Rory Kennedy

American documentary filmmaker, the eleventh and youngest child of Ethel and Robert Kennedy, born six months after the assassination of her father.

Rory became a producer and documentary director. Her life has been marked by the tragedies of her dramatic family. She was the one who cradled her dying brother, Michael, after a skiing accident on New Year's Eve 1997 in Aspen, Colorado. Her Hyannis Port wedding to Mark Bailey, a writer and book and film editor, was cancelled when her cousin, John F. Kennedy Jr. went down in a plane along with his wife Carolyn and her sister on 16 July 1999 off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. The wedding took place two-and-a-half weeks later, on 2 August 1999 at 7:00 PM in Ekali, Greece, an upscale suburb of Athens. Kennedy married Mark Bailey at the family compound of ship owner Vardis Vardinoyiannis, a friend of the family. The newlywed couple also sailed on his yacht for their honeymoon.

By 2000, Rory was making documentary films on AIDS, addiction and rural poverty.

Rory and Mark have two daughters, Georgia Elizabeth Kennedy-Bailey (b. 2002) and Bridget Katherine Kennedy-Bailey (b. 2004), and one son, Zachary Corkland Kennedy-Bailey (b. 2007).