Seka (actress)
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Dorothiea Ivonniea Hundley (born 1954), known professionally as Seka,Template:R is an American pornographic actress who was known in the 1980s as the "Platinum Princess of Porn".<ref name="Levine 2019"/> In 2013, she released an autobiography about her life and career titled Inside Seka.<ref name="Daily News 2013"/>
Early life
Seka was born in 1954 in Radford, Virginia.<ref name="AVN 2006">Template:Cite web</ref> She recalled having "a plain, normal childhood" with two siblings, a brother and sister.<ref name="Skerchock">Template:Cite web</ref> Her family later moved to Hopewell, Virginia, where, nicknamed "Dottie", she won a beauty pageant at Hopewell High School.<ref name="Daily News 2013"/> She was later crowned Miss Southside Virginia.<ref name="AVN 2006"/>
She married Francis "Frank" Patton on April 21, 1972, a week after her 18th birthday. She worked for Reynolds Metals Company, maker of Reynolds Wrap household aluminum. She later became a clerk at an adult bookstore, where she began dating the owner.<ref name="Reed 2012">Template:Cite web</ref>
Career
Beginnings: 1970s–1990s
After briefly operating a chain of seven adult bookstores in Virginia, Seka sold her interest in the business and moved to Las Vegas, where she did her first erotic modeling for a magazine.Template:R She later moved to Los Angeles, where she appeared in her first pornographic film.Template:R She told an interviewer in 2006:
Seka used the stage name "Linda Grasser" early in her career.<ref name="Gibron 2005">Template:Cite web</ref> She eventually adopted the name "Seka" after a female blackjack dealer she knew in Las Vegas.<ref name="Cachapero 2007">Template:Cite web</ref> By the mid-1980s, she was writing and directing adult films, as well as starring in them.Template:R
She stopped performing in pornography in 1992 because of what she saw as the adult film industry's poor response to the AIDS epidemic, including an unwillingness to require condom use or routine HIV screening.Template:R She would go on to model for Club magazine and release videos through the website AEBN,Template:R as well as performing striptease on tour.Template:R
Later appearances
For several years beginning in 1994, Seka hosted a talk show called Let's Talk About Sex on Chicago FM radio station WLUP.<ref name="Berkwitt 2010">Template:Cite web</ref>Template:Self-published inline
In 1997, she was presented with the Free Speech Coalition Lifetime Achievement Award.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In 2005, she moved from Chicago to Kansas City, operating her fan club through her own website. In February 2007 she announced her first hardcore scene in nearly 15 years, distributed via online pay-per-view.<ref name="Rugg 2007">Template:Cite news</ref>
Seka has appeared on various television talk shows including The Oprah Winfrey Show,Template:R The Phil Donahue Show,Template:R and The Morton Downey Jr. Show.<ref name="Saxon 2001">Template:Cite news</ref> She appeared on Saturday Night Live in the 1980sTemplate:R and was interviewed for the documentary After Porn Ends (2012).
Reception and legacy
PopMatters describes Seka as "one of the adult industry's most recognizable superstars".Template:R She was known as the adult film world's "Platinum Princess"<ref name="Levine 2019">Template:Cite bookTemplate:Page needed</ref>Template:R whom the magazine High Society called the "Marilyn Monroe of porn".Template:R Pornographic film actor Jamie Gillis, who performed with her numerous times, said "Seka was porn, but a little above itTemplate:Emdashsort of a white trash queen in a way".Template:R<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Director Brian DePalma stated Seka had genuine acting talent.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
In the DVD commentary for the film Boogie Nights (1997), director Paul Thomas Anderson stated that she was the main inspiration for his character of Amber Waves due to her involvement in a documentary about pornographic film actor John Holmes.<ref>Template:Cite AV mediaTemplate:Time needed</ref>
Personal life
Seka was married to Frank Patton from 1972, to no later than 1977. She dated comedian Sam Kinison in the mid-1980s, crediting him for arranging her appearance on Saturday Night Live.<ref name="Reed 2012"/>
Awards
Seka is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame,<ref name="AVN 2006"/> XRCO Hall of Fame, and Urban X Hall of Fame.<ref name="XRCO Hall of Fame">"The XRCO Hall of Fame," Adam Film World Guide 1992 Directory of Adult Films, pp. 284–85</ref> She is also in the Porn Block of Fame.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Partial filmography
- Teenage Desires (1978)
- Dracula Sucks (1978)
- Heavenly Desire (1979)<ref name="Marks 2016">Template:Cite book</ref>
- Rockin' with Seka (1980)
- The Seduction of Cindy (1980)
- Prisoner of Paradise (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)
Bibliography
- Template:Cite book<ref name="Daily News 2013">Template:Cite news</ref>