(born October 20, 1958) is a Danish-American actor, poet, musician, photographer and painter. Aside from acting, his other artistic pursuits include fine arts, photography, poetry, and music. Mortensen was born in New York City. His maternal grandfather was from Nova Scotia, Canada, and his maternal grandmother’s family was from New England.

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Other well-received films in recent years have included Appaloosa (2008) and the 2009 film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road. After high school he went to St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, earning a bachelor’s degree in Government and Spanish. During the 1990s, Mortensen appeared in supporting roles in a variety of films, including Jane Campion’s The Portrait of a Lady, Young Guns II, Prison, Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, Sean Penn’s The Indian Runner, Carlito’s Way, Crimson Tide, G.I. Jane, Daylight, A Walk on the Moon, American Yakuza, Charles Robert Carner’s remake Vanishing Point, Philip Ridley’s two films The Reflecting Skin and The Passion of Darkly Noon, A Perfect Murder and Gus Van Sant’s Psycho (1998 remakes of two Alfred Hitchcock’s movies Dial M for Murder and Psycho), 28 Days, and The Prophecy, with Christopher Walken. According to the Special Extended Edition DVD of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Mortensen was a last-minute replacement for Stuart Townsend, and would not have taken the part of Aragorn had it not been for his son’s enthusiasm for the J. R. R. Tolkien novel. At one point during shooting of The Two Towers, Mortensen, Orlando Bloom, and the stunt double for John Rhys-Davies all had fairly serious injuries, and during a shoot of them, running in the mountains, Peter Jackson jokingly referred to the three as “the walking wounded.” Also, according to the Special Extended Edition DVD of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Mortensen purchased the two horses, Uraeus and Kenny, whom he rode and bonded with over the duration of the films. in 2010 he joined the cast of The Road, a film adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name, and collaborated with David Cronenberg for a third time on A Dangerous Method. He has recently made a cameo appearance in Dirty Raymond’s Neighbor.

He campaigned for Dennis Kucinich in the 2008 United States presidential election, and later endorsed Barack Obama for President. His mother, Grace Gamble (née Atkinson), was American, and his father, Viggo Peter Mortensen, Sr., was Danish; the two met in Norway. His father managed chicken farms and ranches in Argentina. He graduated from Watertown High School in Watertown, New York. Then, driven by the need for a defining purpose in life, he went to Europe and lived in Spain, England and Denmark, where he took various jobs like a truck driver in Esbjerg, Denmark, and a flower seller in Copenhagen, Denmark, before again returning to the United States two years later to pursue an acting career. After several years of experience in live theater, Mortensen made his first film appearance playing an Amish farmer in Peter Weir’s Witness (Mortensen had actually acted in at least one prior film, The Purple Rose of Cairo, but his scenes in the latter film were deleted from the final cuts).

A Dangerous Method: Freud Helps Keira Knightley With Her Spanking Problem [Video] Here’s a trailer for nutty director David Cronenberg’s new movie, A Dangerous Method, starring Viggo Mortensen as Sigmund Freud, Michael Fassbender as Carl Jung and Keira Knightley as Sabina Spielrein. That’s right, Cronenberg is putting the “psychoanalytic thought” in “psychosexual drama”! More » [link]

Viggo Peter Mortensen, Jr. He campaigned for Dennis Kucinich in the 2008 United States presidential election, and later endorsed Barack Obama for President. Coincidentally, the play, about homosexual concentration camp prisoners, was originally brought to prominence by Ian McKellen, with whom Mortensen later costarred in The Lord of the Rings. in September 2007, the film Eastern Promises, directed by David Cronenberg, was released to critical acclaim for the film itself and for Mortensen’s performance as a Russian gangster on the rise in London.

Trailer For A Dangerous Method, Starring Viggo And Keira! This looks fantastic!Not only does it have Viggo Mortensen and Keira Knightly, but it also has Michael Fassbender (who we’ve fallen in love with since X-Men) AND it’s directed by the insanely talented David Cronenberg!We all know how well Cronenberg directs, just look at some of his past flicks: A History of Violence, Eastern Promises, [...] [link]

When Viggo Mortensen is’nt acting, he uses that Hollywood fame to raise awareness for charities. His smaller motion-pictures really made his career, but he has also worked successfully in major flicks since then. Viggo Mortensen has got network TV arms that he always displays in his photo shoots.. Celeb Supermag always has the most recent chatter on Viggo Mortensen, so check back soon.

Trailer For A Dangerous Method, Starring Viggo And Keira! This looks fantastic!Not only does it have Viggo Mortensen and Keira Knightly, but it also has Michael Fassbender (who we’ve fallen in love with since X-Men) AND it’s directed by the insanely talented David Cronenberg!We all know how well Cronenberg directs, just look at some of his past flicks: A History of Violence, Eastern Promises, [...] [link]