Viggo Mortensen Jr. is a Danish-American actor, author, musician, photographer, poet, and painter. He was born in 1958 in New York, USA, to a Danish father and an American mother. During his childhood, he also lived in Venezuela and Argentina. Mortensen has earned acclaim for his work in a number of films, including Green Book, Captain Fantastic, A Dangerous Method, Eastern Promises, The Road, Appaloosa, Far from Men, Jauja, and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. He has been recognized by the Screen Actors Guild, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
