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| Full Name: Viggo Peter Mortensen Birthday: Monday, October 20, 1958 Birthplace: Manhattan, New York, USA. Height: 5'11 Hair Color: Brown Eye Color: Green, Gray or Hazel Spouse: None (Ex-wife: Christine Edge (Exene Cervenka) Siblings: 2 younger brothers (Charles & Walter) Parents: Viggo & Grace Child Full Name: Henry Blake Mortensen Edge Child Birth: 1988 |
| Viggo Mortensen was born to a Danish father and an American mother, who met and married in Holland. They lived in Argentina & Venezuela until his parents divorced. Then Viggo & his brothers went to live with their mother in Watertown, New York. Viggo love traveling because of all the traveling he did with his father, and because of that he speaks English, Spanish and Danish fluenty, and French, Italian, Swedish and Norwegian to a less degree. Viggo attended Watertown High School. He was on both swimming and tennis teams. He also developed a love for poetry. When he was 17, he got the scar un his upper lip, because of an incident with "a fist and a barbed wire fence". In 1980, when he graduated from St. Lawrence University, he went Denmark and lived in his grandfather's farm. In 1982, he moved back to New York and attended the Warren Robertson Acting Workshop for two years. He acted on plays and films, but his performences were edited out of both. Eventually he moved to Los Angeles. His film career proper started in 1985, with a performence in "Witness", followed by over 25 other films in the next decade. In 1987, he met and married Christine Cervenka (lead singer from punk band X) by filming "Salvation". In 1988 they had Viggo's only child Henry. Eventually they moved to Idaho to bring Henry out of the spotlight of fame. The marriage broke up in 1997, but Cervenka remain close because of Henry. Viggo continued with his career of acting, while having exhibitions of his photographs and paintings, and two books of poems. Fortunatley, he has no intention of giving up his career, although the rush of media attention following the huge succes of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy has been rather harrowing for the shy & private Viggo. Source: Obsession Additional Facts: * Viggo owns T.J. (the horse he rode in 'Hidalgo') and two other horses that he rode in the trilogy 'LOTR'. These horses are placed in a ranch he owns in Idaho. He said when he had time free, he would go to the ranch to ride T.J. (Hidalgo) the most he could. * Viggo has been riding a horse since he was 10. * He favours Mate tea that is mainly consumed in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and southern Brazil. * Viggo doesn't like shoes (I think most of the people who had been around him already know that). * Viggo has a tattoo on his right wrist. It's a "H" for Henry. * Upon the end of filming LOTR, the fellowship's actors decided to get tattoos to remember the experience from the movie and keep it secret. The only one who didn't get one was John-Rhys Davies, so Bret (his scale-double) got one instead. Elijah, Ian, Sean Bean, Sean Astin, Oralndo and Dominic have shown theirs, but it seems that Viggo, Billy and Bret kept their word of keeping it secret. (The tattoo suposed to be a 9, but in one of the LOTR's languages). |
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