An American politician and diplomat, currently serving as the first United States special presidential envoy for climate. He previously served as the 68th United States secretary of state from 2013 to 2017. An attorney and former naval officer, Kerry first drew public attention as a decorated Vietnam veteran turned anti-war activist. He went on to serve as a prosecutor and as Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, before serving as United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 to 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the Democratic nominee for President of the United States in the 2004 election, which he lost to incumbent President George W. Bush.

Filmography

• 2019Revealing Ukraine
• 2007Run Granny Run — Self(archive footage)
• Anderson Cooper 360°
• Cheers — Senator John Kerry
• This Week
• To Be a Man

Appearances as themselves (57)

• 2024Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story — Self
• Inside with Jen Psaki — Self
• China: The Enemy Within — Self (archive footage)
• Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg — Self
• 2022Year One: A Political Odyssey — Self
• 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything — Self (archive footage)
• 2021Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Above Majestic — Self (archive footage)
• Axios — Self
• 2018John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Pope Francis: A Man of His Word — Self (uncredited)
• 2018The Final Year — Self
• 2017A Dying King: The Shah of Iran — Self (archive footage)
• 2017An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power — Self
• 2017The 44th President: In His Own Words — Self
• 2017The Words That Built America — Self - Reader: The Constitution
• 2016America’s Diplomats — Self
• 2016Before the Flood — Self
• 2016Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk? — Self (archive footage)
• 2016Rio 2016 Olympic Opening Ceremony: A New World — Self
• 2016The Occupation of the American Mind — Self (archive footage)
• 2015The Diplomat — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self, Self - Guest
• The Seventies — Self (archive footage)
• 2015Truth — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
• 2014Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words — Self (archive footage)
• 2014We Are Many — Self
• 2013Our Nixon — Self
• 2013Terms and Conditions May Apply — Self (archive footage)
• 2010Climate Refugees — Self
• 2008Barack Obama — Self
• 2008Hype: The Obama Effect — Self (archive footage)
• 2006...So Goes the Nation — Self
• 2006Al Franken: God Spoke — Self (archive footage)
• 2005Inside the Bubble — Self
• 2005Music For Minorities — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2005This Divided State — Self (archive footage)
• 2004American Dictators: Staging of the 2004 Presidential Election — Self (archive footage)
• 2004Celsius 41.11 — Self (archive footage)
• 2004Diary of a Political Tourist — Self
• 2004Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry — Self (archive footage)
• Tanner on Tanner — Self
• The Power of Nightmares — Himself (archive footage)
• 2004Winning New Hampshire — Self
• Real Time with Bill Maher — Self
• 2001Last Party 2000 — Self
• The View — Self - Guest
• The Daily Show — Self
• 1992Commercial Entertainment Product — Self (archive footage)
• 1987A Stitch for Time — Himself
• 1972Winter Soldier — Self
• 60 Minutes — Self
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
• Face the Nation — Self - U.S. Secretary of State
• Today — Self
• Meet the Press — Self