Seka
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 Seka in 2006 |
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| Born | Dorothea Patton[1] April 15, 1954 Radford, Virginia, U.S. |
| Other names | Platinum Princess, Dottie |
| Ethnicity | Irish, Native American |
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) [2] |
| Weight | 118 lb (54 kg; 8.4 st) [2] |
| No. of adult films | 208 (per IAFD) |
| Website | |
| http://www.officialseka.com | |
Seka (born Dorothea Patton in Montgomery County, Virginia ;[1] April 15, 1954) is an American pornographic actress who appeared in many pornographic films during the late 1970s and the 1980s.
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[edit] Career
Dorothea H. Patton was born and raised in Radford, Virginia.[3] She attended high school in Hopewell, where, she won a number of beauty pageants, including "Miss Hopewell High School" and "Miss Southside Virginia."[3] Under the influence of Ken Yontz, her second-husband-to-be, she ran several adult bookstores in the 1970s until they moved to Las Vegas. While there she did her first nude layout, but they eventually returned to Virginia.[3] The layout brought an offer to shoot her first porn film--a short--in Baltimore while she was still a teenager. She and Yontz subsequently moved to Los Angeles, where she devoted herself to the pursuit of her career in porn, initially using the name "Sweet Alice"[3] as well as "Linda Grasser." [4]
She eventually adopted the screen name Seka, after a female blackjack dealer she knew in Las Vegas.[5] She went on to star in more than 200 adult videos[2] with "a break" in 1982, when she stopped shooting sex movies, claiming "they wouldn't pay her what she wanted,"[5] and turned to stripping and nude modeling while also running her own fan club. Subsequently she admitted that the HIV epidemic in the mid-'80s contributed to her decision to avoid the hardcore sex scene ("That's why I don't make movies any more . . . I like to live").[6] By the early '90s she had returned to the porn industry to perform in a few final movies, her last being American Garter.
Jamie Gillis, who performed with Seka numerous times, believed that she was "a bit above porn", describing her as a "white trash queen."[7] Of her fellow performers, she lists her favorite male screen partners as John C. Holmes, Mike Ranger, Paul Thomas and Jamie Gillis.[6] In terms of female screen partners, she rates her favorites as Veronica Hart, Aunt Peg, Kay Parker and Candida Royalle.[6]
[edit] Retirement
In 1997 she hosted a radio talk show in Chicago called Let's Talk About Sex on Saturday nights from 10pm-2am on 97.9FM, The Loop; she did the show for about three years.[8] Five years later she was the focus of a documentary, Desperately Seeking Seka. The premise finds Swedish filmmakers Christian Hallman and Magnus Paulsson on a quest to find the porn legend and ask for an interview. Since its completion the film toured the international film festival circuit and became available on DVD.
In 2005 Seka moved from Chicago to Kansas City, operating her fan club through her own website. In February 2007 she gave an interview with the Kansas City-based alternative weekly newspaper The Pitch, where she stated she had just shot her first hardcore scene in nearly 15 years, available as on-line pay per view.[9]
Seka is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame, and the X-Rated Critics Organization Hall of Fame.
[edit] Cultural references
- In the online comic Achewood the "thoroughly depressed" character Roast Beef ponders what his last memory of life will be before he dies. He then remembers his childhood friend Ray asking him, "Dude! Have you heard of Seka?"[10]
[edit] Partial filmography
- Teenage Desires (1978) (footage from 1974)
- Rocking With Seka (1980)
- Inside Seka (1980)
- Exhausted: John C. Holmes, the Real Story (1981)
- Blond Heat (1985) (opposite John Leslie)
- Careful, He May Be Watching (1987)
- American Garter (1993)
- Desperately Seeking Seka (2002)
- The Seduction Of Cindy1980
[edit] References
- ^ a b Michael Sneed and Cheryl Lavin (1986-08-09). "Shutterbug, Gay Rights Backers, Share Laugh in Chicago". Ocala Star-Banner. http://news.google.ca/newspapers?id=VRUVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-QYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6819,4312766&hl=en. Retrieved 22 July 2010.
- ^ a b c Int'l Adult Film Database
- ^ a b c d e-Bay database
- ^ PopMatters.com
- ^ a b Joanne Cachapero (2007-12-11). "Seka". Eros NY. Archived from 2007-12-11/seka/ the original on 2007-12-13. http://web.archive.org/web/20071213233410/http://www.eros-ny.com/articles/2007-12-11/seka/. Retrieved 2007-12-15.
- ^ a b c Full-on clothing
- ^ "The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry," by Legs McNeil & Jennifer Osborne, ISBN 0060096594, page 231.
- ^ Bad Brad (2010-04-11). "Legendary Adult Movie Star Seka Sits Down with RSR to Talk about Her Career and Love for the Sport of Boxing Part I". ringsidereport.com. http://ringsidereport.com/?p=2015. Retrieved 22 July 2010.
- ^ Peter Rugg (2007-02-08). "Hardcore at 52". The Pitch. http://www.pitch.com/2007-02-08/news/hardcore-at-52/. Retrieved 2007-06-26.
- ^ Achewood : December 18, 2008
[edit] External links
- For Seka's filmography and official site, refer to the infobox.
- Official website
- Seka at the Internet Movie Database
- Seka at the Internet Adult Film Database
- Seka at the Adult Film Database
[edit] Interviews
- Chiller Theatre by John Shercock
- FullOnClothing.com
