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Home | Entertainment | Birthdays | Celebrity Birthdays October 20th Viggo Mortensen
Celebrity Birthdays October 20th Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Peter Mortensen, Jr. was born on October 20, 1958 and is an American movie actor, poet, musician, photographer and painter. He is known for his role as Aragorn in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
Mortensen was born in New York City. His Danish father, Viggo Peter Mortensen, Sr. (a farm manager who worked in business), and American mother, Grace Gamble (née Atkinson), met in Norway. His maternal grandfather was Canadian.
His voice is featured on The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King soundtrack — he sings "Aragorn's Coronation," the words by Tolkien but the music composed by Mortensen himself. His poems are written in English, Danish, and Spanish.
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Other notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Witness | Moses Hochleitner | |
| The Purple Rose of Cairo | (scenes deleted) | ||
| 1987 | Salvation! | Jerome Stample | |
| 1988 | Prison | Burke/Forsythe Electrocution | |
| Fresh Horses | Green | ||
| 1990 | Once in a Blue Moon | TV | |
| Tripwire | Hans | ||
| Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III | Tex | ||
| Young Guns II | John W. Poe | ||
| The Reflecting Skin | Cameron Dove | ||
| 1991 | The Indian Runner | Frank Roberts | |
| 1993 | Boiling Point | Ronnie | |
| Ruby Cairo | John E. 'Johnny' Faro | ||
| Carlito's Way | Lalin | ||
| The Young Americans | Carl Frazer | ||
| American Yakuza | Nick Davis/David Brandt | ||
| 1994 | The Crew | Phillip | |
| Floundering | Homeless Man | ||
| Ewangelia wedlug Harry'ego | Wes | ||
| 1995 | Gimlet | Hombre | |
| Crimson Tide | Lt. Peter 'WEAPS' Ince | ||
| The Passion of Darkly Noon | Clay | ||
| Black Velvet Pantsuit | Worthless Junkie | ||
| The Prophecy | Lucifer | ||
| 1996 | Albino Alligator | Guy Foucard | |
| Daylight | Roy Nord | ||
| 1997 | Vanishing Point | Jimmy Kowalski | TV |
| G.I. Jane | Master Chief John James 'Jack' Urgayle | ||
| Pistola de mi hermano, La | Juanito | ||
| 1998 | A Perfect Murder | David Shaw | |
| Psycho | Samuel 'Sam' Loomis | ||
| 1999 | A Walk on the Moon | Walker Jerome | |
| 2000 | 28 Days | Eddie Boone | |
| 2001 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Aragorn | |
| 2002 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | ||
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | ||
| 2004 | Hidalgo | Frank Hopkins | |
| 2005 | A History of Violence | Tom Stall | |
| 2006 | Alatriste | Diego Alatriste y Tenorio |
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