Arnold Schwarzenegger . American actor, prominent figure in Hollywood action cinema during the 1980s and 1990s .
Biographical synthesis
He was born in Austria in 1947 . At 15 he rebelled against his father’s will and opted for bodybuilding to the detriment of football. He won the title of Mr. Europa Junior, in 1968 and after this he arrived in the United States , a country in which he was presented as “the Austrian oak”.
He invested his prize money as a bodybuilder and the profits from his private mail company in real estate, and at 25 he was already a millionaire.
He showed a marked interest in politics. His marriage to Maria Shriver, a member of the Kennedy family , gave him access to influential spheres. In 2003, he was elected governor of the state of California , a position he held until 2010 , after being reelected in 2006 .
Career
He started working in the cinema in 1970 (Hercules in New York), he had to wait for the documentary Pumping Iron ( 1975 ), where he played himself, to get the public’s attention. His career on celluloid took off after the hazardous participation in the mythical epic Conan, the barbarian ( 1978 ) and its sequel Conan, the destroyer ( 1984 ).
His most memorable role is perhaps that of the impassive killer android in Terminator (1984), a science fiction adventure that catapulted him to stardom and from which he would shoot an even more successful sequel.
His strong German accent of the phrases he pronounces in English favored his rise to popularity.
He won the titles of Mr. Mundo , Mr. Universe (five times) and Mr. Olympia (seven times), and in 1980 he retired from bodybuilding.
He started the 1990s as the biggest star in world cinema, his career in recent years was marked by a clear decline in his box office appeal, exemplified in the monumental failure of the ambitious The Last Great Hero ( 1993 ). In addition to his usual tough acting roles, he exploited his physique in inconsequential comedies such as The Twins Hit Twice ( 1988 ), Nursery Cop ( 1990 ) and Ivan Reitman’s Junior ( 1994 ). Other outstanding films of his filmography are Cactus Jack ( 1979 ), Predator( 1987 ), Terminator 2: The Last Judgment ( 1991 ), Risky Lies ( 1994 ), Eraser ( 1995 ), Batman and Robin ( 1997 ), The Sixth Day ( 2000 ) and Collateral Damage ( 2001 ), Terminator 3: Rise of the machines ( 2003 ), The Expendables ( 2010 ).
His comeback in the cinema occurs with The Expendables 2 which was released on August 17, 2012, along with other stars such as Bruce Willis and Sylvester Stallone .
In 2014 she starred in the film Maggie with Oscar-nominated actress Abigail Breslin. The film garnered mixed reviews but Schwarzenegger’s dramatic performance garnered rave reviews as he played a father who desperately struggles to preserve his last moments with his daughter who is turning into a Zombie.
His penultimate film was Terminator Genesis in 2015, alongside other stars like Emilia Clarke, Jason Clarke and Jai Courtney. In 2017 he starred in Aftermath, based on the true story about a constructor’s revenge against the flight controller that caused the plane crash that killed all the passengers including his wife and daughter. The film received good reviews towards Arnold for his performance. In February 2018, Schwarzenegger’s role was confirmed in the new series Outrider, an Amazon western in which Schwarzenegger will also executive produce.