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Arnold Schwarzenegger is a famous American actor, director, movie producer, weightlifter, politician, and California governor, known to the whole world as an iconic Terminator. He was born in 1949 in Austria and grew up in the family of a military police officer. Since the age of 15, he was training as a weightlifter and bodybuilder, soon managing to win a few titles including Mr. Universe. When he was 21, Arnold moved to the US and continued his training hoping to pursue the career of a professional bodybuilder and took part in a number of Mr. Olympia competitions. However, in the late 1970s, he was lucky to appear in a few movies, including "Stay Hungry" with Jeff Bridges. The first worldwide success came to Schwarzenegger in 1982, with the movie "Conan the Barbarian". In 1984 the first movie of "Terminator" series was released, with the following movie, "Terminator: the Judgment Day" turning the actor into a legend. Other successful movies of his include "Total Recall" (with Sharon Stone), "Commando", "Predator", "The Running Man", "True Lies", etc. Since 2003 till 2011 he served as the Governor of California. He was married to the nice of J.F.Kennedy, Maria Shriver, who is the mother of 4 of his children. He has one more son born out of marriage. Schwarzenegger is a very active participant of various programs for social concern issues, especially the ones related to global warming.