Seka
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Seka at the 2007 AVN Awards
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Dorothiea Ivonniea Hundley April 15, 1954 Radford, Virginia, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Sweet Alice, Platinum Princess, Dottie |
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) |
| Weight | 118 lb (54 kg; 8.4 st) |
| Spouse(s) | Francis "Frank" Patton (married 1972, divorced before or in 1977); Kenneth M. Yontz (married 1978, divorced 1980) |
| Website | http://www.seka.com |
| No. of adult films | 251 as a performer & 2 as a director (per IAFD) |
Seka (born Dorothiea Ivonniea Hundley, April 15, 1954) also known as Dorothea Hundley Patton, is a retired American pornographic actress who began her career in the industry at age 23 and appeared in pornographic films from 1977 to 1993. She was known as the Platinum Princess of Porn. In 2013, she released her autobiography about her life and career, titled Inside Seka.
Dorothiea Hundley was born and raised in Radford, Virginia, having, she recalled, "a plain, normal childhood" with two siblings, a brother and sister. She describes her ancestry as Cherokee and Irish. 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, and later became a clerk at an adult bookstore, where she began dating the married owner.
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 married actor-turned-director Kenneth M. Yontz the year after her porn debut; they divorced in 1980.) She went on to star 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," and turned to stripping and nude modeling while also running her own fan club. Subsequently, she admitted that the HIV epidemic in the mid-1980s contributed to her decision to avoid the hardcore sex scene, saying, "That's why I don't make movies any more...I like to live." By the early 1990s, she had returned to the porn industry to perform in a few final movies, her last being American Garter.
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