Traci Lords
Acting • Born 1968-05-07
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.
Filmography
194 credits
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Movie • 2008
Bubbles
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
Movie • 2009
Connie
Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
Movie • 1994
Norma
Serial Mom
Movie • 1994
Carl's Date
Cry-Baby
Movie • 1990
Wanda Woodward
X-Rated Ambition: The Traci Lords Story
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage)
Not of This Earth
Movie • 1988
Nadine Story
Shock 'Em Dead
Movie • 1991
Lindsay Roberts
Princess of Mars
Movie • 2009
Dejah Thoris
Blade
Movie • 1998
Racquel
Crazy Eights
Movie • 2006
Gina Conte
Me and Will
Movie • 1999
Waitress
Skum Rocks!
Movie • 2013
Self
Frostbite
Movie • 2005
Naomi Bucks
Get Bruce!
Movie • 1999
Self
Young & Restless II
Movie • 1985
Educating Mandy
Movie • 1985
Mandy
Epicenter
Movie • 2000
Agent Amanda Foster
You're Killing Me...
Movie • 2003
Laura Engles
Novel Romance
Movie • 2006
Max Normane
It's My Body
Movie • 1985
Maggie
A Time to Die
Movie • 1991
Jackie Swanson
Excision
Movie • 2012
Phyllis
Skinner
Movie • 1993
Heidi
Ice
Movie • 1994
Ellen Reed
Underworld
Movie • 1996
Anna
Battle of the Stars
Movie • 1985
Traci
Deathlands
Movie • 2003
Lady Rachel Cawdor
Laser Moon
Movie • 1993
Barbara Fleck
Waking Up Dead
Movie • 2022
Phyllis
Traci Lords: Advanced Jazzthetics
Movie • 1993
As Good As Dead
Movie • 1995
Nicole Grace
Full Blast
Movie • 2000
Lindsay Lord
Your Name Here
Movie • 2008
Julie
Suzie Superstar II
Movie • 1985
Barbara / Suzie Wilson
Traci, I Love You
Movie • 1987
Traci
D.R.E.A.M. Team
Movie • 1999
Lena Brant (as Traci Elizabeth Lords)
Erotic Gold
Movie • 1985
Deep Inside Tracey
Movie • 1986
Traci (Original, Archived Footage)
Dead Man's Island
Movie • 1996
Miranda Prescott
Chump Change
Movie • 2000
Sam
Desperate Crimes
Movie • 1993
Laura
Dragstrip Girl
Movie • 1994
Blanche
Women Behind Bars
Movie • 2020
Gloria
Your Studio and You
Movie • 1995
Traci Lords
Manipulated
Movie • 2019
Intent to Kill
Movie • 1992
Vickie Stewart
The Nutt House
Movie • 1992
Miss Tress
Extramarital
Movie • 1998
Elizabeth
The Ramones Go to Heaven
Movie
Angel
Raw Nerve
Movie • 1991
Gina Clayton
Black Mask 2: City of Masks
Movie • 2002
Chameleon
Murder in High Places
Movie • 1991
Diane Cody
Sharkansas Women's Prison Massacre
Movie • 2015
Detective Kendra Patterson
Talk Dirty to Me 3
Movie • 1984
The Mermaid
Fast Food
Movie • 1989
Dixie Love
New Wave Hookers
Movie • 1985
The Devil
Greedy People
Movie • 2024
Virginia
Nightmare Nurse
Movie • 2015
Barb
Sister Dearest
Movie • 1984
Vicky Jennings
Foxy Boxing
Movie • 1986
Self - Round Girl
They Shoot Divas, Don't They?
Movie • 2002
Mira
The Grafenberg Spot
Movie • 1985
Tracy
The Soccer Nanny
Movie • 2011
Helen Hazleton
Virtuosity
Movie • 1995
Media Zone Singer
Boogie Boy
Movie • 1998
Shonda Lee Bragg
Object of Desire
Movie
Devil May Call
Movie • 2013
Val
Point of Entry
Movie • 2007
Brianna Fine
Hollywood Boulevard II
Movie • 1991
Traci Lords
Bandit: Bandit's Silver Angel
Movie • 1994
Angel
Blood Money
Movie • 1996
Wendy Monroe
Nowhere
Movie • 1997
Val-Chick 1
Stir
Movie • 1997
Kelly Bekins
Home
Movie • 2003
Lorna
The Chosen One
Movie • 2007
Mrs. Sultry (voice)
Fallen Angels
Movie • 1985
Self
Pony Girl
Movie • 1985
Daphne (as Tracy Lords)
Red Hot Rock
Movie • 1984
Miss Georgia (segment "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'") (uncredited)
Bad Girls 3
Movie • 1984
Cherry Sue
Traci's Fantasies
Movie • 1986
Adult 45
Movie • 1985
(archive footage)
The Adventures of Tracy Dick: The Case of the Missing Stiff
Movie • 1985
Tracy Dick
Another Roll in the Hay
Movie • 1985
Candi
Breaking It
Movie • 1984
Jodie Brown
Harlequin Affair
Movie • 1985
Tracy
Aroused
Movie • 1985
Allison Davis
Beverly Hills Copulator
Movie • 1986
Michelle Leon
Holly Does Hollywood
Movie • 1985
Tracy
Hollywood Heartbreakers
Movie • 1985
Joys of Erotica 109
Movie • 1984
(archive footage)
Just Another Pretty Face
Movie • 1985
Traci
Max's Classics - Del 1: 1980-1987
Movie • 2000
(archive footage)
Lust in the Fast Lane
Movie • 1984
Jackie
One Hot Night of Passion
Movie • 1985
Dawn
Open Up Tracy
Movie • 1984
Traci
Passion Pit
Movie • 1985
Jan
Peek a Boo Gang
Movie • 1985
Tracy
Pleasure Party
Movie • 1985
Brad's Girlfriend
Perfect Fit
Movie • 1985
Diane Green
Pleasure Productions 9
Movie • 1984
(archive footage)
Porn in the U.S.A.
Movie • 1986
Miss Tatum (archive footage)
The Sex Goddess
Movie • 1985
Marilyn
Sizzling Suburbia
Movie • 1985
Helen Trent
Spermbusters
Movie • 1985
Sweet Little Things
Movie • 1984
Traci
Tailhouse Rock
Movie • 1985
Stacey
Those Young Girls
Movie • 1984
Traci
Traci Lords at Her Very Best
Movie • 2000
(archive footage)
Tracie Lords
Movie • 1984
Tracie
Tracy in Heaven
Movie • 1985
Two Timing Traci
Movie • 1985
Traci
What Gets Me Hot!
Movie • 1984
Lannie
Swedish Erotica 56
Movie • 1984
We Love to Tease
Movie • 1985
Tracy
Sex Shoot
Movie • 1985
Tracy La Sorta
Black Throat
Movie • 1985
Debbie
Country Girl
Movie • 1985
Billie jean
Dirty Pictures
Movie • 1985
Playboy: The Story of X
Movie • 1998
Self (archive footage)
Tag
Movie • 2015
Ann
Official Rejection
Movie • 2009
Self
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
Movie • 2018
Self
Love Bites
Movie • 1985
Nurse
Wild Things
Movie • 1985
School Girl
Sex Fifth Avenue
Movie • 1985
Dream Lover
Movie • 1985
Sex Waves
Movie • 1985
Beverly
Miss Passion
Movie • 1984
Sassy Sizzle
Night Of Loving Dangerously
Movie • 1984
Janice O'Hara
Portrait of Lust
Movie • 1985
Mirage
Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies 5
Movie • 1985
(Scene Cut For 1987 Reissue)
Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies 6
Movie • 1985
Traci (Scene Cut For 1987 Reissue)
Future Voyeur
Movie • 1985
Jean Genie
Movie • 1985
Erotic Zones #1
Movie • 1985
Liz (segment "Love Nest")
Girls of Paradise
Movie • 1986
(archive footage)
A Night For Legends
Movie • 1985
Self - Presenter
Hot Pink
Movie • 1984
(archive footage)
Hardcore to Horror
Movie • 2016
(archive footage)
Cemetery Tales: A Tale of Two Sisters
Movie • 2018
Victoria Chastain
Lovely Young Tracy 2
Movie • 1985
Tracy
Traci Takes Tokyo
Movie • 1986
Traci
Steam Room Stories: The Movie
Movie • 2019
Sally Fay
Whore of the Worlds
Movie • 1985
(archive footage)
Physical II
Movie • 1985
Helen Highwater
Kinky Business
Movie • 1984
Tracy
Ladies in Lace
Movie • 1985
Linda
Nicole, Her Ex & the Killer
Movie • 2022
Mother
Stallone's Knockouts
Movie • 1990
Traci Lords, Ringside Commentator
In Bad Taste
Movie • 1999
Self
Warm Up with Traci Lords
Movie • 1990
Herself - Aerobics Workout Instructor
Electric Blue 20
Movie • 1985
Electric Blue Girl (archive footage)
Electric Blue 21
Movie • 1986
Jane / Suzy (segment "Night in Bangkok")
Electric Blue 17
Movie • 1985
(segment "Hard Times")
Electric Blue 26
Movie • 1987
Miss Georgia (Helix music video) (archive footage)
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
Movie • 2020
Self
The Reincarnation of Don Juan
Movie • 1985
Girl In Red (archive footage)
Lovely Young Tracy
Movie • 1986
Double Penetration 2
Movie • 1987
(archive footage)
The Farm
Movie
Belle Gunness
Swedish Erotica 57
Movie • 1984
Traci Lords Basta! - Max's Film
Movie • 1987
herself
Traci Made in Japan
Movie • 1986
Traci
Manhood
Movie • 2003
Actress
Boris Is Dead
Movie
Angie
Deep Inside Traci
Movie • 1986
More than a Handful
Movie • 1985
(archive footage)
Swedish Erotica 60
Movie • 1984
Tales from the Crypt
TV • 1989
Emma Conway
E! True Hollywood Story
TV • 1996
Roseanne
TV • 1988
MacGyver
TV • 1985
Jenny
Profiler
TV • 1996
Jill of All Trades
Celebrity Paranormal Project
TV • 2006
Self
Melrose Place
TV • 1992
Rikki Abbott
Andy Barker, P.I.
TV • 2007
Loretta Crispin
Will & Grace
TV • 1998
Rose
Wiseguy
TV • 1987
Gilmore Girls
TV • 2000
Natalie Zimmermann
Wanted
TV • 2005
Bartender
Viper
TV • 1994
Talia Massey
The Tommyknockers
TV • 1993
Nancy Voss
Head Case
TV • 2007
Self
Married... with Children
TV • 1987
Assistant
Celebrity Ghost Stories
TV • 2009
Self
Johnny vs Amber: The US Trial
TV • 2022
Self
EastSiders
TV • 2012
Valerie
Highlander: The Series
TV • 1992
Greta
Married... with Children
TV • 1987
Vanessa Van Pelt
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
TV • 1995
Luscious Deluxe
First Wave
TV • 1998
Jordan Radcliffe
Super Force
TV • 1990
Alien #2
Swedish Dicks
TV • 2016
Jane McKinney