Viggo Mortensen: Biography
Facts:
| First Name: | Viggo |
| Last Name: | Mortensen |
| Birthday: | Mon October 20 |
| Year of birth: | 1958 |
| Astrological sign: | |
| Age: | 49 years |
| Birdth Place: | Manhatten, New York |
| Length: | 0.55 m / 1.8 lb |
| Familie: | Exene Cervenka |
He is born on October 20, 1958 and is active as theater and movie actor, poet, musician, photographer and painter. He has a technique most definite exquisite and plays furthermore raw and rugged roles. His most famous performance is the one of Aragorn in Peter Jackson's The Lord Of the Rings. Aragorn is a raw role of a human hunter-like soon made to be king, he plays the role with divine exact and perfect balance of show and language. His experience as an artist helps him with playing so esthetic, he knows what looks best and works to it. He also played the role of Hidalgo in the major- budget film.
He was married with Exene Cervenka and has a son, called Henry Mortinson. After ten years of marriage they divorced.Mortensen has published some of his poet and phogography in books. Some of his works are: Ten Last Night, his first collection of poetry, SignLanguag, a catalog from an exhibition of his works, combining photographs, paintings, and poetry into a multimedia diary of his time in New Zealand while shooting The Lord of the Rings. This is quite special for an actor thesedays, he really does it all for fun and is enjoying every second of it.
The poems he writes are written in English, Danish and Spanish, but Viggo Mortensen also speaks French, Italian and Swedish.
The paintings of Mortensen are frequently abstract and often they obtain fragments of his poetry. His works have been featured in galleries all over the world and several appeared in the film A Perfect Murder. A film that he plays in alongside Michael Douglas, who wants to have his wife killed, and sets out an elaborate plan to do this in a perfect way.