Cast & creator
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Best known for The Mike Douglas Show, The Colbert Report, Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. (born January 17, 1954), also known by his initials RFK Jr., is an American politician, environmental lawyer, author, conspiracy theorist, and anti-vaccine activist serving as the 26th United States secretary of health and human services since 2025. A member of the Kennedy family, he is a son of senator and former U.S. attorney general Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy, and a nephew of President John F. Kennedy. Kennedy began his career as an assistant district attorney in Manhattan. In the mid-1980s, he joined two nonprofits focused on environmental protection: Riverkeeper and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). In 1986, he became an adjunct professor of environmental law at Pace University School of Law, and in 1987 he founded Pace's Environmental Litigation Clinic. In 1999, Kennedy founded the nonprofit environmental group Waterkeeper Alliance. He first ran as a Democrat and later started an independent campaign in the 2024 United States presidential election, before withdrawing from the race and endorsing Republican nominee Donald Trump. Since 2005, Kennedy has promoted vaccine misinformation and public-health conspiracy theories, including the chemtrail conspiracy theory, HIV/AIDS denialism, and the scientifically disproved claim of a causal link between vaccines and autism. He has drawn criticism for fueling vaccine hesitancy amid a social climate that gave rise to the deadly measles outbreaks in Samoa and Tonga. Kennedy is the founder and former chairman of Children's Health Defense, an anti-vaccine advocacy group and proponent of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation. He has written books including The Riverkeepers (1997), Crimes Against Nature (2004), The Real Anthony Fauci (2021), and A Letter to Liberals (2022).
Also known as: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.
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film credits
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television credits
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1961–2026 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (60)
Showing 60 of 60 credits
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
The Colbert Report
Self - Guest
2005
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self (archive footage)
2003
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self - Guest
2003
Frontline
Self (archive)
1983
The Rachel Maddow Show
Self (archive footage)
2008
The Tucker Carlson Show
Self
2024
Tucker Carlson Today
Self - Conspiracy Theorist
2021
My View with Lara Trump
Self
2025
JFK: Destiny Betrayed
Self
2021
The Alec Baldwin Show
Self
2018
The Donald Trump Show
Self (archive footage)
2025
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
Self
2021
American Dynasties: The Kennedys
Self
2018
Overheard with Evan Smith
Self
2010
Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable
Self
2004
Earth to America
Self
2005One Planet
Self
Smash His Camera
Self
2010
Good Fortune
Self
2016
By Dawn's Early Light
Self
2026
The Trust Fall: Julian Assange
Self
2024
Al Franken: God Spoke
Self
2006
Food Chains
2014
The Anti-Vax Conspiracy
Self (archive footage)
2021
INactive, Americaʼs Silent Killer
Self
2024
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Self
2016
Trump vs. Kamala: Race for the White House
Self (archive footage)
2024Dominick Dunne: After the Party
Self (archive footage)
2008
Killing John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
2020
Poisoning Paradise
2017
DARK SIDE of the GREENS
Self
2015
The Rise of RFK Jr.
Self (archival footage)
2025
First Do No Pharm
Self
2024
Trump's Big FUSS: Fight for US Sovereignty
Self (archive footage)
2024
Vaxxed II: The People's Truth
Self
2020Vaxxed II: The People's Truth
Executive Producer
2020The Waterkeepers
Himself
2000
One Water
Self
2008
Shots: Eugenics to Pandemics
Self
2022
The Real Anthony Fauci
Self - Environmental Lawyer, Author of 'The Real Anthony Fauci'
2022The Real Anthony Fauci
Writer
2022The Real Anthony Fauci
Executive Producer
2022
Climate Hustle
Self
2016
RFK: Legacy
Self
2025
Confessions of a CEO: My Life in an Out-of-Balance World
Self
2025
The Last Mountain
Self
2011
JFK: The Private President
Self
2013
Silenced, As Mercury Rises
Self
2021The Vaccine War
Self
2010
1986: The ACT
Self
2020
Virulent: The Vaccine War
Self - Attorney
2022
Biohack Yourself: Lifespanning Our Vitality
Self
2024
God Bless Bitcoin
Self
2024
A Better Way
2020
Dis/Informed
Self (archive footage)
2021
A Dangerous Game
Self
2014
Mandate for Choice
Himself
2019
Covidland: The Shot
Self
2022Medical Racism
Producer
2021