{"id":250135,"date":"2026-07-05T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/05\/14-stars-who-played-the-president-in-movies-tv\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T01:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T01:30:00","slug":"14-stars-who-played-the-president-in-movies-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/05\/14-stars-who-played-the-president-in-movies-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"14 Stars Who Played the President in Movies &#038; TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-2240520\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- Franchise logo or primary category --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- subheader --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"tpd-post-thumbnail-container caption_belowImage credit_onImage\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit-text\">Credit: Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \/post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plenty of stars have stepped into the Oval Office on screen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the years, actors have played fictional presidents in everything from political dramas and comedies to disaster movies, action thrillers, superhero shows, and romantic comedies. Some of these characters were inspiring leaders and even became pop culture favorites thanks to the actors behind them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In honor of the Fourth of July, we\u2019re taking a look back at the most memorable stars who have played the president in movies and TV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The list includes classic fictional presidents from big movies like <em>Independence Day<\/em>, <em>Deep Impact<\/em>, <em>White House Down<\/em>, and characters from TV shows like <em>The West Wing<\/em>, <em>Scandal<\/em>, and <em>Veep<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Click through to see which stars have played the president in movies and TV\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"categories single-categories\">Posted To:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/evergreen\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">evergreen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/movies\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Movies<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/slideshow\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Slideshow<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/television\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Television<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/07\/04\/14-stars-who-played-the-president-in-movies-tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: Getty Images Plenty of stars have stepped into the Oval Office on screen. Over the years, actors have played fictional presidents in everything from political dramas and comedies to disaster movies, action thrillers, superhero shows, and romantic comedies. Some of these characters were inspiring leaders and even became pop culture favorites thanks to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-250135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}