---
name: "John Kerry"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-kerry-113460"
fi1m_id: "john-kerry-113460"
imdb_id: "nm0449902"
tmdb_id: 113460
wikidata_id: "Q22316"
roles: []
born: "11 December 1943"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 69
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-03T03:33:52.342868+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."
---

# John Kerry

## Identity

John Kerry

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/john-kerry-113460
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** john-kerry-113460
- **IMDb ID:** nm0449902
- **TMDB ID:** 113460
- **Wikidata ID:** Q22316
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22316, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0449902/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/113460

Actor. Born 11 December 1943 in Aurora, Colorado, USA.

## Details

- **Born:** 11 December 1943, Aurora, Colorado, USA
- **Also known as:** John Forbes Kerry, Sen John Kerry, Senator John Kerry, Secretary John Kerry
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 58 (1), 2020s 80 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22316, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0449902/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/113460

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story*](https://film.one/film/super-man-the-christopher-reeve-story.md) (80)
- **Apple TV:** [*An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power*](https://film.one/film/an-inconvenient-sequel-truth-to-power.md) (58)

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## Biography

John Kerry is an American politician and diplomat who has appeared as himself in numerous documentaries. He served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017, having previously been a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 to 2013. He was the Democratic nominee for President of the United States in the 2004 election.

Kerry's film and television credits include appearances in *Before the Flood* (2016), *An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power* (2017) and *Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story* (2024). He has also featured in archive footage in titles such as *Truth* (2015) and *The Power of Nightmares* (2004).

*Sources: imdb.com, justwatch.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story* (2024), Fi1m 80, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/super-man-the-christopher-reeve-story.md)
- *An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power* (2017), Fi1m 58, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/an-inconvenient-sequel-truth-to-power.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Revealing Ukraine* (2019), Actor
- *Cheers* (1982), series, as Senator John Kerry — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/cheers.md)
- *To Be a Man*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![John Kerry](https://film.one/media/person/4169908/gallery-90e1b95b3ce7.jpg) John Kerry — United States Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/John_F._Kerry.jpg/1280px-John_F._Kerry.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![A full moon over Bangladesh, seen from the aircraft carrying U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on January 12, 2016, as he flew from Tbilisi, Georgia, to Hanoi, (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/4169908/gallery-cc1a7011138a.jpg) A full moon over Bangladesh, seen from the aircraft carrying U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on January 12, 2016, as he flew from Tbilisi, Georgia, to Hanoi, (2017) — U.S. Department of State, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/A_Full_Moon_Is_Seen_Over_Bangladesh_as_Secretary_Kerry_Flies_From_Tbilisi_to_Hanoi_-_1.jpg/1280px-A_Full_Moon_Is_Seen_Over_Bangladesh_as_Secretary_Kerry_Flies_From_Tbilisi_to_Hanoi_-_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![A full moon over Bangladesh, seen from the aircraft carrying U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on January 12, 2016, as he flew from Tbilisi, Georgia, to Hanoi, (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/4169908/gallery-932620f0d352.jpg) A full moon over Bangladesh, seen from the aircraft carrying U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on January 12, 2016, as he flew from Tbilisi, Georgia, to Hanoi, (2017) — U.S. Department of State, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/A_Full_Moon_Is_Seen_Over_Bangladesh_as_Secretary_Kerry_Flies_From_Tbilisi_to_Hanoi_-_2.jpg/1280px-A_Full_Moon_Is_Seen_Over_Bangladesh_as_Secretary_Kerry_Flies_From_Tbilisi_to_Hanoi_-_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![United States Department of State (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/4169908/gallery-b9325ff6bda7.jpg) United States Department of State (2015) — U.S. Department of State, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/A_U.S._Marine_Stands_at_rest_as_Secretary_Kerry_Addresses_an_Audience_Aboard_the_USS_San_Antonio.jpg/1280px-A_U.S._Marine_Stands_at_rest_as_Secretary_Kerry_Addresses_an_Audience_Aboard_the_USS_San_Antonio.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![John Kerry](https://film.one/media/person/4169908/gallery-eb2212947745.jpg) John Kerry — Image via TMDB
- ![John Kerry](https://film.one/media/person/4169908/gallery-40a83d6d5a0b.jpg) John Kerry — Image via TMDB
- ![United States Department of State (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/4169908/gallery-905b72aad073.jpg) United States Department of State (2015) — U.S. Department of State, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/A_U.S._Marine_reads_From_a_Scroll_to_Secretary_Kerry_And_Others_Aboard_the_USS_San_Antonio_During_a_Ceremony_to_Celebrate_the_Corps%27_240th_Birthday.jpg/1280px-A_U.S._Marine_reads_From_a_Scroll_to_Secretary_Kerry_And_Others_Aboard_the_USS_San_Antonio_During_a_Ceremony_to_Celebrate_the_Corps%27_240th_Birthday.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ambassador Hattie Babbitt, Chair of the U.S. Water Partnership Steering Committee, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Oceans and Internationa (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/4169908/gallery-3e20518cdb17.jpg) Ambassador Hattie Babbitt, Chair of the U.S. Water Partnership Steering Committee, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Oceans and Internationa (2014) — U.S. Department of State, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Ambassador_Babbitt%2C_Acting_Assistant_Secretary_Garber%2C_and_Under_Secretary_Novelli_Pose_for_a_Photo_at_the_H2inf0_Launch_Exhibit.jpg/1280px-Ambassador_Babbitt%2C_Acting_Assistant_Secretary_Garber%2C_and_Under_Secretary_Novelli_Pose_for_a_Photo_at_the_H2inf0_Launch_Exhibit.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 5 won

- Presidential Medal of Freedom 2024: Presidential Medal of Freedom (won)
- Otto Hahn Peace Medal 2018: Otto Hahn Peace Medal (won)
- Grand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 2016: Grand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (won)
- Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour 2016: Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (won)
- Global Citizen Awards 2011: Global Citizen Awards (won)

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

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