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name: "Barack Obama"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/barack-obama"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "4 August 1961"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 71
updated: "2026-09-17T09:57:16.837861+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Barack Obama

Actor. Born 4 August 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 4 August 1961, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
- **Active:** 2009–present
- **Also known as:** Barack Hussein Obama II, Barack H. Obama, Pres. Barack Obama, President Barack H. Obama, President Barack Obama
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 56 (1), 2010s 84 (2), 2020s 60 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1682433/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/102786

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Citizenfour*](https://film.one/film/citizenfour.md) (83)

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## Biography

Barack Obama is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He previously represented Illinois in the U.S. Senate from 2005 to 2008 and in the Illinois State Senate from 1997 to 2004.

Obama has appeared in several films and documentaries, credited as Self or through archive footage. These include *Citizenfour* (2014) and archive footage appearances in *Pacific Rim* (2013), *Dawn of the Planet of the Apes* (2014), *The Dictator* (2012), *Battleship* (2012), *Pitch Perfect 2* (2015), *Vice* (2018), *Killing Them Softly* (2012) and *The Last Dance* (2020).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Leave the World Behind* (2023), Fi1m 60, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/leave-the-world-behind.md)
- *13th* (2016), Fi1m 84, as Self (archive footage) — [page](https://film.one/film/13th.md)
- *Citizenfour* (2014), Fi1m 83, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/citizenfour.md)
- *Capitalism: A Love Story* (2009), Fi1m 56, as Self (archive footage) — [page](https://film.one/film/capitalism-a-love-story.md)

## Also credited on (not yet reviewed)

- *The Altruists* (2026), Executive Producer

## Also known for

- *Pacific Rim* (2013), Self (archived footage)
- *Dawn of the Planet of the Apes* (2014), Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- *The Dictator* (2012), Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- *Battleship* (2012), Self (uncredited)
- *Pitch Perfect 2* (2015), Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
- *Vice* (2018), Self (archival footage) (uncredited)
- *Killing Them Softly* (2012), Self (archive footage)
- *The Last Dance* (2020), Self

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