Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 17, 1954 (age 72)
- Birthplace
- Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Biography
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).
Known For
Photos
Filmography
One Planet
Movie · as Self
By Dawn's Early Light
Movie · as Self
Confessions of a CEO: My Life in an Out-of-Balance World
Movie · as Self
RFK: Legacy
Movie · as Self
The Rise of RFK Jr.
Movie · as Self (archival footage)
The Donald Trump Show
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 3 eps
My View with Lara Trump
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Trust Fall: Julian Assange
Movie · as Self
God Bless Bitcoin
Movie · as Self
Trump vs. Kamala: Race for the White House
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
First Do No Pharm
Movie · as Self
Trump's Big FUSS: Fight for US Sovereignty
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Biohack Yourself: Lifespanning Our Vitality
Movie · as Self
INactive, Americaʼs Silent Killer
Movie · as Self
The Tucker Carlson Show
TV · as Self · 4 eps
Covidland: The Shot
Movie · as Self
Shots: Eugenics to Pandemics
Movie · as Self
Virulent: The Vaccine War
Movie · as Self - Attorney
The Real Anthony Fauci
Movie · as Self - Environmental Lawyer, Author of 'The Real Anthony Fauci'
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
Movie · as Self
Dis/Informed
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Silenced, As Mercury Rises
Movie · as Self
The Anti-Vax Conspiracy
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
JFK: Destiny Betrayed
TV · as Self · 4 eps
Tucker Carlson Today
TV · as Self - Conspiracy Theorist · 1 ep
A Better Way
Movie
Killing John F. Kennedy
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Vaxxed II: The People's Truth
Movie · as Self
1986: The ACT
Movie · as Self
Mandate for Choice
Movie · as Himself
The Alec Baldwin Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
American Dynasties: The Kennedys
TV · as Self · 6 eps
Poisoning Paradise
Movie
Good Fortune
Movie · as Self
Climate Hustle
Movie · as Self
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Movie · as Self
DARK SIDE of the GREENS
Movie · as Self
A Dangerous Game
Movie · as Self
Food Chains
Movie
JFK: The Private President
Movie · as Self
The Last Mountain
Movie · as Self
Smash His Camera
Movie · as Self
The Vaccine War
Movie · as Self
Overheard with Evan Smith
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Autism: Made in the U.S.A.
Movie · as Self - Green Our Vaccines Rally (archive footage) (as Robert Kennedy Jr.)
Dominick Dunne: After the Party
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
One Water
Movie · as Self
Al Franken: God Spoke
Movie · as Self
Earth to America
Movie · as Self
The Colbert Report
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable
Movie · as Self
Real Time with Bill Maher
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Democracy Now!
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 2 eps
The Waterkeepers
Movie · as Himself
Frontline
TV · as Self (archive) · 1 ep
The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep