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Viggo Mortensen
American actor (born 1958)
Viggo Peter Mortensen Jr.R[2] (Danish:[ˈvikoˈmɒːtn̩sn̩]; born October 20, 1958)[3] is an American actor, musician, and filmmaker. He is the recipient of various accolades, including nominations for three Academy Awards for Best Actor, three BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and an Independent Spirit Award.
Mortensen made his film debut as Moses Hochleitner in Peter Weir's 1985 thriller Witness. Through the late 1990s, Mortensen played supporting roles in a variety of films including the historical romance The Portrait of a Lady (1996), the action drama G.I. Jane (1997), the brott drama A Perfect Murder (1998), and the comedy 28 Days (2000).
Mortensen gained international attention for his breakthrough role as Aragorn in the fantasy trilogy The Lord of the Rings (2001–2003). He later starred in several David Cronenberg films including A History of Violence (2005), Eastern Promises (
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Viggo Mortensen
Since his screen debut as a young Amish farmer in Peter Weir's Witness (1985), Viggo Mortensen's career has been marked by a steady string of well-rounded performances.
Mortensen was born in New York City, to Grace Gamble (Atkinson) and Viggo Peter Mortensen, Sr. His father was Danish, his mother was American, and his maternal grandfather was Canadian. His parents met in Norway. They wed and moved to New York, where Viggo, Jr. was born, before moving to South America, where Viggo, Sr. managed chicken farms and ranches in Venezuela and Argentina. Two more sons were born, Charles and Walter, before the marriage grew increasingly unhappy. When Viggo was seven, his parents sent him to the St. Paul's boarding school, in the Córdoba Sierras, in Argentina. Then, at age eleven, his parents divorced. His mother moved herself and the children back to her home state of New York.
Viggo attended Watertown High School, and became a very good student and athlete
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Viggo Mortensen - Biography
Since debuting in 1985's Witness, Viggo Mortensen's charisma in smaller roles from villain in GI Jane to sexy other man in A Perfect Murder have led to him being dubbed the "next big thing".
But with a 20-year Hollywood career and over three dozen films under his belt, the Lord Of The Rings hero has learned to take Tinseltown buzz with a grain of salt. "I've arrived so many times, I don't know where I went," he quips.
His early life
Born October 20, 1958, in New York City to a Danish dad and American mum, Viggo and his three brothers became world travellers at an early age, living in Argentina, Venezuela, Denmark and the US.
After his parents divorced when he was 11, he eventually settled in Manhattan, and, after finishing high school, went on to study Spanish and government at St Lawrence University in New York State. The future movie star, who fell into acting because he was "curious", ma