Biographies: Elon Musk - Actor

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A Canadian, American, and South African engineer and inventor, born in Pretoria, South Africa to an American mother of Canadian origin and a South African father, who worked as an electrical and mechanical engineer. After his parents divorced in 1980, he lived with his father most of the time in South Africa, and he began learning computer programming from a young age. He moved to Canada in 1988 after obtaining Canadian citizenship through his mother. At nineteen years old, Musk was accepted into Queen's University at Kingston. After studying there for two years, he moved to the University of Pennsylvania, where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in physics and economics. In 1995, he moved to California to study for a doctorate at Stanford University, but he left the university just two days after joining it to pursue his entrepreneurial ambitions in the fields of the Internet, outer space science, and renewable energy. In 2002, Musk obtained American citizenship, and in 2022, he acquired the social media platform Twitter before later changing its name to X. His credits include Thank You for Smoking (2005) and Why Him? (2016).

• 16 January 2024
• Shaimaa Saied