Actor
Jackie Speier
76 years · San Francisco, California, USA · 11 films
Karen Lorraine Jacqueline Speier (born May 14, 1950) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. representative for California's 14th congressional district, serving in Congress from 2008 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, Speier represented much of the territory that her political mentor, Leo Ryan, represented. In 1978, while working as his aide, Speier survived five gunshot wounds when Ryan was assassinated during the Jonestown massacre. Speier was a member of the California State Senate, representing parts of San Francisco and San Mateo counties. On April 8, 2008, she won the special election for the vacated United States House of Representatives seat of the late Congressman Tom Lantos. In 2021, she announced that she would not seek reelection in the 2022 midterm elections.
Best known for
Filmography 11
I Am Vanessa Guillen
2022 · Self
On Netflix
Motherland
2022 · Self
On Eventive
A Long March
2022 · Self
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
2021 · Self
On Kanopy
Lost in America
2019 · Self
On Philo
Truth and Lies: Jonestown, Paradise Lost
2018 · Self
I Am Evidence
2017 · Self
On HBO Max
Equal Means Equal
2016 · Self
Jackie Speier: Sexual Assault in the Military
2016 · Self
The Invisible War
2012 · Self
On Plex
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
2006 · Self