Overview

• Schwarzenegger ranks first on Forbes’s list of top-earning actors with a net worth of $1.2 billion, down from a $1.49 billion peak earlier this year.
• He has earned over $500 million in pre-tax film earnings from franchise blockbusters such as The Terminator, Predator and Total Recall.
• His diversified portfolio includes stakes in the Waldorf Astoria Los Angeles, Ohio’s Easton Town Center and an equity position in Dimensional Fund Advisors.
• After emigrating from Austria in 1966 for a bodybuilding competition, Schwarzenegger never returned to live there and leveraged U.S. opportunities to build his career.
• Public interest in his wealth has reignited discussions of his father Gustav’s Nazi Party membership and wartime service during World War II.