Jackie Speier

Known for ActingBorn 1950-05-14 (age 76)San Francisco, California, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

I Am Vanessa Guillen

Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It

Explained

The Seventies

The Invisible War

Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple

Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle

The Colbert Report

Truth and Lies: Jonestown, Paradise Lost

I Am Evidence

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Late Night with Seth Meyers

At This Hour with Kate Bolduan

Equal Means Equal

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer

Motherland

A Long March

Lost in America

Jackie Speier: Sexual Assault in the Military

Wolf