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Although he is known primarily as an actor, Viggo Mortensen is also a photographer, poet, spoken word artist, painter, occasional musician and is fluent in several languages.
His latest film was EASTERN PROMISES, which re-teamed Mortensen with HISTORY OF VIOLENCE director David Cronenberg. He recently was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role in this film... congratulations, Viggo!
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Viggo Peter Mortensen, Jr. (born October 20, 1958) is a Golden Globe- and Academy Award-nominated Danish American theater and movie actor, poet, musician, photographer and painter.
He is perhaps best known for his roles as Aragorn in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Frank T. Hopkins in Hidalgo, David Shaw in A Perfect Murder, Tom Stall in David Cronenberg's A History of Violence and as Nikolai Luzhin in Cronenberg's Eastern Promises.
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#1 -> He's fluent in several languages and conversant in a few more, and worked as a translator at the 1980 Olympics. He was at the amazing hockey game where the U.S. beat Russia.#2 -> When his son Henry was growing up, he always had a clause added to his movie contracts that gave him Halloween off so that he could take his son trick-or-treating.
#3 -> He has a funky sense-of-humor and during the filming of the Lord of the Rings trilogy he did things like have his son duct tape the entirety of Orlando Bloom's trailer and spontaneously rugby-tackled co-star Sean Bean without warning.
Shown here, Viggo with LOTR co-star Dominic Monaghan (LOST).
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- Perceval Press
- A small press founded by Viggo Mortensen, publishing photography, painting and other arts-related books by Mortensen and others.
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- "The Many Faces Of Viggo Mortensen" WELCOME PAGE
- Much like the actor, Viggo the man has many faces. Those who know his work well, praise him as a talented artist who remains an 'unspoiled creative powerhouse'. His many talents, associated with 'outsider art', include painting, photography, music & poetry.
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- There were plenty of reasons not to go. I didn't feel I could do a good job and I didn't want to be away from my son for that length of time. But my son was familiar with the books, he talked about them with his school friends and he knew about the character of Aragorn. He said, 'Oh, that's pretty cool. You should do that.'" - Empire Magazine Australia
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