---
name: "Ruth Bader Ginsburg"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ruth-bader-ginsburg"
fi1m_id: "ruth-bader-ginsburg"
imdb_id: "nm0046029"
tmdb_id: 1493224
wikidata_id: "Q11116"
roles: []
born: "15 March 1933"
died: "18 September 2020"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 65
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-03T00:30:29.867113+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."
---

# Ruth Bader Ginsburg

## Identity

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ruth-bader-ginsburg
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ruth-bader-ginsburg
- **IMDb ID:** nm0046029
- **TMDB ID:** 1493224
- **Wikidata ID:** Q11116
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11116, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0046029/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1493224

Actor. Born 15 March 1933 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Died 18 September 2020.

## Details

- **Born:** 15 March 1933, Brooklyn, New York, USA
- **Died:** 18 September 2020
- **Also known as:** Joan Ruth Bader, RBG, The Notorious R.B.G, Ruth Ginsburg
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 56 (1), 2010s 74 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11116, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0046029/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1493224

## Streaming the US now

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

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## On Fi1m (2)

- *RBG* (2018), Fi1m 74, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/rbg.md)
- *Capitalism: A Love Story* (2009), Fi1m 56, as Self (archive footage) — [page](https://film.one/film/capitalism-a-love-story.md)

## Gallery

- ![Ruth Bader Ginsburg](https://film.one/media/person/679717/gallery-a2df4b4fdb07.jpg) Ruth Bader Ginsburg — Steve Petteway, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg_official_SCOTUS_portrait_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg_official_SCOTUS_portrait_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![U. S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and LBJ Foundation President and CEO Mark K. Updegrove discuss the justice’s trailblazing career at the Library  (2020)](https://film.one/media/person/679717/gallery-9b5640a5e2ab.jpg) U. S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and LBJ Foundation President and CEO Mark K. Updegrove discuss the justice’s trailblazing career at the Library  (2020) — LBJ Library from Austin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/JG8_9656_%2849469991601%29.jpg/1280px-JG8_9656_%2849469991601%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![U. S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and LBJ Foundation President and CEO Mark K. Updegrove discuss the justice’s trailblazing career at the Library  (2020)](https://film.one/media/person/679717/gallery-e0d2386bf6e3.jpg) U. S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and LBJ Foundation President and CEO Mark K. Updegrove discuss the justice’s trailblazing career at the Library  (2020) — LBJ Library from Austin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/JG8_9651_%2849469498388%29.jpg/1280px-JG8_9651_%2849469498388%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![U. S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and LBJ Foundation President and CEO Mark K. Updegrove discuss the justice’s trailblazing career at the Library  (2020)](https://film.one/media/person/679717/gallery-b63dd531ade4.jpg) U. S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and LBJ Foundation President and CEO Mark K. Updegrove discuss the justice’s trailblazing career at the Library  (2020) — LBJ Library from Austin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/JG8_9644_%2849469991736%29.jpg/1280px-JG8_9644_%2849469991736%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, right, receives the LBJ Liberty & Justice for All Award from Lynda Johnson Robb, left, and Luci Baines Johns (2020)](https://film.one/media/person/679717/gallery-2555157b7f40.jpg) U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, right, receives the LBJ Liberty & Justice for All Award from Lynda Johnson Robb, left, and Luci Baines Johns (2020) — LBJ Library from Austin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/DIG14658-090_%2849531013623%29.jpg/1280px-DIG14658-090_%2849531013623%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![U. S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and LBJ Foundation President and CEO Mark K. Updegrove discuss the justice’s trailblazing career at the Library  (2020)](https://film.one/media/person/679717/gallery-8747058b464f.jpg) U. S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and LBJ Foundation President and CEO Mark K. Updegrove discuss the justice’s trailblazing career at the Library  (2020) — LBJ Library from Austin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/DIG14658-115_%2849531013608%29.jpg/1280px-DIG14658-115_%2849531013608%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Also known for

- *Fahrenheit 9/11* (2004), Self (archive footage)
- *On the Basis of Sex* (2018), Self
- *Fahrenheit 11/9* (2018), Self (archive footage)

## Awards

### Other awards — 17 won

- Elizabeth Blackwell Award 2021: Elizabeth Blackwell Award (won)
- Berggruen Prize 2019: Berggruen Prize (won)
- Genesis Prize 2018: Genesis Prize (won)
- Four Freedoms Award – Freedom Medal 2015: Four Freedoms Award – Freedom Medal (won)
- Radcliffe Medal 2015: Radcliffe Medal (won)
- Time 100 2015: Time 100 (won)
- honorary doctor of Harvard University 2011: honorary doctor of Harvard University (won)
- Jefferson Awards for Public Service 2011: Jefferson Awards for Public Service (won)
- honorary doctorate from Princeton University 2010: honorary doctorate from Princeton University (won)
- honorary doctor of the Ohio State University 2009: honorary doctor of the Ohio State University (won)
- honorary doctor of the Willamette University 2009: honorary doctor of the Willamette University (won)
- Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women 2004: Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women (won)
- Brandeis Medal 2003: Brandeis Medal (won)
- National Women's Hall of Fame 2002: National Women's Hall of Fame (won)
- Golden Plate Award 1995: Golden Plate Award (won)
- Margaret Brent Award 1993: Margaret Brent Award (won)
- honorary doctorate of Lund University 1969: honorary doctorate of Lund University (won)

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

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