Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger born July 30 1947 is an AustrianAmerican actor film producer businessman former bodybuilder and politician who served as the 38th governor of California 20032011 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 Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports 19901993 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 secondmost 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 scifi action film The Terminator 1984 he starred in its sequels Terminator 2 Judgment Day 1991 Terminator 3 Rise of the Machines 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 governors 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