The world's richest actor is an immigrant with a net worth of $1.2 billion, find out who he is!
The Forbes magazine has released an interesting list - America's most successful immigrants.
The list contains names of billionaire immigrants, people who were born outside the US but emigrated to the United States and made it big.
In addition to celebrities like George Soros, Satya Nadella, Peter Thiel, and Elon Musk, the list also includes some from the entertainment industry, such as the richest actor in the world, a 77-year-old who was raised in a Nazi home before rising to become one of America's most adored icons.
According to Forbes, action icon and former California governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger
has an incredible net worth of $1.2 billion, making him the richest actor in the world. Even though this is a significant drop from his $1.49 billion peak earlier this year, he remains at the top of the list. Among men and women who have derived their fame and wealth from acting primarily, nobody else is a billionaire.
Arnold is followed by Tom Cruise, Dwayne Johnson, and Shah Rukh Khan, all of whom have net worths between $800 and $900 million.
The only female performer billionaire is Rihanna, whereas the only male performer billionaires are Tyler Perry and Jerry Seinfeld. However, none of them are actors for a living.
The 77-year-old describes his Austrian childhood as existing in a "very different world" compared to his existence as a Hollywood icon. He characterised his parents, mother Aurelia and father Gustav, as "very strict" figures.
In a candid chat with Schwarzenegger.com back in 2000, the Hollywood icon shared: "It's true my parents were very strict and I think many times I'm very strict with my own children but not like it was when I grew up.
Back then in Austria it was a very different world - if we did something bad or we disobeyed our parents, the rod was not sparred.'
Arnold's journey into bodybuilding began in the 1960s, clinching the Junior Mr Europe title and leading him to Forest Gate, London, for training sessions with Charles Bennett.
He became the youngest winner of the Mr. Universe title at the young age of 20, and he saw the victory as his ticket to the American dream he had dreamed of since he was ten.
Arnold showed off his strength in a number of weightlifting and powerlifting competitions during the 1960s, and at the age of 23, he became the youngest person to ever win the coveted title of Mr. Olympia.
The beginning of his acting career came in the early 1970s when he played Arnold Strong in the movie Hercules in New York. However, the 1982 smash movie Conan the Barbarian, which brought him a lot of money at the box office, was what actually made him famous.
1989 saw him take on what is often hailed as his defining role, playing the lead in James Cameron's The Terminator, cementing his place as a silver screen legend. Arnold's career was marked by a string of appearances in blockbuster action films, a trend that continued throughout his professional life, with notable roles in films such as Predator, Commando, and Red Heat.
During his career, Arnold's films are estimated to have made about $5.2 billion (around £3.8 billion) at the box office.
According to Forbes, Arnold's acting skills and astute investments have contributed to his net worth of approximately $1.2 billion (or £800 million).
He is now one of the highest-paid actors in Hollywood history as a result. According to Forbes, he has earned over $500 million from film salaries alone. His lucrative real estate investments in California and his minority ownership in fellow billionaire David Booth's Dimensional Fund Advisors are examples of his successful business endeavours outside of the movie industry.
The actor now has a variety of commercial ventures, such as Fitness Publications Inc., his film firm Oak Productions, and his trademark and film holding company Pumping Iron America.
Despite his monumental success in Hollywood, Arnold has scaled back his filmmaking in recent years. As per IMDB, his last major screen role was in Terminator: Dark Fate in 2019. Since then, he has featured in a series of short films and the TV series Superhero Kindergarten.
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