He has been named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2004 and 2007. He is a seven-time Mr Olympia winner and a four-time Mr Universe winner. He is a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Know The Fact brings you some cool facts about the legend Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was born on July 30, 1947, in Austria. His full name is Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger. He is a dynamic individual and was a former bodybuilder. He is now an actor, a film producer, a businessman, and a politician.
Between 2003 and 2011, Arnold served as the 38th Governor of California. He is a member of the Republican party and is the most recent Republican governor of California as of 2022.
Arnold has dual citizenship. He is both an Austrian and an American citizen. In his bodybuilding days, Schwarzenegger was given the nickname “Austrian Oak”. He is sometimes also called “Arnie” or “Schwarzy”. During his term as Governor of California, he was nicknamed “The Governator.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Movies:
Arnold Schwarzenegger is a globally famous Hollywood action star. His rise to fame as an actor was with Conan the Barbarian (1982), which was a huge commercial success. He is famous for his role in the sci-fi movie Terminator (1984), which is still a much-loved movie among the masses. Arnold also starred in the sequels, Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Terminator Genisys (2015), and Terminator: Dark Fate (2019).
Arnold’s other popular action-packed movies include Commando (1985), The Running Man (1987), Predator (1987), Red Heat (1988), Total Recall (1990), and True Lies (1994). He also starred in a few comedy films, including Twins (1988), Kindergarten Cop (1990), Junior (1994), and Jingle All the Way (1996).
Facts about Arnold Schwarzenegger
Schwarzenegger was born with a bicuspid aortic valve, an aortic valve with only two leaflets, whereas a normal aortic valve has three leaflets. He has had 3 open-heart surgeries.
Arnold Schwarzenegger had a son named Joseph with his housekeeper, Mildred Patricia “Patty” Baena. This was potentially the reason why he and his wife, Maria Shriver, ended their relationship after 25 years of marriage. Maria Shriver was the niece of President John F. Kennedy.
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s father, Gustav Schwarzenegger, joined the Nazi Party during World War II. He served as a military policeman in the invasions of Poland, France, and the Soviet Union. He also participated in the siege of Leningrad. Gustav even rose to the rank of Hauptfeldwebel.
Schwarzenegger supports Israel and even participated in a Los Angeles pro-Israel rally. In 2004, he flew to Israel to break ground on the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem. He also laid a wreath at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial.
Despite being a Republican, Arnold Schwarzenegger did not vote for the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in the 2016 United States presidential election. This was the first time he did not vote for a Republican candidate.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was the first U.S. civilian to purchase a Humvee. He persuaded Humvee’s manufacturer, AM General, to produce Humvees that are street legal and can be used by civilians.
Arnold bought the first two street-legal Hummer H1s that were on the market.
Schwarzenegger acquired a modified electric Mercedes G-Class.
Schwarzenegger’s Twitter account is one of the 22 accounts that the Russian president Twitter account follows.
Many actors, including Dwayne Johnson, Matt McColm, Christian Boeving, Vidyut Jamwal, and Daniel Greene, have been inspired by Arnold to become action heroes.
Schwarzenegger requested a collection of Marxist busts from his Russian friends when the Soviet Union was being dissolved. He did this due to the fact that they were being destroyed. He kept a bust of Vladimir Lenin to show it to the “losers”.
Schwarzenegger’s diet for the past five years has been mostly vegan. According to him, it has made him feel “healthier and younger overall” and helped him lower his cholesterol.
