Through many ups and downs, Arnold Schwarzenegger finally wears his familiar leather jacket again, with the classic cold face of the T-800 killer robot.

Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger was born on July 30, 1947 in Steiermark, Austria. 

He spent a poor childhood with his father, Gustav Schwarzenegger, a police officer, and his mother, Aurelia Jadmy.

 His father, with the discipline of a former Nazi soldier, raised Arnold extremely strictly, he only had two options: obey or be beaten.

Country boy embracing the American dream

Although his academic performance was not great, young Arnold showed his talent for sports from a very early age. 

At the age of 14, he participated in sports such as football, athletics and was especially passionate about bodybuilding.

 He diligently practiced bodybuilding and in 1965, he won the Junior Europe bodybuilding competition.

 His next victory in Graz made everyone know him by the nickname: The man with the most beautiful body in Europe.

Picture of Arnold in his youth

Win Mr. Universe is the golden ticket for Arnold to go to America to fulfill his dream of changing his life. 

He spent a lot of time at the gym and won second prize in Mr. Universe in 1966, then continued to win first prize for four consecutive years after that. Arnold officially set foot in America in 1968, with the ambition of becoming a famous actor.
 
The guy “Hercules” is lost in the middle of New York

He laid a brick for his dream in 1970 with the movie Hercules in New York.

 However, his limited English and rather deep accent became the biggest barrier for him in his acting career.

His managers and colleagues all thought that Arnold would have no future in his acting career.

A scene from the movie “Hercules in New York”
Beyond all that, his role in Stay Hungry released in 1976 brought him the Golden Globe Award for best new actor.

 Victory continued to come to Arnold in the 1977 bodybuilding film Pumping Iron and the mythical action film Conan the Barbarian (1982) helping Mr. Universe caught the eye of the media at that time.

 Throughout the 80s and 90s, Arnold Schwarzenegger acted in many genres, from action like Commando (1985), Predator (1987), Red Heat (1988)… to comedy and family love, like Twins. (1988, starring Danny DeVito), Kindergarten Cop (1990), Jingle All The Way (1996)…

“Jingle All The Way” is a pretty good movie about family love starring Arnold
Celebrate with “The Destroyer”

The Terminator (1984) made the names of director James Cameron and Arnold. He plays the T-800 destruction robot from the future who returns to the past with the mission of destroying the young mother Sarah Connor of the leader of the human resistance. 

The Terminator quickly became the most popular science fiction film of its time. Other film projects he participated in were not as successful as expected until Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991).  

True to the classic line “I’ll be back” of the T-800, the film was an excellent sequel in the eyes of the public at that time, turning The Terminator series into an eternal monument.

of the action-science-fiction genre. Arnold continued to collaborate with James Cameron and achieved much success in True Lies (1994).

However, after that, Arnold’s film career increasingly declined, culminating in his failure when playing the villain Mr. Freeze in the movie Batman and Robin (1997) directed by Joel Schumacher. 

In 2006, Arnold placed a brick named after him on the Walk of Fame, his American dream of two decades became a reality.
 

The political turning point of “The Terminator”

While his film career started out bleak, his political career became increasingly successful.
 Arnold Schwarzenegger served as chairman of the Presidential Council on Sports and Physical Development from 1990 to 1993.

In 1994 he became a Red Cross ambassador and participated in many blood donation promotion programs. With the support of the people, in 2003 he was elected Governor of California.

Governor Arnold posed with former US President George Bush Jr.
During his time in office, Arnold was recognized and highly appreciated. After his term ended, Arnold became neutral in politics. 

In May 2004 and 2007, he was nominated by Time as one of the 100 people who helped shape the modern world.

 In addition to his on-screen and political successes, Arnold was also involved in abuse scandals and had relationships that did not last.

“I’m back”

After all, the Saturday afternoon art is still attractive enough to invite the muscular governor back. 
Arnold became a core member in “The Expendables” – a three-part series of purely “fighting” films that brought together once-famous action actors such as Sylvester Stallone , Chuck Norris , Jason Statham … .

Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Trench in “The Exependables”

In 2015, Arnold returned with the original destructive robot in Terminator Genisys – the fifth part and also a reboot of the Terminator film series. 
In the new, altered timeline, his T-800 has an intimate name “Pop”, sent back to the past by a mysterious person from the future to protect Sarah Connor since she was a child.

9 year old child. An interesting behind-the-scenes information is that to solve Arnold’s “age” problem, the script was changed so that the Terminators have the ability to age like normal people. T-800’s silver hair color is also Arnold’s current real hair color.

It is known that before Genisys was released, Paramount was preparing for two sequels. Arnold Schwarzenegger also confirmed that he will participate in at least one more part.
 It seems that old age has not dampened his passion for acting, just as the gray streaks in his two-colored hair only make the “Godfather of action movies” more majestic.