Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy net worth is $10 Million
Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy Wiki Biography
Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy was born on 12 December 1968, in Washington, D.C., USA, and is a documentary filmmaker, but also known as the youngest child of US Senator Robert Francis “Bobby” Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy. Her father was assassinated before her birth, and this caused her to later pursue making documentary films about social issues, but all her endeavors have helped put her net worth to where it is today.
How rich is Rory Kennedy? As of early-2017, sources inform us of a net worth that is at $10 million, mostly earned through success in documentary film-making. She’s tackled issues of addiction, nuclear radiation, the Mexican border, and much more. As she continues her career, it is expected that her wealth will continue to increase.
Rory Kennedy Net Worth $10 million
Kennedy attended The Madeira School, and after matriculating went to Brown University. During her time there, she organized a rally which urged shoppers to boycott grapes in support of migrant workers. In the 1990s, she formed the nonprofit organization May Day media alongside Vanessa Vadim, which focused on creating and distributing films which tackled social issues.
Her first project was “Women of Substance” which was released in 1994, and tackled female addicts. In 1998 she then founded Moxie Firecracker Films alongside Liz Garbuz, since partnered with television networks such as HBO, Lifetime, Discovery Channel, and TLC. The following year she directed “American Hollow”, which received critical acclaim, and HBO would broadcast the film and she would then release a companion book. She then co-produced the series “Pandemic: Facing AIDS” which earned an Emmy Award nomination followed in 2003 by “A Boy’s Life” which earned a lot of positive reviews at the 2003 Tribeca Film Festival, and won the Best Documentary prize at the Woodstock Film Festival.
She continued to work with HBO, helping direct “Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable”, and also directed “Homestead Strike” which was part of the series “10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America”, broadcast on The History Channel. In 2005, she became the co-executive producer for “Street Fight”, which earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature; her next project would come two years later – “Ghosts of Abu Ghraib” – which won a Primetime Emmy Award for Best Documentary. In 2008 she directed “Thank You, Mr. President: Helen Thomas at the White House” which is part of HBO Documentary Films. Three years later, she worked on the documentary “Ethel” which is about her mother, to mixed reviews, she mentioned that she had to go through hundreds of hours of archived footage of her family.
In 2014, she directed “Last Days in Vietnam” which made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival. In an interview, she stated that she had difficulty persuading the people participate in the project, since a lot of them experienced traumatic stress, and trying to recall those traumatic moments were difficult. The documentary received an Academy Award nomination.
For her personal life, it is known that Rory married Mark Bailey in 1999 and they have two daughters. The family resides in Brooklyn, New York. The wedding was postponed when the plane carrying her cousin John F. Kennedy, Jr. crashed on the way to the event.
Georgia Elizabeth Kennedy-Bailey, Bridget Katherine Kennedy-Bailey, Zachary Corkland Kennedy-Bailey
Parents
Ethel Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy
Siblings
Kerry Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Michael LeMoyne Kennedy, Max Kennedy, Courtney Kennedy Hill, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, David Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy II, Christopher G. Kennedy, Douglas Harriman Kennedy
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special, Glamour Award for The Generations, Gracie Award for Outstanding Director in News
Nominations
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Programming – Long Form, Independent Spirit Truer than Fiction Award, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary Or Nonfiction Special, News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuin...
Movies
Last Days in Vietnam, Ethel, Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, American Hollow, Bobby Fischer Against The World, The Fence, Thank You, Mr. President: Helen Thomas at the White House, Girlhood, The Execution of Wanda Jean, Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech, The Nazi Officer's Wife, Killing in t...
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When I graduated from Brown after majoring in women's studies, I made my first PBS documentary, Women of Substance. My first feature documentary was called American Hollow (1999), which I did for HBO and was at the Sundance Film Festival.
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There's a great op-ed piece by Kurt Johnson, who runs The List Project, that I recommend everyone read. He was talking about how he's been trying to get out of Iraq who were our allies, who are now subject to torture, and their families are being killed because of their alliance to the United States.
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With Makers: Women in Hollywood (2014), I didn't direct it, but I produced it, and what we did is followed the money of Hollywood and how that intersects with issues relating to women and, frankly, sexism.
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I've been doing documentaries for about 25 years and want to continue to do that, but I love the idea of working in a different medium. Advertising pushes the envelope creatively, and there is some really great work being done right now, so I'm excited to jump into it.
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I am now using media as a tool to bring attention to marginalized people.
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I think there is a lot to be said for the respect that our parents had for children, and for my brothers and sisters and me at a very young age, and for exposing them to the world and what's out there.
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The thing is that my father's story helps to communicate what was at stake with my mother, and my mother and father had so much a partnership that his story is integral to her story, as her story is to his - really, her story can't be told without his story.
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I had long been resistant to doing a documentary about my mother for personal reasons. And I thought there was no way she'd want to, but then I asked her and she said 'yes.'
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I'm all for having an empowered first lady who can really use that position to improve conditions, be a role model and make change.
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I think it can be really powerful, and one of the reasons I love making films is I do feel they can reach beyond the statistics and the numbers and the complexities of a particular issue and really highlight the humanity in a way that an article or newspaper story might not be able to do.
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I'm not sure I would make a direct connection between having press attention as a young person and being interested in the media as an older person. I came to it more organically, coming from a family of Irish Catholic storytellers. Storytelling is a pastime and important part of my family's history and culture.
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You need to think, when you get involved in wars, how you're going to get out of them.
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I've always been interested in Vietnam, feel it's a seminal event in our nation's history, and have explored it over the years - but I hadn't been interested in doing a documentary about it. I felt there had been a lot done about Vietnam, and didn't know if I could add anything new to the discussion.
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I was attracted to filmmaking in college because of my love of storytelling. You can have such an impact and reach a broader audience than conventional journalism.
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Gave birth to her third child, a boy named Zachary Corkland Kennedy-Bailey, on July 16, 2007.
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Was born six months after her father was assassinated.