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Viggo Peter Mortensen, Jr. Wiki Biography

Viggo Mortensen is a well known actor, musician, poet, painter and a photographer. He is mostly known for acting in such movies as “The Lord of the Rings” series, “The Portrait of a Lady”, “A Dangerous Method” and many others. What is more, Viggo is the founder of the publishing company called “Perceval Press”. Mortensen has also released a lot of books, which have made him acclaimed not only as an actor but also as an author. Viggo has been nominated for and won many awards. For example, Chicago International Film Festival Award, Empire Award, MTV Movie Award, Sant Jordi Award and many others. You might consider how rich is Viggo Mortensen. Viggo’s net worth is estimated to be $30 million. Mortensen continues working on different projects so there might occur some changes regarding Viggo Mortensen’s wealth.

Viggo Peter Mortensen, Jr., or simply known as Viggo Mortensen, was born in 1958 in New York. Viggo attended Watertown High School but before that he and his family had an opportunity to live in Denmark, Venezuela and also in Argentina. This is why Viggo can speak Spanish fluently. Mortensen studied at the St. Lawrence University, where he graduated with a degree in Spanish Studies and Politics. When he finished university Viggo travelled around Europe and only after some time came back to the United States. Viggo’s career in the movie industry began when he appeared in the movie called “Witness”, in which he worked with Harrison Ford, Lukas Haas, Josef Sommer, Danny Glover and many other actors. This movie not only added to Mortensen’s net worth, but also helped him to gain more experience and get accustomed to the movie industry and its peculiarities.

Later Mortensen appeared in different movies. Some of them include, “The Reflecting Skin”, “Psycho”, “G.I. Jane” and others. In 1999 Viggo received a suggestion to act in “The Lord of the Rings” movies. Of course he accepted it and this decision changed is life completely. Ge became popular all around the world and gained a lot of fans from many different countries. “The Lord of the Rings” movies had a huge impact on the growth of Viggo Mortensen’s net worth. Other movies that Viggo appeared in include “Alatriste”, “The Two Faces of January”, “Everybody Has a Plan” and others.

As it was said before, Mortensen has also released many books. For example, “Ten Last Night”, “Hole in the Sun”, “The Horse is Good”, “Canciones de Invierno – Winter Songs” and many more. All these books also made Mortensen’s net wort grow. In addition to this, Viggo has also released some CDs, such as “Please Tomorrow”, “Recent Forgeries”, “At All”, “Reunion” and others. All in all, we should admit that Viggo Mortensen is one of the most talented personalities. He is not only an incredible actor, but also a writer, musician and photographer. Undoubtedly his net worth will grow even more as he will continue his activities in the future.

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Viggo Peter Mortensen, Jr. Quick Info

Viggo Peter Mortensen, Jr. Trademarks

1. Frequently cast by David Cronenberg
2. Often plays rugged but reluctant heroes
3. Quiet, methodical style of speaking.
4. Cleft chin

Viggo Peter Mortensen, Jr. Quotes

• [on A History of Violence (2005)] If not the best, it’s one of the best movies I’ve ever been in. There’s no such thing as a perfect movie, but in the way that that script was handled, the way it was shot … it’s a perfect film noir movie, or it’s close to perfect I should say.
• [on awards] I don’t’ think awards make you better, they don’t really have any effect. They can have a negative effect on your career, or they can have a positive effect in terms of business, but I don’t think they can help you do the job better. I think it’s kind of a crapshoot.
• [on David Cronenberg] [He] has helped me do really good work, better than other directors. Maybe because he understands my process and because we have some things in common in terms of our sensibility – the kinds of books we like to read, our sense of humor is similar.
• [on Peter Jackson] Peter, I was sure he would do another intimately-scaled film like Heavenly Creatures (1994), maybe with this project about New Zealanders in the First World War he wanted to make, but then he did King Kong (2005). And then he did The Lovely Bones (2009) and I thought that would be his smaller movie. But the problem is, he did it on a ninety million dollar budget. That should have been a fifteen million dollar movie. The special effects thing, the genie, was out of the bottle, and it has him.
• [on The Lord of the Rings trilogy] In the first movie, yes, there’s Rivendell, and Mordor, but there’s sort of an organic quality to it, actors acting with each other, and real landscapes; it’s grittier. The second movie already started ballooning, for my taste, and then by the third one, there were a lot of special effects. It was grandiose and all that, but whatever was subtle in the first movie, gradually got lost in the second and third. Now with The Hobbit, one and two, it’s like that to the power of 10.
• [on The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)] I went on opening day to see it. I was actually in Argentina, and I went with a bunch of kids and their parents. It was kind of a party atmosphere, it was fun, it was in 3-D, and they had popcorn. I enjoyed it. In particular it was nice to see some of the landscapes I remembered. It was a nice trip down memory lane, where we’d shot near some of the places where I’d gone camping or fishing.
• 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.
• 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.
• (On his research for Eastern Promises (2007)) I found some materials, some books and also a documentary a friend of mine made called “The Mark of Cain”. It’s a hard thing to do but she went into maximum-security prisons in Russia and spoke to people like Nikolai. And I went to Russia as well. I read and listened to and looked up anything I could that had to do with Russians even loosely connected with this story. The more Russian I could be and seem authentically, the better it would be.
• I’d like to, when it’s all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of. I don’t just want to look back and say, ‘I was on x number of magazines.’ As far as money goes, there’s a saying in Denmark: ‘Your last suit doesn’t have any pockets.’ You can’t take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?
• Life is short… I like to pay attention while I’m going through it. Whatever I see, like anyone else, I’m going to filter it and create my own idea of what it is. – on painting, creating music, writing poetry, and taking photographs in addition to acting.
• Some people will say, ‘Ahhh, he’s over the top, it’s gratuitous,’ [but] I disagree completely. He’s one of the most responsible filmmakers today as far as showing violence – which there’s very little of compared to other movies. It just stays with you because he shows very little of it. It just stays with you and he’s very direct about it. He shows you what happens, and what the consequences are physically and emotionally, in some cases; certainly he does in A History of Violence (2005), and also here [in Eastern Promises (2007)], that makes him very honest – on David Cronenberg.
• (On David Cronenberg) It’s comforting to be working with someone you know will make a good movie.
• There is no star in LOTR. The Fellowship is a union.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• I’m not 23 years old and I don’t have plans to make another 20 big Hollywood movies or something.
• I was on my way out of a Sunday rehearsal. When I was walking out of the gym, all sort of sweaty, half in street clothes and half in Aragorn’s clothes, waving the sword around, trying to keep a mental picture of what we’ve just done. Just walking down the street, down to where my car was parked, on a Sunday afternoon, waving the sword around, looking like some desperate Rasputin character. Cops car comes: there’s been some report…
• 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.
• Photography, painting or poetry those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things, they are my way of communicating.
• I don’t plan [my career]; I wait and hope the right thing will find me.
• On the role of an actor in film: “It comes down to the fact that you supply the blue, and they supply the other colors and mix them with your blue, and maybe there’s some blue left in the painting and maybe there isn’t. Maybe there wasn’t supposed to be any there in the first place. So have some fun and make a good blue and walk away.”

Viggo Peter Mortensen, Jr. Important Facts

• $2,000,000
• As of 2016, has appeared in four films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Witness (1985), The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), with the latter being a winner in the category.
• He is an avid NY Mets fan.
• Has worked with the two actors who have played the character of Magneto in the X-Men saga, Ian McKellen (the Lord of the Rings) and Michael Fassbender (A Dangerous Method (2011)).
• In London shooting the movie Eastern Promises (2007) by David Cronenberg. [November 2006]
• Filming Alatriste (2006) in Spain. [April 2005]
• Presented a book by Perceval Press on Argentine poetry at the Cultural Center of Spain in Buenos Aires on August 11, 2009, and, together with the featured poets, autographed books afterwards. [August 2009]
• Appeared at the Miami International Film Festival with Ariadna Gil and ‘Augustin Diaz Yanes’ at the showing of Alatriste (2006), where they all answered questions from the audience, afterward. [March 2007]
• Arrived in Toronto to promote Hidalgo (2004) on the 2nd. [February 2004]
• Buenos Aires, Argentina, to promote the thriller Everybody Has a Plan (2012) in which he plays twins. [August 2012]
• At Rome film Festival to promote his 2 new movies: Appaloosa (2008) and Good (2008). He is here between 23rd and 28th October. [October 2008]
• He’s in Spain to promote and attend to the premiere of his film Alatriste (2006). [September 2006]
• He visited Argentina for four days [November 2003]
• Istanbul, Turkey: Filming The Two Faces of January (2014) [November 2012]
• Filmed several readings for “The People’s History” (a miniseries based on the books by Howard Zinn) in Boston, Massachusetts. [January 2008]
• He visited Argentina for five days. [November 2005]
• Visited Denmark to attend the A History of Violence (2005) premiere. [November 2005]
• He did all of his own stunts in the 1988 horror thriller “Prison”. Stunt coordinator Kane Hodder even gave him a “Stunt Crew” t-shirt after filming wrapped.
• Was on April 16th 2010 knighted by Queen Margarethe II of Denmark. He is now one of five knights from The Lord of the Rings production; the others being Ian Holm, Ian McKellen, Christopher Lee and Peter Jackson.
• Met ex-wife Exene Cervenka on the set of Salvation!: Have You Said Your Prayers Today? (1987).
• Replaced Christoph Waltz in the role of Sigmund Freud in A Dangerous Method (2011) after Waltz backed out of the project in order to film Water for Elephants (2011).
• On December 4th, 2009, for the Montréal Canadiens centennial celebration at the Bell Center, Viggo Mortensen – a long-time Canadiens fan – came out in his red Habs jersey to introduce Guy Lafleur, “my all-time hero,” in French.
• Wore a Montreal Canadiens jersey under his costume during the filming of The Lord of the Rings films.
• His grandfather was from Canada.
• A skilled horseman, he did all his own stunts in Hidalgo (2004), including a breakneck bareback ride that even the stuntman couldn’t handle.
• For his role in Eastern Promises (2007), he stated that part of his performance was inspired by Russian hockey player Alexei Kovalev.
• In Eastern Promises (2007) his Russian/Ukrainian dialect coach was Olegar Fedoro.
• Spent a couple weeks in Russia prior to filming Eastern Promises (2007) to research his role and better understand his character.
• Filmed scenes for The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), but they were all cut out.
• 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.
• Choosen by Empire Magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Movie Stars in the world (#69) 2007.
• Older brother of Walter Mortensen.
• Voted #14 in Elle (France) Magazine’s “15 Sexiest Men” poll (June 2007).
• Is a big fan of the New York Mets and the Montreal Canadiens. When filming A History of Violence (2005), he showed up on the Toronto set wearing a Canadiens’ jersey.
• He received the scar on his upper lip after scratching his face on a barbed wire fence at a Halloween party.
• After his parents divorced when he was eleven, he moved to new York with his mother and two younger brothers.
• His father’s name is also Viggo. His mother’s name is Grace.
• Although their divorce only became final in 1998, he and his former wife, Exene Cervenka, separated in late 1990/early 1991 after less than 3 years of marriage but remain close friends often working together and co-parenting their son.
• Ranked #19 on Tropopkin’s Top 25 Most Intriguing People [Issue #100]
• He became good friends with the close-knit stunt men on the “Lord of the Rings” films, but they were wary of doing fight scenes with him because, carried away with the intensity of his character Aragorn, he would frequently “really go at them” and leave the other combatants in bruises. Massive actor Lawrence Makoare, playing Lurtz under heaps of make-up which restricted his vision, also got carried away during their fight scene at the conclusion of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and, for once, Mortensen was left more bruised than the other actor.
• While working on the Lord of the Rings trilogy, he asked writer/director Peter Jackson to revise scripts so that his character Aragorn would be speaking in the Elvish language in several scenes of all three movies.
• Is one of four “Lord of the Rings” stars to star, pre-“Rings,” with Harrison Ford. He starred with Ford in Witness (1985). Ford starred with John Rhys-Davies (Gimli) in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Sean Bean (Boromir) in Patriot Games (1992) and Miranda Otto (Eowyn) in What Lies Beneath (2000).
• At first, turned down the part of Aragorn of Lord of the Rings. His son convinced him to do the part.
• Ranked #10 on VH1’s Hottest Hotties.
• Was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in June 2004.
• While filming “The Lord of The Rings” trilogy in New Zealand, he would go surfing with the other actors in their spare time. One day he suffered an accident which left a bruise on the right side of his face. As a result, director Peter Jackson had to shoot only the left side of his face in the entire Moria sequence.
• Worked as a translator for the Swedish hockey team during the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid and was at the ‘miracle’ game between the Soviet Union and United States.
• His father is Danish. His mother is American, and has English, and more distant Scottish, ancestry. His maternal grandfather was from Nova Scotia, Canada, and his maternal grandmother was from New York.
• Purchased the horses he rode in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy and Hidalgo (2004) after the films were completed.
• Was in remakes of two Alfred Hitchcock films in the same year: A Perfect Murder (1998) – a remake of Dial M for Murder (1954) – and Psycho (1998).
• In 2003 he visited Denmark and had a booksigning, an art exhibition opening and The Lord of The Rings premiere.
• Owner of publishing company Perceval Press.
• Broke two toes during the filming of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), in the scene where he kicks an Orc helmet.
• As Viggo lived in Argentina as a child, he is a fan of Argentine soccer team San Lorenzo (real name of the team: “San Lorenzo of Almagro”, from Buenos Aires City).Viggo usually wear clothes and accessories with this team’s colors (red & blue) the last time in public, at the Rome Festival, in the “Alatriste” Premiere.
• An accomplished horseman in his spare time, Mortensen requested that his “Rings” character Aragorn be given more saddle time than was originally scripted. He also kept his on-screen horse nearby during the entire principal photography schedule in order to ride in his off-hours and strengthen his relationship with the horse.
• Graduated from St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York in 1980 with a degree in Government and Spanish.
• Has two younger brothers, Walter and Charles. They are both geologists.
• Was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine in 2002.
• Got so into his character of Aragorn that director Peter Jackson once addressed him as Aragorn for over half an hour, and Mortensen didn’t even realize it.
• Replaced Stuart Townsend in the role of Aragorn/Strider in The Lord of the Rings, after filming began.
• Broke a tooth while filming a fight sequence for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002); he asked the crew if they would glue it back on so he could finish the scene.
• Worked as a truck driver while living in Denmark
• Is also a jazz musician – he has released three CDs so far.
• Writes poetry in his spare time.
• Has been photographing for years, recently debuted with an exhibition at the Robert Mann Gallery in NYC. — American Photo, July/August 2000.
• Lived in South America from age 2 to age 11.
• He actually painted the large murals in his artist’s studio in the film A Perfect Murder (1998).
• Became a father for the 1st time at age 29 when his [now ex] wife Exene Cervenka gave birth to their son Henry Mortensen on January 28, 1988.
• Speaks fluent English, Spanish, Danish, and French, but he also speaks Swedish and Norwegian reasonably well.
• Had a book of poetry printed before he was known. The title: “Ten Last Night.”
• He is the ex-husband of Exene Cervenka, the singer of the punk band X.

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