American-Danish actor, director, screenwriter, producer, musician, photographer, painter, editor and poet… If we had to summarize with an adjective the personality of Viggo Mortensen, born October 20, 1958 in New York to a Danish father and of an American mother, it would be “eclectic”.
After living his first eleven years in Argentina where his parents had settled following a first stopover in Denmark, the little boy, who had become polyglot, returned to live in the United States to pursue his studies. Once these were completed, he returned to Denmark, then to England, before returning, in 1982, to the United States to follow theatrical training, because he had decided to become an actor. Ten years pass, during which he is confined to secondary roles and where, to make a living, he is alternately a dockworker or a truck driver. His career really began in 1991, when Sean Penn offered him a role as an ex-con in The Indian Runner. He then became friends with Denis Hopper and continued filming. But it would take him ten more years to achieve worldwide fame: in 2002, with the role of Aragorn, in the trilogy of Lord of the Rings de Peter Jackson.
Definitely launched internationally, the actor will then alternate between large productions and arthouse cinema. Among his films: Thirteen lives, Crimes of the Future, Green Book: on the roads of the South…
In 2020, he stepped behind the camera for the first time with Fallinga film regarding the difficult relationship between a sick father and his homosexual son, which he wrote and produced. Till the end of the world is the second film by this multi-talented artist, who, moreover, is passionate regarding football and ice hockey, votes “green”, is able to express himself in seven languages (English, Spanish, Danish, French, Italian , Swedish and Norwegian) and is also fascinated by the legend of King Arthur.
