Viggo Peter Mortensen Jr

Viggo Mortensen is a Danish actor, world-famous for his role as Aragorn in the famous fantasy film trilogy "The Lord of the Rings" by Peter Jackson.

Other outstanding projects with the participation of Viggo Mortensen were the adventure western "Hidalgo", the crime drama "Justified Cruelty", the action-packed film "Vice for Export" and the psychological drama "A Dangerous Method" by David Cronenberg, the post-apocalyptic drama "The Road", the tragicomic road-movie Fantastic. "

Viggo Mortensen has been nominated twice for an Oscar and a British Film Academy Award, three times for a Golden Globe. In addition, for merits in the field of art, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark dedicated the actor to the honorary order of Danebrog.

Viggo Peter Mortensen Jr. - this is the full name of the actor - was born in October 1958 in New York. The actor's path to popularity was long and difficult, but led to the desired goal.

Viggo grew up in a multicultural family, where, in addition to him, two more sons were raised. Mom Grace Atkinson was English, and her father was Danish. The maternal grandparents were of British and Scottish descent. The parents met in Norway, got married and changed their place of residence for a long time. At first they settled in South America, where they spent the first years of Viggo's life, then moved to Denmark, where they lived for a couple of years. Then the family, in which two more boys were born after Viggo, settled in Argentina. Although here, the Mortensens moved to different provinces.

Frequent travel and a multicultural family helped Viggo Mortensen to master several languages ​​and become a real polyglot. The actor knows English, Danish and Spanish well, and also speaks French, Swedish and Norwegian.

In 1976, the parents divorced. The boys and their mother moved to New York. Here Viggo graduated from high school. The actor received his higher education at the University of St. Lawrence, where Viggo was awarded a bachelor's degree in Spanish studies and politics.

For some time after graduation, Mortensen was looking for a place in the sun. Viggo lived in Spain and Denmark. He worked as a truck driver and flower seller. But in 1982 he finally decided that he would be an actor. For this, Viggo returned to America.

Mortensen's film debut took place when the aspiring actor was 26 years old. The first episodic role was played in the drama "The Witness". But already in the mid-1990s, the artist appeared in the secondary characters of the popular films Carlito's Way, The Fugitive Indian, The Prophecy and The Perfect Murder. In these films, Viggo Mortensen demonstrated an increased acting skill that did not pass by the attention of Hollywood directors.

The second half of the 1990s was marked by romance: the actor starred in melodramas as a hero-lover. As it turned out soon, this role opened Viggo Mortensen to many directors. "Soldier Jane" with Demi Moore and "Portrait of a Lady" with Nicole Kidman were the steps that helped the actor start his rapid rise to real fame. Remakes of the cult films by Alfred Hitchcock "Psychosis" and "Perfect Murder" have secured Mortensen in the niche of a new Hollywood star.

Viggo's talent flashed in every facet in the fantastic and mega-popular The Lord of the Rings project. The film became the adaptation of the book that is considered a real icon of role-playing and geeks around the world - the novel "The Lord of the Rings" by John Ronald Ruel Tolkien.

Viggo Mortensen played the role of tracker Aragorn, in love with an elven princess. Together with other heroes, Aragorn unites in the Fellowship of the Ring, whose goal is to destroy the magical Ring of Omnipotence, which was created to subdue and enslave the peoples of Middle-earth.

At the same time, the hero of Mortensen also has his own storyline associated with the succession to the throne and the search for the real ruler of the kingdom of the people of Gondor.

The role of Aragorn turned out to be truly stellar. The fame was such that Mortensen had to appeal to fans from TV screens, asking for an apology for the inability to answer everyone their letters. It is noteworthy that in "The Lord of the Rings" Viggo Mortensen performed all the risky stunts himself, which is why he received a number of injuries.

Viggo Mortensen did not receive personal awards for these three films, but in all parts of the trilogy the actors of "The Lord of the Rings" were recognized by critics as the best cast in a feature film of the year.

A new round of deafening popularity was brought to the artist by collaboration with the famous Hollywood director David Cronenberg. High ratings from critics followed after the release of the film "Justified Cruelty". But loud fame came after the next project - the film "Vice for Export".

The premiere took place in 2007. Fans of Viggo Mortensen's talent and film critics unanimously proclaimed the actor's role as a Russian gangster as the strongest in his career. This credibility was given to the actor through long and painstaking preparation.

For a better fit into the image, Mortensen even visited Russia, having lived incognito in St. Petersburg, Moscow and Yekaterinburg for 2 months. In addition, the actor communicated with a former Russian prisoner, learned slang expressions, and also studied Russian with a teacher from Princeton University, also Russian by origin, Stanislav Shvabrin.

The prestigious Golden Globe award came to the Hollywood artist after the release of the biopic A Dangerous Method, based on the biographies of famous psychoanalysts, where the actor got the image of Sigmund Freud. The role of Carl Jung went to Michael Fassbender.

In addition to cinematography, Viggo is the founder of a publishing house and writes and publishes his own novels and collections of poetry. In addition, he is fond of photography and sings beautifully (he recorded 3 albums). Mortensen is also a good artist. The audience could see his work in the film "The Perfect Murder", where the actor got the role of the artist.

The Hollywood star was legally married only once. His love of music brought him closer to the composer and singer Eksen Cervenka. They legalized their relationship in 1987. A year later, the couple had a son, Henry. But in 1997, when the boy was 10 years old, Axen and Viggo broke up.

Viggo Mortensen's personal life changed for the better in 2006, when the artist met his colleague Ariadne Gil on the set of Captain Alatriste. Since then, the couple have been together, but their relationship is not burdened by the bonds of an official marriage.

In 2016, Viggo Mortensen starred in the tragicomedy Captain Fantastic. The film is about a couple who became disillusioned with capitalist America. The spouses live in the forest and are completely self-supporting. The ultraradicals also choose to educate their six children on their own, focusing on both languages ​​and sciences and survival skills.

Viggo Mortensen's character Ben Cash remains a single father with six children after his wife is hospitalized with bipolar disorder and she commits suicide in the hospital. Ben learns about the death of his wife, as well as that the woman's father wants to bury the deceased, despite her Buddhist beliefs and a testament demanding cremating the corpse. As a result, Ben and his children go to the funeral.

The film premiered at the Sundance Independent Film Festival. Also "Captain Fantastic" was shown at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, where the film received an award for Best Director. And for the main role in the film, Viggo Mortensen received the Sputnik award, and was also nominated for the prestigious Golden Globe, BAFTA and Oscar awards.

In March 2018, Mortensen received the La Sociedad Geográfica Española awards 2017 in Madrid for his book Children of the Forest, published by the actor Perceval Press.

1993 - "Carlito's Way" 1995 - "Prophecy" 1996 - "Portrait of a Lady" 1997 - "Soldier Jane" 1998 - "Perfect Murder" 1998 - "Psychosis" 2001-2003 - "The Lord of the Rings" 2004 - "Hidalgo" 2005 - " Justified Cruelty "2007 -" Vice for Export "2011 -" Dangerous Method "2016 -" Captain Fantastic "

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