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My Take
I find Traci Lords genuinely admirable, and I say that knowing how complicated her story is. She survived an exploitative start that would have destroyed most people, then rebuilt herself from zero into a working actress with decades of television and film credits. What I respect is the discipline behind that reinvention: nobody handed her a second act, she earned every role. Her later turns in darker independent films show real range, too. To me she is less a cautionary tale than a study in resilience, and I think popular culture still underrates how hard her comeback actually was.
Overview
Traci Elizabeth Lords (born Nora Louise Kuzma; May 7, 1968) is an American actress and singer. She has starred in TV series such as Tales from the Crypt, Roseanne, Profiler, and First Wave. She has 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, Fright Meter A…
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Traci Lords
- Name (Japanese)
- トレイシー・ローズ
- Reading
- とれいしー・ろーず
- Born
- May 7, 1968 (age 58)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Taurus / Monkey
- Origin
- Steubenville, Ohio, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 170 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- television actor / film actor / pornographic actor / model / erotic photography model
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Redondo Union High School
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 1984 Penthouse Pet
- 1986 XRCO Award
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | Traci Lords: Underneath It All | — |
6. Links
Television actor — see all → · Film actor — see all → · More people from United States →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.