Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American actor, businessman, retired professional bodybuilder and former politician. He served as the 38th Governor of California from 2003 to 2011. Schwarzenegger began lifting weights at the age of 15, and went on to win the Mr. Universe title at age 20. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest bodybuilders of all time, as well as the sport’s most charismatic and famous ambassador.
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Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American actor, businessman, retired professional bodybuilder and former politician. He served as the 38th Governor of California from 2003 to 2011. As of 2021, he is the most recent Republican governor of California. Schwarzenegger began lifting weights at the age of 15, and went on to win the Mr. Universe title at age 20. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest bodybuilders of all time, as well as the sport’s most charismatic and famous ambassador. He married Maria Shriver, the niece of 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy, in 1986. They separated in 2011 after he admitted to having fathered an illegitimate child with their housemaid in 1997, and their divorce was finalized in 2017. Schwarzenegger’s father was the local chief of police and had served in World War II as a Hauptfeldwebel after voluntarily joining the Nazi Party in 1938. He was wounded in the Battle of Stalingrad, but was discharged in 1943 following a bout of malaria. His mother was of Czech descent. His paternal great-grandfather, Wenzel Mach, was Czech, from the village of Kočov, near Tachov. The child, Schwarzenegger’s paternal grandfather, was originally named Carl Mach, but later adopted his mother’s name Schwarzenegger. His father had a preference for his elder son, Meinhard, over Arnold, which stemmed from unfounded suspicion that Arnold was not strong enough to take care of himself.
He has said that his father had “no patience for listening or understanding your problems”. He wished his father was an athlete and an exuberant, good-humored, ex-uberant Money was a problem in their household; he wished the family bought a refrigerator for his father’s ashes. Schwarzenegger was nicknamed the ‘Austrian Oak’ in his bodybuilding days, ‘Arnie’ or ‘Schwarzy’ during his acting career, and ‘The Governator’ during his political career. The Arnold Sports Festival, considered the second-most important bodybuilding event after Mr. Olympia, is named after him. He also starred in other successful action films such as Commando, The Running Man, Predator, Total Recall and True Lies, in addition to comedy films like Twins, Kindergarten Cop, Junior and Jingle All the Way. As a Republican candidate, Schwarzenegger was first elected on October 7, 2003, in a special recall election to replace then-Governor Gray Davis, with 48. 6% of the vote, 17 points ahead of Democrat runner-up Cruz Bustamante. In 2011, he reached his term limit as Governor and returned to his career in acting. The name of his production company is Oak Productions. He had a son, Arnold Meinin, with his ex-wife Maria, in 2007. He and his son, Maria, have a daughter, Maria Shiver, and a son-in-law, Arnold Schwarzenegger Jr.
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