Patrick Arnold Shriver Schwarzeneggeris an American actor. He is the son of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver. He began his career playing minor roles in the late 2000s, and has since starred in the television series The Staircase (2022) and American Sports Story (2024).
Career
Acting
At the age of ten, Schwarzenegger had a small role in the film The Benchwarmers. Throughout his childhood, he practiced acting with his father, and through his young adult years, he studied theater at USC while taking acting classes weekly at Nancy Banks Studio. At 15 year old, he started a clothing line.
In the following years, Schwarzenegger had supporting roles in 2012's Stuck in Love, 2013's Grown Ups 2 and 2015's Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse. His first leading role was opposite Bella Thorne in 2018's Midnight Sun, a romantic drama about a teenage girl with a rare medical condition. His performance in the 2019 horror Daniel Isn't Real. In 2020, Schwarzenegger had a role in Echo Boomers, then in 2021, he went to star in Netflix's comedy-drama coming-of-age film Moxie.
In 2022, Schwarzenegger had a role in the HBO true crime mini-series, The Staircase, alongside Colin Firth and Toni Collette. In 2023, Schwarzenegger portrayed Luke Riordan / Golden Boy, a young man with superpowers described as "a 22-year-old big name on campus who possesses thermonuclear power and pure charisma.", in the first season of The Boys spin-off series Gen V, on Prime Video, playing a recurring role.
