16 actors who transformed into real-life tech company CEOs and founders

We've all heard of musician and actor biopics — now, it's all about the tech CEO biopic.

To play these figures, some of our best-known actors had to ditch their signature looks to take on Steve Jobs' turtleneck and wire-frame glasses, or Elizabeth Holmes' red lipstick and frizzy blowout.

Here are 16 celebrities who transformed to play some of Silicon Valley's most prominent figures.

"After the Hunt" wasn't enough for Garfield and director Luca Guadagnino — now the two have teamed up to tell the story of OpenAI CEO and cofounder Altman.

"Succession" star Jeremy Strong will play the Facebook founder in "The Social Reckoning," a film about the release of Facebook Files, a staggering number of internal documents leaked by whistleblower and employee Frances Haugen and published by The Wall Street Journal in 2021, and the subsequent congressional scrutiny that followed.

"The Social Reckoning" won't be the first time Zuckerberg has been portrayed on screen — most famously, Eisenberg played the founder in "The Social Network," which chronicled the earliest days of Facebook, back when it still had a "the" in front of it.

The other famous "disruptor" portrayed in "The Social Network" is Parker, one of the cofounders of Napster, the original music streaming platform. He's played by Timberlake in a career-best performance.

Gordon-Levitt played Uber cofounder and former CEO Kalanick in "Super Pumped," a 2022 Showtime limited series. It focuses on the rise of Kalanick and his eventual fall from power, culminating in his 2017 resignation from the company.

Seyfried played Holmes all the way from her time at Stanford in 2003 (where she did the titular dropping out) through to the catastrophic collapse of her company Theranos in 2015, spurred by an exposé published in The Wall Street Journal, in the 2022 Hulu limited series "The Dropout."

There's speculation that Seyfried will reprise the role, in a way, as Holmes in the coming documentary "You Can See Everything," but it's unclear how much, if any, involvement she has in the doc.

The first mention of Jobs on this list goes to Kutcher, who played the Apple founder in the 2013 biopic "Jobs." It follows his career from the beginning of Apple in 1976 to the introduction of the first iPod in 2001.

Two years after "Jobs," the late founder was portrayed again on screen, this time by Michael Fassbender in "Steve Jobs."