Elon Musk filmography

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Elon Musk is an American businessman and investor who has made numerous cameo appearances in films and television shows as himself. These appearances include Iron Man 2 , The Simpsons , South Park , The Big Bang Theory , and Rick and Morty . He has also made appearances in many documentary films.

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Films

List of films
YearTitleRole(s)NotesRef(s)
2005 Thank You for Smoking ValetUncredited cameo; also executive producer [1] [2]
2010 Iron Man 2 HimselfCameo [3]
2010Dumbstruck—Executive producer [4]
2013 Machete Kills HimselfCameo [5] [6]
2014 Transcendence [7] [8]
2016 Why Him? [9]
2019 Men in Black: International Uncredited cameo [10]

Television

List of television series
YearTitleRoleNotesRef(s)
2015 The Simpsons HimselfEpisode: "The Musk Who Fell to Earth" [11]
2015 The Big Bang Theory Episode: "The Platonic Permutation" [12] [13]
2016 South Park Three episodes: "Members Only", "Not Funny", "The End of Serialization as We Know It" [14]
2016–2018 Mars Six episodes [15] [16]
2017 Young Sheldon Episode: "A Patch, a Modem, and a Zantac"; cameo [17]
2019 Rick and Morty Elon TuskEpisode: "One Crew over the Crewcoo's Morty"; cameo [18] [19]
2021 Saturday Night Live Himself and various characters Season 46, Episode 18 [20]

Documentaries

List of documentary films
YearTitleRole Ref(s)
2011 Revenge of the Electric Car Himself [21]
2015 Racing Extinction [22]
2016 Lo and Behold [23]
2022 Return to Space [24]

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