Linda Lovelace

Biography

Linda Lovelace was an American actress born on January 10, 1949, in The Bronx, New York, to a working-class family. Her abusive husband, Chuck Traynor, coerced her into the 1972 hardcore film Deep Throat, where she later said she felt like she was being raped. She became a born-again Christian and anti-pornography movement spokeswoman after publicly speaking out about her experiences in her autobiography Ordeal.