Tracey Adams was born on the 7th of June 1959 at the Severna Park Center hospital in Severna Park, Maryland. Her birth name is Deborah Blaisdell and details about the early period of her life are scarce as she refused to talk about her life before entering the porn industry,She attended school in the town where she was born (which would most likely have been the nearby Severna Park High School). In 1983, at the age of 24 (although some reports claim that she started at age 27, in 1985) Deborah entered the adult entertainment industry and went on to appear in over 300 films with some of the legendary characters of the scene at the time, throughout this period she went by the aliases Tracy Adams, Tracey Adams, Tracy Roams and Debbie Blaisdell and appeared in some of the most successful video franchises of the time including Girls Of The Double D, Girls Who Dig Girls, Toppers and Leatherbound Dykes From Hell. She also worked on films for some of the biggest companies in the industry of both the past and present, including Vivid Video, VCA and Evil Angel among others.

She performed in over 200 films, often with many of the "legends of porn" of the time.

Although her breasts were of medium size during the early years of her career, they later grew to be quite large; Adams continually denied having breast enlargement surgery, claiming instead that a health condition resulted in her breasts expanding.

John Stagliano has stated that a scene showing Adams' buttocks raised in the air inspired him to make the Buttman series of films. Adams was known for her mature manner on film, and often played the older woman seducing a younger man or, on occasion, woman.

Much of the fame gained from her appearances in adult videos stemmed from an unusual trait that Tracey has, as she began her career her breast size was generally considered as average and of medium size, but as her career progressed the size of her breasts also expanded. That was a natural condition that had caused it and that she had not had breast enlargement surgery. In 1990 she also directed two adult videos: Aussie Maid In America and Too Hot To Handle, she did not direct anymore videos after this. Since 1990, the number of films she appeared in was minimal.

Despite of being known for her straight sex scenes while in the industry, Tracey Adams is actually a lesbian off-screen and has been with her current partner since 1998. She was also in a relationship with fellow adult performer Amber Lynn until they broke up due to Lynn's alcohol and substance abuse problems. It was also rumored that she dated a peer in the porn industry, star Ona Zee during the 1990's, although this has never been confirmed by either party.

Although receiving numerous offers throughout her career, Tracey rarely appeared in any adult magazines and even when she did they were usually very small features which promoted her most recent video release at the time. This may have been due to the fact that although she was a popular star at the time, many of the adult magazines focused on a specific niche (such as Juggs Magazine which focused only on large breasted girls) and it is doubtful that she fit into any single one of these categories and therefore would only be known for her appearances in hardcore videos and not in demand for photo shoots.