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Jeff Skoll

Name in Native Language: "Jeffrey Skoll" (English/EN)
Film Producer / Computer Scientist / Engineer / Investor | * 01/16/1965 (59) | Montreal / Montréal (Canada)
Jeffrey Stuart Skoll, OC (born January 16, 1965) is a Canadian engineer, billionaire internet entrepreneur and film producer. He was the first president of eBay, eventually using the wealth this gave him to become a philanthropist, particularly through the Skoll Foundation, and his media company Participant Media. He founded an investment firm, Capricorn Investment Group, soon after and currently serves as its chairman. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he graduated from University of Toronto in 1987 and left Canada to attend Stanford University's business school in 1993. Shortly after graduating from business school, he began his career at eBay where he wrote the business plan that the company followed from its emergence as a start-up to a larger company. While at the company, he began the eBay Foundation which was allocated pre-IPO stock now worth $32 million. Once eBay's second largest stockholder, behind Omidyar, he subsequently cashed out a portion of his company holdings, yielding him around $2 billion. With an estimated net worth of US$4 billion (as of December 2016), Skoll was ranked by Forbes as the 7th wealthiest Canadian and 134th in the United States. Through his film production company, Participant–of which he is founder, owner, and chairman–he has produced numerous c... ()
Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Documentaries | Thriller

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Awards & Nominations for Jeff Skoll

Officer of The Order of Canada Order of Canada
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Movies with Jeff Skoll as Crew(67)

Production/Executive Producer2024 Out of My Mind
Production/Executive Producer2024 White Bird
Production/Executive Producer2024 Shirley
Production/Executive Producer2024 Rob Peace
Production/Executive Producer2023 The Walk
Production/Executive Producer2023 Food, Inc. 2
Production/Executive Producer2023 We Grown Now
Production/Executive Producer2022 All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Production/Executive Producer2022 Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power
Production/Executive Producer2022 ¡Viva Maestro!
Production/Executive Producer2022 The Good House
Production/Executive Producer2022 Costa Brava, Lebanon
Production/Executive Producer2022 A Compassionate Spy
Production/Executive Producer2021 Judas and the Black Messiah
Production/Executive Producer2021 Invisible Demons
Production/Executive Producer2021 My Name Is Pauli Murray
Production/Executive Producer2021 Final Account
Production/Executive Producer2021 Stillwater
Production/Executive Producer2021 The First Wave
Production/Executive Producer2020 John Lewis: Good Trouble
Production/Executive Producer2020 David Byrne's American Utopia
Production/Executive Producer2019 The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Production/Executive Producer2019 Captive State
Production/Executive Producer2019 Watson
Production/Executive Producer2019 American Factory
Production/Producer2019 Dark Waters
Production/Executive Producer2019 Slay the Dragon
Production/Executive Producer2018 7 Days in Entebbe
Production/Executive Producer2018 Foster
Production/Executive Producer2018 The Price of Free
Production/Executive Producer2018 Roma
Production/Executive Producer2018 On the Basis of Sex
Production/Executive Producer2017 Human Flow
Production/Executive Producer2017 Shot Caller
Production/Executive Producer2017 Wonder
Production/Executive Producer2017 An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Production/Executive Producer2016 A Monster Calls
Production/Executive Producer2016 Denial
Production/Executive Producer2016 Deepwater Horizon
Production/Executive Producer2016 Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
Production/Executive Producer2015 Spotlight
Production/Executive Producer2015 Bridge of Spies
Production/Executive Producer2015 3 ½ Minutes, 10 Bullets
Production/Executive Producer2014 Citizenfour
Production/Executive Producer2014 A Most Violent Year
Production/Executive Producer2014 The Hundred-Foot Journey
Production/Executive Producer2013 Teach
Production/Executive Producer2013 The Fifth Estate
Production/Executive Producer2012 The Story of Pines
Production/Executive Producer2012 Lincoln
Production/Executive Producer2011 The Help
Production/Executive Producer2011 Contagion
Production/Executive Producer2010 Countdown to Zero
Production/Executive Producer2010 Furry Vengeance
Production/Executive Producer2010 Fair Game
Production/Executive Producer2010 The Crazies
Production/Executive Producer2009 The Informant!
Production/Executive Producer2008 Standard Operating Procedure
Production/Executive Producer2007 Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains
Production/Executive Producer2007 Charlie Wilson's War
Production/Executive Producer2007 The Visitor
Production/Executive Producer2006 Fast Food Nation
Production/Executive Producer2005 House of D
Production/Executive Producer2005 Syriana
Production/Executive Producer2005 American Gun
Production/Executive Producer2005 Good Night, and Good Luck.
Production/Executive Producer2005 North Country

TV Shows/Series with Jeff Skoll as Crew(5)

Production/Executive Producer2024 Conbody VS Everybody
Production/Executive Producer2024 Interior Chinatown
Production/Executive Producer2022 Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey
Production/Executive Producer2019 When They See Us
Production/Executive Producer2013 Please Like Me

Full Name: Jeff Skoll
Citizenship: Canada
Born: Saturday, 01/16 1965 (January) in Montreal / Montréal (Canada) (current age: 59 years + 72 days)
Zodiac sign: Capricorn (Chinese zodiac sign: Snake)
Educated at: University of Toronto, Stanford University, Stanford Graduate School of Business, York Mills Collegiate Institute
Other names for Jeff Skoll (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Jeffrey Skoll"
Jeff Skoll frequently works together with these people:
Diane Weyermann (25x, Crew)
Jonathan King (16x, Crew)
Robert Kessel (10x, Crew)
Tom McCarthy (9x, Actor)
Musa Brooker (7x, Crew)
George Clooney (6x, Actor)
Chiwetel Ejiofor (6x, Actor)
Larry Blake (6x, Crew)
Laura Poitras (6x, Crew)
Alfonso Cuarón (5x, Crew)
Ava DuVernay (5x, Crew)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:449315, Added: 09/24/2018, Last updated: 03/14/2024