---
name: "Chelsea Manning"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/chelsea-manning"
fi1m_id: "chelsea-manning"
imdb_id: "nm4808915"
tmdb_id: 1353532
wikidata_id: "Q298423"
roles: []
born: "17 December 1987"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-01T22:57:04.497822+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."
---

# Chelsea Manning

## Identity

Chelsea Manning

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/chelsea-manning
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** chelsea-manning
- **IMDb ID:** nm4808915
- **TMDB ID:** 1353532
- **Wikidata ID:** Q298423
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Manning, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q298423, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4808915/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1353532

Actor. Born 17 December 1987 in Crescent, Oklahoma, United States.

## Details

- **Born:** 17 December 1987, Crescent, Oklahoma, United States
- **Also known as:** Bradley Manning
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Manning, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q298423, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4808915/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1353532

## Biography

Chelsea Manning is an American activist and former US Army intelligence analyst. Born Bradley Edward Manning on 17 December 1987 in Crescent, Oklahoma, Manning enlisted in the Army in 2007 and was deployed to Iraq.

In 2010 Manning was arrested for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks. Convicted in 2013 on multiple counts including espionage, Manning was sentenced to 35 years' imprisonment before being pardoned in 2017. Manning publicly identified as a woman in 2013 and has since used the name Chelsea Manning.

Archive footage of Manning appears in the 2013 documentary *We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks*, where Manning is credited as Self - WikiLeaks Source.

*Sources: imdb.com, britannica.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks* (2013), Fi1m 74, as Self - WikiLeaks Source (archive footage) — [page](https://film.one/film/we-steal-secrets-the-story-of-wikileaks.md)

## Gallery

- ![Official photo of Chelsea Manning, June 2022](https://film.one/media/person/4165730/gallery-e8be25d74c97.jpg) Official photo of Chelsea Manning, June 2022 — Matt Barnes, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Chelsea_Manning_2022.jpg/1280px-Chelsea_Manning_2022.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Chelsea Manning (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/4165730/gallery-f31dc0129839.jpg) Chelsea Manning (2017) — Tim Travers Hawkins, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Chelsea_Manning%2C_18_May_2017_%28cropped%29.jpeg/1280px-Chelsea_Manning%2C_18_May_2017_%28cropped%29.jpeg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Chelsea Manning](https://film.one/media/person/4165730/gallery-1ec4d2dc729f.jpg) Chelsea Manning — Chelsea Manning, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Chelsea_Manning_%282022-05-01%29.jpeg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![A portrait of Chelsea Manning. (2026)](https://film.one/media/person/4165730/gallery-cef4027b6052.jpg) A portrait of Chelsea Manning. (2026) — Tessa Bury, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Chelsea_Manning_Headshot.jpg/1280px-Chelsea_Manning_Headshot.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Chelsea Manning at the IMPAKT Festival 2023: Our Terms, Our Conditions](https://film.one/media/person/4165730/gallery-f28676191663.jpg) Chelsea Manning at the IMPAKT Festival 2023: Our Terms, Our Conditions — Sebastiaan ter Burg from Utrecht, The Netherlands, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Chelsea_Manning_at_the_IMPAKT_Festival_2023_Our_Terms%2C_Our_Conditions_%2853303763072%29.jpg/1280px-Chelsea_Manning_at_the_IMPAKT_Festival_2023_Our_Terms%2C_Our_Conditions_%2853303763072%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![United States Army photograph of Bradley Manning, who is now named Chelsea Manning](https://film.one/media/person/4165730/gallery-0ed16d19a50d.jpg) United States Army photograph of Bradley Manning, who is now named Chelsea Manning — United States Army, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Bradley_Manning_US_Army.jpg/1280px-Bradley_Manning_US_Army.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 5 won

- EFF Award 2017: EFF Award (won)
- Sam Adams Award 2014: Sam Adams Award (won)
- Seán MacBride Peace Prize 2013: Seán MacBride Peace Prize (won)
- US Peace Prize 2013: US Peace Prize (won)
- Whistleblower Prize 2011: Whistleblower Prize (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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