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Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger: A Short Bio

Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger born in Austria can be a rather versatile actor together with becoming an excellent bodybuilder and now a politician plus the Governor of California. He was the second son of his parents. His father becoming a police officer taught him good values and brought him up in a very strict and disciplined environment.

Arnold had a great sports personality like his father. He had an ambition to be a body builder from his childhood and therefore he began bodybuilding at the age of fifteen when he joined the soccer team of Austria. At the age of eighteen, in 1965 he joined the army and that is when he became significant about his body and began taking a strict diet plan. Although inside the army he took component inside the Mr. Junior Europe contest in 1965 and won the competition. From then on there was no searching back for him. He won enormous number of professional titles immediately after which he went to take part in the 1968 Mr. Universe competition. He won that one too and also became the youngest winner, at the age of twenty. He even won the Mr. Olympia titles consecutively for six years but lost to Sergio Oliva when he competed for the very first time. He was given the nickname "The Austrian Oak" for his terrific body. He then left the competition saying that he wanted to give a opportunity to other talents too. George Butler produced a documentary on Arnold's body developing training named Pumping Iron. Besides body building becoming his ultimate dream, he entered Hollywood with his 1st movie "Hercules Goes to New York" inside the year 1970. He won the Golden Globe Award for finest new actor for his performance in the movie Remain Hungry, in 1976. His character in "Conan" movie needed him to train vigorously and all of the horse riding, sword training and running created him so powerful that he needed only eight weeks training for the competition. This time too, he won it. But it led to a controversy that the competition didn't support talent but popularity.

Arnold's movies didn't click at the box office until he did "Terminator" in 1984, which was followed by other hits like "Twins", "Total Recall", "Commando" and "Kindergarten Cop". He started a construction firm whose profits were utilized to fund an additional tiny business of mail order of fitness material including books and videocassettes. He even got a degree in organization and international economics from the Wisconsin University to take his company to a further higher level. Inside couple of years was living a luxurious life. He even wrote articles for body constructing magazines, Muscle & Fitness, and Flex. Right after being appointed as the governor he was promoted as the executive editor of both the magazines.

His 1st affair was with Barbara Outland Baker who was an English teacher but they split in 1974. Right after that Arnold dated Maria Shriver, niece of former president John F. Kennedy for eight years and then got married to her in 1986 and they live together ever since then and the couple have four children. In August 2003 he announced his decision to stand for the elections of Governor of California. He was elected on October 7, 2003 and he replaced Gary Davis with nearly 3.4 million votes in his favor. He was re-elected again in November 2006. He can be a republican. He was ranked among the top hundred people who shaped the world by time. He continues to perform his duty as the Governor of California and is being lauded for bringing in many reforms.
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