Could Viggo Mortensen Be The Perfect Man?
He’s handsome. He’s talented. He’s about to destroy evil in The Lord of the Rings. And he doesn’t care about being a star! Here’s what Viggo is really like. He plays the vigorous hero Aragorn in the wildly successful The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the final film in the epic trilogy that has already made $1.7 billion. Yet Viggo Mortensen, 45, remains a Hollywood mystery. Here’s the lowdown on this reluctant leading man. Mortensen has appeared in nearly 40 films, portraying characters as varied as an Amish farmer in 1985’s Witness to a cannibalistic villain in 1990’s Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III. Born in New York to a Danish father and American mother, he spent his childhood living in Denmark, Argentina and Venezuela before settling, at age 11, in upstate New York. Today, Viggo, who lives in Topanga Canyon, Calif., speaks English, Spanish and Danish. He also picked up a bit of Maori, the native language of New Zealand, during the time he spent filming The
He’s handsome. He’s talented. He’s about to destroy evil in The Lord of the Rings. And he doesn’t care about being a star! Here’s what Viggo is really like. He plays the vigorous hero Aragorn in the wildly successful The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the final film in the epic trilogy that has already made $1.7 billion. Yet Viggo Mortensen, 45, remains a Hollywood mystery. Here’s the lowdown on this reluctant leading man. Mortensen has appeared in nearly 40 films, portraying characters as varied as an Amish farmer in 1985’s Witness to a cannibalistic villain in 1990’s Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III. Born in New York to a Danish father and American mother, he spent his childhood living in Denmark, Argentina and Venezuela before settling, at age 11, in upstate New York. Today, Viggo, who lives in Topanga Canyon, Calif., speaks English, Spanish and Danish. He also picked up a bit of Maori, the native language of New Zealand, during the time he spent filming The
