Seka (actress)

Seka (born Dorothiea Ivonniea Hundley, ) is a retired 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 high-school beauty pageant, being named Ms. Hopewell High School or Miss Hopewell High School (accounts vary) and became Miss Southside Virginia.

Hundley married Francis "Frank" Patton on April 21, 1972, a week after her 18th birthday. She and Patton divorced before she began her pornographic career in 1977. 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 married owner.

Career
She described her entry into pornographic films, following her move from the East Coast to Las Vegas and then to Los Angeles:

"I had seven adult bookstores in Virginia and Maryland that I owned. In the back of the stores at that time, you had the movies and you would have to loop the movies. So I would have to fix the movies when they broke and of course, I ended up watching a lot of movies. Well, I saw these ladies doing adult films back then and felt that was a nasty representation of women. I thought to myself that I can do it and do it better than that. That is how I came into the industry."

Seka's early pornographic pseudonyms included Linda Grasser. She eventually adopted the screen name Seka, after a female blackjack dealer she knew in Las Vegas. She starred in more than 200 adult videos with a break in 1982, when she stopped shooting sex movies, claiming "they wouldn't pay her what she wanted". She turned to stripping and nude modeling while also running her own fan club.

Jamie Gillis performed with Seka numerous times and considered her to be "a bit above porn", describing her as a "white trash queen."

Other ventures
In 1994, Seka hosted a radio talk show in Chicago called Let's Talk About Sex, on Saturday nights 10:00 pm to 2:00 am, local time, on station 97.9FM, The Loop. She hosted it for approximately three years.

In 2005, she moved from Chicago to Kansas City, operating her fan club through her own website. In February 2007 she stated she had just shot her first hardcore scene in nearly 15 years, available as online pay-per-view.

In 2015, she published her autobiography, Inside Seka, whose text Kerry Zukus transcribed from her dictations. Jim Norton wrote the foreword and Bobby Slayton wrote the afterword.

Appearances
Seka has appeared on various talk shows such as those hosted by Alan Thicke, Montel Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Larry King, Phil Donahue, and Morton Downey Jr., as well as an appearance on Saturday Night Live. Seka appeared in the 2012 documentary After Porn Ends, about life after being a porn actor.

Personal life
Seka was married to Frank Patton from 1972, to no later than 1977. Seka dated comedian Sam Kinison in the mid-'80s. She credited him for arranging an appearance with him on Saturday Night Live.

In the DVD commentary for his film, director Paul Thomas Anderson stated that she was the main inspiration for his character of Amber Waves in Boogie Nights, due to her appearance and involvement with John Holmes in the documentary Exhausted: John C. Holmes, The Real Story.

Awards and recognition
Seka is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame, XRCO Hall of Fame, and Urban X Hall of Fame.

Electronic musician Aphex Twin sampled Seka for the track "Come on You Slags!" from his album ...I Care Because You Do.

Partial filmography

 * Teenage Desires (1978) (footage from 1974)
 * Dracula Sucks (1978)
 * Heavenly Desire (1979) (film debut)
 * 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)