Female president of the United States in popular culture

The idea of a female president of the United States has been explored by various writers in novels (including science fiction), movies and television, as well as other media. Numerous actresses have portrayed a female president of the United States. Such portrayals have occurred in comedies as well as serious works. Fictional female acting presidents of the United States are not included in this article.

Movies and television

These movies and television shows are American unless stated otherwise:

1920–1999

• The 1924 silent science-fiction film The Last Man on Earth shows a woman as president of the United States; in the movie all adult men die of disease. ^[1]
• In the 1932 animated short Betty Boop for President , Betty Boop (voiced by Mae Questel) runs for and wins the presidency of the United States. ^{[2] [3]}
• In the 1948 animated short Olive Oyl for President , a dream sequence shows Olive Oyl (voiced by Mae Questel) successfully running for president of the United States, after which she makes married men exempt from taxes in the hopes that Popeye will propose. ^[4]
• In Project Moonbase , a 1953 science-fiction film, Ernestine Barrier plays a female president of the United States. ^[1]
• In the 1964 comedy film Kisses for My President , Polly Bergen plays Leslie McCloud, the first female president of the United States. ^[5] Leslie eventually becomes pregnant and resigns the presidency. ^[6]
• In the 1985 ABC sitcom Hail to the Chief , Patty Duke plays the first female president of the United States. ^{[7] [8]} The show focused on President Julia Mansfield's attempt at balancing her political career with raising her family.
• In the 1986 British satire film Whoops Apocalypse , Loretta Swit plays Barbara Adams, the first female president of the United States. ^[1]
• In the 1987 Australian film Les Patterson Saves the World , Joan Rivers plays the president of the United States. ^[1]
• In the 1989 time-travel film Back to the Future Part II , there is a USA Today newspaper from 2015, in which one of the headlines is "PRESIDENT SAYS SHE’S TIRED of reporters asking same questions". ^[9]
• The 1990 television movie Hitler’s Daughter has a female American president who is the (fictional) daughter of Adolf Hitler. ^[10]
• In the television show Clarissa Explains It All (1991-1994), the title character, played by Melissa Joan Hart, repeatedly imagines Chelsea Clinton becoming President of the United States. ^[11]
• In the pilot to the 1992 TV series X-Men , a female president of the United States is briefly shown. ^[4]
• In the 1993 episode "The Last Temptation of Homer" of the TV series The Simpsons , Homer's guardian angel shows him how life would be if Homer was married to Mindy, which includes Marge being the president of the United States. ^[12]
• In the 1994 series finale of the live-action RoboCop TV series, "Public Enemies", RoboCop is tasked with protecting a female President of the United States and her husband ("The First Gentleman") from an assassination plot.
• In the 1995 episode "The Weaker Sex" of the TV series Sliders , Teresa Barnwell plays Hillary Clinton as president of the United States in an alternative universe where women are in charge. ^[13]
• In the 1996 television movie Special Report: Journey to Mars, Elizabeth Wilson plays President Elizabeth Richardson, whose support of a mission to Mars gets her re-elected. The mission is sabotaged, causing crisis. ^[10]
• In the 1998 comedy film Mafia! , Christina Applegate plays United States President Diane Steen. ^[1] This character is a parody of Diane Keaton's character in the film series The Godfather , and she almost accomplishes world peace but is distracted by her boyfriend, a mobster. ^[8]
• In the 1999 film Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century , a Disney Channel Original Movie set in the year 2049, Chelsea Clinton is the President of the United States. ^{[14] [15]}

2000–present

• At the end of the 2000 television film Chain of Command , it is implied that Vice President Gloria Valdez, played by María Conchita Alonso, has become president.
• In the 2000 episode "Bart to the Future" of the FOX TV series The Simpsons , Bart looks thirty years into the future, at which time Lisa Simpson (voiced by Yeardley Smith ^[16] ) has become president of the United States after succeeding Donald Trump. ^{[17] [18]} In real life, Donald Trump became president of the United States in 2017, and left office in 2021. ^[19] In the episode, Lisa states that she is "proud to be America's first straight female president," and it is implied that Chaz Bono, at the time still identifying as a lesbian, had previously been president. ^{[4] [20]} As well, in the 2021 episode of The Simpsons titled "Mother And Child Reunion", Werner Herzog predicts that Lisa Simpson will be president in the future, which the episode depicts. ^[21]
• In the 2000 episode "The Election" of the PBS TV series Arthur , Mary Alice ‘Muffy’ Crosswire (voiced by Melissa Altro) is shown to become president of the United States in the future. ^{[4] [22]}
• In the 2001-2010 TV series 24 , Cherry Jones plays the president of the United States. ^{[23] [24] [8] [25]} President Allison Taylor, whom she plays, takes office in the 2008 TV movie, 24: Redemption , and serves in Season 7 and Season 8. At the end of season 8 she resigns and goes to prison. ^[4] She is the first female president of the United States, and though she is a Republican she is said to be based on Hillary Clinton.
• In the 2001 American-Argentinian science-fiction film Perfect Lover, set in 2030, the world is run by women and Sally Champlin plays the female president of the United States. ^{[1] [26]} The film begins with her saying, "I did not have sexual relations with that young man", similar to a real-life quote by president Bill Clinton. ^[27]
• In CBS's 2004 TV series Century City's fictional timeline, Oprah Winfrey is the president of the United States.
• Towards the end of the 2004 film of Thunderbirds , Jeff Tracy answers a phone call from a "Madam President".
• ABC's 2005-2006 TV series Commander in Chief ^[28] focused on the fictional administration and family of Mackenzie Allen (played by Geena Davis), the first female president of the United States, who ascends to the post from the vice presidency after the death of the sitting president from a sudden cerebral aneurysm.
• In the 2005-2009 FOX TV series Prison Break , Patricia Wettig plays vice President Caroline Reynolds, who becomes president of the United States after she arranges the assassination of the former president. ^{[8] [29] [30]}
• In the 2006 French miniseries L'État de Grace , Peggy Frankston plays Hillary Clinton, who is shown as the president of the United States in two episodes. ^[4]
• Anjelica Huston plays the president of the United States in Covert One: The Hades Factor , a two-part miniseries that aired on CBS in April 2006.
• A 2006 BBC Four adaptation of John Wyndham’s short story Random Quest depicts the main character being sucked into an alternative reality in which Condoleezza Rice is president of the United States.
• In the 2008 miniseries XIII: The Conspiracy , Mimi Kuzyk played Sally Sheridan, the first female president of the United States, who is assassinated in a conspiracy. ^[31] In the 2012 follow-up television series XIII: The Series , Ingrid Kavelaars plays President Harriet Traymore in season 2, who wins a general election but has to battle the previous president for transfer of power, as he will not concede.
• In ABC's 2008-2009 TV series Life on Mars ^[32] (a remake of BBC's series of the same name), it is hinted that Malia Obama, the daughter of then-candidate Barack Obama, is the president of the United States in 2035.
• In the 2010 Asylum film Airline Disaster , Meredith Baxter plays president Harriet Franklin, who is forced to negotiate with terrorists after they hijack a plane.
• In Showtime's TV series Homeland , which began in 2011, Elizabeth Marvel plays United States President Elizabeth Keane. ^{[33] [34]} Elected in 2016, she was subject to two assassination attempts and a smear campaign by rogue elements of the US government, military and intelligence community due to her policies of curtailing the powers of the CIA. Following a GRU misinformation campaign to sow constitutional crisis in the United States, an exonerated Keane nonetheless resigns to preserve American democracy in the face of undermined public trust and deep political polarization.
• In ABC's TV series Scandal , which began in 2012, Bellamy Young plays Melody Margaret Grant, who becomes the first female president of the United States after the assassination of President-elect Francisco Vargas on election night. ^{[35] [36]} In the last moments of the final episode, it is suggested that Olivia Pope, also becomes President.
• In the 2012 Finnish-German-Australian film Iron Sky , Stephanie Paul plays a female president of the United States as a Sarah Palin-esque parody. ^{[37] [1]} She reprised her role in the 2019 sequel Iron Sky: The Coming Race.
• In the HBO TV series Veep , which began in 2012, Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays vice President Selina Meyer, who becomes the 45th president of the United States after the sitting president resigns to look after his mentally ill wife. ^{[8] [38]} Her successor as United States president, Laura Montez, played by Andrea Savage, is also a woman, the running mate of opposition candidate Bill O'Brian. ^[39] Meyer wins re-election in 2020 (albeit through Chinese election interference and a series of compromising acts at her party's brokered convention) and serves a single full term. At Meyer's funeral in 2045, a former successful two-term president, Kemi Talbot (a progressive rival to Meyer during the 2020 primaries and the brokered convention), played by Toks Olagundoye, delivers the main eulogy.
• In the two-part miniseries Air Force One Is Down , Linda Hamilton plays President Harriet Rowntree, who is kidnapped off of Air Force One. ^[40]
• In the Netflix TV series House of Cards , which began in 2013 and ended in 2018, Robin Wright plays Claire Underwood, who becomes the United States president after the resignation of her husband Frank Underwood. ^{[41] [42]}
• In the 2014-2019 CBS series Madam Secretary , Téa Leoni plays Elizabeth McCord, United States Secretary of State, who in the final season is shown to have won the presidential election after a flash forward from the previous season. ^[43]
• In the 2014-2015 NBC TV series State of Affairs , Alfre Woodard plays Constance Payton, the first black female president of the United States. ^[44]
• In the 2015 film Justice League: Gods and Monsters , Penny Johnson Jerald plays United States President Amanda Waller in an unspecified alternative universe. ^[45]
• In the 2015 Spanish animated adventure film Capture the Flag , there is a female president of the United States. In this film, she realizes the chaos brought by the conspiracy theories and disbelief of the first missions to the Moon provoked by the evil industrialist Richard Carson, who plans to conquer the Moon after denouncing the NASA Apollo 11 mission as a fake to the public. She orders NASA to once again go to the moon, before Carson, in order to rescue the historical flag planted on the Moon to show the truth to the whole world.
• In the TV series Supergirl , which began in 2015, Lynda Carter plays United States President Olivia Marsdin. ^[46]
• In the 2016 Legends of Tomorrow episode of the Arrowverse crossover event "Invasion!", Lucia Walters plays President Susan Brayden in an alternate timeline. ^[47]
• In the second season of the ABC television series Quantico , Marcia Cross plays Claire Haas, who becomes president of the United States after the president steps down. ^{[48] [49]}
• In the 2016 science-fiction film Independence Day: Resurgence , Sela Ward plays Elizabeth Lanford, the 45th and first female president of the United States, ^[50] who is in her first term, succeeding Thomas J. Whitmore, William Grey, and Lucas Jacobs. ^{[51] [52]} She is eventually killed by the alien queen. ^[1]
• In a sketch in a 2016 episode of the Comedy Central TV series Inside Amy Schumer , Schumer plays United States President Schinton, who has her period on her first day as president, and does poorly because of it. ^[53]
• In the 2016 film The Purge: Election Year , Elizabeth Mitchell plays Senator Charlie Roan, who is elected president on the platform of ending the Annual Purge, after barely surviving the night herself. ^[54] In The Forever Purge , she was mentioned as serving for two terms, after which the Purge is swiftly reinstated.
• In the second season of the Swedish series Modus in 2017, Kim Cattrall plays President Helen Tyler, who disappears during a state visit to Sweden. ^[55]
• In the 2017 episode "21C" of the Netflix series Travelers , the Traveler team are tasked with protecting Anna Hamilton, a child in 2017 who will later go on to become the 53rd President of the United States in the future after an extremely close election. Grant MacLaren remarks that he believed the 53rd President was 'another old white guy' before being told that Hamilton's election is a side-effect of the changed timeline. ^[56]
• In the 2018 film An Acceptable Loss , Jamie Lee Curtis plays Rachel Burke, who rises to the presidency after ordering a nuclear launch whilst Vice-President. ^[57]
• In the 2018 film Hunter Killer , Caroline Goodall plays United States President Ilene Dover. ^{[58] [59]}
• Jeannie Berlin plays president Cecily Burke in the 2018 television series The First , which focuses on the first human mission to Mars. ^[60]
• In Season 3 of For All Mankind , Jodi Balfour plays Ellen Wilson (née Waverley), the Republican president from 1993 to 2001 in an alternate timeline where the Soviet Union being the first nation to put a man on the Moon results in an accelerated Space Race. Prior to becoming president, Wilson was an astronaut (one of "Nixon's Women", a group of female astronauts recruited and trained in response to the Soviet Union being also the first nation to put a woman on the Moon), and a one-term US Senator from Texas. As well as being the first female president, Wilson is also the first openly LGBTQ+ president, being forced to come out as a lesbian towards the end of the first term due to her husband Larry (with whom she was in a lavender marriage) being under investigation. She won a surprise re-election victory in 1996, despite Republican opposition, thus becoming the first openly LGBTQ+ person to be elected president. The major achievements of her presidency include the launch of manned missions to Mars, the formation of the Mars-7 Alliance to oversee the development of the Happy Valley base, and the legalization of same-sex marriage.
• In the 2019 film Long Shot , Charlotte Field, played by Charlize Theron, is sworn in as the first female president of the United States.
• In a 2020 episode of the series The Good Fight , titled “The Gang Deals with Alternate Reality”, in an alternate reality Hillary Clinton has beaten Donald Trump in the 2016 United States presidential election and is now serving as the 45th President of the United States.
• In the 2020 series Diary of a Future President , Gina Rodriguez plays President Elena Cañero-Reed, a Cuban-American who recounts her youth and path to the presidency after finding an old diary. ^[61]
• The 2020 film Superintelligence features Jean Smart playing President Monahan.
• In the episode "The Rad Awesome Terrific Ray" of the 2020 Hulu animated series Solar Opposites , former First Lady Michelle Obama is president in an alternate timeline. ^[62]
• In 2021, Netflix released the political satire, Don't Look Up , in which Meryl Streep plays the role of president serving as a comet approaches Earth, guaranteeing the end of the world if action is not taken. ^[63]
• In the 2021 series Y: The Last Man , Diane Lane plays Jennifer Brown, a congresswoman and Chair of the House Intelligence Committee who was elevated to President after the death of every mammal with a Y chromosome except for her son Yorick and his pet capuchin monkey Ampersand. ^[64]
• The 2022 Netflix film Interceptor features a female president played by Zoe Carides.
• In the 2023 Amazon Prime movie Red, White & Royal Blue , Uma Thurman plays Ellen Claremont, the current president running for re-election, and mother of the protagonist, Alex Claremont-Diaz. ^[65] It is based on the 2019 novel Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston. ^{[66] [67]}
• In the 2023 Netflix series The Night Agent the U.S. President is changed from a man in the book it was adapted from into a woman named Michelle Travers in the series, played by Canadian actress Kari Matchett. ^[68]
• In the Tubi Original 2023 film DC Down, Sean Young plays the president, who is trapped in the White House after an earthquake.
• Jemma Redgrave plays President Jessica Danforth in the 2024 film The Beekeeper. ^[69]
• In 2025, Angela Bassett appears as President Mitchell in the Netflix show Zero Day.

Music

In 2017, a song called "First Woman President", about a fictional first female president of the United States, was released by the American musician Jonathan Mann. ^{[70] [71]} The song depicts the female president as having an all-female Cabinet and liberal policies (for example "paid family leave, for both Mom and Dad"), and the singer says it is easy to be proud of his country under her presidency. ^[71]

In the 2017 music video for "Family Feud" (a song by Jay-Z), Irene Bedard plays a Co-President of the United States in the future. ^{[72] [73]}

The 2020 music video for Ariana Grande’s song "Positions" depicts Grande as the President of the United States. ^{[74] [75]}

Novels

Female presidents of the United States have often appeared in science-fiction novels. In the 1959 science-fiction novel Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank (the pen name of Harry Hart Frank) President Josephine Vannebuker-Brown, formerly the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, becomes president of the United States because she was the only member of the line of succession to survive nuclear war; this novel was one of the first apocalyptic novels of the nuclear age and consistently ranks in Amazon.com's Top 20 Science Fiction Short Stories list (which groups together short story collections and novels). ^{[76] [77]} Other science-fiction novels which feature a female president of the United States include Robert Bloch's Ladies' Day (1968), Carl Sagan’s Contact (1985), ^[6] K.A. Applegate’s 2001–2003 series Remnants , Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter’s 2005 Sunstorm and 2001 The Light of Other Days , Jack McDevitt’s 1998 Moonfall, Robert J. Sawyer’s 2013 Red Planet Blues, John Shirley's 1985–1990 cyberpunk Eclipse Trilogy of novels, Allen Steele's 2002–2011 Coyote series of novels, and Robert Anton Wilson’s 1979 Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy of novels. ^{[8] [78] [79] [80] [81] [82] [83] [84] [85] [86] [87] [88] [ excessive citations ]}

The 1931 play A Woman of Destiny has a woman named Constance Goodwin who becomes president when the male president dies; in 1937, the play was turned into a non-science-fiction novel set in 1943. In it Constance Goodwin leaves the presidency to be a grandmother. ^[6] In the 1932 book A New Day Dawns by Charles Eliot Blanchard, Jane B. Stanton, a fictional descendant of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, is elected president in 1962. She is a eugenicist, initiating a totalitarian and racist regime. ^[6] The 1952 novel titled The Dark Mare, by Damsey Wilson, is about the presidency of Miriam Hall Bradley. ^[6] There is also a female president of the United States in the non-science-fiction novels Shall We Tell the President? (1977) and The Prodigal Daughter (1982), both by Jeffrey Archer, First Hubby (1990), by Roy Blount Jr., and The Woman President (2016), by Erwin Hargrove; in The Prodigal Daughter , First Hubby, and The Woman President the female president obtains her position through the death of the former president. ^{[8] [89] [90] [91]} Archer got the inspiration for his female president character Florentyna Kane's political life and rise to the presidency in The Prodigal Daughter from the real-life elections of Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher and Indira Gandhi.^{[ citation needed ]} Shall We Tell the President? also by Archer, initially featured president Ted Kennedy, but following the success of The Prodigal Daughter and a previous book featuring Kane in earlier life, called Kane and Abel , the character was changed to president Kane in later editions. Ellen Emerson White’s novel The President’s Daughter (1984) is about the first female president, from the perspective of her daughter; ^[92] the book was the start of a series by White about the same thing. ^[93] Mark Dunlea, assistant campaign manager for Sonia Johnson’s presidential campaign in 1984, later wrote a novel about a fictional female American president, Madame President: The Unauthorized Biography of the First Green Party President (published in 2004). ^{[94] [95]} The 2010 novel Eighteen Acres (a reference to the 18 acres on which the White House complex sits), ^[96] by Nicolle Wallace, is about three powerful women: the first female U.S. president (named Charlotte Kramer), her chief of staff, and a White House correspondent. ^{[97] [98]} The 2015 novel Duplicity, by Newt Gingrich and Pete Earley, features a woman who becomes America’s first woman president and chooses politics over national interest, resulting in a “Benghazi style attack”. ^{[99] [6]} In the 2019 novel Red, White & Royal Blue , by Casey McQuiston, Ellen Claremont is the first female president of the United States, and is running for a second term as president in the year 2020. ^{[67] [100]} In the novel Rodham , published in May 2020, on January 20, 2017, Hillary Rodham is elected the first female president, with Terry McAuliffe as her vice president. In the 2022 novel Presidential by Lola Keeley, the U.S. President is Constance "Connie" Calvin, who is openly bisexual and causes scandal by beginning a relationship with her son's lesbian physician. ^[101]

Stand-up comedy

Some American stand-up comedians, for example Ted Alexandro and Chaunté Wayans, have joked in their stand-up comedy about a fictional woman being president of the United States, and done an impression of such a woman. ^{[102] [103] [104] [105] [106]}

Other

• The 1931 play A Woman of Destiny features a woman named Constance Goodwin who becomes president when a male president dies; in 1937, the play was turned into a non-science-fiction novel set in 1943. In it Constance Goodwin leaves the presidency to be a grandmother. ^[6]
• In 1949 a musical titled As the Girls Go played on Broadway; originally titled The First Gentleman of the Land, it is a comedy about the “First Husband” of a female president, set in 1953. ^[6]
• There is a female president of the United States in the 1939 science-fiction short story Greater Than Gods, by C.L. Moore. ^{[107] [8]}
• In the 1985 National Lampoon article "Rose, Rose, There She Goes...Into the Bushes to Take Off Her Clothes", written by Shary Flenniken, Rose Ambrose becomes the vice president of the United States because she is having an affair with the president, and later becomes president of the United States herself after the former president dies of a heart attack while having sex, and is eventually shot and killed by several people, including the former first lady. ^{[108] [8]}
• In the 1992 anthology Alternate Presidents , there is a story titled "We Are Not Amused", by Laura Resnick, about Victoria Woodhull as president, and a story titled "Love Our Lockwood", by Janet Kagan, about Belva Lockwood as president.
• An ad campaign for Donna Karan in 1992 called "In Women We Trust" featured model Rosemary McGrotha as a female president of the United States. ^[109]
• In a 1993 Slovenian clothing commercial, Melanija Knavs (who would later become the First Lady in 2017 when she was called Melania Trump) ^[110] plays the first female president of the United States on the day she is inaugurated; the character is meant to be president of the United States, although the European Union flag is mistakenly used in place of the American flag. ^{[111] [112]}
• In the 2003 science-fiction comic book series Y: The Last Man , by Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, and José Marzán Jr., Secretary of Agriculture Margaret Valentine becomes president of the United States after a plague kills all the men; she later wins reelection because Oprah was not available. ^{[8] [113] [114]}
• X-Men: The End is a 2004-2006 trilogy of miniseries published by Marvel Comics, detailing the last days of the X-Men and their adventures in an alternative future: in the X-Men: The End future, Kitty Pryde becomes the mayor of Chicago and then President of the United States.
• In the 2010 video game Vanquish , Elizabeth Winters is president of the United States. ^{[115] [116]} She is voiced by Lee Meriwether. ^[117] In the game it is revealed that Winters has betrayed America, and she kills herself.^{[ citation needed ]}
• In 2012, the first President Barbie was released. ^[118]
• The 2012 video game Call of Duty: Black Ops II features a female president of the United States named Marion Bosworth (portrayed by Cira Larkin), which the player is assigned to protect and assist in evacuating when Los Angeles comes under attack by hostile drones hacked by fictional terrorist group, Cordis Die.
• In the 2013 video game Saints Row IV , the fully customizable player character, who becomes the President of the United States after foiling a terrorist attack, can be female.^{[ citation needed ]}
• In 2016, an ad campaign for Elie Tahari called "Madam President" featured Shlomit Malka as a female president of the United States. ^[109] Tahari intended this campaign to be an endorsement of Hillary Clinton, saying, "We have a choice between a man and a woman, and the woman is smarter and more humble, and I wanted to say I support that." ^[109]
• In 2018, the New York Times published two stories written as if reporting on the 2020 presidential election results, one titled "How Trump Won Re-election in 2020", by Bret Stephens, and one titled "How Trump Lost Re-election in 2020", by David Leonhardt; in both Elizabeth Warren was said to be his opponent in that election. ^{[119] [120]} Thus, one of the stories (the one where he lost and she won) was about her becoming the first female president of the United States. ^[119]
• The 2018 video game Detroit: Become Human features a female president of the United States named Christina Warren, who is briefly playable during a press conference segment.^{[ citation needed ]}
• In the 2019 video game Death Stranding , Bridget Strand (portrayed by Lindsay Wagner) is the first female president of the United States, and also the last ever president prior to the Death Stranding event. At her death, her daughter Amelie (using the likeness of a younger Wagner and voiced by Emily O'Brien) is named successor to the presidency.^{[ citation needed ]}
• In the 2022 play The 47th by Mike Bartlett, Kamala Harris is the 47th president of the United States. ^{[121] [122]}
• In the Cyberpunk role-playing game, the former CEO of Militech, Elizabeth Kress, served as president of New United States of America from 2019 to 2069.^{[ citation needed ]} In the 2020 video game Cyberpunk 2077 , Rosalind Myers, also a former CEO of Militech, is the president.^{[ citation needed ]}

See also

• African-American presidents of the United States in popular culture
• List of actors who have played the president of the United States
• List of presidents of the United States
• Lists of fictional presidents of the United States
• President of the United States in fiction

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