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Arnold
Schwarzenegger (b.
1947) Arnold Alois
Schwarzenegger (b. July 30, 1947), the
bodybuilder turned Hollywood action
figure, turned politician, is an Austrian
immigrant to the United States who built a
fortune on his celebrity, married into the
Kennedy family, and then famously
separated from his wife after a
well-publicized sex scandal. Schwarzenegger turned
to bodybuilding at an early age (15), and
by the age of 20, won the Mr. Universe
bodybuilding title. He also won the Mr.
Olympia title several times. Arnold
Schwarzenegger moved to the United States
in 1968 at the age of 21. His goal at this
point was to continue his bodybuilding as
an avenue to get into acting. Schwarzenegger began
his acting career in 1970, appearing as
Hercules in the film Hercules in New
York. However, it was appearance in
the bodybuilding documentary Pumping
Iron in 1977 propelled him to the
popular consciousness. He appeared in
several other films, but his first big hit
as a screen actor breakthrough film was
the sword-and-sorcery fantasy, Conan
the Barbarian, in 1982. Arnold
Schwarzenegger's career as a Hollywood
action hero was cemented in 1984 as he
played the title role in the James Cameron
science-fiction epic, The
Terminator. Arnold
Schwarzenegger as the
Terminator Arnold
Schwarzenegger first met his wife,
Maria
Shriver,
at a Kennedy-sponsored political event in
1977. They married in 1986 and now have
four children. They separated in early
2011. Arnold
Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver wed in
1986 Schwarzenegger's movie
career continued as one of the top male
action heroes in Hollywood. He
occassionally forayed into comedy, as in
such films as Twins, Junior, and
Kindergarten Cop. Schwarzenegger, like
several other action movie stars (Bruce
Willis, Tom Selleck, Clint Eastwood), held
political views generally considered more
conservative than Hollywood as a whole. In
1985, Schwarzenegger appeared in Stop
the Madness, an anti-drug music video
sponsored by the conservative Reagan
administration. Schwazenegger came out
publicly as a Republican during the 1988
Presidential election, accompanying
then-Vice President George H.W. Bush at a
campaign rally. Arnold Schwarzenegger's
public political philosophy was cemented
by his speech at the 2004 Republican
National Convention, where Schwarzenegger
spoke to a national audience and explained
why he was a Republican: But then I heard
Nixon speak. He was talking about free
enterprise, getting the government off
your back, lowering the taxes and
strengthening the military. Listening
to Nixon speak sounded more like a
breath of fresh air. I said to my
friend, I said, "What party is he?" My
friend said, "He's a Republican." I
said, "Then I am a Republican." And I
have been a Republican ever
since." As early as 1999,
Schwarzenegger discussed his potential
future as a political candidate. During
the 2003 California Recall-Election of
2003, Schwarzenegger announced his
candidacy for Governor of California on
the August 6, 2003 episode of The Tonight
Show with Jay Leno. On October 7, 2003,
the recall election resulted in Governor
Gray Davis being removed from office with
55.4% of the "Yes" vote in favor of a
recall. Schwarzenegger was elected
Governor of California under the second
question on the ballot with 48.6% of the
vote to choose a successor to Davis. He
became the first foreign-born California
governor since the Civil War
era. Since the California
constitution limits governors to only two
terms, Arnold Schwarzenegger left office
in January of 2011, and soon announed that
he would return to acting. In May, 2011,
the Los Angeles Times confronted him with
a story they were going to run about an
illegitimate child he allegedly fathered
with a member of his family's household
staff. Schwarzenegger then admitted that
he had fathered that child. The media soon
revealed that the child's mother was
Mildred Baena, who had served as the
housekeeper in the Schwarzenegger-Shriver
household for 20 years. On July 1, 2011, Maria
Shriver filed divorce papers seeking to
end her 26 year marriage to Arnold
Schwarzenegger. In his first credited
film role since leaving office and since
his marital issues came to light, Arnold
Schwarzenegger starred along with other
action movie stars in The
Expendables 2,
released in August, 2012. He reprises his
role as Trent Mauser alongside Sylvester
Stallone, Bruce Willis, Dolph Lundgren,
Jean Claude Van Damme, Chuck Norris, and
other veteran action heroes. When
Schwarzenegger appeared at the 2012 San
Diego Comic-Con with Stallone, he received
a huge ovation from the crowd of
science-fiction and action film fans in
attendance. In the autumn of 2012,
Arnold
Schwarzenegger's new
memoir details
how he told Maria Shriver about how he
fathered that boy with the housemaid, and
why he hid the truth from Maria. In this
new memoir, titled "Total
Recall: My Unbelievably True Life
Story Brigitte
Nielsen as Red Sonja, with Arnold
Schwarzenegger The
Films and Movies of Arnold
Schwarzenegger Notes 1970 Hercules in
New York Hercules Credited as
Arnold Strong 1973 The Long
Goodbye Hood in
Augustine's office 0 1974 Happy
Anniversary and
Goodbye Rico 0 1976 Stay
Hungry Joe
Santo 0 1977 Pumping
Iron Himself 0 1979 The
Villain/Cactus Jack Handsome
Stranger 0 1979 Scavenger
Hunt Lars 0 1982 Conan the
Barbarian Conan 0 1984 Conan the
Destroyer Conan 0 1984 The
Terminator The
Terminator 0 1985 Red
Sonja Kalidor 0 1985 Commando John
Matrix 0 1986 Raw
Deal Mark Kaminsky,
aka Joseph P. Brenner 0 1987 Predator Major Alan
'Dutch' Schaeffer 0 1987 The Running
Man Ben
Richards 0 1988 Red
Heat Captain Ivan
Danko 0 1988 Twins Julius
Benedict 0 1988 Total
Rebuild Himself 0 1990 Total
Recall Douglas
Quaid/Hauser 0 1990 Kindergarten
Cop Detective John
Kimble 0 1991 Terminator 2:
Judgment Day The
Terminator 0 1992 Christmas in
Connecticut Man in chair
in front of Media
Truck Also the
director Feed Himself Cameo 1993 Dave Himself Cameo 1993 Last Action
Hero Jack
Slater/Himself 0 1994 True
Lies Harry
Tasker 0 1994 Junior Dr. Alex
Hesse 0 1994 Beretta's
Island Himself 0 1996 Eraser U.S. Marshal
John 'The Eraser'
Kruger 0 1996 Jingle All the
Way Howard
Langston 0 1996 T2 3-D: Battle
Across Time The
Terminator Theme park
attraction 1997 Batman and
Robin Mr.
Freeze 0 1999 End of
Days Jericho
Cane 0 2000 The 6th
Day Adam
Gibson/Adam Gibson
Clone 0 2001 Dr. Dolittle
2 White
Wolf Voice only;
uncredited 2002 Collateral
Damage Gordy
Brewer 0 2003 Terminator 3:
Rise of the Machines The
Terminator 0 2003 The
Rundown Bar
Patron Cameo;
uncredited 2004 Around the
World in 80 Days Prince
Hapi 0 2005 The Kid &
I Himself Cameo 2006 Cars Sven Voice only;
uncredited 2009 Terminator
Salvation The
Terminator Likeness and
Terminator archive footage
superimposed on Roland Kickinger;
uncredited cameo 2010 The
Expendables Trent
Mauser Cameo;
uncredited 2012 Trent
Mauser First film
role since leaving the Governor's
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Schwarzenegger also confirmed a rumor that
he and Brigitte Nielson (former wife of
Expendables co-star Sly Stallone), had
engaged in an "outrageous affair" while
filming the move Red Sonja.
