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.

Blade

6.8

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

6.3

Cry-Baby

6.5

Gilmore Girls

7.9

Married... with Children

7.7

Tales from the Crypt

8.0

MacGyver

7.7

Serial Mom

6.7

Excision

6.2

Virtuosity

5.5

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

7.0

Will & Grace

6.8

Highlander: The Series

7.4

Roseanne

6.8

The Tommyknockers

5.6

Nowhere

6.8

Melrose Place

5.9

Greedy People

6.2

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

4.7

E! True Hollywood Story

8.1

Not of This Earth

4.8

Profiler

7.0

Sharkansas Women's Prison Massacre

4.8

Crazy Eights

4.5

First Wave

7.1

Black Mask 2: City of Masks

4.6

Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies

6.6

Viper

6.0

Princess of Mars

4.1

Swedish Dicks

6.2

Frostbite

4.1

EastSiders

6.4

Skinner

4.6

Wiseguy

6.5

Epicenter

3.9

Your Studio and You

6.8

Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II

3.5

Shock 'Em Dead

4.2

Underworld

5.2

Nightmare Nurse

5.6

Boogie Boy

4.5

Tag

4.9

King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen

6.6

Celebrity Ghost Stories

7.3

A Time to Die

4.6

X-Rated Ambition: The Traci Lords Story

5.4

The Nutt House

3.0

Fast Food

4.8

Devil May Call

5.8

Andy Barker, P.I.

7.2

Steam Room Stories: The Movie

6.4

Bandit: Bandit's Silver Angel

4.1

Get Bruce!

6.2

Ice

4.5

Me and Will

6.2

Raw Nerve

4.0

Point of Entry

4.7

Johnny vs Amber: The US Trial

6.0

As Good as Dead

4.9

Extramarital

4.4

In Bad Taste

8.0

Chump Change

3.9

Playboy: The Story of X

6.3

Novel Romance

4.5

Deathlands

3.0

Laser Moon

2.0

Intent to Kill

4.2

Fallen Angels

5.7

Official Rejection

5.2

Head Case

6.5

Super Force

6.2

The Soccer Nanny

4.4

Hollywood Boulevard II

3.8

You're Killing Me...

4.0

Blood Money

2.3

Hardcore to Horror

9.2

Wanted

7.3

Waking Up Dead

3.7

D.R.E.A.M. Team

4.7

Dead Man's Island

5.2

Desperate Crimes

4.3

They Shoot Divas, Don't They?

5.3

The Chosen One

6.0

Stir

4.3

Manhood

4.5

Celebrity Paranormal Project

8.7

Your Name Here

4.5

Dragstrip Girl

2.5

Foxy Boxing

2.5

Pony Girl

6.5

Red Hot Rock

3.5

Warm Up with Traci Lords

8.5

Skum Rocks!

3.0

Traci Lords: Advanced Jazzthetics

7.0

Manipulated

6.5

Murder in High Places

5.0

Home

9.0

Electric Blue 26

10.0

Full Blast

0.0

Women Behind Bars

0.0

The Ramones Go to Heaven

0.0

Object of Desire

0.0

Cemetery Tales: A Tale of Two Sisters

0.0

Traci Takes Tokyo

0.0

Nicole, Her Ex & the Killer

0.0

Stallone's Knockouts

0.0

The Farm

0.0

Boris Is Dead

0.0