Viggo Mortensen's biography

Viggo Peter Mortensen Jr. is 64 years old film actor born at Watertown. He was born on Monday 20th of October 1958. He is often nicknamed as Vig, Guido, Longshanks, Strider, The Dúnadan, Telcontar, Elfstone. According to year of birth 1958 Viggo belongs to Boomers. Birthday on 20th of October means he is Libra. Libra sign depicts that it is all about “Balance”. It seems that their life is very balanced, however, things are way opposite as they always face unstable situations in order to balance it further.

Viggo is native english speaker. He is white american. Viggo is citizen of United States of America. Viggo is agnostic. His primary profession is to be film actor. You can know him also as actor, photographer, poet, writer, singer, composer, musician, painter, manufacturer, television actor, film producer, jazz musician. Viggo is recently known as film director.

Viggo Mortensen's dad

Viggo Mortensen's father's name is Viggo Peter Mortensen.

Viggo Mortensen's mom

Viggo Mortensen's mother's name is Grace Gamble Atkinson.

Viggo Mortensen's family

Viggo Mortensen's ex wife

Exene Cervenka

Viggo Mortensen and Exene Cervenka have been together since 1987 for 11 years. She is known as singer. His ex wife was born on Wednesday 1st of February 1956 in Chicago.

Viggo Mortensen's schools

We found 1 school He attended. Name of the school: St. Lawrence University.

Detailed informations about his schools

Graduated from St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York in 1980 with a degree in Government and Spanish.

Viggo Mortensen's career

Viggo´s main focus is to be film actor. He is famous thanks to The Lord Of The Rings. Viggo is also a member of Òmnium Cultural.

Is Viggo Mortensen gay ?

He is known to be straight.

Viggo Mortensen's girlfriend

Ariadna Gil

Viggo Mortensen and Ariadna Gil have been together. Ariadna is known as film actor. Viggo´s girlfriend was born on Thursday 23rd of January 1969 in Barcelona.

Awards and competitions

Viggo Mortensen's Awards

Nominated for the 2019 Golden Globe Award in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy category for his role as Tony Lip in Green Book (2018), but lost to Christian Bale for Vice (2018).
Nominated for a 2019 Academy Award in the Best Actor in a leading Role category for his role as Tony Lip in Green Book (2018) but lost to Rami Malek for Bohemian Rhapsody (2018).

Viggo Mortensen's Rankings

Ranked #10 on VH1's Hottest Hotties.
Ranked #19 on Tropopkin's Top 25 Most Intriguing People [Issue #100]

Viggo Mortensen's Nominations

He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor for work Eastern Promises in 2008
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor for work Captain Fantastic in 2017
He was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for work Green Book in 2019
He was nominated for European Film Award for Best Actor for work Falling in 2020

What else you don't know about Viggo Mortensen ?

His middle name is Peter.

What Viggo Mortensen has done for a first time

At first, turned down the part of Aragorn of Lord of the Rings. His son convinced him to do the part.
Admitted in an interview that when he first started out as an actor, his agents encouraged him to change his name to "Vic Morten." Obviously, he refused.

Viggo Mortensen's quotes

I don't plan [my career]; I wait and hope the right thing will find me.
Photography, painting or poetry those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things, they are my way of communicating.
I'm the one who said yes to these movies, and now I'm having to pay the price for it. I mean if I had my druthers, I wouldn't do any movies anymore, frankly.
I'm not 23 years old and I don't have plans to make another 20 big Hollywood movies or something.
Well, I certainly wouldn't be here and my face wouldn't be up there on a poster if it wasn't for the success of Lord of the Rings. It's just a fact: film-making, finance, life.
Seeing who you are playing with is a relief. In The Lord of the Rings we did a lot of things when there was nothing there.
But I can also publish books by interesting painters and writers and I can afford to do so because my own books sell and there's a public that's interested in that. And the public have gone to see exhibitions I've had - more than they would have.
There is no star in LOTR. The Fellowship is a union.
(On David Cronenberg) It's comforting to be working with someone you know will make a good movie.
Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.
Y'know, I had a preconceived idea of Freud being very stiff, very formal, a wizened old man, a very rigid personality. And he was anything but. He was very gregarious. Great conversationalist. Someone who lived by his wits.
I always think of movie-making as a team sport.
I don't really select what I'm going to do based on the budget or the genre or the nationality of the project. I'm looking for stories that I'd like to go see in the movie theatre.
I've always appreciated, more and more as the years have gone by, the fact that movie-making contains all the arts: Writing, design, fashion, photography, work on accents... There's so many things to learn from. It's a complete universe, artistically.
I don't think violence is ever excusable. It's most often a metaphor for something that's going on in a relationship or in the person's understanding - or misunderstanding - of their place in society.
Half the fun-no, really all the fun-is in the preparation.
I like movies that end [with] "...And now what?" I like it when they don't tie everything up.
I just think that the more realistic and specific you are with the details, the more universal the story becomes.
Being an actor is to lie in the most honest way possible.
The character gives me something and I give him something.

Viggo Mortensen's height, body shape, eye color, hair color

Lets describe how Viggo Mortensen looks. We will focus on Viggo´s height, body shape, eye color, hair color and shoe size. Viggo is tall as 5' 11" (180 cm). Body build is athletic. Viggo´s eyes are tinted green. His hair is shade of grey. If you are really curious, you may find interesting Viggo´s shoe size is 45.

Viggo Mortensen