Female president of the United States in popular culture president of the United States in two episodes. A 2006 BBC Four adaptation of John Wyndham's short story "Random Quest" depicts the main character being sucked into an alternative reality in which Condoleezza Rice is president of the United States. In ABC's 2008-2009 TV series "Life on Mars" (a remake of BBC's series of the same name), it is hinted that Malia Obama, the daughter of then-candidate Barack Obama, is the president of the United States in 2035. In Showtime's TV series "Homeland", which began in 2011, Elizabeth Marvel plays United States President Elizabeth Keane. In ABC's TV series "Scandal",
Liz Malia Liz Malia Elizabeth A. "Liz" Malia (born September 30, 1949) is an American politician from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A Democrat, she has served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives since March 1998. She represents the Eleventh Suffolk district, which includes parts of the Boston neighborhoods of Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, Roxbury and Dorchester. In the legislature, she serves as Chair of the Joint Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse. Malia graduated from Boston College in 1971 with a BA in Education and English, returning in 1989 to complete the graduate certificate program at the Center for Women in Politics