Which actor has starred in two films about John F. Kennedy?

Kevin Costner starred in two films about John F. Kennedy: JFK and Thirteen Days.

In Oliver Stone’s 1991 film JFK, Costner played New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, whose investigation into Kennedy’s assassination drives the story. The film is based loosely on Garrison’s real-life investigation and the theories presented in his book On the Trail of the Assassins.

Costner’s second Kennedy-related film was Thirteen Days, released in 2000. He played Kenneth P. O’Donnell, a senior White House aide, while Bruce Greenwood portrayed President Kennedy. The historical thriller dramatizes the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, when the United States and Soviet Union came close to nuclear war.

A common mix-up is that Costner played Kennedy himself. He did not: he portrayed figures connected to Kennedy in both films. The two movies also cover different periods—JFK focuses on the assassination and its aftermath, while Thirteen Days depicts a presidential crisis a year earlier.