Arnold Schwarzenegger

 Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian and American actor as well as film producer, businessman, former bodybuilder professional and politician who served as the 38th governor of California between 2003 and 2011. Time magazine named Schwarzenegger one of the top 100 influential individuals in the world between the years 2004 and 2007. Schwarzenegger began lifting weights at 15 years old. He was awarded the Mr. Universe title at 20 and then the Mr. Olympia title seven more times. He is widely recognized as one of the top bodybuilders of all time, and has written numerous articles and books on bodybuilding.The Arnold Sports Festival, considered the second-most important bodybuilding event after Mr. Olympia, is named after the legendary athlete. [6] Schwarzenegger appeared in Pumping Iron (1977). Schwarzenegger stopped bodybuilding in 1977 and gained worldwide fame as an Hollywood action star, with his breakthrough in the epic sword and sorcery film Conan the Barbarian (1982) which was a box office hit and a sequel in 1984.After being the main 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), as well as Terminator: Dark Fate (2019). The other action films that were successful include Commando (1985), The Running Man (1987), Predator (1987), Red Heat (1988), Total Recall (1990) and True Lies (1994), in addition to comedy films like Twins (1988), Kindergarten Cop (1990), Junior (1994), and Jingle All the Way (1996 He is the creator of the production company film Oak Productions.As a Republican candidate, Schwarzenegger was first elected on the 7th of October, 2003 in a recall vote to replace then-Governor Gray Davis. He won with 48.6 percent, which was 17 points more than Cruz Bustamante, the Democratic third-place finisher. On November 17, he was sworn into office to finish Davis his term. He was also re-elected to the California governorship elections, with a larger share of the vote (55.9%) to continue his term as the 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. He was married to Maria Shriver, a niece of President John F. Kennedy, in 1986. The couple divorced in 2011 after he admitted to having an unborn child with their housemaid in 1997; their divorce was approved in 2021.