# Female president of the United States in popular culture

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* Top-left: Hillary Clinton has been portrayed as the United States's president in two television series. In actuality, she won the popular vote in the 2016 presidential election.
* Top-right: Kamala Harris was depicted as the 47th president of the United States in the 2022 play The 47th. She served as Acting President of the United States in real life.
The idea of a female president of the United States has been explored in various media representations. In film and television, fictional characters such as Betty Boop and Lisa Simpson have been depicted as President of the United States. In music, singers such as Ariana Grande have envisioned women in charge of the American presidency. Similarly, novels written by various individuals, including Newt Gingrich, chronicle the tenure of a fictional female American president. Across these media representations, historical female figures, such as Elizabeth Warren, have also been the subject of hypothetical presidential administrations.
In actuality, no woman has been elected to or served in the office of President of the United States. However, in 2016, Hillary Clinton became the first woman to win the popular vote in an American presidential election. Additionally, in 2021, Kamala Harris became the first woman to hold American presidential powers.

## Film and television
### 1924–2010

* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* In Project Moonbase, a 1953 science-fiction film, Ernestine Barrier plays a female president of the United States.
* In the 1964 comedy film Kisses for My President, Polly Bergen plays Leslie McCloud, the first female president of the United States. Leslie eventually becomes pregnant and resigns the presidency.
* In the 1985 sitcom Hail to the Chief, Patty Duke plays the first female president of the United States.
* In the 1986 British satire film Whoops Apocalypse, Loretta Swit plays Barbara Adams, the first female president of the United States.
* In the 1987 Australian film Les Patterson Saves the World, Joan Rivers plays the president of the United States.
* 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".
* The 1990 television movie Hitler's Daughter has a female American president who is the fictional daughter of Adolf Hitler.
* 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.
* In the pilot to the 1992 television series X-Men: The Animated Series, a female president of the United States is briefly shown.
* In the 1993 episode "The Last Temptation of Homer" of the television 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.
* In the 1995 episode "The Weaker Sex" of the TV series Sliders, Teresa Barnwell plays Hillary Clinton as the president of the United States in an alternative universe where women are in charge.
* 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.
* In the 1998 comedy film Mafia!, Christina Applegate plays United States President Diane Steen. 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.
* In the 1999 film Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century, a Disney Channel original film set in the year 2049, Chelsea Clinton is the president of the United States.
* In the 2000 episode "Bart to the Future" of The Simpsons, Bart looks 30 years into the future, at which time Lisa Simpson, voiced by Yeardley Smith, has become President of the United States after succeeding Donald Trump. 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.
* In the 2000 episode "The Election" of the television series Arthur, Muffy Crosswire, voiced by Melissa Altro, is shown to become president of the United States in the future.
* In the 2001–2010 TV series 24, Cherry Jones plays the president of the United States. 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, Taylor resigns and goes to prison.
* 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. The film begins with her saying, "I did not have sexual relations with that young man", similar to an actual quote by President Bill Clinton.
* The 2005–2006 television series Commander in Chief focused on the fictional administration and family of Mackenzie Allen, played by Geena Davis, who is the first female president of the United States.
* In the 2005–2009 television 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.
* 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.
* 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.

### 2011–present

* In Showtime's TV series Homeland, which began in 2011, Elizabeth Marvel plays United States President Elizabeth Keane.
* In the television 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.
* 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.
* In the television 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 wife with mental health conditions. Meyer's successor, Laura Montez, played by Andrea Savage, is also a woman and the running mate of opposition candidate Bill O'Brian.
* In the two-part miniseries Air Force One Is Down, Linda Hamilton plays President Harriet Rowntree, who is kidnapped off of Air Force One.
* In the 2013–2018 Netflix TV series House of Cards, Robin Wright plays Claire Underwood, who becomes the United States's president after the resignation of her husband Frank Underwood.
* In the 2014–2019 television series Madam Secretary, Téa Leoni plays Elizabeth McCord, the United States Secretary of State and who in the final season is shown to have won the presidential election after a flash-forward from the previous season.
* In the 2014–2015 television series State of Affairs, Alfre Woodard plays Constance Payton, the first Black female president of the United States.
* In the 2015 film Justice League: Gods and Monsters, Penny Johnson Jerald plays United States President Amanda Waller in an unspecified alternative universe.
* In the second season of the 2015 television series Quantico, Marcia Cross plays Claire Haas, who becomes President of the United States after the incumbent steps down.
* In the television series Supergirl, which began in 2015, Lynda Carter plays United States President Olivia Marsdin.
* In the 2016 Legends of Tomorrow episode of the Arrowverse crossover event "Invasion!", Lucia Walters plays President Susan Brayden in an alternate timeline.
* In the 2016 science-fiction film Independence Day: Resurgence, Sela Ward plays Elizabeth Lanford, the 45th and first female president of the United States, who is in her first term, succeeding Thomas J. Whitmore, William Grey, and Lucas Jacobs. She is eventually killed by an alien queen.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* In the 2018 film An Acceptable Loss, Jamie Lee Curtis plays Rachel Burke, who rises to the presidency after ordering a nuclear launch while vice president.
* In the 2018 film Hunter Killer, Caroline Goodall plays United States President Ilene Dover.
* Jeannie Berlin plays president Cecily Burke in the 2018 television series The First, which focuses on the first human mission to Mars.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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 the presidency after the death of every mammal with a Y chromosome except for her son Yorick and his pet capuchin monkey Ampersand.
* 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.
* In the 2023 Netflix series The Night Agent the United States President is a woman named Michelle Travers, played by Canadian actress Kari Matchett.
* Jemma Redgrave plays President Jessica Danforth in the 2024 film The Beekeeper.

## Music

* In the 2017 music video for "Family Feud", a song by Jay-Z, Irene Bedard plays a future co-president of the United States.
* In 2017, a song called "First Woman President" about a fictional first female president of the United States was released by Jonathan Mann. The song depicts the female president as having an all-female Cabinet and liberal policies (e.g. "paid family leave for both Mom and Dad"), and the singer says it is easy to be proud of his country under her presidency.
* The 2020 music video for Ariana Grande's song "Positions" depicts Grande as the president of the United States.

## Novels

* 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.
* In 1937, the play A Woman of Destiny was turned into a novel set in 1943. Constance Goodwin leaves the presidency to be a grandmother.
* The 1952 novel The Dark Mare, by Damsey Wilson, is about the presidency of Miriam Hall Bradley.
* In the 1959 science-fiction novel Alas, Babylon by Pat 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 presidential line of succession to survive nuclear war.
* Ellen Emerson White's 1984 novel The President's Daughter is about the first female president, from the perspective of her daughter; the book was the start of a series by White about the same thing.
* In 2004, Mark Dunlea, assistant campaign manager for Sonia Johnson's presidential campaign in 1984, wrote a novel about a fictional female American president, Madame President: The Unauthorized Biography of the First Green Party President.
* The 2010 novel Eighteen Acres (a reference to the 18 acres on which the White House complex sits), by Nicolle Wallace, is about three powerful women: the first female American president Charlotte Kramer, her chief of staff, and a White House correspondent.
* The 2015 novel Duplicity, by Newt Gingrich and Pete Earley, features a woman who becomes America's first female president and chooses politics over national interest, resulting in a "Benghazi style attack".
* In the 2019 novel Red, White & Royal Blue, by Casey McQuiston, Ellen Claremont is the first female president of the United States, and she is running for a second term as president in 2020.
* In the 2022 novel Presidential by Lola Keeley, the United States President is Constance "Connie" Calvin, who is openly bisexual and causes a scandal by beginning a relationship with her son's lesbian physician.
Other science-fiction novels which feature a female president of the United States include:
* Robert Bloch's Ladies' Day (1968)
* Robert Anton Wilson's Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy (1979)
* Jeffrey Archer's The Prodigal Daughter (1982)
* Carl Sagan's Contact (1985)
* John Shirley's cyberpunk Eclipse Trilogy (1985–1990)
* Jeffrey Archer's Shall We Tell the President? (revised 1986)
* Roy Blount Jr.'s First Hubby (1990)
* Jack McDevitt's Moonfall (1998)
* Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter's The Light of Other Days (2001)
* K.A. Applegate's series Remnants (2001–2003)
* Allen Steele's series Coyote (2002–2011)
* Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter's Sunstorm (2005)
* Robert J. Sawyer's Red Planet Blues (2013)
* Erwin Hargrove's The Woman President (2016)

## Other media

Some American stand-up comedians, such as Ted Alexandro and Chaunté Wayans, have joked about a fictional female president of the United States and done an impression of such a woman.
* The 1931 play A Woman of Destiny features a woman named Constance Goodwin who becomes president when a male president dies.
* There is a female president of the United States in the 1939 science-fiction short story Greater Than Gods, by C.L. Moore.
* A 1949 musicalAs the Girls Go, played on Broadway and set in 1953, is a comedy about the "First Husband" of a female president.
* 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. Ambrose later becomes president of the United States herself after the former president dies of a heart attack while having sex. Ambrose is eventually shot and killed by several people, including the former first lady.
* 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.
* In a 1993 Slovenian clothing commercial, Melanija Knavs 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.
* In the 2003 science-fiction comic book series Y: The Last Man, by Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, and José Marzán Jr., United States Secretary of Agriculture Margaret Valentine becomes the president after a plague kills all the men; she later wins reelection because Oprah Winfrey was not available.
* In the 2010 video game Vanquish, Elizabeth Winters is President of the United States. She is voiced by Lee Meriwether.
* In 2012, the first President Barbie was released.
* In 2016, an ad campaign for Elie Tahari called "Madam President" featured Shlomit Malka as a female president of the United States.
* In 2018, The New York Times published two stories written as if reporting on the 2020 presidential election results. In one of the stories, Elizabeth Warren wins against Donald Trump and becomes the first female president of the United States.
* In the 2022 play The 47th by Mike Bartlett, Kamala Harris becomes the 47th president of the United States.