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pornographic actress. For dwarf in Tatar mythology, see
Şekä.
Seka (born Dorothiea Hundley
on April 15, 1954 in Radford, Virginia) 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.
Seka is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame, and the X-Rated Critics Organization Hall
of Fame.
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, 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."
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]
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]
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.
- 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]
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)
References
External
links
- For Seka's filmography and official site, refer to the
infobox.
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