Viggo Mortensen born October 20, 1958 in New York.
Viggo childhood took place in South America, where the family moved soon after his birth. They lived there until 1969, when his parents divorced Viggo. The mother returned to New York with Viggo and his two younger brothers. In New York, Viggo graduated from the first school, then university, and in 1982 he enrolled in acting school.
While studying at the Actors Studio Warren Robertson, Mortensen played simultaneously in the theater and tried to act in films. His film work had no success until the early nineties, when he starred in "Native American Runaway" (1991), "American Yakuza" (1993) Carlito's Way ", where Mortensen played a minor role.
In 1987, the actor made an offer Eksin Servenka, lead singer of the punk band. A year later they had a son, and they decided to move to a quiet province. However, Viggo was in no hurry to part with the movie, while continuing to act.
Gradually, Viggo Mortensen enters the mainstream movies, and contributes to the creation of such films as "Portrait of a Lady" (1996), where his partners on the set became John Malkovich, Nicole Kidman and Christian Bale, as well as "Daylight" (1996 ) Rob Cohen, "GI Jane" and Ridley Scott's "A Perfect Murder" (1998) by Andrew Davis.
By the end of the nineties Mortensen's career has been on the rise, but family life has collapsed. In 1996, Viggo divorced his wife, and their son, Henry, went to live with their parents in turn.
From school Viggo interest in photography, and in 2000 thanks to his friend Dennis Hopper first exhibition. His work has received recognition and were soon put in another gallery, which were also presented and Viggo work in the field of painting and poetry.
Also in 2000, the screens out comedy "28 days", after which Mortensen gets an offer from Peter Jackson to play in the trilogy "The Lord of the Rings." It is the role of Aragorn Viggo Mortensen brought real success and worldwide fame. Over the past three years, when the screens went three film series, Mortensen was under the gun press, which could not affect its popularity.
After the "Lord of the Rings" Mortensen made many suggestions. Among his recent successful works can be noted "Hidalgo" (2004), "A History of Violence" (2005), "Eastern Promises" (2007) and "The Road" (2009).