Biografi om Viggo Mortensen

Viggos full name is Viggo Peter Mortensen Jr. and he was born New York City in 1958, his mother was American and his father was Danish, their names are Grace Gamble and Viggo Peter Mortensen. Viggo has lived in Venezuela, Denmark and Argentina where Viggo learned to speak Spanish. When Viggo was eleven his parents divorced and his mother moved to New York and Viggo moved with his father to Denmark. Viggo and his father went back to USA and Viggo graduated from Watertown High School, when he graduated he went back to Denmark where he started to work as a truckdriver in Esbjerg.

Viggo started his acting career in 1984; his first movie was witness where he should play an Amish farmer, but the scene in that movie was deleted. Viggo was probably best known for playing Master Chief John Urgayle in G.I.Jane. But his major break through came in 1999 when he went to a casting as Aragorn in the Lord of the rings (released in 2001, 2002 and 2003)

Viggos last movie is Eastern Promises

Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn

Viggo Mortensen is also an author; his first book was a collection of poetry, it was called Ten last nights. He has written ten other books. He is also a painter, he paints very abstract just like his poetry.