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Viggo Mortensen
Highest Rated: 95% The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Lowest Rated: 13% Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990)
Birthday: Oct 20, 1958
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Getting his start in grade-B movies and so-called "other man" roles, actor Viggo Mortensen made a slow, steady climb up the ranks to become one of Hollywood's most reliable and in-demand talents. Though he had little trouble finding work, Mortensen spent a good deal of time looking for that one breakthrough that would catapult his career. That springboard came with a leading role in the epic "Lord of the Rings" trilogy (2001-03), in which he played a heroic but displaced king in a fictional land beset by evil. Because of his being a central character in one of the biggest, most beloved trilogies in cinema history, Mortensen had a wealth of opportunities open up to him, including the critically acclaimed "A History of Violence" (2005), the Russian Mob drama "Eastern Promises" (2007), post-apocalyptic philosophical drama "The Road" (2009) and indie family comedy-drama "Captain Fantastic" (2016). Exceedingly humble about success and uncharacteristically un-Hollywood, Mortensen managed to stay somewhat reclusive and focused on other interests outside of acting, namely painting and writing poetry, despite becoming one of the most recognizable stars in the world.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 82% | 66% | The Dead Don't Hurt |
Holger Olsen (Character), Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Original Music |
- | 2023 |
| 73% | No Score Yet | Eureka | Murphy (Character) | - | 2023 |
| 85% | 94% | Thirteen Lives | Richard Stanton (Character) | - | 2022 |
| 80% | 50% | Crimes of the Future | Saul Tenser (Character) | $2.0M | 2022 |
| 66% | 63% | Falling |
John Peterson (Character), Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Original Music |
- | 2020 |
| 77% | 91% | Green Book | Tony Lip (Character) | $85.1M | 2018 |
| 83% | 85% | Captain Fantastic | Ben (Character) | $5.9M | 2016 |
| 88% | 50% | Jauja |
Gunnar Dinesen (Character), Producer, Original Music |
- | 2014 |
| 84% | 74% | Far From Men | Daru (Character) | - | 2014 |
| 80% | 48% | The Two Faces of January | Chester McFarland (Character) | $506.1K | 2014 |
| 34% | 24% | Everybody Has a Plan |
Agustín/ Producer |
- | 2012 |
| 46% | 34% | On the Road |
Old Bull Lee/ |
$717.8K | 2012 |
| 79% | 50% | A Dangerous Method | Sigmund Freud (Character) | $5.7M | 2011 |
| 74% | 68% | The Road | The Man (Character) | $8.1M | 2009 |
| 34% | 32% | Good | John Halder (Character) | $23.1K | 2008 |
| 76% | 55% | Appaloosa | Everett Hitch (Character) | $20.2M | 2008 |
| 89% | 83% | Eastern Promises | Nikolai (Character) | $17.1M | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Pikme-Up | Unknown (Character) | - | 2006 |
| 17% | 47% | Alatriste | Diego Alatriste y Tenorio (Character) | - | 2006 |
| 88% | 76% | A History of Violence | Tom Stall (Character) | $31.5M | 2005 |
| 46% | 64% | Hidalgo | Frank T. Hopkins (Character) | $67.3M | 2004 |
| 94% | 86% | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Aragorn (Strider) (Character) | $377.8M | 2003 |
| 95% | 95% | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers |
Aragorn/ |
$342.6M | 2002 |
| 92% | 95% | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Aragorn (Character) | $315.5M | 2001 |
| 33% | 50% | 28 Days | Eddie Boone (Character) | $37.0M | 2000 |
| 73% | 71% | A Walk on the Moon | Walker Jerome (Character) | $4.7M | 1999 |
| 55% | 51% | A Perfect Murder | David Shaw (Character) | $67.5M | 1998 |
| 41% | 28% | Psycho | Samuel 'Sam' Loomis (Character) | $21.5M | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | Vanishing Point | Jimmy Kowalski (Character) | - | 1997 |
| 53% | 53% | G.I. Jane | Master Chief John James Urgayle (Character) | $48.2M | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | La pistola de mi hermano | Juanito (Character) | - | 1996 |
| 26% | 37% | Daylight | Roy Nord (Character) | $32.9M | 1996 |
| 50% | 42% | Albino Alligator | Guy Foucard (Character) | $326.3K | 1996 |
| 44% | 55% | The Passion of Darkly Noon | Clay (Character) | - | 1995 |
| 89% | 83% | Crimson Tide | Lt. Peter 'Weps' Ince (Character) | $91.4M | 1995 |
| 46% | 64% | The Prophecy | Lucifer (Character) | $15.7M | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gimlet | Hombre (Character) | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | 25% | The Crew | Phillip (Character) | - | 1994 |
| 67% | 56% | Floundering | Homeless Man (Character) | - | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gospel According to Harry | Wes (Character) | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | 27% | Ruby Cairo | John E. "Johnny" Faro (Character) | $299.8K | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | 42% | American Yakuza |
Nick Davis / |
- | 1993 |
| 33% | 42% | The Young Americans | Carl Frazer (Character) | - | 1993 |
| 84% | 91% | Carlito's Way | Lalin (Character) | $36.5M | 1993 |
| 17% | 22% | Boiling Point | Ronnie (Character) | $9.0M | 1993 |
| 74% | 80% | The Indian Runner | Frank Roberts (Character) | $152.9K | 1991 |
| 82% | 77% | The Reflecting Skin | Cameron Dove (Character) | $6.0K | 1990 |
| 13% | 30% | Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III | Tex (Character) | $5.8M | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | 14% | Tripwire | Hans (Character) | - | 1990 |
| 40% | 34% | Prison |
Burke/ |
- | 1987 |
| 93% | 80% | Witness | Moses Hochleitner (Character) | $65.3M | 1985 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 9% | The View | Guest | 2018 2024 |
| No Score Yet | 47% | The Late Show With Stephen Colbert | Guest | 2016 2021 2024 |
| No Score Yet | 19% | The Late Late Show With James Corden | Guest | 2018 2021-2022 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Talk | Guest | 2021 |
| No Score Yet | 36% | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2016-2017 2019 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter | Guest | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Guest | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Conan | Guest | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tavis Smiley | Guest | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Real Time With Bill Maher | Guest | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | 61% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Colbert Report | Guest | 2007 2014 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Daily Show | Guest | 2005 |
| 71% | 85% | Miami Vice | Detective Eddie Trumbull (Guest Star) | 1987 |