Seka: "a cross between royalty and white trash"
Seka Bio
Seka is a legendary U.S. pornographic actress (or "sex performer", as she prefers), born Dorothiea Hundley, on April 15, 1954 in Radford, Virginia, USA. She appeared in hundreds of XXX-rated films during the late 1970s and 1980s, and became one of the American porn industry's most well known and popular performers.
Early Life
Dorothiea "Dottie" Hundley attended Hopewell High School in Hopewell, where as a teenager she won several beauty pageants, including "Miss Hopewell High School" and "Miss Southside Virginia". Under the influence of the Elvis look-a-like Ken Yontz, her "controlling" and "obsessive" second husband-to-be (she had kept the last name of Patton from her first marriage), young Dottie ran several adult bookstores in the 1970s, until "the heat" forced her to flee to Las Vegas.
While there she posed for her first nude layout before eventually returning to Virginia. That layout brought Dorothiea immediate attention along with an offer to shoot her first short film in Baltimore while still a teenager. Following these early escapades, Dorothiea and Ken moved to Los Angeles, where she devoted herself to the pursuit of a career in porn, initially using the name Sweet Alice.
Rise to Porn fame
In the late 1970s, Dorothiea adopted the screen name Seka, which means "symbol" in the South African Lesotho language, an appropriate name for an iconic sex symbol. She became a star just as porn was making the switch from 35mm film to video. Her first performance was in the 1978 movie Dracula Sucks (a.k.a. Lust At First Bite as well as Blonde Fire), when she starred opposite John C. Holmes.
Seka appeared in 24 films in 1980 alone, and another 37 films in 1981, the most important and prolific years of her career. They were capped by a messy divorce from Yontz.
Swedish Erotica
Many of her movies were produced by Swedish Erotica, in which she is seen wearing her trademark scarf tied around her neck. Her films are among the most popular erotica of all time. Jamie Gillis, who performed with Seka in numerous films, believed that she was "a cross between royalty and white trash". Fellow porn star Ginger Lynn described Seka as, "the only woman that I was ever intimidated by". Another eighties legend, Amber Lynn, remembers being impressed with Seka's white hair, for being "so tall and amazing".
Seka later reflected, "Why did I stop doing films? I got too old. I love to eat". Seka later admitted that, "The plain fact was that I had reached a plateau that terrifies every woman in the film business, inside or outside porn: I was 40! I have to admit it - I slept a great deal during this period ... Can it be any plainer that I had sunk into a funk?"
Retirement
By the early eighties Seka had arguably become the number one female pornstar of all time, despite having been taken advantage of not just by Yontz, but by her Chicago manager, whom she now calls "Dead Fred". 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", and turned to stripping and nude modeling while running her own lucrative fan club.
Possessing significant charisma and popularity with her fans, Seka had achieved a kind of underground cult celebrity status, and appeared on many popular television talk shows as an advocate and spokesperson in defense of the porn industry.
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