Viggo Mortensen Biography

Viggo Mortensen is an actor who most moviegoers know as Aragorn from The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Viggo Mortensen’s film debut was in Witness (1985), and he became well known for his role as the brave warrior Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003), and later films include Hidalgo (2004) and A History of Violence (2005) directed by David Cronenberg. He recently reunited with Cronenberg on the Russian organized crime drama Eastern Promises (2007) to critical success.