Elon Musk
Biography
Elon Musk is a businessman who founded and leads several technology companies. Born in Pretoria, he moved to Canada in 1989, studied at the University of Pennsylvania and settled in California. He co-founded the web software company Zip2 in 1995, then X.com, the payment business that merged with Confinity to form PayPal and was acquired by eBay in 2002. In 2002, he founded SpaceX and became its CEO and chief engineer, and from 2008 he has led Tesla as CEO and product architect, overseeing its electric vehicles. He also helped start Neuralink and the Boring Company, co-founded OpenAI, launched xAI, and bought Twitter in 2022 before rebranding it as X. His honors include the George Low Transportation Award and the Royal Aeronautical Society Gold Medal; he was elected to the Royal Society in 2018 and to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022, and Time named him its Person of the Year in 2021.
55years old
Turns 56 on June 28in 258 days
- Born Pretoria
- Star sign: CancerThe sign runs June 21 to July 22
- Elon Reeve Musk (birth name)
Movie Career
- Films
- 7
- Career span
- 11 years2011 to 2022
Genres
- Documentary100%, 7 films
- Biography29%, 2 films
- Action14%, 1 film
- Adventure14%, 1 film
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Elon Musk movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
- Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World2016 Documentaryas Self - Entrepreneur
IMDb rating 7.014K votes
Worked with
Elon Musk shares two films with Talulah Riley, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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All films by Fisher Stevens
All films by Werner Herzog
Louie PsihoyosDirector, 1 film, 2015
All films by Louie Psihoyos
Awards
Twelve awards and honors from 2018 to 2026.
| Year | Award | Film | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other honors | |||
| 2026 | Order of Liberty | Won | |
| 2025 | Time 100 | Honored | |
| 2024 | Rusty Razor Award | Won | |
| 2022 | Member of the National Academy of Engineering | Won | |
| 2022 | Order of Defence Merit | Won | |
| 2021 | Financial Times Person of the Year | Won | |
| 2021 | John Fritz Medal | Won | |
| 2021 | Time 100 | Honored | |
| 2021 | Time Person of the Year | Won | |
| 2020 | Axel Springer Award | Won | |
| 2019 | Stephen Hawking Medal For Science Communication | Won | |
| 2018 | Fellow of the Royal Society | Won | |
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.