Arnold Schwarzenegger

 Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger, born July 30 1947 is an Austrian-American actress as well as a film producer and businessman. Schwarzenegger was also a former professional bodybuilder and politician and 38th governor for California between 2003 and the year 2011. Time magazine listed Schwarzenegger among the top 100 influential individuals throughout the world between 2004 and 2007. Schwarzenegger started lifting weights at the age of 15 and went on to win the Mr. Universe title at age 20, and later took home the Mr. Olympia title seven times. It is believed to be one of the most powerful bodybuilders to ever. The Arnold Sports Festival is named after him, which is the second most important bodybuilding event , after Mr. Olympia. [6] He appeared in the documentary about bodybuilding Pumping Iron (1977). Schwarzenegger stopped bodybuilding in 1977 and gained worldwide fame as a Hollywood action starafter his breakthrough performance in the epic of sword and sorcery Conan the Barbarian (1982), a box-office hit with a sequel in 1984.After his role as the titular character in the science-fiction film The Terminator (1984), Schwarzenegger starred in the sequels Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Terminator Genisys (2015), and Terminator: Dark Fate (2019). Other action films that he was successful in included Commando (1985), The Running Man (1987), Predator (1987), Red Heat (1988), Total Recall (1990) and True Lies (1994), as well as comedy films like Twins (1988), Kindergarten Cop (1990), Junior (1994), and Jingle All the Way (1996 He was the founder of the production company film Oak Productions.As a Republican candidate, Schwarzenegger was first elected on October 7, 2003 in a recall vote to replace then-Governor Gray Davis. Schwarzenegger received 48.6% of the vote 17 percentage points higher than Democrat second-placed Cruz Bustamante. On November 17th, he was sworn into office to conclude Davis' term. He also was elected to the California governorship with a larger share of the vote (55.9%) to continue his term as governor. [10] In 2011, he reached his term limit as governor and returned to acting.Schwarzenegger was nicknamed the "Austrian Oak" in his bodybuilding days, "Arnie" or "Schwarzy" during his acting career,[11] and "the Governator" (a portmanteau of "Governor" and "Terminator") during his political career. In 1986, he got married to Maria Shriver (a niece of the late President John F. Kennedy). They separated in 2011 after he admitted to having an unborn child with their housemaid in the year 1997; the divorce was finalized in 2021