Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Biography
Arnold Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian-American actor, film producer, businessman, former bodybuilder and politician who served as the 38th governor of California (2003-2011). As of 2022, he is the most recent Republican governor of California. Time magazine named Schwarzenegger one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2004 and 2007. He also served as Chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports (1990-1993).
He began weight training at 15. He was awarded the title of Mr. Universe at age 20 and went on to win the Mr. Olympia contest a total of seven times. He appeared in the bodybuilding documentary Pumping Iron (1977). The Arnold Sports Festival, considered the second-most important bodybuilding event after Mr. Olympia, is named after him. He has remained a prominent presence in the sport of bodybuilding and has written several books and numerous articles on the sport.
He wanted to move from bodybuilding into acting, finally achieving it when he played the title role in Hercules in New York (1970). Credited under the stage name "Arnold Strong", his accent in the film was so thick that his lines were dubbed after production. His second film role was as a mob hitman in The Long Goodbye (1973), followed by a more significant part in the film Stay Hungry (1976), for which he won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor.
In 1977, he appeared in an episode of the ABC sitcom The San Pedro Beach Bums and the ABC police procedural The Streets of San Francisco. He auditioned for the title role of The Incredible Hulk, but did not win the role because of his height. He appeared in the 1979 comedy The Villain. In 1980, he starred in a biographical film of the 1950s actress Jayne Mansfield as her husband, Mickey Hargitay.
He gained worldwide fame as a Hollywood action star with his breakthrough starring role in the epic Conan the Barbarian (1982) and its sequel in 1984. After playing the title role in the sci-fi action film The Terminator (1984), he starred in its' sequels Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machine's (2003), Terminator Genisys (2015), and Terminator: Dark Fate (2019). His other action films include Commando (1985), The Running Man (1987), Predator (1987), Red Heat (1988), Total Recall (1990), and True Lies (1994). His comedy films include Twins (1988), Kindergarten Cop (1990), Junior (1994), and Jingle All the Way (1996).
After leaving the governor's office, he resumed his acting career. He starred in The Expendables 2 (2012), The Last Stand (2013), his first leading role in 10 years, Escape Plan (2013), Sabotage (2014) and returned as Trench Mauser in The Expendables 3 (2014). He then starred in the Terminator sequels Terminator Genisys (2015) and Terminator: Dark Fate (2019). He was slated to reprise his role as Conan in The Legend of Conan, later renamed Conan the Conqueror; however, in April 2017, producer Chris Morgan stated that Universal had dropped the project, although there was a possibility of a TV show.
He was nicknamed the "Austrian Oak" and the "Styrian Oak" in his bodybuilding days, "Arnie" and "Schwarz" during his acting career and the "Governator" (a portmanteau of "Governor" and "Terminator"). He is the founder of the film production company Oak Productions.
Known For
The Graham Norton Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Two and a Half Men
E! True Hollywood Story
Tales from the Crypt
WWE SmackDown
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Celebrities Uncensored
60 Minutes
The Jay Leno Show
The Kelly Clarkson Show
The Movies That Made Us
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
McGREGOR FOREVER
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Meet the Press
Little Demon
The Family
Dave
Dr. Dolittle 2
WWE: The Best of SmackDown - 10th Anniversary, 1999-2009
The Expendables
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
The Oscars
Inferno: The Making of 'The Expendables'
Around the World in 80 Days
The Apprentice
The Expendables 2
The Making of The Expendables 3
The Expendables 3
I Am Greta
Iron Mask
Batman & Robin
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
Dirty Harry: The Original
Big Vape: The Rise and Fall of Juul
The Celebrity Apprentice
Terminator Genisys
Terminator: Dark Fate
Escape Plan
The Man with the Bag
The Game Changers
Arnold
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
The Terminator
Sabotage
Pumping Iron
FUBAR
Total Recall
Junior
Last Action Hero
The 6th Day
Predator
The Running Man
The Last Stand
Twins
True Lies
Maggie
Outrider
Jingle All the Way
End of Days
Aftermath
Conan the Destroyer
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Killing Gunther
Collateral Damage
Commando
Eraser
Kindergarten Cop
Conan the Barbarian
Production Credits
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