This block contains the information about Viggo Mortensen and provides an insight into the life of the celebrity. From here you can also learn when, how and why the profession of an actor was chosen. Some interesting facts are waiting for you here.

Viggo Mortensen was born in New York. His childhood he spent in Venezuela and Argentina due to which his fluent not only in English but in Spanish also. He debut in 1985 in “The witness” together with Harrison Ford. During the nineties the majority of his characters were negative “Carlito’s Way”, “The Prophecy” (1995). Less characteristic roles for him he started getting later, such as “Portrait of a lady” (1996), “Soldier Jane” where he played together with Nicole Kidman and Demy Moore. But the real fame came to him after playing in “The Lord of the Rings” (2001). The main role he got accidentally replacing Stuart Townsend who was supposed to play the role, but whom was changed by the producer a few weeks before the project started. In 2004 was released the movie “Hidalgo”. In order to enjoy such success Viggo worked a lot upon himself. When he played the role of a Russian gangster he even learned Russian and during two months he was travelling within Russia, trying to understand better Russian people. Viggo Mortensen is not only a talented actor, he is also the founder of “Perceval Press”, he likes photography, singing and he is even writing poetry. Also he is an artist in the movie “Perfect crime” were used his pictures. Between his latest movies we find: “Good”, “The Road” and “A Wing and a Prayer”.

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Here you can learn about the movies Viggo Mortensen acted in. You can see the names of the movies, their budget, years of release and the money gained from the screening of the certain movie. It is always interesting to know.

Movies & Videos	Budget	Year	Opening weekend	US box Office
Hidalgo - Frank Hopkins	$100M	2004	$18.8M	$67.3M
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Aragorn, Soundtrack (music: "Aragorn's Coronation"), Featured Soloist	$94M	2003	$72.6M	$377M
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Aragorn	$94M	2002	$62M	$340M
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Aragorn	$93M	2001	$66.1M	$314M
Daylight - Roy Nord	$80M	1996	$10M	$32.9M
Crimson Tide - Lt. Peter 'Weps' Ince	$53M	1995		$91.4M
The Thin Red Line - Thanks	$52M	1998	$224K	$36.4M
G.I. Jane - Master Chief John James Urgayle	$50M	1997	$11.1M	$48.2M
28 Days - Eddie Boone	$43M	2000	$10.3M	$37M
A History of Violence - Tom Stall	$32M	2005	$516K	$31.5M
Carlito's Way - Lalin	$30M	1993		$36.9M
Psycho - Samuel 'Sam' Loomis	$25M	1998	$10M	$21.4M
The Road - Man, Soundtrack (writer: "WESTERLY", "GREY EYES") (performer: "WESTERLY", "GREY EYES")	$20M	2009	$1.5M	$8.11M
Good - John Halder	$15M	2008	$9.51K	$23.1K
A Walk on the Moon - Walker Jerome	$14M	1999	$78.7K	$4.74M
Witness - Moses Hochleitner	$12M	1985		$65.5M
Boiling Point - Ronnie	$10M	1993		$10.1M
The Prophecy - Lucifer	$8M	1995		$16.1M
The Indian Runner - Frank Roberts	$7M	1991		$191K
Albino Alligator - Guy Foucard	$5M	1996	$188K	$326K