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Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Peter Mortensen Jr. is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received various accolades including an Actor Award and a Critics' Choice Award as well as nominations for three Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards.
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Born 20 October 1958 · Q171363
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2024· 5 entries
The Guardian: The Dead Don’t Hurt review – Vicky Krieps is a woman of substance in Viggo Mortensen’s offbeat western
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Released album “The Dead Don’t Hurt: Music from the Movie”.
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The Guardian: ‘You play the cards you’re dealt’: is Viggo Mortensen Hollywood’s most versatile star?
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And 34 activists and celebrities signed a petition urging Congress to continue sending aid to Ukraine
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2023· 1 entry
The Guardian: Eureka review – booze, bird souls and Viggo Mortensen in barmy yet rich experimental enigma
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2020· 5 entries
The Guardian: Falling review – Viggo Mortensen's powerful drama of a father with dementia
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The Guardian: Falling review – Viggo Mortensen casts a clear eye on dementia | Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
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The Guardian: Viggo Mortensen on Falling star Lance Henriksen: ‘He’s like a wolf who might gobble you up’
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Awarded Donostia Award (2020).
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Mortensen released his directorial debut Falling, which he also wrote, produced, composed the score for and starred in alongside Lance Henriksen at the Sundance Film Festival
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2018· 1 entry
Released album “Godzilla Sleeps Alone”.
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2016· 1 entry
Mortensen traveled to New York to take care of his father, who died a year later
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2015· 2 entries
Awarded Bodil Honorary Award (2015).
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Donated $1,000 to Irish political party Sinn Féin
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2011· 2 entries
Released album “Reunion”.
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Starring in Ariel Dorfman's Purgatorio ("Purgatory") in Madrid
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2010· 2 entries
Awarded Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog (2010).
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Was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog
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2009· 3 entries
Awarded Sitges Grand Honorary Award (2009).
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Mortensen signed a protest stating that the Toronto International Film Festival's "Spotlight on Tel Aviv" program implicitly condoned the Israeli occupation and marginalization of Palestinians
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Mortensen performed in The People Speak, a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's A People's His
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2007· 1 entry
Won Golden Boot Awards (2007).
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2006· 3 entries
Was awarded the Gold Medal of the Province and the City of León, Spain
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Starred as Captain Diego Alatriste in the Spanish language film Alatriste, based on the series of novels The Adventures of Captain Alatriste, written by the Spanish writer Arturo Pérez-Reverte
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Was granted an honorary doctorate by his alma mater, St
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2005· 1 entry
Released album “Intelligence Failure”.
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2004· 3 entries
Released album “This That and the Other”.
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Released album “Please Tomorrow”.
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Mortensen starred as Frank Hopkins in Hidalgo, the story of an ex-army courier who travels to Arabia to compete with his horse, Hidalgo, in a dangerous desert race for a contest prize
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “Pandemoniumfromamerica”.
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2002· 1 entry
Mortensen founded Perceval Press to publish his works and the works of little-known artists and authors
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1999· 2 entries
Released album “One Man's Meat”.
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When Peter Jackson cast him as Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy
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1998· 1 entry
Mortensen appeared in remakes of two Alfred Hitchcock movies: Psycho and A Perfect Murder (which was a remake of Dial M for Murder)
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1992· 1 entry
Mortensen starred in Ruby Cairo alongside Liam Neeson and Andie MacDowell
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1988· 2 entries
Cervenka gave birth to their son, who later played his on-screen son in the film Crimson Tide
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Mortensen played a minor part as Green, the abusive husband of Jewel (Molly Ringwald), in Fresh Horses
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1985· 1 entry
Was cast in the role of Bragg on the TV soap opera Search for Tomorrow, and played Tybalt opposite Michael Cerveris in a stage production of Romeo and Juliet at Chicago's Goodman Theatre
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1982· 1 entry
Returned to the United States to pursue an acting career
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1969· 1 entry
The three boys returned with their mother to the United States, where Viggo spent the rest of his childhood in Northern New York State
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1962· 1 entry
“I was attracted to playing Tony in part because it was a different kind of character, but the main thing I liked about him was his heart”
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1961· 1 entry
The family moved to Venezuela, then Denmark, and eventually settled in Argentina
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1958· 2 entries
To Grace Gamble (née Atkinson) and Viggo Peter Mortensen Sr
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Born 1958-10-20.
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