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Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy is an American documentary filmmaker and youngest child of U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy and Ethel Skakel. Kennedy has made documentary films that center on social issues such as addiction, nuclear radiation, the treatment of prisoners-of-war, and the politics of the Mexican border fence. Her films have been featured on many TV networks.
Birth Name
Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy
Born
Thursday, 12 December 1968
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Above and Beyond: NASA's Journey to Tomorrow | Narrator | 2018 |
| The Oscars | Self - Nominee | 2015 |
| Ethel | Narrator (voice) / Narrator | 2012 |
| Kennedys' Home Movies | Self | 2011 |
| The Fence | Narrator | 2010 |
| Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable | Self | 2004 |
| The View | Herself | 1997 |
| The Daily Show | Self | 1996 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Above and Beyond: NASA's Journey to Tomorrow | Narrator | 2018 |
| The Oscars | Self - Nominee | 2015 |
| Ethel | Narrator (voice) / Narrator | 2012 |
| Kennedys' Home Movies | Self | 2011 |
| The Fence | Narrator | 2010 |
| Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable | Self | 2004 |
| The View | Herself | 1997 |
| The Daily Show | Self | 1996 |
Director Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|
Producer Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|
| The Synanon Fix | 2024 |
| The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari | 2022 |
| Downfall: The Case Against Boeing | 2022 |
| Above and Beyond: NASA's Journey to Tomorrow | 2018 |
| Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton | 2017 |
| Last Days in Vietnam | 2014 |
| Makers: Women Who Make America | 2013 |
| Ethel | 2012 |
| Fambul Tok | 2011 |
| Bobby Fischer Against the World | 2011 |
| The Fence | 2010 |
| Killing in the Name | 2010 |
| Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech | 2009 |
| Coma | 2007 |
| Ghosts of Abu Ghraib | 2007 |
| Yo soy Boricua, pa'que tu lo sepas! | 2006 |
| Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America | 2006 |
| Xiara's Song | 2005 |
| Street Fight | 2005 |
| Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable | 2004 |
| Girlhood | 2003 |
| Con Man | 2003 |
| The Nazi Officer's Wife | 2003 |
| A Boy's Life | 2003 |
| The Execution of Wanda Jean | 2002 |
| American Hollow | 1999 |
| American Experience | 1988 |
| P.O.V. | 1988 |
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 2015 | Oscar | Best Documentary, Feature | Nominated |
| 2013 | Emmy | Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special | Nominated |
| 2013 | Emmy | Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming | Nominated |
| 2012 | Emmy | Outstanding Nonfiction Special | Nominated |
| 2007 | Emmy | Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming | Nominated |
| 2007 | Emmy | Outstanding Nonfiction Special | Won |
| 2000 | Emmy | Outstanding Non-Fiction Special | Nominated |
