Rebecca Lord (born in 1973) is a French pornographic actress who has been active since 1993. After moving to the U.S., she achieved popularity in the porn industry there. She has appeared in over 200 porn movies (as of 2007). She is the owner of Rebecca Lord Productions. In 2013, Rebecca Lord was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame.

Early years

Originally from Paris, France, Lord attended

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while growing up, an experience she says led her to become a resolute

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."Rebecca Lord
(interview), ''La Cochonne'' (website), 2004. As a young adult, she was a

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, until 1993, when she answered a newspaper ad seeking a model for a pornographic movie directed by Patrice Cabanel."Rebecca Lord - Adult Film Star"
interview by JesseCapps, ''RockConfidential.com'', May 19, 2007. In her earliest movies, she appeared under the names "Rebecca Carre" and "Rebecca Bruns". In 1994, French director David Caroll gave her the

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"Rebecca Lords" as a reference to Traci Lords. While listing her name in the credits, however, he mistakenly omitted the "S", and her name became "Rebecca Lord", which she has used ever since.

Career rise

In 1994, Lord was discovered by Swedish porn director Nic Cramer and appeared in two of his videos, ''Euro-max 2'' and ''Euro-max 3''. This introduced her to the American porn industry. She soon left France for

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and quickly established herself in the porn industry there. She has since appeared in over 200 porn movies (as of 2007). Lord has directed and produced several of the videos she has starred in, through her company, Rebecca Lord Productions, as well as actively maintaining an internet

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. She became much less active in porn movies after 2003, though, in several posts on her website (in July 2004, November 2005, and March 2007), Lord denied rumors that she had retired."Rebecca Lord's Confessions"
''RebeccaLord.com'', 2004–2007. She has used

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s in some of her sex scenes with men and has noted that the pressure on actresses to work without condoms has caused her some difficulty in the industry. Throughout her entire porn career, she has been married to the same man, who she has been together with since the age of 17. In 2013, Rebecca Lord was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame.

Other work

In 1998, Lord appeared in the music video for the

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song "

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". She has also appeared on '' The Howard Stern Show'' twice in November 1999 and once in June 2001. The last appearance was particularly notable for comments Lord and Stern made about the

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, which led the

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to call for

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to drop its sponsorship of the show. (Miller chose not to drop its advertising from the show.) In 2005, she made a breakthrough into non-pornographic cinema, co-starring in the 2005

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'' I Am a Sex Addict''. Lord plays the first wife of director and star

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, whom Zahedi claims bore a striking resemblance to Lord. In one scene where Zahedi breaks from the narrative and addresses the audience directly, he announces his discovery over an internet site that co-star Rebecca Lord was a porn actress and escort, something he claims not to have known when he first hired Lord for the role. (The subject of the film was Zahedi's addiction to prostitutes.)'' I Am a Sex Addict'' (film), by

, 2005. During her time in the US, Lord has lived in

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, and

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. As of 2007, she has lived in France for several years. She has stated that Las Vegas and New York are two favorite cities and that she plans to move back to one or the other city in the future. She published her autobiography, ''To My Dear Civilians, With Love'', (co-authored by Brian Whitney) in February 2016.

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