Seka

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Seka
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Seka in 2006
Birthdate April 15, 1954 (1954-04-15) (age 55)
Birth location Radford, Virginia, U.S.
Birth name Dorothiea Hundley
Measurements 39-23-34
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Weight 118 lb (54 kg; 8.4 st)
Hair color Platinum blonde (dyed)
Ethnicity Irish, Native American
No. of films 208 (per IAFD)
Official web site
Seka at IMDb
Seka at IAFD
Seka at AFDB

Seka (born Dorothiea Hundley on April 15, 1954 in Radford, Virginia)[citation needed] is an American pornographic actress. She appeared in many XXX-rated films during the late 1970s and 1980s, and became one of the international adult film industry's most well-known and popular stars of her era.[citation needed]

Seka is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame, and the X-Rated Critics Organization Hall of Fame.

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[edit] Early life

"Dottie" Hundley attended Hopewell High School in Hopewell, Virginia, where, as a teenager, she won several beauty pageants, including "Miss Hopewell High School" and "Miss Southside Virginia." Hundley owned and operated several adult bookstores in Virginia and Maryland in the 1970s. After concluding that she could do a better job than the women featured in the material she was trying to sell to customers,[citation needed] she moved from Virginia to Las Vegas. While in Vegas, she did her first nude photo layout for a magazine, which resulted in her first offer to shoot a sex film loop. Hundley then moved to Los Angeles, California with her soon-to-be husband, whom she married in 1978. Early in her career, her stage name was "Sweet Alice."

[edit] Rise to porn fame

Hundley adopted the screen name Seka, after a female blackjack dealer in Vegas whom she knew.[1] Seka's first performance was in the 1978 movie Dracula Sucks (a.k.a. Lust At First Bite or Blonde Fire), when she starred opposite John C. Holmes. Seka appeared in 24 films in 1980 alone, and another 37 in 1981, the most prolific years of her career.

Jamie Gillis, who performed with Seka in numerous films, believed that she was "a bit above porn" describing her as a "white trash queen."[2] Of her fellow performers, Seka lists her favorite male screen partners as John C. Holmes, Mike Ranger, Paul Thomas and Jamie Gillis.[3] In terms of female screen partners, she rates her favorites as Veronica Hart, Aunt Peg, Kay Parker and Candida Royalle.[3]

[edit] Retirement

After 1982, at the height of her fame, she took a step back from her film career, claiming "they wouldn't pay her what she wanted,"[1] and turned to stripping and nude modeling while running her own lucrative fan club. Subsequently, she also admitted that the HIV epidemic in the mid-1980s contributed to her staying away from the hardcore sex scene, "That's why I don't make movies any more...I like to live."[3] By the early '90s, she had returned to the porn industry to perform in a few final movies, her last being "American Garter."

In 1997, Seka hosted a radio talk show in Chicago called Let's Talk About Sex on Saturday Nights from 10pm-2am on 97.9FM, The Loop. Five years later, she was the focus of the documentary film 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.[4]

[edit] Cultural references

  • The character "Amber Waves" played by Julianne Moore in the film Boogie Nights, a fictional girlfriend of the John Holmes character that was a composite of several women in his life, was partly based on Seka, according to the film's director, Paul Thomas Anderson.[citation needed]
  • 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?"[5]

[edit] Select 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)

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Joanne Cachapero (2007-12-11). "Seka". Eros NY. Archived from 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. 
  2. ^ The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry by Legs McNeil, Jennifer Osborne, ISBN 0060096594, page 231.
  3. ^ a b c Full-on clothing
  4. ^ 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. 
  5. ^ Achewood : December 18, 2008

[edit] External links

For Seka's filmography and official site, refer to the infobox.

[edit] Interviews

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