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Full Name:	Traci Lords
Birth Name:	Nora Louise Kuzma
Famous As:	Actress
Date of Birth:	May 07, 1968
Place of Birth:	Steubenville, Ohio, USA
Height:	5' 7
Nationality:	American
Relationships:	John Enos (actor, engaged April 1996 - 1998)
Father:	Louis Kuzma
Mother:	Patricia Briceland
Spouse:	Brook Yeaton (September 20, 1990 - 1995), Ryan Riel Grainger (June 26, 1999 - February 2000), Jeffery Lee (since February 23, 2002)

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Traci Lords
Traci Lords at DragonCon 2006
Birth name:	Nora Louise Kuzma1
Birthdate:	May 7, 1968 (1968-05-07) (age 41)
Birth location:	Steubenville, Ohio, U.S.
Spouse(s):	Jeff Lee (2002-present) 1 child Ryan Granger (1999-2000) (divorced) Brook Yeaton (1990-1996) (divorced)
Height:	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Weight:	115 lb (52 kg; 8.2 st)
Measurements:	36D-25-36 in
Eye color:	Blue
Hair color:	Brown/Blonde/Red
Ethnicity:	Caucasian
Alias(es):	Kristie Elizabeth Nussman, Traci Elizabeth Lords, Tracy Lords, Nora Kuzma, Tracie Lords
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Traci Lords (born Nora Louise Kuzma;¹ May 7, 1968), also known as Traci Elizabeth Lords and Tracy Lords, is an American film actress, producer, film director, writer and singer. She first achieved notoriety for her underage appearances in pornographic films and Penthouse magazine (she was 15 years old in her first film),² later becoming a television and B-movie actress.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Porn career 3 Post porn career 4 Personal life 5 Acting credits 5.1 Film 5.2 Television 5.3 Video games 5.4 Music 5.5 Notable adult videos 6 Literature 7 References 8 External links

Early life

Nora Louise Kuzma was born in Steubenville, Ohio to Louis and Patricia Kuzma (née Briceland). Her stage name is said to be in tribute to Katharine Hepburn's character Tracy Lord from The Philadelphia Story (the same character played by Grace Kelly in High Society), or from the first name of her high school best friend Traci and the last name of her favorite actor from Hawaii Five-O, Jack Lord. At twelve, she fled from her abusive alcoholic father to Lawndale, California, with her mother and three sisters.³ In 1983, she began attending Redondo Union High School. She eventually had an abortion, which she paid for herself; went through a nervous breakdown, and ran away from home.

Porn career

At age 15, she was living with her mother's ex-boyfriend, Roger. Posing as her stepfather, he helped her respond to classified ads requesting models. Using a fake ID provided by Roger that stated she was 20 rather than 15,⁴ she started in the porn industry with Jim South at the World Modeling Agency in Sherman Oaks, under the name Kristie Elizabeth Nussman.³

Shortly after, she was modeling for widely distributed adult magazines, most notably Penthouse, in the same September 1984 issue that exposed Miss America 1984, Vanessa Williams. She quickly ventured into adult movies. Her first movie was What Gets Me Hot!, followed by Those Young Girls and Talk Dirty To Me Part III, all made in the first half of 1984. Lords' youthful appearance and enthusiastic sexual performances propelled her to stardom. By the time she was 18, she had appeared in 100 adult films; however, Lords argued in her autobiography about 80 of those films were composed from leftover and re-edited footage from the original 20 films which were shot.⁵

In May 1986, authorities discovered she had been underage while making pornographic movies and arrested her, as well as the owners of her movie agency and X-Citement Video, Inc. (See United States v. X-Citement Video.) The ensuing prosecution against the agencies cost the pornographic film and distribution industry millions of dollars, as they were obliged by law to remove hundreds of thousands of her videotapes, films and magazines from store shelves to avoid the risk of prosecution for trafficking in child pornography (the legality varies with countries: while it is illegal in France to produce a pornographic film involving an actor under 18, the film remains legal⁶). In her book, Lords suggested hypocrisy on the part of the movie producers and the news media, arguing the porn industry actually got richer from the publicity of the scandal, even as they complained of losing money after destroying her illegal movies. Lords felt she was also exploited by the reporters, who used censored stills from her unlawful films. Lords herself was never charged with a crime, since as a minor she was unable to give informed consent to perform sex acts on film for money. Instead, the agents and producers who accepted her fake IDs were charged and people affiliated with the films in question experienced legal troubles for years.

Like most starlets of the time, Lords received a salary for her appearances in X-rated movies and didn't own the rights of those films. According to her autobiography, she made $35,000 as total salary for all of those movies, including the $5,000 she received for her appearance in Penthouse. Most of this money was spent on rent and drugs. It also paid for a black Corvette her boyfriend later wrecked.

For her last few films, she and another much older boyfriend formed the Traci Lords Company, where he co-produced and directed the movies. Lords received a smaller salary, but also received part of the rights of these movies.

Only one of these films, Traci, I Love You, was produced after her eighteenth birthday, making it the only one legally available in the United States. (However, in non-US jurisdictions where the age of consent is lower, as well as over the Internet, her earlier films continue to be distributed).

After her arrest, Lords sold her rights to this film for $100,000. This action led to claims that Lords herself had tipped off the authorities to gain immunity from prosecution, while profiting from the movie. No proof has ever surfaced to substantiate this claim.⁵ Lords denies this notion in her autobiography, and claims she was reluctant to sell the rights, since at that time she was trying to become a mainstream actress and didn't want any older movies still available. Also, she wrote she knew nothing of people's real names or who produced which film, and did not provide such information to the FBI. The FBI agents, "appeared annoyed" when she could not provide the information they wanted. She said the agents claimed to have monitored her for three years.⁵

Government prosecutors declared Lords was a victim of a manipulative industry, maintaining she was drugged and made to do non-consensual acts. But industry insiders, like Ron Jeremy, Ginger Lynn and Tom Byron, say they never saw her use drugs, and she was fully aware of her actions, even if, as a minor, she could not legally consent. One of her co-workers from that time, Christy Canyon, has gone so far as to say about Lords' autobiography: "I think her book could have been fabulous, except that she was lying throughout the whole thing."⁷

While Lords decries the pornographic film industry, she continues to use the stage name she gave herself as a minor, and ultimately made it her legal name. She wrote, "I chose to stop running from it. Instead, I won it, legally changing my name to Traci Elizabeth Lords. That's who I was, and that's who I was going to be."⁵ Lords stated she is not trying to deny her past, telling Oprah Winfrey: "I found you can run but you cannot hide".⁸

Post porn career

Lords moved into mainstream films, and has appeared in a number of movies. At 18, Lords began studying at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, and soon after, starred in a remake of Roger Corman's film Not of This Earth. Then in 1990, she appeared in John Waters' Cry-Baby, playing the role of Wanda Woodward. Other movies on her resume include Blade, Tommyknockers, Black Mask 2: City of Masks, and Chump Change. The latter won her a Best Actress Award at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival. She has also made cameo appearances in Serial Mom, Nowhere and Virtuosity.

In addition to movies, Lords has also made many appearances in TV shows, including Married... with Children, MacGyver, Highlander: The Series, Tales from the Crypt, Hercules, Gilmore Girls, and Will & Grace among others, along with recurring roles in Profiler, Roseanne, and Melrose Place. From late in 2000 to 2001, Lords appeared in the Francis Ford Coppola produced sci-fi series First Wave, playing Jordan Radcliffe, the newest member of a group called Raven Nation that combats extraterrestrial aliens.

In the 1990s, Lords began developing a career as a singer, performing vocals on the Manic Street Preachers U.K. Top 40 hit, "Little Baby Nothing", and also appearing in the music videos of other performers and groups. In 1995, Lords made her solo debut, in collaboration with Juno Reactor and Jesus Jones' Mike Edwards, called 1000 Fires. The Juno Reactor-produced first single "Control" reached #2 on the Billboard Dance Charts. The song "Control" was featured in the 1995 movie adaptation of the game Mortal Kombat, which played as an instrumental.

Lords returned to the music scene in 2004 with a new, independently produced recording, the double A-side "Sunshine".

In 2003 she published her autobiography, Traci Lords: Underneath It All (ISBN 0-06-050820-5), which made the New York Times bestseller list. In December 2003, Lords wrote and directed a short film with Fox Searchlab entitled Sweet Pea, released and shown at film festivals in 2005. The film is loosely inspired by an experience recounted in her autobiography: a teenage girl finds herself overcome with doubt after being raped by her boyfriend.

Lords' most recent film appearance is in Zack and Miri Make a Porno, where she plays a strap-on wielding bubble gum chewing porn star.

Personal life

On October 7, 2007, Lords gave birth to a son, Joseph Gunnar, her first child with husband of five years, Jeff Lee.⁹

Acting credits

Film

• I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (2009)
• Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)
• Crazy Eights (2006) – Gina Conte
• Novel Romance (2005) – Max
• Frostbite (2005) – Naomi Bucks
• Home (2003) – Lorna
• Black Mask 2: City of Masks (2002) – Chameleon
• You're Killing Me... (aka: The Killing Club) (2001) – Laura Engles
• Chump Change (2001) (as Traci Elizabeth Lords) – Sam
• Certain Guys (2000) – Kathleen
• Epicenter (2000) (as Traci Elizabeth Lords) – Amanda Foster
• Extramarital (1999) – Elizabeth
• Me and Will (1999) – Waitress
• Stir (1998) – Kelly Bekins
• Blade (1998) – Racquel
• Boogie Boy (1998) – Shonda Lee Bragg
• Nowhere (1997) – Valley Chick #1
• Underworld (1996) – Anna
• Blood Money (1996) – Wendy Monroe
• Virtuosity (1995) – Media Zone Singer
• Skinner (1995) – Heidi
• Your Studio and You (1995) - Herself
• Ice (1994) – Ellen Reed
• Serial Mom (1994) – Carl's Date
• Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II (1994) – Norma
• Desperate Crimes (1993) – Laura
• Intent to Kill (1993) – Vickie Stewart
• Laser Moon (1992) – Barbara Fleck
• The Nutt House (1992) – Miss Tress
• Raw Nerve (1991) – Gina Clayton
• A Time to Die (1991) – Jackie
• Shock 'Em Dead (1991) – Lindsay Roberts
• Cry-Baby (1990) – Wanda Woodward
• Fast Food (1989) – Dixie Love
• Not of This Earth (1988) – Nadine Story

Television

• Panic Button (movie 2007) - 2007
• Andy Barker, P.I. - (2007) - Loretta Crispin
• Celebrity Paranormal Project (2006) (as herself)
• Gilmore Girls (2003) (as Traci Elizabeth Lords) – Natalie Zimmermann
• Deathlands (2003) – Lady Rachel Cawdor
• They Shoot Divas, Don't They? (2002) (as Traci Elizabeth Lords) – Mira
• First Wave (2000-01) (as Traci Elizabeth Lords) – Jordan Radcliffe
• D.R.E.A.M. Team (1999) (as Traci Elizabeth Lords) – Lena Brant
• Profiler (TV series) (1997-1998) – Sharon Lesher
• Nash Bridges (1997) - as Sean Collins
• Dead Man's Island (1996) – Miranda Prescott
• As Good as Dead (1995) – Nicole Grace
• Melrose Place (1995) – Rikki
• Dragstrip Girl (1994) – Blanche
• Roseanne (1994) – Stacy
• Bandit: Bandit's Silver Angel (1994) – Angel Austin
• Highlander: The Series (1993) – Greta
• Tales from the Crypt (1993) - Emma Conway
• The Tommyknockers (1993) – Nancy Voss
• Murder in High Places (1991) – Diane
• Married...With Children (1991) – Vanessa Van Pelt
• MacGyver Jenny (1 episode, 1990)

Video games

• True Crime: New York City (2005) – Cassandra Hartz
• Ground Control II: Operation Exodus (2004) – Dr. Alice McNeil
• Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2004) – Pestilence
• Defender (2002) – Commander Kyoto

Music

• "Come Alive" (2007) (single)
• "You Burn Inside Me" (2005 - used for Duprey Cosmetics commercial)
• "Walking in L.A." (2004) (single)
• "Sunshine" (2004) (single)
• 1000 Fires (1995) (CD)
• "Fallen Angel" (1995) (CD single and vinyl LP)
• "Control" (1994) (CD single)
• Acid Eaters (1993 Ramones album) (background vocals on "Somebody to Love")
• Generation Terrorists (1992 Manic Street Preachers album) (vocals on "Little Baby Nothing")

Notable adult videos

• What Gets Me Hot! (1984) – Lannie (her first adult movie; credited as Tracy Lords)
• Talk Dirty To Me Part III (1984) – Mermaid
• Those Young Girls (1984) – Traci
• Sister Dearest (1984)
• Educating Mandy (1985) – Mandy (scenes are used in the comedy From Beijing with Love by Stephen Chow, as the "painkiller" when he was undergoing the operation for bullet removal)
• Holly Does Hollywood (1985) – Tracy
• Black Throat (1985) – Debbie
• Electric Blue 28 (1985) – Nikki (scenes deleted)
• Future Voyeur (1985)
• Hollywood Heartbreakers (1985)
• Kinky Business (1985)
• It's My Body (1985) – Maggie
• New Wave Hookers (1985) – (playing the Devil; later reissued with Lords' scenes replaced by new scenes featuring Ginger Lynn)
• The Grafenberg Spot (1985) – credited as Tracy Lords¹⁰
• Traci Takes Tokyo (1986) – Traci
• Beverly Hills Copulator (1986) – Michelle Leon (credited as Tracy Lords)
• Traci, I Love You (1987) – Traci

Literature

• Nicolas Barbano: Verdens 25 hotteste pornostjerner (Rosinante, Denmark 1999) ISBN 87-7357-961-0: Features a chapter on Traci Lords.
• Steve Rag (= Tim Greaves): Norma K. nr. 1-2 and Nora K. nr. 3-6 (England 1990-1992): Traci Lords-fanzine
• Steve Rag (= Tim Greaves): The Nora K. Kompendium (Media Publications, England 1996): The best from Norma K./Nora K.
• Suzanne Sommers (ed): Wednesday's Children: Adult Survivors of Abuse Speak Out (Putnam Adult, 1992)): Features a chapter on Traci Lords.
• Frank C. Naylor "El cine X underground. Llevándolo al límite", 2009 Ed.: Lulu

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Traci Lords

• Official Website
• Traci Lords at the Internet Movie Database
• Traci Lords at the Internet Adult Film Database
• Traci Lords at Allmovie
• Traci Lords at the Adult Film Database

• Traci Lords Interview at YouTube
• IAFD Entry on Traci Lords
• Traci Lords filmography @ EOFFTV
• Interview at Nerve.com

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NAME	Lords, Traci
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kuzma, Nora Louise; Lords, Traci Elizabeth; Lords, Tracy
SHORT DESCRIPTION	American film actress, producer, film director, writer and singer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 7, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH	Steubenville, Ohio, United States
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH