Cara Lott

Career

Career

Three phases and more than two decades of work: the milestones of a career that ran from a magazine office to two Hall of Fame inductions.

Her film years ran in three phases: the golden era of the 1980s, a short return in the late 1990s, and the mature-genre comeback of 2005 to 2009.

Between them she toured as a feature dancer, took a small mainstream role in Body Double, and completed a Health Sciences qualification. Her final credits came in 2009.

Timeline

  • 1961born in Huntington Beach, California, on August 6.
  • 1979at 18, sends a lingerie Polaroid to Hustler.
  • 1981cover and centerfold of the December issue of Hustler; her adult film career begins.
  • 1982earliest film credits of record, among them Taboo II and Satisfactions.
  • 1984a part in Brian De Palma’s Body Double, credited as Pamela Weston.
  • 1986appears in 52 Pick-Up, per her own biography.
  • 1991leaves the industry to study Health Sciences.
  • 1997-1998returns for six more adult films.
  • 2005a second comeback, as a self-described 40+ model.
  • 2006inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame and the Legends of Erotica Hall of Fame; appears in Vivid’s Flasher.
  • 2008AVN Awards nominee, Best Oral Sex Scene, for Flasher.
  • 2009final adult film credits; last radio appearance, on the Lynn and Canyon show on Sirius XM.
  • 2013takes part in the Protecting Adult Welfare Bare Bowling fundraiser.
  • 2018dies in Orange County, California, on March 19, aged 56.

Studios

Her credits ran across VCA Pictures, Vivid Entertainment, Caballero Home Video, CDI, Las Vegas Video, Arrow Productions, Bel-Air and Filmco Releasing, among others. The comeback years added Naughty America and its My Friend’s Hot Mom series, Vivid’s Flasher, and the mature-market magazines of the Score Group, including 40SomethingMag and Forty Plus Video Magazine. Compilation labels kept her name on shelves long after retirement, from Hot Shorts: Cara Lott (1986) to Porn Star Legends: Cara Lott (2013).

Honours and awards

  • 2006: inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame, Video Branch.
  • 2006: inducted into the Legends of Erotica Hall of Fame.
  • 2008: AVN Awards nominee, Best Oral Sex Scene, for Flasher (Vivid).

Her two honours on record are Hall of Fame inductions; no competitive award wins are documented.

Later years

Lott’s last credits in the industry date from 2009. In 2013 she appeared at the Protecting Adult Welfare Bare Bowling fundraiser, one of her few public appearances after retiring. She died on March 19, 2018, in Orange County, California, aged 56, and AVN published its obituary the next day. Peers remembered her warmly, and there was no public memorial service.