Laurie Smith

Laurie Smith, born Laurie Diane Smith on April 6, 1957, in Ventura County, California, grew up in a middle-class home. Of Caucasian descent, she entered the adult film industry in 1979 at age 22 after answering some modeling ads. Debuting in Olympic Fever, and used aliases like Laura Smith, Lori Smith, Stephanie Taylor, and Cherri Hill. Her younger sister, Piper Smith, joined her and was active from 1979-1981 and starred in films like Svetlana’s F and Ultra Flesh.

She appeared in over 210 films and web scenes from 1979 to 1987, per IAFD, working with studios like Sunshine Films, Caballero Home Video, VCA, and Metro, and directors such as Svetlana, Cecil Howard, and Robert McCallum. Notable films include All American Girls II: In Heat (1983), featuring a threesome with Barnett Philips and Marc Wallice, Kinky Business (1984), where she played a seductive mother, Matinee Idol (1984), and Snake Eyes (1984), with her portrayal of a sexually tormented woman in the latter earning Best Actress nominations from several critics’ organizations, per TheClassicPorn. She also appeared in the loop Erotic Fantasies EF8004: Corner Pocket and worked as a makeup artist, notably for Shauna Grant# in films like Suzie Superstar (1983) and Bad Girls IV (1983). Her only mainstream role was in the fictional The Day I Shot the President (1994), about the 1963 JFK assassination, per en-academic.com.

Smith collaborated with performers like Amber Lynn, Seka, Serena, John Holmes, Ron Jeremy, Paul Thomas, Jamie Gillis, and Shauna Grant, with whom she was best friends, also sharing a cocaine addiction, per Wikipedia. Physically, she stood at 5’8”, with a slim, medium build, brown eyes, wind-blown brunette hair, and natural medium-sized breasts, with no tattoos, piercings, or surgeries noted, per IAFD and Babepedia. Her vocal expressions during sex scenes were a hallmark, described as “highly charged” by IMDb.

Laurie and her sister Piper did one incest scene together in a b/g/g scene in 1981's Menage-a-trois. In an interview with The Rialto Report, Smith said the director asked them to have sexual contact in their threesome scene. Smith joked they would for $50,000, knowing that that price was too high. "He came back 15 minutes later with a kilo of coke that was worth at least $50,000. We were both stunned. It turned out he was a drug dealer." Smith said they agreed to do the scene. "We both were excited to see that much coke and were willing to do anything for it. I could not tell you anything about the scene, but we did what he wanted. That was her last scene ever and she went back to our parents' home. I ended up dating that dealer for a bit. Funny I now remember doing a threesome scene in Ultra Flesh with Seka and my sister and we made out a bit, which wasn't even supposed to happen. We just were in the heat of the moment."

Controversies included her addiction to cocaine, which was common among stars of the 80s, per The Rialto Report. In a blooper video director Bobby Hollander released in 1985, Smith and Shauna Grant are incapable of repeating even the simplest lines that Hollander would repeat for them. Hollander is heard chastising them for their drug use. Her best friend Shauna Grant’s suicide in March 1984 deeply affected her, leading to her retirement from acting in 1987 after Snake Eyes 2, per FamousFix. She tributed her performance in Matinee Idol (1984) to Grant since that was the film Grant had agreed to make a comeback in before her suicide. Her net worth is estimated at $500,000–$1 million, per unverified sources, from her film and makeup work. She was in a relationship with Robert Veze, per WhosDatedWho, and by 1999 was reportedly married with children, living in the Las Vegas area, per FamousFix.