Which real-life US President appears in season 2 of The Crown?

John F. Kennedy is the real-life US President who appears in season 2 of The Crown. Michael C. Hall portrays Kennedy, while Jodi Balfour plays his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the episode “Dear Mrs. Kennedy.”

The season covers 1956 to 1964, placing the Kennedys’ 1961 visit to Britain within the show’s timeline. Elizabeth II and Prince Philip actually met the presidential couple at Buckingham Palace in June 1961, and The Crown dramatizes the formal dinner and the Queen’s later diplomatic visit to Ghana.

A common mix-up is confusing John F. Kennedy with his brother Robert F. Kennedy, who also appears in the season as the US attorney general. The show also takes dramatic liberties with Jackie Kennedy’s private opinions and the relationship between the two women. Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States and served from 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.