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- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) was arguably the zenith of Arnold's film career to date and he was voted "International Star of the Decade" by the National Association of Theatre Owners.
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e. Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian and American actor, businessman, filmmaker, former politician, and former professional bodybuilder known for his roles in high-profile action movies. He served as the 38th governor of California from 2003 to 2011 and was among Time 's 100 most influential people in the world in ...
May 3, 2024 · 'I was a millionaire before I did Terminator': Arnold Schwarzenegger told Grant Cardone how he made millions before becoming a movie star — and it wasn’t from bodybuilding
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Jun 5, 2023 · Austrian-born Arnold Schwarzenegger rose to fame as the world’s top bodybuilder, launching a career that would make him a giant Hollywood star in the 1980s via films like Conan the Barbarian,...
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- Arnold Schwarzenegger Grew Up in Poverty
- Bodybuilding Was Arnold's Way Out of Poverty
- He Moved to Los Angeles in 1968
- Schwarzenegger Was Already A Real Estate Mogul
- Schwarzenegger Married Maria Shriver
- He Became Governor of California, Or Governator
- Arnold's Marriage Implodes
- He Returns to The Silver screen
Arnold Schwarzenegger was born on July 30, 1947, in Thal, Austria to Gustav and Aurelia Schwarzenegger. His dad was the local chief of police and in 1938 joined the Nazi Party and the SA (the Sturmabteilung), serving as a military policeman during World War II. Schwarzenegger's parents were very strict. He said, "Back then in Austria, it was a very...
Growing up, Arnold Schwarzenegger was a good athlete. In his NPR interview, he said, "I was involved in so many different sports, trying to search what it is that I'm good at because I always felt like it's through athletics I could get out of the country and become somebody." Eventually, he found his way to bodybuilding, and it inspired him. He st...
Schwarzenegger moved to the U.S. in 1968. He was known as Arnold Strong at the time and his physique caught the eye of the film industry. His first film role came in 1969, with Hercules in New York. He became friends with artist Andy Warhol who introduced him to Hollywood players like James Caan and Woody Allen. In 1977, he won the Golden Globe for...
Before Arnold became a famous actor, he had a realization that most aspiring actors don't ever make it big. He noticed that many of his contemporaries were renters and lived paycheck to paycheck. He grew up poor, so he had no interest in revisiting that. Schwarzenegger had a bit of money from his bodybuilding contest wins, a mail-order bodybuilding...
In August 1977, Arnold Schwarzenegger met Maria Shriver, the niece of President John F. Kennedy at a tennis tournament honoring her uncle Robert F. Kennedy. Schwarzenegger was dating a Beverly Hills hairdresser's assistant named Sue Moray at the time, and he continued to see both women (with their knowledge) until Moray eventually gave him an ultim...
Arnold Schwarzenegger, a registered Republican won the 2003 California recall election when the state opted to recall then governor Gray Davis. He announced his candidacy on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno. The media started calling him the Governator and The Running Man, after some of the best Schwarzenegger movies. Additionally, the election cycle...
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver ended their marriage after 25 years in May 2011. Just a few days later, the Los Angeles Times revealed that the actor had fathered a son with an employee of his household, Patty Baena, 14 years earlier. He told the newspaper that he didn't reveal this fact to Shriver until a decade after his son with Baena wa...
Arnold Schwarzenegger had planned to return to acting after his second term as Governor of California ended in 2011 but his divorce and the resulting media frenzy led him to decide to put those plans on pause temporarily. In 2012, he starred in The Expendables 2 and The Last Stand and Escape Plan in 2013. In 2014, he starred in Sabotage andThe Expe...
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Jun 9, 2021 · The Rise and Fall of Planet Hollywood. Thirty years ago, the biggest celebrities on earth opened a chain restaurant. For a few years, it was the hottest ticket in town. Then it went bankrupt....
Dec 4, 2020 · It was Mr. Olympia 1975 that would help him become a movie star, thanks to his participation in the documentary Pumping Iron. Schwarzenegger first won the competition in 1970 at age 23, making him the youngest winner.
Aug 8, 2022 · It wasn't until 1982's Conan the Barbarian that Arnold Schwarzenegger broke through to find mainstream success in Hollywood, going on to star in classic action films Conan the Destroyer, The Terminator, Commando, Red Sonja, Predator, and The Running Man over the next five years.
