Seka (actress)

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American pornographic actress (born 1954)

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caption	Seka at the 2007 AVN Awards
birth_name	Dorothiea Ivonniea Hundley
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birth_place	Radford, Virginia, U.S.
spouse	Francis "Frank" Patton
(m. 1972; div. by 1977)
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other_names	Dorothea Hundley Patton
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Dorothiea Ivonniea Hundley (born 1954), known professionally as Seka, is an American pornographic actress who was known in the 1980s as the "Platinum Princess of Porn". In 2013, she released an autobiography about her life and career titled Inside Seka.

Early life

Seka was born in 1954 in Radford, Virginia. She recalled having "a plain, normal childhood" with two siblings, a brother and sister. Her family later moved to Hopewell, Virginia, where, nicknamed "Dottie", she won a beauty pageant at Hopewell High School. She was later crowned Miss Southside Virginia.

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.

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. She later moved to Los Angeles, where she appeared in her first pornographic film. She told an interviewer in 2006:

Seka used the stage name "Linda Grasser" early in her career. She eventually adopted the name "Seka" after a female blackjack dealer she knew in Las Vegas. By the mid-1980s, she was writing and directing adult films, as well as starring in them.

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. She would go on to model for Club magazine and release videos through the website AEBN, as well as performing striptease on tour.

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.

In 1997, she was presented with the Free Speech Coalition Lifetime Achievement Award.

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.

Seka has appeared on various television talk shows including The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Phil Donahue Show, and The Morton Downey Jr. Show. She appeared on Saturday Night Live in the 1980s 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". She was known as the adult film world's "Platinum Princess" whom the magazine High Society called the "Marilyn Monroe of porn". Pornographic film actor Jamie Gillis, who performed with her numerous times, said "Seka was porn, but a little above itsort of a white trash queen in a way". Director Brian DePalma stated Seka had genuine acting talent.

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.

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.

Awards

Seka is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame, XRCO Hall of Fame, and Urban X Hall of Fame. She is also in the Porn Block of Fame.

Partial filmography

Teenage Desires (1978)
Dracula Sucks (1978)
Heavenly Desire (1979)
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

References

(24 May 2006). "Seka Recalls Salad Days of Porn in Autobiography".
Skerchock, John. (n.d.). "Seka, A Chiller Theatre Interview".
Reed, John. (July 26, 2012). "Seka, Raising Penises For Three Generations".
Gibron, Bill. (March 31, 2005). "Desperately Seeking Seka".
Cachapero, Joanne. (December 11, 2007). "Seka".
Berkwitt, Brad. (April 11, 2010). "Legendary Adult Movie Star Seka Sits Down with RSR to Talk about Her Career and Love for the Sport of Boxing Part I".
"Night of the Stars".
Rugg, Peter. (2007-02-08). "Hardcore at 52". [[The Pitch (newspaper).
Saxon, Wolfgang. (March 14, 2001). "Morton Downey Jr., 67, Combative TV Host". The New York Times.
(2019). "All the President's Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator". Hachette Books.
(2006). "The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry". [[ReganBooks]].
Brian De Palma. (2003). "Brian De Palma: interviews". [[University Press of Mississippi]].
(2007). "Boogie Nights". New Line Home Entertainment.
"The XRCO Hall of Fame," ''Adam Film World Guide 1992 Directory of Adult Films,'' pp. 284–85
(March 22, 2012). "John Stagliano, Belladonna to Join Hustler Walk of Fame".
(2016). "Ghosts in Popular Culture and Legend". ABC-CLIO.
(15 September 2013). "Seka releases a new book about the pornography industry and her experiences in it". Daily News.

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