Viggo Mortensen

1985 Witness

1985 The Purple Rose of Cairo (scenes deleted)

1987 Salvation!

1988 Prison

1988 Fresh Horses

1990 Once in a Blue Moon (TV)

1990 Tripwire

1990 Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III

1990 Young Guns II

1990 The Reflecting Skin

1991 The Indian Runner

1993 Boiling Point

1993 Ruby Cairo

1993 Carlito's Way

1993 The Young Americans

1993 American Yakuza

1994 The Crew

1994 Floundering

1994 Ewangelia wedlug Harry'ego

1995 Gimlet

1995 Crimson Tide

1995 The Passion of Darkly Noon

1995 Black Velvet Pantsuit

1995 The Prophecy

1996 Albino Alligator

1996 Daylight

1997 Vanishing Point (TV)

1997 G.I. Jane

1997 Pistola de mi hermano, La

1998 A Perfect Murder

1998 Psycho

1999 A Walk on the Moon

2000

2001 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

2003

2004 Hidalgo

2005 A History of Violence

2006 Alatriste

2007 Eastern Promises Won

2008 Slacker Uprising Mortensen speaks at a 2004 "Slacker Uprising" rally in Columbus, Ohio.

2008

2008 Good

2008 The Road

Ten Last Night - (1993), his first collection of poetry.

Recent Forgeries - (1998)

Errant Vine - (2000)

Hole in the Sun - (2002)

SignLanguage - (2002)

Coincidence of Memory - (2002)

Mo Te Upoko-o-te-ika/For Wellington - (2003)

45301 - (2003)

Un hueco en el sol - (2003)

Miyelo - (2003)

The Horse is Good - (2004)

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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 his Academy Award nominated role as Nikolai Luzhin in Cronenberg's Eastern Promises.

Mortensen has a son, Henry Mortensen, with ex-wife Exene Cervenka, singer of the punk band X. Henry and Viggo have done public father/son poetry reading together as recently as April 2006. Mortensen is fluent in English, Danish and Spanish, and conversant in Norwegian. He also speaks French, Italian and Swedish reasonably well.