Viggo Mortensen

Since his screen debut in Peter Weir’s award-winning Witness, Mr. Mortensen’s film career has encompassed diverse portrayals in over three dozen features. The native New Yorker spent several years living in Venezuela, Argentina, and Denmark before beginning his acting career back in NYC. There, he studied with Warren Robertson and acted in plays while also beginning to work in movies. He shared the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for The Lord of the Rings epic trilogy. Mortensen’s other films include Sean Penn’s The Indian Runner (opposite David Morse and Patricia Arquette); Brian De Palma’s Carlito’s Way (with Al Pacino); Jane Campion’s The Portrait of a Lady (opposite Nicole Kidman); Ridley Scott’s G.I. Jane (with Demi Moore); Tony Goldwyn’s A Walk on the Moon (opposite Diane Lane); Augustín Díaz Yanes’s Alatriste; and Vicente Amorim’s upcoming Good.