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name: "Sharron Frontiero"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sharron-frontiero"
fi1m_id: "sharron-frontiero"
imdb_id: "nm9901814"
tmdb_id: 2064054
roles: []
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T00:35:14.679992+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."
---

# Sharron Frontiero

## Identity

Sharron Frontiero

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sharron-frontiero
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** sharron-frontiero
- **IMDb ID:** nm9901814
- **TMDB ID:** 2064054
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9901814/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2064054

Actor.

## Details

- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9901814/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2064054

## 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

Sharron Frontiero is an American who appeared as herself in the 2018 documentary film *RBG*. In the film she is credited as Self - Plaintiff.

Frontiero was the plaintiff in the 1973 Supreme Court case *Frontiero v. Richardson*, in which Ruth Bader Ginsburg argued for equal military spousal benefits regardless of gender. The case was decided in her favour by an 8–1 ruling. She has since been known as Sharron Cohen.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

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

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