---
name: "Lilly Ledbetter"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lilly-ledbetter"
fi1m_id: "lilly-ledbetter"
imdb_id: "nm5254396"
tmdb_id: 2064060
wikidata_id: "Q6548365"
roles: []
born: "14 April 1938"
died: "12 October 2024"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T00:35:19.138800+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."
---

# Lilly Ledbetter

## Identity

Lilly Ledbetter

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lilly-ledbetter
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lilly-ledbetter
- **IMDb ID:** nm5254396
- **TMDB ID:** 2064060
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6548365
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilly_Ledbetter, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6548365, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5254396/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2064060

Actor. Born 14 April 1938 in Possum Trot. Died 12 October 2024.

## Details

- **Born:** 14 April 1938, Possum Trot
- **Died:** 12 October 2024
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilly_Ledbetter, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6548365, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5254396/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2064060

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*RBG*](https://film.one/film/rbg.md) (74)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Lilly Ledbetter (1938–2024) was an American equal-pay activist. She worked for 19 years as a manager at a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company plant in Alabama before filing a gender-discrimination lawsuit in 1999 after learning she had been paid less than male colleagues.

The case reached the US Supreme Court, which ruled against her in 2007. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dissent contributed to the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, the first bill signed into law by President Barack Obama. Ledbetter appeared as herself in the 2018 documentary *RBG*.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *RBG* (2018), Fi1m 74, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/rbg.md)

## Gallery

- ![15 June 2016 - Washington, D.C. - Lilly Ledbetter gives remarks at the Department of Labor’s Worker Voice Summit , part of the larger White House United State o](https://film.one/media/person/4172437/gallery-b76b7a0e2ccc.jpg) 15 June 2016 - Washington, D.C. - Lilly Ledbetter gives remarks at the Department of Labor’s Worker Voice Summit , part of the larger White House United State o — US Department of Labor, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Lilly_Ledbetter_2016.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Lilly Ledbetter](https://film.one/media/person/4172437/gallery-6669bd012d40.jpg) Lilly Ledbetter — Molly Theobald, for the aflcio2008, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Lilly_Ledbetter_cropped.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![15 June 2016 - Washington, D.C. - U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Sharon Block meet with equal pay advo](https://film.one/media/person/4172437/gallery-737e05be78a6.jpg) 15 June 2016 - Washington, D.C. - U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Sharon Block meet with equal pay advo — US Department of Labor, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Thomas_Perez%2C_Lilly_Ledbetter_and_Sharon_Block%2C_2015.jpg/1280px-Thomas_Perez%2C_Lilly_Ledbetter_and_Sharon_Block%2C_2015.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- National Women's Hall of Fame 2011: National Women's Hall of Fame (won)

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

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/lilly-ledbetter