Traci Lords

Also Billed As: Nora Kuzma, Traci Elizabeth Lords, Tracie Lords, Tracy Lords
Birth Name: Nora Louise Kuzma
Birth Date: May 7, 1968
Birth Place: Steubenville, Ohio
Hair Color: Blonde
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Height: 5'7"
Measurements: 34C/D-23-34

Bio:
Traci Lords is a study of a determined and complex woman with a very controversial background. Born and raised in Ohio as Nora Kuzma, she moved with her divorced mother and three sisters to Los Angeles at age 12. She ran away from home and began nude modeling at age 15, then adult films a year later.

An incredibly developed, full-figured girl, she easily duped photographers, producers and directors (with the help of a false birth certificate and driver's license). Her stage name is a combination of Traci, from a former school friend, and Lords, in honor of her favorite male actor, Jack Lord ("Hawaii Five-O" (1968)). She later owned a white Persian cat named Mr. Steve McGarrett, the name of the character Lord played on the show. Traci made somewhere between 80 and 100 X-rated movies (some consisted mostly of leftover footage from previous shoots) between 1984 and 1986.

In May 1986 she was arrested by FBI agents when it was discovered she was underage, which meant that any films with her in them were illegal to rent or buy, and video stores around the country rushed to remove them. The only legal porn movie Traci made was Traci, I Love You (1987) (V), which was filmed in Paris, France, on her 18th birthday. Since she controlled distribution rights, many people believed she orchestrated the revelation herself so she could be the only one to profit from her X-rated career. Many within the adult film industry made a tacit agreement to never promote Traci or talk about her, as they felt she betrayed the industry that had had been the source of her fame in the first place. The federal government tried to prosecute the producers of the movie Those Young Girls (1984) (V), the first adult film Traci appeared in, for child pornography. However, the case fell apart when the government admitted that it, too, had been duped when Lords traveled to Europe to shoot Traci, I Love You (1987) (V) on a fake passport. After her exile from adult films, she began to resurrect her life and fulfill her lifelong ambition to star in "mainstream" films.

In 1987 she enrolled in the Lee Strasberg acting school, began voice lessons and built on her natural acting talents. Her first mainstream "break" came in Not of This Earth (1988), a remake of the classic Roger Corman sci-fi film from the 1950s. It was the last time that Traci would bare her breasts for the camera. Rare footage of a scene where she exits a shower has been seen as an outtake--Traci walks out of the shower, warning the cameramen to get ready to get the best look they could at her naked body. She jokes while draping the towel around her waist, turning her exposed chest to the camera, and then covers up. Her roles in subsequent films would see her placed in situations where there was much more left to the imagination than could actually be seen on screen for a public that only a few years earlier had seen virtually every facet of this beautiful girl.

Throughout the 1990s her hard work got her a reputation as a reliable and respected actress, in addition to being a singer and an advocate for gay rights. Her recurring role in early 1995 as a sneering sociopath, Rikki, on "Melrose Place" (1992) was critically acclaimed and landed her more roles in other movies, playing villains and psychotic characters. In the latter half of the 1990s she appeared in several B movies that went straight to video and/or cable in lead, minor or cameo roles. She even guest-starred in a number of TV shows ranging from "Married with Children" (1987), "Roseanne" (1988), "MacGyver" (1985) and "Nash Bridges" (1996).

She has always despised being referred to as "an ex-porn star", and resents the fact that a celebrity like Tim Allen can be forgiven by Hollywood for past transgressions (he was convicted and served prison time selling drugs while he was in college) but she still to this day bears the stigma of her porn years. It's probably the fantasy of the underage girl who fooled an entire industry, and, at the height of her career, was unquestionably the most popular actress with fans and filmmakers alike.

Some of her most notable TV work was as a regular on season 2 of "Profiler" (1996) from 1997 to 1998 in playing the schizo-sicko serial killer Sharon Lesher, as well as the tough heroine Jordan Radcliffe during the last season of the sci-fi series "First Wave" (1998) from 2000 to 2001. She most recently has written her autobiography, published in 2003, and even tried her hand in writing and directing a short film which would lead her to another career as a writer-director of independent films.

Listed Credits:
1. A Flower in Brazil
2. Angels There Attend
3. "Head Case"
- Episode #1.4
4. Your Name Here
5. "Andy Barker P.I."
- Dial M for Laptop
6. The Greatest Show Ever
7. Crazy Eights
8. Novel Romance
9. The Chosen One
10. "Wanted"
- Judas
- The Wild Bunch
11. "Will & Grace"
- Birds of a Feather Boa
12. True Crime: New York City (VG).... Madam Cassandra Hartz
13. Frostbite
14. Ground Control II: Operation Exodus (VG).... Dr. Alice McNeal
15. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (VG).... Pestilence
16. "Gilmore Girls"
... aka Gilmore Girls: Beginnings
- The Fundamental Things Apply
17. Home
18. Deathlands
19. Manhood
20. Black Mask 2: City of Masks
... aka Hak hap 2
... aka Hei xia 2
21. Defender (VG) .... Commander Kyoto
... aka Defender: Saving the Human Race
22. They Shoot Divas, Don't They?
23. "First Wave"
- Twice Bless'd
- Terminal City
- Checkmate
- Requiem
- The Vessel
(12 more)
24. You're Killing Me
25. Chump Change
26. Certain Guys
27. Epicenter
... aka Epicentre
28. "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys"
- Hercules, Tramps & Thieves
29. Me and Will
30. D.R.E.A.M. Team
31. Stir
32. Blade
33. Extramarital
34. "Profiler"
- The Root of All Evil
- Die Beautiful
- Cycle of Violence
- Lethal Obsession
- Breaking Point
(12 more)
35. Boogie Boy
36. "Viper"
- The List
37. Nowhere
38. "Nash Bridges"
... aka Bridges
- Knockout
39. Full Blast
40. Underworld
41. Dead Man's Island
42. Blood Money
43. Virtuosity
44. Skinner
45. As Good as Dead
46. "Roseanne"
- Single Married Female
- Lost Youth
- Follow the Son
47. "Melrose Place"
- St. Valentine's Day Massacre
- Boxing Sydney
- Another Perfect Day in Hell
- They Shoot Mothers, Don't They?: Part 1
- They Shoot Mothers, Don't They?: Part 2
48. Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
... aka Circuitry Man 2
49. Dragstrip Girl
50. Ice
51. Serial Mom
52. Bandit: Bandit's Silver Angel
... aka Bandit: Bandit and the Silver Angel
53. Ritmo del silenzio, Il
... aka Desperate Crimes
... aka Mafia Docks
... aka Port of Crime
54. "Tales from the Crypt"
... aka HBO's Tales from the Crypt
- Two for the Show
55. "Highlander"
... aka Highlander
... aka Highlander: The Series
- The Darkness
56. "Sweating Bullets"
... aka Tropical Heat
- Katie's Secret
57. The Tommyknockers
... aka Stephen King's The Tommyknockers
58. Intent to Kill
59. Laser Moon
60. The Nutt House
61. "Married with Children"
- Al Bundy, Shoe Dick
- Tooth or Consequences
62. Raw Nerve
63. Murder in High Places
64. "Super Force"
- Of Human Bondage
65. Shock 'Em Dead
... aka Rock 'em Dead
66. A Time to Die
67. "MacGyver"
- MacGyver's Women
68. Cry-Baby
69. Object of Desire
70. Fast Food
71. Not of This Earth
72. "Wiseguy"
- Date with an Angel
73. Traci, I Love You
... aka A Taste of Traci Lords
... aka P.S. I Love You
74. Traci Takes Tokyo
75. Reincarnation of Don Juan
76. Fantasies .... Traci
... aka Traci Lords' Fantasies
... aka Traci's Fantasies
77. Beverly Hills Copulator
78. Foxy Boxing
79. Hot Cum Orgy
80. Private Fantasies VI
... aka Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies VI
81. Suzie Superstar II
82. Tracy in Heaven
83. Dream Lover
84. Diamond Collection 69
85. Diamond Collection 73
86. Physical II
87. Dirty Pictures
88. Tailhouse Rock
89. Pleasure Party
90. The Grafenberg Spot
... aka Double Insight for Traci Lords
91. Hollywood Heartbreakers
92. Pony Girl
93. Pony Girl Number Two
94. Adventures of Tracy Dick: The Case of the Missing Stiff Dick
95. Porn in the USA
96. Sex Shoot
97. Two-Timing Traci
98. Black Throat
99. We Love to Tease
100. One Hot Night of Passion
101. Harlequin Affair
102. Future Voyeur
103. Jean Genie
104. Sweet Little Things
105. Tracy's Dilemma
... aka Swedish Erotica 56
106. Swedish Erotica 57
107. Swedish Erotica 60
108. Sister Dearest
... aka Back to Class
... aka High School Girls
109. Electric Blue 21
110. Aroused
... aka Traci Lords Is Aroused
111. Electric Blue 20
112. Country Girl
113. Private Fantasies V
... aka Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies V
114. Sex Fifth Avenue
115. Huge Bras 3
116. Portrait of Lust
117. Sex Waves
118. Another Roll in the Hay
119. Just Another Pretty Face
120. Passion Pit
121. Talk Dirty to Me, Part IV
122. Electric Blue 28
... aka Electric Blue: Beverly Hills Wives
123. Wild Things
124. Love Bites
125. New Wave Hookers
... aka Devil by the Tail
126. Erotic Gold
127. It's My Body
128. Erotic Zones Vol. 1
... aka Erotic Zone
129. Sizzling Suburbia
130. Holly Does Hollywood
131. Educating Mandy
132. Peek a Boo Gang
133. Hot Pink
134. Ladies in Lace
135. Perfect Fit
136. Kinky Business
137. Young and Restless 2
138. Bad Girls III
139. Those Young Girls
140. What Gets Me Hot!
141. Lust in the Fast Lane
142. The Sex Goddess
143. Talk Dirty to Me, Part III
144. Sexy Shorts
... aka Red Hot Rock
145. Joys of Erotica 109
146. Joys of Erotica 110
147. Breaking It
... aka Fresh Girls Wanted
... aka Like a Virgin
148. Open Up Traci
149. Night of Loving Dangerously
150. Miss Passion

Producer:


1. Extramarital
2. Beverly Hills Copulator
3. Traci Takes Tokyo

Soundtrack:

1. Virtuosity (performer: "Fallen Angel")
2. Mortal Kombat (writer/performer: "Control (Juno Reactor Instrumental)")
3. Pet Sematary II (performer: "LOVE NEVER DIES")
... aka Pet Cemetery II

Director:

1. Sweet Pea

Writer:

1. Sweet Pea

Make-Up Department:

1. Traci Takes Tokyo (makeup artist)

Self:

1. Official Rejection
2. "Celebrity Paranormal Project"
- Mad Ray
3. "The Tyra Banks Show"
- Halloween Show
4. It Came from Baltimore
5. "Ultimate Film Fanatic"
6. "Biography"
- Traci Lords
7. The 100 Greatest Musicals
8. "The Oprah Winfrey Show"
... aka Oprah
- Episode dated 9 October 2003
9. Dragon*Con 2002
10. "Larry King Live"
- Episode dated 14 July 2003
11. "Dateline NBC"
... aka Dateline
- Secrets & Lies
12. "I Love the '80s"
13. "Howard Stern"
- Episode dated 7 November 2000
- Episode dated 6 November 2000
14. "The Howard Stern Radio Show"
- Episode dated 4 November 2000
15. Get Bruce
... aka Get Bruce!
16. "Late Night with Conan O'Brien"
- Episode dated 19 August 1998
17. "E! True Hollywood Story"
- Traci Lords
18. The Seven Deadly Sins of Melrose Place
19. Your Studio and You
20. "The Word"
- Episode #5.16
21. Traci Lords: Advanced Jazzthetics
22. Warm Up with Traci Lords
23. Hollywood Boulevard II
... aka Back to Hollywood Boulevard
24. Deep Inside Traci
25. Fallen Angels
26. Battle of the Stars
... aka Battle of the Sex Stars: Round One
27. First Annual XRCO Adult Film Awards
28. Tracie Lords
29. Tracy Lords

Archive Footage:

1. The Child Star Jinx
2. Centerfold Babylon
3. Traci Lords at Her Very Best
4. Playboy: The Story of X
5. Un siècle de plaisir - voyage à travers l'histoire du hard
6. Cumshot Review Vol. 3
7. Double Penetration 2
8. Adult 45
9. Whore of the Worlds