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.

KNOWN FOR

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2021
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2016
The Colbert Report
2009
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
2017
Explained
2018
At This Hour with Kate Bolduan
2017
The Seventies
2015
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
2021
Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle
2018
Wolf
2018
I Am Vanessa Guillen
2022
Truth and Lies: Jonestown, Paradise Lost
2018

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
20
Crew
1
2022
A Long March
as Self
2022
Motherland
as Self
2022
I Am Vanessa Guillen
as Self
2021
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
as Self
2021
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
2019
Lost in America
as Self
2018
Truth and Lies: Jonestown, Paradise Lost
as Self
2018
Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle
as Self
2018
Wolf
as Self
2018
Explained
as Self
2017
I Am Evidence
as Self
2017
At This Hour with Kate Bolduan
as Self
2017
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
as Self
2016
Equal Means Equal
as Self
2016
Jackie Speier: Sexual Assault in the Military
as Self
2016
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2015
The Seventies
as Self
2012
The Invisible War
as Self
2009
The Colbert Report
as Self
2006
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
as Self