Seka was born on the 15th of April 1954 in the Saint Albans Hospital which is located in Radford, Virginia. She grew up in the town and attended high-school at the nearby town of Hopewell. Her birth name is Dorothiea Hundley and it is with this name she went on to win many beauty pageants as a teenager. She had the nickname "Dottie" and it is with this that married and divorced when she was young. She ran an adult bookstore and, after complaining to her suppliers that she was more attractice than the models who were featured in the material she was selling to customers, she moved from the area to Las Vegas in the 1970's. While there she did a nude layout for a magazine which brought her major attention along with her first offer of shooting a video while she was still in her teens. It was soon after this that she moved to Los Angeles with her soon-to-be second husband Ken Yontz so that she could work full time on furthering her career in the nude modelling industry, under the stage name "Sweet Alice" (it is known that she had other aliases at the time, including "Lynda Grasser")
As she became known in the mid to late 70's, she changed her pseudonym to Seka. She chose this due to it being a reference to a kind girl ("little sweetheart" or "little darling") in Serbo-Croatian (although the name also means 'symbol' in the Sesotho language of South Africa). Her transgression into pornography came at a time (1978, when she was 24 years old) when the entire industry was changing from 35mm film to video and due to this added exposure she became one of the most popular stars of the time, performing early in her career in films with the late John Holmes (she has said in interviews since that Holmes had the biggest penis she has ever seen). This explosion in publicity led to a wild lifestyle which Seka freely admits ended with her spending a year in rehab after becoming addict (to unkown substances). This lifestyle continued after she left the facility and resulted in a stint in a San Diego prison on the charge of "lewd conduct and obscene behaviour". After this she became more responsible and focused on her career in adult movies.
Seka is credited with performing in just under 180 adult videos (178) and directing just 2, although she claims that only 50 of these are original appearances with the rest being recycled by distributors (this claim is most likely to be true due to the trend of the time, which continues to this very day, of reusing previously shot material for new videos to save money). The material in her films throughout her career vary tremendously, ranging from anal sex and gangbangs to double penetration (DP) and lesbian shoots. She was also a pioneer in the trend of shaven pubic hair, which is a common trait of today's movies, but was extremely rare at the time.
She appeared frequently in the Swedish Erotica series (distributed by Caballero) ranging from volume 11 all the way up to volume 48. Other series' she has appeared in numerous times include Blue Vanities (sporadically from volume 3 to volume 85) and Erotica Collection. Seka has directed Careful He May Be Watching, released in 1987 and distributed by Caballero which she has stated has won numerous awards, she also has directed Inside Seka, released in 1980 and distributed by Video-X-pix. Both films are still in production and available to purchase online. In the same year Inside Seka was released, she appeared in 24 films and 37 the year after, these two were to be her most active of her career. They were capped with the collapse of her second marriage to the controlling Ken Yontz and another struggle with drug addictions this culminated in the 1987 release Careful He May be Watching being the last film in the decade for the 'Platinum Princess'.
Due to her problems, in 1982 she stepped away from her career and stated that she wasn't paid well enough to appear, in this gap she resorted to stripping and nude modelling (some reports also claim that she worked as a prostitute). In this time she also worked on growing her fanclub (which turned out to be extremely lucrative). Her last appearance in a porn film was in 1993 in the film American Garter (distributed by VCA) in which she was visibly over her usual weight and suffering from sun damage and with liver spots on her hands, this appearance provoked questions about her condition from many of her fans and may have contributed to her not making any further appearances.
She created her own website, OfficialSeka.com (also accessible via the domain name Seka.com), in late 2003 after establishing herself as a very successful businesswoman earlier in her career. The site contains her diary, a calendar containing all of the public events she will be attending in the future, many of her movies from throughout her career, used clothing (including thongs, stockings and pantyhose) worn by Seka herself available for sale along with signed photos and a section containing Seka's 'friends', which is a variety of material featuring other pornstars and amateur girls. Although, despite her huge popularity and growing fanbase, it is rare to see a Seka video online due to the problems with licensing of the videos as many of the original distributors have now gone out of business and are unavailable for discussions, one of the few other sites that features her content is Porn Star Classics as well as the Pornstar Legends website which is operate by the New Sensations production company.
In 2002, two Swedish filmmakers (Christian Hallman and Magnus Paulsson) created a documentary in which they set out to find Seka and request an interview from her while also profiling her past in the porn industry. Seka herself has praised the film and has even mentioned that she plans to create her own autobiographical documentary sometime in the future. The documentary made it's way around global film festivals, notably being banned in Singapore due to it's content and it was released on DVD on the 13th of April 2004. The original DVD runs at 53 minutes long with over 3 hours of extas, however there is a more recent unrated edition which clocks in at 83 minutes long and contains more explicit scenes. Both are available to buy via the films official website, DesperatelySeekingSeka.com.
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