Her repeated character in early 1995 as a sneering sociopath, Rikki, on Melrose Place in 1992 was critically praised and landed her more characters in other films, playing villains and psychotic characters. It was the last time that Traci would expose her breasts for the camera. Her first mainstream break came out in 1988 Not of This Earth, a remake of the classic Roger Corman sci-fi film from the 1950s. In the year 1987 Traci joined in the Lee Strasberg acting school, started voice lessons and built on her natural acting talents. After her exile from adult films, she started to reanimate her life and fulfill her lifelong ambition to star in mainstream films. However, the case fell apart when the government acknowledged that it, too, had been cheated when Lords toured to Europe to shoot Traci, I Love You on a fake passport. The federal government attempted to litigate the producers of the movie Those Young Girls in 1984, the first adult film Traci seemed in, for child pornography. Since she regulated distribution liberties, many people believed she directed the revelation herself so she could be the only one to benefit from her X-rated career. The only legal porn movie Traci created was Traci, I Love You in 1987, which was filmed in Paris, France, on her 18th birthday.

In May 1986 she was charged by FBI agents when it was found out she was underage, which meant that any films with her in them were illegal to rent or buy, and video shops around the country hurried to remove them. She started nude modeling at age 15, then adult films a year later.Īn incredibly developed, full-figured girl, she easily deceived photographers, producers, and directors. Traci created somewhere between 80 and 100 X-rated movies between 19. She was born and raised in Ohio as Nora Louise Kuzma, to Patricia Louise and Louis Kuzma on 7th May 1968. Traci Lords is a study of an enthusiastic and complicated woman with a very controversial background.

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