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name: "Edward Snowden"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/edward-snowden"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "21 June 1983"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T05:18:37.660128+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."
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# Edward Snowden

Actor. Born 21 June 1983 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 21 June 1983, Elizabeth City, North Carolina, USA
- **Also known as:** Edward Joseph Snowden, Ed Snowden
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13424289, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5722984/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1386089

## Streaming the US now

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

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## Biography

Edward Snowden is an American former intelligence contractor who has appeared as himself in several documentary films. He is credited as Self in the 2014 documentary *Citizenfour*, directed by Laura Poitras, which documents meetings in Hong Kong regarding disclosures of classified information.

Snowden also has a brief cameo appearance as himself in the 2016 biographical film *Snowden*, directed by Oliver Stone. Additional credits include archive footage appearances in documentaries such as *Terms and Conditions May Apply* (2013), *Risk* (2017) and *The Panama Papers* (2018). He was born on 21 June 1983 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Citizenfour* (2014), Fi1m 83, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/citizenfour.md)

## Also known for

- *Snowden* (2016), Edward Snowden
- *Terms and Conditions May Apply* (2013), Self (archive footage)
- *Spycraft* (2021), Self
- *Risk* (2017), Self
- *The Panama Papers* (2018), Self (archive footage)
- *Orwell: 2+2=5* (2025), Self (archive footage)

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