• Name: Viggo Mortensen
  • Date of Birth: October 20, 1958
  • Place of Birth: New York City, NY
Mini-bio: After several years of experience in live theater, he made his first movie appearance playing an Amish farmer in Peter Weir's Witness. (Mortensen had actually been cast in two prior films — Swing Shif...( read more)t and The Purple Rose of Cairo — but his scenes in both of these films were deleted from the final cuts.) Prior to his casting in The Lord of the Rings, Mortensen appeared in Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady, Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III Sean Penn's Indian Runner, Brian DePalma's Carlito's Way, Tony Scott's Crimson Tide, Ridley Scott's G.I. Jane, Tony Goldwyn's A Walk on the Moon, Philip Ridley's two filmsThe Reflecting Skin and The Passion Of Darkly Noon, Andrew Davis's A Perfect Murder, Betty Thomas's 28 Days and The Prophecy with Christopher Walken. Before Mortensen took the role of Aragorn, he was probably best known for playing Master Chief John Urgayle in G.I. Jane.

Mortensen's 1987 performance in Bent at the Coast Playhouse, Los Angeles, won him a Dramalogue Critics' Award. Coincidentally, the play, about homosexual concentration camp prisoners, was originally brought to prominence by Sir Ian McKellen, with whom Mortensen later co-starred in The Lord of the Rings.

According to the Special Extended Edition DVD of Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Mortensen was a last-minute replacement in the role of Aragorn for Stuart Townsend, and wouldn't have taken the part if it hadn't been for his son's enthusiasm for J. R. R. Tolkien's trilogy.

In 2004, he starred as Frank Hopkins in Hidalgo, the story of a Pony Express courier who travels to Arabia to compete with his horse, Hidalgo, in a dangerous race for a massive contest prize. In 2005, Mortensen starred in David Cronenberg's A History of Violence. He was nominated for a Satellite Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture for this role.

In 2006, he starred as Captain Diego Alatriste in Alatriste, a Spanish film based in the series of novels The Adventures of Captain Alatriste written by the Spanish writer Arturo Perez-Reverte. This is the most expensive Spanish-language film ever made.
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  • wildsexythang4u
    Your are one Handsome Man !
    posted 29 days ago
  • ninacave
    http://s213.photobucket.com/albums/cc278/ninochka_photo/?action=view¤t=rtjhu.gif
    posted 55 days ago
  • raven1bear
    One of my favorite actors of all time. Viggo has it all..he can act, sing, write, take fantastic pictures. His Ghost Dance pictures are amazing as well as his poems.
    *sigh* ;)
    posted 77 days ago
  • heroicaragornlover
    You are sooo SEXY!!!! In lotr, walk on a moon, in everything. Your body, your voice. ohhh sooo hot. Plus you are one hell of an actor. You should of won that academy award last year and the your other nomination a couple of years before. You are the most humble origonal actor I have ever seen. You are totally too old for me but you dont look your age at all.
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    posted 82 days ago
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  • OsMaAaRdi
    Hey Viggo
    I liked your movies very much specially when ya was in LOTR as Aragorn n' when ya act in HIDALGO.
    you're a Hero REALLY ( YOU ARE REALLY AN ARAGORN )
    posted 90 days ago
  • AliceIsMyFwen
    i love viggo in all the films i've seen him in, especially lotr and hidalgo. i love ur horse too!!!!
    posted 95 days ago
  • pernille19903
    Hi Viggo

    How you doin' eh?
    Spøg til side. Elsker dine film elsker dig. Du er en utrolig dejlig skuespiller. Kæmpe talent!!!

    Kyss på den ansigt
    posted 111 days ago
  • jetliyo
    is it true that you are half danish?? me to i am half norwegian and half danish?? i playd lord of the rings with a friend from 1 class to 4
    posted 140 days ago
  • taylor1311
    i want this background and he looks hot in that picture
    posted 144 days ago

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