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He is best known for his role as Aragorn in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. He was a last-minute replacement for the role, and wouldn't have taken the part if it hadn't been for his son's enthusiasm for J. R. R. Tolkien's trilogy.

After several years of experience in live theater, he began his movie career as an Amish farmer in Peter Weir's Witness. He has also appeared in Jane Campion's film The Portrait of a Lady, Sean Penn's Indian Runner, Brian DePalma's Carlito's Way, Ridley Scott's G.I. JaneJane is an action movie released in 1997 that tells the fictitious story of the first woman to become a United States Navy SEAL. The movie's cast includes Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen and Anne Bancroft. In reality, women are not even allowed to enter SEALs, Tony Goldwyn's A Walk on the Moon and Philip Ridley's Reflecting Skin.

Mortensen's performance in Bent at the Coast Playhouse, Los Angeles, won him a Dramalogue Critics' Award.

Mortensen's bibliography includes

• Ten Last Night ( 1993See also 1992 in literature, other events of 1993, 1994 in literature, list of years in literature. Events Professor Stephen Hawking's book, A Brief History of Time becomes the longest running book on the bestseller list of The Sunday Times''. November 17), his first collection of poetry;
• Hole in the Sun ( 2002See also 2001 in literature, other events of 2002, 2003 in literature, list of years in literature. Events March 16, 2002: Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrested and jailed poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and fired a newspaper editor following the publication of, BooksEnthsiast.com), color and black and white photographs of a back yard swimming pool;
• SignLanguage (2002, BooksEnthsiast.com), a catalog from an exhibition of his works, which combines photographs, paintings, and poetry into a multimedia diary of his time in New Zealand while filming The Fellowship of the Ring;
• Miyelo ( 2003See also 2002 in literature, other events of 2003, 2004 in literature, list of years in literature. Events September 9 Barnes & Noble, the largest American bookseller, announces that it will no longer sell downloadable electronic texts sometimes called e-, BooksEnthsiast.com), a series of panoramicThe term panoramic format is used to refer to high aspect ratio or wide screen image format. Especially suitable for landscapes, where a lot of scenery can be taken in at a glance. Especially in photography, the panoramic format can be taken to extremes, photographs of a LakotaAlternative meaning: Lakota, Cote d'Ivoire is a departement of Cote d'Ivoire. The Lakota ("friends" or "allies", sometimes also spelled "Lakhota", and pronounced "Lakxota" by the Lakota people) are a Native American tribe, also known as the Sioux (see Nam Ghost DanceThe Ghost Dance also known as the Ghost Dance of 1890 was a millennialistic religious movement among Native Americans that began in the 1880s in the southwestern United States, as many Indian tribes had been forcibly relocated and integrated there. It end.

His marriage in 1987 to punk rocker Exene (Christene) Cervenka, ended in an amicable divorce in 1998. They have a son, Henry, born in 1988. [1]

Mortensen spent some childhood years in Venezuela, Argentina, and his father's native Denmark, before returning to high school in Watertown, New York (where he was captain of the swim team). He graduated from St. Lawrence University in 1980. He is fluent in English, Spanish, and Danish.