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Rory Kennedy

Producer, Director, ActorBorn December 12, 1968 (57 years)
Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy (born December 12, 1968) is an American documentary filmmaker. Kennedy has made documentary films that center on social issues such as addiction, nuclear radiation, the treatment of prisoners-of-war, and the politics of the Mexican border fence. Her films have been featured on many television networks. She is the youngest child of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel.

Known For

  • Downfall: The Case Against Boeing
  • The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari
  • Last Days in Vietnam
  • Queen of Chess
  • Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
  • Bobby Fischer Against the World
  • Ethel
  • Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton
  • The Synanon Fix
  • The Fence
  • Girlhood
  • Thank You, Mr. President: Helen Thomas at the White House
  • Above and Beyond: NASA's Journey to Tomorrow
  • Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable
  • American Experience
  • Coma
  • Con Man
  • Pandemic: Facing AIDS
  • Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech
  • Fambul Tok
  • Killing in the Name

Filmography

2015
The Oscars · as Self - Nominee
2011
Kennedys' Home Movies · as Self
2004
Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable · as Self
2004
Tavis Smiley (TV Series) · as Self - Guest
1997
The View (TV Series) · as Self
1996
Celebrate the Dream: 50 Years of Ebony Magazine · as Self
1996
The Daily Show (TV Series) · as Self
1994
WGN Morning News (TV Series) · as Self
1991
Charlie Rose (TV Series) · as Self
1981
Entertainment Tonight (TV Series) · as Self
1975
Good Morning America (TV Series) · as Self - Guest

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