · 1998
Extramarital
Film · 1998
Boogie Boy
Film · 1998
Playboy: The Story of X
Film · 1998
Will & Grace
Series · 1998
First Wave
Series · 1998
Stir
Film · 1997
Nowhere
Film · 1997
Underworld
Film · 1996
Dead Man's Island
Film · 1996
Blood Money
Film · 1996
E! True Hollywood Story
Series · 1996
Profiler
Series · 1996
As Good As Dead
Film · 1995
Your Studio and You
Film · 1995
Virtuosity
Film · 1995
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
Series · 1995
Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
Film · 1994
Serial Mom
Film · 1994
Ice
Film · 1994
Dragstrip Girl
Film · 1994
Bandit: Bandit's Silver Angel
Film · 1994
Viper
Series · 1994
Skinner
Film · 1993
Laser Moon
Film · 1993
Traci Lords: Advanced Jazzthetics
Film · 1993
Desperate Crimes
Film · 1993
The Tommyknockers
Series · 1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Series · 1993
Intent to Kill
Film · 1992
The Nutt House
Film · 1992
Melrose Place
Series · 1992
Highlander: The Series
Series · 1992
Shock 'Em Dead
Film · 1991
A Time to Die
Film · 1991
Raw Nerve
Film · 1991
Murder in High Places
Film · 1991
Cry-Baby
Film · 1990
Stallone's Knockouts
Film · 1990
Warm Up with Traci Lords
Film · 1990
Super Force
Series · 1990
The Word
Series · 1990
Fast Food
Film · 1989
Hollywood Boulevard II
Film · 1989
Tales from the Crypt
Series · 1989
Not of This Earth
Film · 1988
Roseanne
Series · 1988
Traci, I Love You
Film · 1987
Electric Blue 26
Film · 1987
Double Penetration 2
Film · 1987
Traci Lords Basta!
Film · 1987
Wiseguy
Series · 1987
Married... with Children
Series · 1987
Married... with Children
Series · 1987
Deep Inside Tracey
Film · 1986
Foxy Boxing
Film · 1986
Traci's Fantasies
Film · 1986
Beverly Hills Copulator
Film · 1986
Porn in the U.S.A.
Film · 1986
Girls of Paradise
Film · 1986
Traci Takes Tokyo
Film · 1986
Electric Blue 21
Film · 1986
Lovely Young Tracy
Film · 1986
Traci Made in Japan
Film · 1986
Deep Inside Traci
Film · 1986
Young & Restless II
Film · 1985
Educating Mandy
Film · 1985
It's My Body
Film · 1985
Battle of the Stars
Film · 1985
Suzie Superstar II
Film · 1985
Erotic Gold
Film · 1985
New Wave Hookers
Film · 1985
The Grafenberg Spot
Film · 1985
Fallen Angels
Film · 1985
Pony Girl
Film · 1985
Adult 45
Film · 1985
The Adventures of Tracy Dick: The Case of the Missing Stiff
Film · 1985
Another Roll in the Hay
Film · 1985
Harlequin Affair
Film · 1985
Aroused
Film · 1985
Hollywood Heartbreakers
Film · 1985
Holly Does Hollywood
Film · 1985
Just Another Pretty Face
Film · 1985
One Hot Night of Passion
Film · 1985
Perfect Fit
Film · 1985
Passion Pit
Film · 1985
Pleasure Party
Film · 1985
Peek a Boo Gang
Film · 1985
The Sex Goddess
Film · 1985
Spermbusters
Film · 1985
Sizzling Suburbia
Film · 1985
Tailhouse Rock
Film · 1985
Tracy in Heaven
Film · 1985
Two Timing Traci
Film · 1985
We Love to Tease
Film · 1985
Sex Shoot
Film · 1985
Black Throat
Film · 1985
Country Girl
Film · 1985
Dirty Pictures
Film · 1985
Love Bites
Film · 1985
Wild Things
Film · 1985
Sex Fifth Avenue
Film · 1985
Dream Lover
Film · 1985
Sex Waves
Film · 1985
Portrait of Lust
Film · 1985
Future Voyeur
Film · 1985
Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies 5
Film · 1985
Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies 6
Film · 1985
Jean Genie
Film · 1985
Erotic Zone
Film · 1985
A Night for Legends
Film · 1985
Lovely Young Tracy 2
Film · 1985
Whore of the Worlds
Film · 1985
Physical II
Film · 1985
Ladies in Lace
Film · 1985
Electric Blue 20
Film · 1985
Electric Blue 17
Film · 1985
The Reincarnation of Don Juan
Film · 1985
More than a Handful
Film · 1985
MacGyver
Series · 1985
Talk Dirty to Me 3
Film · 1984
Sister Dearest
Film · 1984
Red Hot Rock
Film · 1984
Bad Girls 3
Film · 1984
Breaking It
Film · 1984
Joys of Erotica 109
Film · 1984
Lust in the Fast Lane
Film · 1984
Open Up Tracy
Film · 1984
Pleasure Productions 9
Film · 1984
Those Young Girls
Film · 1984
Sweet Little Things
Film · 1984
What Gets Me Hot!
Film · 1984
Tracie Lords
Film · 1984
Swedish Erotica 56
Film · 1984
Miss Passion
Film · 1984
Night of Loving Dangerously
Film · 1984
Hot Pink
Film · 1984
Kinky Business
Film · 1984
Swedish Erotica 57
Film · 1984
Swedish Erotica 60
Film · 1984
The Ramones Go to Heaven
Film
Object of Desire
Film