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Arnold Schwarzenegger

July 30, 1947 (age 75)

Graz, Austria

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Arnold Schwarzenegger first gained fame as a bodybuilder, using that as a launching point to become a huge Hollywood star and, later, the governor of California.

Who Is Arnold Schwarzenegger?

Arnold Schwarzenegger was born on July 30, 1947, near Graz, Austria. He rose to fame as the world's top bodybuilder, launching a career that would make him a giant Hollywood star via films like Conan the Barbarian, The Terminator and Total Recall. After years of blockbuster movie roles, Schwarzenegger went into politics, becoming governor of California in 2003. He returned to the big screen after leaving office in 2011, finding success with The Expendables franchise and a return to the Terminator series.

Early Years

Schwarzenegger was born on July 30, 1947, near Graz, Austria. Schwarzenegger's childhood was far from ideal. His father, Gustav, was an alcoholic police chief and one-time member of the Nazi Party, who clearly favored Arnold's brother over his gangly, seemingly less athletic younger son.

Gustav is reported to have beaten and intimidated Schwarzenegger and, when he could, pitted his two boys against one another. He also ridiculed Schwarzenegger's early dreams of becoming a bodybuilder. "It was a very uptight feeling at home," Schwarzenegger later recalled. So uptight and uncomfortable, in fact, that Schwarzenegger would later refuse to attend the funeral of his father, who died in 1972, or his brother, who was killed in a car crash in 1971.

Bodybuilding Champion

As an escape, Schwarzenegger turned to the movies, in particular those of Reg Park, a bodybuilder and star in B-level Hercules movies. The films also helped propel Schwarzenegger's own obsession with America, and the future he felt awaited him there. Getting to his new country was the issue. Schwarzenegger found his answer in Joe Weider, the man behind the International Federation of Body Building, an organization that sponsored contests such Mr. Universe and Mr. Olympia.

Weider loved Schwarzenegger's bravado, sense of humor, and the potential he saw in the young bodybuilder. Weider's instincts couldn't have been more dead-on. In all, Schwarzenegger would win an unprecedented five Mr. Universe titles and seven Mr. Olympia crowns during his bodybuilding career.

Equally significant, Schwarzenegger, who had immigrated to the United States in 1968, helped propel the sport into the mainstream, culminating in the 1977 documentary, Pumping Iron, which tells the tale of Schwarzenegger's defense of his Mr. Olympia crown.

Action Star: 'Conan,' 'The Terminator,' 'Total Recall' and Beyond

With his ascension to the top of the bodybuilding world, it was only a matter of time before Schwarzenegger would move over to the big screen. After a few small parts, Schwarzenegger received a Golden Globe Award for Best Newcomer for his performance in Stay Hungry (1976).

With his immense physical strength and size, Schwarzenegger was a natural for action films. He became a leading figure in several popular 1980s action movies, including Conan the Barbarian (1982) and its sequel, Conan the Destroyer (1984). Schwarzenegger also starred as a deadly machine from the future in The Terminator (1984), and later reprised the role for Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003).

Additional action flicks from the actor's heyday include Commando (1985), Predator (1987), The Running Man (1987), Total Recall (1990) and True Lies (1994). He also used his oversized physique to comedic effect in Twins (1988) and Kindergarten Cop (1990).

Marriage to Maria Shriver

Off-screen Schwarzenegger continued his remarkable story, marrying into the Kennedy family in 1986 by tying the knot with Maria Owings Shriver, daughter of Eunice Kennedy Shriver and her husband R. Sargent Shriver. The couple announced their decision to separate in May 2011, after Schwarzenegger's acknowledgment that he'd fathered a baby with a member of the family's household staff. 

Schwarzenegger and Shriver have four children: Katherine, Christina, Patrick and Christopher. Patrick followed his dad into the acting business, appearing in several films as a child before taking a leading role in the 2018 teen tear-jerker Midnight Sun.

Governor of California

In 2003, Schwarzenegger again showed his resolve to succeed when he threw his hat into the ring for the California governor's race and won a seat in a special election. In a state that was mired in severe budget woes, the newly elected Republican governor promised to bring economic stability to his adopted state.

As expected, Schwarzenegger brought his own unique brand of confidence to his new job. "If they don't have the guts, I call them 'girlie-men,'" he said of Democrats, early in his first term. "They should go back to the table and fix the budget."

Still, as governor, Schwarzenegger worked to improve the state's financial situation, promote new businesses and protect the environment. In 2006, he easily won his bid for re-election. Throughout his political career, Schwarzenegger credited former U.S. President Ronald Reagan as a personal inspiration. Remembering his early years in the United States, Schwarzenegger once said, "I became a citizen of the United States when [Reagan] was president, and he is the first president I voted for as an American citizen. He inspired me and made me even prouder to be a new American."

His second term in office did not run as smoothly, however, as Schwarzenegger struggled to help the state through difficult financial times. After leaving office in January 2011, he sought to revive his career in the entertainment industry. In March of that year, Schwarzenegger announced plans to work with famed comic book creator Stan Lee on a new animated series inspired by his time in office.

Return to Hollywood: 'The Expendables' and 'Terminator' Sequels

In 2010, Schwarzenegger appeared alongside Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li and Bruce Willis in the ensemble action film The Expendables. In August 2012, he reunited with the cast for The Expendables 2. Just one week after the film's premiere, it had climbed to the No. 1 spot at the box office, bringing in nearly $28.6 million.

Schwarzenegger made headlines again later in 2012, when he admitted for the first time to having an affair with his Red Sonja co-star, actress Brigitte Nielsen, in the mid-1980s, while he was dating and living with Maria Shriver. Nielsen had written about the adulterous relationship in her 2011 memoir, You Only Get One Life, but Schwarzenegger didn't publicly confirm Nielsen's account until the fall of 2012, when his memoir, Total Recall, was published.

Continuing with his acting career, Schwarzenegger rejoined Stallone for The Expendables 3 in 2014. The following year he returned to the film franchise that made him a star with Terminator Genisys. 

In January 2017, Schwarzenegger replaced incoming president Donald Trump as host of NBC's reality show The New Celebrity Apprentice, produced by Mark Burnett. However, the show stumbled to low ratings and within a few months the actor announced that he would not return.

That year Schwarzenegger revealed that he was involved with a new Terminator film in the works. With the announcement that original co-star Linda Hamilton was also returning, buzz built ahead of the fall 2019 release of Terminator: Dark Fate, though the big budget film ultimately disappointed with its opening weekend performance at the box office.

Health Problems

Schwarzenegger endured a health scare while undergoing surgery for a catheter valve replacement at a Los Angeles hospital in March 2018. The valve replacement failed, resulting in emergency open-heart surgery that proved successful. According to his spokesman, Schwarzenegger was soon in stable condition, reportedly waking up with the words "I'm back," in a nod to his famous Terminator character.

Terminator Film Series : All Plots Explained

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The Terminator – Summary

Kyle Reese

Sarah Connor

Barry’s Time Travel Review Score

Mechanics 1

Repercussion 2

Coherence 2

Rewatchability 5

BaTTR Score 2.5

The Terminator was about the awesomeness of machines, specifically a model being T101. The Terminator movie blew us all away with its story line, concept, intensity of action, the relentlessness of a machine, the one-liners and an awesome theme track. The world of 1984 was shocked by the fact that their blenders can turn to be their worst nightmare, in an awesome way. It introduced us to a world which was ruled by Skynet – human created Artificial Intelligence network that became “self-aware”.

Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn), the first officer to John Connor (the leader of the resistance against the machines), is sent back in time to 1984 from post-apocalyptic world of 2029. Kyle is sent to protect Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton). T101 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a cybernetic organism from 2029 sent to kill Sarah Connor, the mother of John Conner, before she conceives him. If John were never born, the machines would not have to deal with a resistance.

The whole movie has us on the edge of our seats as T101 relentlessly locates and attempts to kill Sarah and Kyle protects her at every step. They even find time to get together and get it on. This results in the birth of John Connor; a sweet little predestination paradox thrown in there. Kyle manages to save Sarah but gets killed in the process. Sarah destroys what is left of the terminator using a pneumatic press. All but the hand of the T101 is made flat.

Terminator 2: Judgement Day – Summary

Terminator 2

Barry’s Time Travel Review Score

Mechanics 1

Repercussion 2

Coherence 2

Rewatchability 5

BaTTR Score 2.5

This movie took the already awesome part 1 and made it more awesome. More story, more concepts, more intense action, TWO relentless machines, further more one-liners and an improved theme track. This time around Skynet attempt to kill John Connor (Edward Furlong) when he’s a 10 year old kid. The two machines come from a time future to 2029 but not really specified. Sarah Connor is in an asylum for attempted bombing of the firm she thinks creates Skynet. An advanced terminator T-1000 (Robert Patrick) is sent to kill John.

T-1000 is made of mimetic polyalloy which means it can change shapes and imitate any person or thing it comes in contact with. This leads to a series of mind numbing special effects, stuff that was far ahead of its time. The humans capture a T101 (Arnold Schwarzenegger), reprogram it and send it back to protect John Connor. Arnie is a good guy in this one. And thus starts the endless action sequences with T-1000 persistently coming at John and T101 tirelessly battling to protect John.

T-1000

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This movie gives us a lovely fact about how Skynet is created. An engineer Miles Bennett reverse engineers the chip he salvages from the left-over arm of the T101 from the first part. Miles’ work leads to the birth of Skynet. This gives us a sweet pair of predestination paradoxes. John sends Kyle which results in his (and the resistance’s) creation. Skynet sends a T101 which results in its invention. Beauty! Neither Skynet nor the resistance would exist if not for the use of the time device.

The movie, in all of its amazing action sequences and one-liners takes us through a series of battles and chases which finally leads to the destruction of Cyberdyne labs – where Skynet files are and of T-1000. The movie ends with T101 destroying himself in molten lava to ensure that there are no further chips left behind that could lead to the birth of Skynet. Thus judgement day is finally averted.

Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines – Summary

Terminator 3

John Connor

Barry’s Time Travel Review Score

Mechanics 1

Repercussion 1

Coherence 0.6

Rewatchability 3

BaTTR Score 1.4

This movie came in 10 years after part 2. There was a lot of anticipation for this movie. James Cameron didn’t direct this one. It was a bit of a let-down in terms of a storyline. The action sequences were fine and they brought back some of the old one-liners to help us relive the memories.

This movie is set in the year 2004. Judgement day doesn’t happen in 1997. However, TX (Kristanna Loken) – a hot and advanced Terminator, with built in guns and everything, shows up looking for Kate Brewster (Claire Danes). The humans send another reprogrammed T101 to protect John and Kate. The T101 the humans reprogram has already killed John in the future. John has been off grid and hence Skynet chooses to kill the rest of the heads in the resistance including Kate who is John’s future wife.

Buy now the plot got repetitive with a simple explanation that Judgement Day didn’t get averted but merely postponed. Apparently blowing up that building along with Miles wasn’t enough. Some files still happened to leak and Kate’s father is overseeing the build of Skynet. Really now? Some left-over files He thinks that he’s building a defence system. All their systems are also currently being attacked by a virus. In hope that Skynet can take down the virus, they set Skynet loose. They soon realize Skynet IS the virus and they have brought damnation on to themselves and humanity. John, Kate and T101 are in the hunt for the main core of Skynet and are given the code to it by Kate’s dad.

While the rest of the movie was a bummer, it ended great. The location of the core turns out to be an old bunker. While John and Kate are in there, there is nothing they can do to avoid Judgement Day. They witness it from the safety of the bunker helplessly. They get a call and John answers it as the leader. This ending makes us witness the apocalypse of Judgement Day.

Terminator: Sarah Connor’s Chronicles – Summary

Sarah connor chronicles

Barry’s Time Travel Review Score

Mechanics 1

Repercussion 2

Coherence 0.4

Rewatchability 3

BaTTR Score 1.6

This TV series that came out in 2007 saw Lena Headey (yes yes, Cersei was much after Sarah Connor) play Sarah Connor. The story is set post the events of Terminator 2 : Judgement Day. The series came after Terminator 3 : Rise Of The Machines but ignored the fact that there ever was a 3rd movie. This series took an alternate path of Derek Reese (Kyle’s elder brother) coming from the future to help Sarah. The Terminator series also saw a beautiful Cameron (played by Summer Glau from Serenity, she’s also there in one of the episodes in Big Bang Theory – the girl on the train).

While the series started fantastically, and got going with a heavy duty pace, they suddenly lost track of the story half way through. In the end, it went nowhere and the show got cancelled.

But it was definitely worth a watch. Lena plays a very convincing Sara Connor and the story had so much potential. If only the writing team showed a clearer pathway of where all the new events were headed, they wouldn’t have been cancelled and we’d have had another brilliant TV show to have watched.

Terminator 4 : Salvation – Summary

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This movie was in super anticipation with Christian Bale taking on the role of John Connor. It was however a ginormous failure. The story is set in 2018, in a post-apocalyptic world, where John Connor is one of the elements of the resistance, not the leader. The movie also features Sam Worthington as a cyborg who used to be a man and still thinks he is but is simply an infiltrating machine built to infiltrate without he even knowing it. Did that make any sense? Well it doesn’t matter. The movie does introduce a very young Kyle Reese. Kyle is captured by Skynet but it doesn’t understand the importance of this person.

John and the cyborg set off to save Kyle. Helena Bonham Carter plays the face of Skynet. She explains how the cyborg was created to lure out John to them. They unleash a T-101 (a CGI version of Arnold Schwarzenegger) on John. John and the cyborg manage to overpower the T-101 and make their way out. Skynet locates and destroys the HQ of the resistance. John is left to take charge of the resistance. The problem with the movie is that it focuses on a singled out event that neither has a relevance to the past nor the future. The characters that are created and killed don’t mean anything to the main storyline laid out by the Terminator series. Also the T-101 is introduced way too soon. 10 years before it is sent back in time to kill Sarah. They ignored the fact that Kyle from the first part says that the T-101 was a new series of machines that made it difficult for the humans to identify that they were actually machines. Effectively, there was no particular point to Terminator Salvation.

Terminator 5 : Genisys – Summary

Terminator 5

Barry’s Time Travel Review Score

Mechanics 1

Repercussion 2

Coherence 0.8

Rewatchability 1

BaTTR Score 1.2

The newest installment of the Terminator series sees Arnie taking on the role of the Terminator T-101 machine again. I don’t think anyone was going to watch otherwise. It also has Emilia Clarke (from Game of Thrones) playing Sarah Connor. I would have imagined her to have muscled up for the role but she still continued to look cute and cuddly. She manages to pull off the role decently, nothing too great.

The first half of the movie is a treat for the fans. There is a whole series of events that makes you relive the original two parts. The movie takes a step back from part 1 to see the portions where Kyle in 2029 agrees to travel back to 1984 to save Sarah. While the audience prepares themselves to witness the events from the first part, what we see is that 1984 is somehow altered. Sarah is not a naïve waitress as expected but is already battling a bunch of terminators running loose. Watching the T101 going through the same original dialogues and end up fighting with another older T101 is amazing.

The movie goes back to having one-liners, loud action sequences, and alternate timelines. I can’t say this is a terrible movie, it’s more like part 3 but it does mess around with the timelines of the original movie. It completely ignores part 4. Kyle and John meet in a completely different way, perhaps for the best. At least it’s not the same pattern of one terminator sent back to fight another terminator. There are good tweaks to the characters and the consequences of the various time travels. It’s a good watch which purposely leaves some questions unanswered. Will they make another part? If they hadn’t decided that, they should have bloody well answered all the questions raised by this movie. I felt that trying to push for another part is overly ambitious, they could have wrapped it up with this one but they never can, can they?

Terminator Genisys Explained

In 2029 a losing Skynet sends a T-101 back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor before she conceives John. John in 2029 sends his second in command, Kyle, to protect Sarah. Both T-101 and Kyle are surprised when they reach 1984, well surprise is no programmed into T101 but if it ever felt anything, it would be surprise. T-101 is taken down by an older T-101 (Pops). Kyle is attacked by a T-1000. What is T-1000 and the older T-101 doing in 1984?

Looks like after Kyle is sent back, Skynet realizes it can’t win the battle by sending machines back to the past. Skynet attacks John soon after Kyle is sent back to 1984. It attacks John and infects him, converting him to a cyborg. Once this is done, John is sent back in time before 2017 to help create Genisys a.k.a Skynet. After John is sent back, Skynet presumably continues to invent and update the terminators and creates a T-1000 and sends it back in time to 1984 to kill Kyle. That explains the T-1000 in 1984, Sarah and Pops set a trap and take down T-1000. After sending T-1000 back to 1984, Skynet presumably sends another T-1000 back to 1973 to take out Sarah when she was kid. To prevent this from happening, somebody sends back a T-101 (Pops) to protect Sarah. Who that somebody is is not given out in this movie. But Pops seems to know a lot of info about the events of the future, about Kyle, Sarah and John. Pops saves Sarah and brings her up on his own. This explains the presence of the older T-101 in 1984.

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pops

Question here is : how does Skynet know that all its future plans of sending T-1000s all fail and that it must send John to around 2017 to do the job and not earlier? The original Judgement Day was 1997 wasn’t it? Shouldn’t have John been sent to before 1997?

When Kyle gets transported back to 1984, he sees a vision of an alternate reality, a time where he’s a young boy living with his parents in a world that has not seen Judgement Day. He also remembers the lines “Genisys is Skynet”. This is his memory from an alternate reality that could possibly happen. The reality where Kyle is from is that he was born into the post-apocalyptic world.

Sarah, Pops and Kyle head to the time device Pops has been building for a decade and use the chip from the T-101 to activate it. Sarah wants to go to 1997 when she thinks Judgement Day would happen. Kyle tells her about his visions from an alternate reality and the events have changed and moved Judgement day to 2017. Since Pops has his metal hands exposed, he can’t join Kyle and Sarah. Instead Pops just hangs around and prepares for Sarah’s and Kyle’s arrival in 2017.

Kyle and Sarah land in 2017, in the middle of traffic, naked. They get taken into custody, of course. They land just before Genisys goes live. John Connor greets them to everyone’s surprise. This is the John Connor that has been infected, converted into a cyborg and sent back to oversee the creation Genisys (Skynet). Pops identifies John to be a threat and shoots him. Kyle, Sarah and Pops flee while John gets caught in the magnetic field of an MRI machine.

Question here is : Why doesn’t John just terminate Kyle and Sarah? Was he, a machine, counting on the fact that Sarah and Kyle would join him to destroy all the humans? Pah!

Wait, Kyle and Sarah never really stayed in 1984, they traveled to 2017 and never made out. John shouldn’t even exist, even if he is, he should be a very young person.

From here on begins a race between John and Kyle/Sarah/Pops to get to Cyberdyne. All of them make it in one piece. John needs to keep the building safe till Genisys goes live to take over the world. The rest try to bring it down. Pops and John end up fighting near the time device and get trapped in the magnetic field while the explosives go off destroying the building. Pops is thrown in to mimetic polyalloy and gets upgraded. Kyle and Sarah take protection in a bunker. They end up averting Judgement Day in 2017, but it’s not done. They show the core of Genisys still active with Skynet looking on. So there is more that is coming up in the Terminator Series.

Terminator 6: Dark Fate – Summary

Terminator 6 Dark Fate Summary

Barry’s Time Travel Review Score

Mechanics 1

Repercussion 2

Coherence 1.2

Rewatchability 1

BaTTR Score 1.3

This sixth film in the Terminator series takes place three years after Terminator 2: Judgement Day and is set in an alternate timeline where none of the events of the movies Part 3 to Part 5 occur. Three years after Part 2, another Terminator shows up and kills John Connor, making the entire efforts in the Judgement Day movie feel fully wasted.

This timeline has no Skynet, but another AI called Legion. There is no John Connor, so he doesn’t start any resistance. Hence Terminator that killed John is left in this timeline without a purpose. It hangs around and eventually becomes self-aware and grows a conscience. It calls itself Carl and begins a new life and family (adopted). Over the years, Carl identifies and anonymously informs Sarah Connor the location of arriving terminators, which she promptly vanquishes.

A terminator called Rev-9 is sent by Legion from 2042 to kill a person named Dani. Dani is basically John Connor to this new AI threat. In the future, Dani starts a resistance that defeats Legion. To stop Rev-9, the resistance sends Grace, a cybernetically enhanced soldier.

Grace helps Sarah locate where the anonymous messages are coming from, and Dani, Sarah and Grace find the apologetic Carl who joins the team. After many chases, explosions and fights, Grace gives Dani her power source and dies. Carl pins down Rev-9, Dani stabs it with the power source, and Carl and Rev-9 are killed in the explosion.

The film ends with Dani seeing a young Grace and realizing that she needs to grow old, save Grace, stop Legion, and hopefully change the past such that one more movie’s events are erased from existence.

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8. Jean-Claude Van Damme

Actor | Double Impact

Van Damme was born Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg in Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Brussels, Belgium, to Eliana and Eugène Van Varenberg, an accountant. "The Muscles from Brussels" started martial arts at the age of eleven. His father introduced him to martial arts when he saw his son was ...

Arnold Schwarzenegger 

9. Arnold Schwarzenegger

Actor | Terminator 2: Judgment Day

With an almost unpronounceable surname and a thick Austrian accent, who would have ever believed that a brash, quick talking bodybuilder from a small European village would become one of Hollywood's biggest stars, marry into the prestigious Kennedy family, amass a fortune via shrewd investments and...

Mel Gibson 

10. Mel Gibson

Producer | Braveheart

Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson was born January 3, 1956 in Peekskill, New York, USA, as the sixth of eleven children of Hutton Gibson, a railroad brakeman, and Anne Patricia (Reilly) Gibson (who died in December of 1990). His mother was Irish, from County Longford, while his American-born father is ...

Steven Seagal 

11. Steven Seagal

Actor | On Deadly Ground

Steven Frederic Seagal was born in Lansing, Michigan, to Patricia Anne (Fisher), a medical technician, and Samuel Seagal, a high school math teacher. His paternal grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants, and his mother had English, German, and distant Irish and Dutch, ancestry. The enigmatic ...

John Cena 

12. John Cena

Actor | The Suicide Squad

John Felix Anthony Cena was born on April 23, 1977 in West Newbury, Massachusetts to Carol Cena and John Joseph Cena. He is of Italian (father) and French-Canadian and English (mother) descent, and is the grandson of baseball player Tony Lupien. When he was in college, he played football. He then ...

Russell Crowe 

13. Russell Crowe

Actor | Les Misérables

Russell Ira Crowe was born in Wellington, New Zealand, to Jocelyn Yvonne (Wemyss) and John Alexander Crowe, both of whom catered movie sets. His maternal grandfather, Stanley Wemyss, was a cinematographer. Crowe's recent ancestry includes Welsh (where his paternal grandfather was born, in Wrexham),...

Jet Li 

14. Jet Li

Actor | Huo Yuan Jia

Jet Li born Li Lian Jie in Beijing, China. He started training at the Beijing wushu academy (wushu is China's national sport, largely a performance version of various martial art styles) at age eight. He won five gold medals in the Chinese championships, his first when he was only 11. In his teens,...

Dominic Purcell 

15. Dominic Purcell

Actor | Blade: Trinity

Dominic was born in England, to a Norwegian father and Irish mother. At the age of two, Dominic and his family moved from England to Sydney's Bondi and then moved to the Western Suburbs. After trying his hand at landscape gardening he decided to become an actor whilst watching the war movie Platoon...

Wesley Snipes 

16. Wesley Snipes

Actor | Blade

Wesley Trent Snipes was born in Orlando, Florida, to Marian (Long), a teacher's assistant, and SMSGT Wesley Rudolph Snipes, an aircraft engineer. He grew up on the streets of the South Bronx in New York City, where he very early decided that dance and the theatre were to be his career. He attended ...

Cuba Gooding Jr. 

17. Cuba Gooding Jr.

Actor | Jerry Maguire

Cuba Gooding Jr. was born on January 2, 1968, in The Bronx, New York. His mother, Shirley (Sullivan), was a backup singer for The Sweethearts. His father, Cuba Gooding, was the lead vocalist for the R&B group The Main Ingredient, which had a hit with the song "Everybody Plays The Fool". His ...

Danny Glover 

18. Danny Glover

Actor | Lethal Weapon

Actor, producer and humanitarian Danny Glover has been a commanding presence on screen, stage and television for more than 35 years.

Glover was born in San Francisco, California, to Carrie (Hunley) and James Glover, postal workers who were also active in civil rights. Glover trained at the Black ...

Mark Wahlberg 

19. Mark Wahlberg

Producer | The Fighter

American actor Mark Wahlberg is one of a handful of respected entertainers who successfully made the transition from teen pop idol to acclaimed actor. A Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee for The Departed (2006) who went on to receive positive critical reviews for his performance in The Fighter (...

Matt Damon 

20. Matt Damon

Actor | Good Will Hunting

Matthew Paige Damon was born on October 8, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Kent Damon, a stockbroker, realtor and tax preparer, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, an early childhood education professor at Lesley University. Matt has an older brother, Kyle, a sculptor. His father was of English and ...

Colin Farrell 

21. Colin Farrell

Actor | The Lobster

Colin Farrell is one of Ireland's biggest stars in Hollywood and abroad. His film presence has been filled with memorable roles that range from an inwardly tortured hit man, to an adventurous explorer, a determined-but-failing writer, and the greatest military leader in history.

Farrell was born on ...

Steve Austin 

22. Steve Austin

Actor | The Condemned

'Stone Cold' Steve Austin was born in Victoria, Texas, as Steven James Anderson, on December 18, 1964, the youngest of five children. His mother, Beverly Jane (Harrison), remarried to Kenneth Williams, and he took his stepfather's surname. He played football at the North Texas State University. He ...

Dwayne Johnson 

23. Dwayne Johnson

Actor | Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

Dwayne Douglas Johnson, also known as The Rock, was born on May 2, 1972 in Hayward, California. He is the son of Ata Johnson (born Feagaimaleata Fitisemanu Maivia) and professional wrestler Rocky Johnson (born Wayde Douglas Bowles). His father, from Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada, is black (of Black ...

Don Johnson 

24. Don Johnson

Actor | Miami Vice

Best known for his starring role as Det. Sonny Crockett on the hugely successful TV series Miami Vice (1984), Don Johnson is one of the stars who really defined the 1980s. As James "Sonny" Crockett he went toe-to-toe with drug dealers, pimps, prostitutes, assassins, illegal arms-dealers and crooked...

Eric Roberts 

25. Eric Roberts

Actor | Runaway Train

Roberts is an Academy Award nominee for his role in Runaway Train, and a three-time Golden Globe nominee for Runaway Train, Star 80, and King of the Gypsies.

In addition, Roberts received acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival for his role in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints and It's My Party. He ...

Steve McQueen 

26. Steve McQueen

Actor | The Great Escape

He was the ultra-cool male film star of the 1960s, and rose from a troubled youth spent in reform schools to being the world's most popular actor. Over 40 years after his untimely death from mesothelioma in 1980, Steve McQueen is still considered hip and cool, and he endures as an icon of popular ...

Chuck Norris 

27. Chuck Norris

Actor | Walker, Texas Ranger

Chuck Norris is familiar to fans worldwide as the star of action films such as The Hitman (1991), The Delta Force (1986) and Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection (1990). He also starred in Missing in Action (1984) and its sequels, Firewalker (1986) and Sidekicks (1992). He was an executive ...

Danny Trejo 

28. Danny Trejo

Actor | Machete

Danny Trejo was born Dan Trejo in Echo Park, Los Angeles, to Alice (Rivera) and Dan Trejo, a construction worker. A child drug addict and criminal, Trejo was in and out of jail for 11 years. While serving time in San Quentin, he won the lightweight and welterweight boxing titles. Imprisoned for ...

Antonio Banderas 

29. Antonio Banderas

Actor | The Mask of Zorro

Antonio Banderas, one of Spain's most famous faces, was a soccer player until breaking his foot at the age of fourteen; he is now an international movie star known for playing Zorro in the eponymous movie series.

He was born José Antonio Domínguez Banderas on August 10, 1960, in Málaga, Andalusia, ...

Kurt Russell 

30. Kurt Russell

Actor | The Hateful Eight

Kurt Vogel Russell was born on March 17, 1951 in Springfield, Massachusetts and raised in Thousand Oaks, California to Louise Julia Russell (née Crone), a dancer & Bing Russell, an actor. He is of English, German, Scottish and Irish descent. His first roles were as a child on television series, ...

Patrick Swayze 

31. Patrick Swayze

Actor | Dirty Dancing

Patrick Wayne Swayze was born on August 18, 1952 in Houston, Texas, to Patsy Swayze (née Yvonne Helen Karnes), a choreographer, and Jesse Wayne Swayze, a chemical plant engineer draftsman. His mother owned a dance school in Houston, where Patrick was also a student. His father passed away in 1982. ...

Tyrese Gibson 

32. Tyrese Gibson

Actor | Baby Boy

Tyrese Darnell Gibson was born December 30, 1978 in Watts, Los Angeles, California, where he was raised. He is an R&B singer, songwriter, actor, author, television producer and model. He is well known for his actor role as Roman Pearce in the The Fast and Furious movie franchise. Other popular ...

John Cusack 

33. John Cusack

Actor | Grosse Pointe Blank

John Cusack is, like most of his characters, an unconventional hero. Wary of fame and repelled by formulaic Hollywood fare, he has built a successful career playing underdogs and odd men out--all the while avoiding the media spotlight. John was born in Evanston, Illinois, to an Irish-American ...

Nicolas Cage 

34. Nicolas Cage

Actor | Face/Off

Nicolas Cage was born Nicolas Kim Coppola in Long Beach, California, the son of comparative literature professor August Coppola (whose brother is director Francis Ford Coppola) and dancer/choreographer Joy Vogelsang. He is of Italian (father) and Polish and German (mother) descent. Cage changed his...

Ving Rhames 

35. Ving Rhames

Actor | Pulp Fiction

Strikingly featured and muscular American actor Ving Rhames was born Irving Rameses Rhames in Harlem, New York, to Reather, a homemaker, and Ernest Rhames, an auto mechanic. A good student, Ving entered the New York High School of Performing Arts, where he discovered his love of acting. He studied ...

Laurence Fishburne 

36. Laurence Fishburne

Actor | The Matrix

Critically hailed for his forceful, militant, authoritative figures and one of Hollywood's most talented and versatile performers, Laurence (John) Fishburne III has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a number of NAACP Image honors.

Born in Augusta, Georgia on July 30, 1961, to Hattie ...

Keanu Reeves 

37. Keanu Reeves

Actor | The Matrix

Keanu Charles Reeves, whose first name means "cool breeze over the mountains" in Hawaiian, was born September 2, 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon. He is the son of Patricia Taylor, a showgirl and costume designer, and Samuel Nowlin Reeves, a geologist. Keanu's father was born in Hawaii, of British, ...

50 Cent 

38. 50 Cent

Actor | Get Rich or Die Tryin'

50 Cent (Curtis James Jackson) is an American rapper, actor, producer, and entrepreneur.

He began a musical career and in 2000 he produced Power of the Dollar for Columbia Records, but days before the planned release he was shot and the album was never released. In 2002, after Jackson released the ...

Harrison Ford 

39. Harrison Ford

Actor | Raiders of the Lost Ark

Harrison Ford was born on July 13, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, to Dorothy (Nidelman), a radio actress, and Christopher Ford (born John William Ford), an actor turned advertising executive. His father was of Irish and German ancestry, while his maternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Minsk, ...

Robert Knepper 

40. Robert Knepper

Actor | Prison Break

Robert Knepper, the son of a veterinarian, was born in Fremont, Ohio, and was raised in Maumee (near Toledo). When he was growing up, his mother worked in the props department for the community theater, and because of her involvement, he became interested in acting. Robert began his career in ...

Terry Crews 

41. Terry Crews

Actor | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

Terry Crews was born in Flint, Michigan, to Patricia and Terry Crews Sr. He earned an art excellence scholarship to attend Western Michigan University and also earned a full-ride athletic scholarship to play football. Crews was an All-Conference defensive end, and was a major contributor on the ...

Michael Douglas 

42. Michael Douglas

Actor | Wall Street

An actor with over fifty years of experience in theatre, film, and television, Michael Douglas branched out into independent feature production in 1975 with the Academy Award-winning One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975). Since then, as a producer and as an actor-producer, he has shown an uncanny ...

Tommy Lee Jones 

43. Tommy Lee Jones

Actor | The Fugitive

Tommy Lee Jones was born in San Saba, Texas, the son of Lucille Marie (Scott), a police officer and beauty shop owner, and Clyde C. Jones, who worked on oil fields. Tommy himself worked in underwater construction and on an oil rig. He attended St. Mark's School of Texas, a prestigious prep school ...

Tom Cruise 

44. Tom Cruise

Actor | Top Gun

In 1976, if you had told fourteen-year-old Franciscan seminary student Thomas Cruise Mapother IV that one day in the not too distant future he would be Tom Cruise, one of the top 100 movie stars of all time, he would have probably grinned and told you that his ambition was to join the priesthood. ...

Vin Diesel 

45. Vin Diesel

Actor | Guardians of the Galaxy

Vin Diesel was born Mark Sinclair in Alameda County, California, along with his fraternal twin brother, Paul Vincent. He was raised by his astrologer/psychologist mother, Delora Sherleen (Sinclair), and adoptive father, Irving H. Vincent, an acting instructor and theatre manager, in an artists' ...

Paul Walker 

46. Paul Walker

Actor | The Fast and the Furious

Paul William Walker IV was born in Glendale, California. He grew up together with his brothers, Caleb and Cody, and sisters, Ashlie and Amie. Their parents, Paul William Walker III, a sewer contractor, and Cheryl (Crabtree) Walker, a model, separated around September 2004. His grandfather, William ...

Idris Elba 

47. Idris Elba

Actor | Beasts of No Nation

An only child, Idrissa Akuna Elba was born and raised in London, England. His father, Winston, is from Sierra Leone and worked at Ford Dagenham; his mother, Eve, is from Ghana and had a clerical duty. Idris attended school in Canning Town, where he first became involved in acting, before he dropped...

Gerard Butler 

48. Gerard Butler

Actor | 300

Gerard James Butler was born in Paisley, Scotland, to Margaret and Edward Butler, a bookmaker. His family is of Irish origin. Gerard spent some of his very early childhood in Montreal, Quebec, but was mostly raised, along with his older brother and sister, in his hometown of Paisley. His parents ...

Shia LaBeouf 

49. Shia LaBeouf

Actor | Honey Boy

Shia LaBeouf's natural talent and raw energy have secured his place as one of Hollywood's leading men.

Most recently, LaBeouf starred alongside Vanessa Kirby and Ellen Burstyn in Kornel Mundruczo's Oscar® nominated Pieces of a Woman. In the critically acclaimed film, a grieving couple (Kirby/LaBeouf...

Jean Reno 

50. Jean Reno

Actor | Léon

Jean Reno was born Juan Moreno y Herrera-Jiménez in Casablanca, Morocco, to Spanish parents (from Andalucía) who moved to North Africa to seek work. His father was a linotypist. Reno settled in France at 17. He began studying drama and has credits in French television and theater as well as films. ...